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Medium / Madeleine Bair / Apr 27, 2021
“In the iceberg model, an event is what occurs above the surface and brings attention, even if fleeting, to the issue. In this case, for example, reports of a COVID outbreak at a Fruitvale supermarket in May of 2020 brought attention to disparate COVID rates in Oakland’s Latino communities. Trends and patterns occur just beneath the surface, such as the rising cost of rent prices in Oakland, and stagnant wages at the bottom end of the job market.”
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