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Jeff Spross
A girl walks her dog past the fountain in Washington Square Park in Manhattan. The summer heat in New York City and much of the Northeast has broken records in the last few days, going as high as 105 degrees in Baltimore.
(Flickr/Ed Yourdon)
Jeff Spross was the economics and business correspondent for The Week, an economics and climate reporter for ThinkProgress, and has written for the policy journal Democracy. More by Jeff Spross
