911 dispatchers are at the forefront of a head-exploding amount of stress: the definition of their job is to talk to people at the very worst moment of their life. What’s it like on the front lines? (Katie MacBride, Vice)
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How Wall Street bought up $60bn of foreclosed homes and turned them into rentals—in some cases renting them back to their desperate former owners with extortionate add-ons. (Francesca Mari, New York Times Magazine)