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How public bathrooms reflect America's inequality

Public restrooms are scarce in cities across the U.S. It's a topic historian and Temple University professor Bryant Simon writes about in his new book 'For Customers Only: Public Bathrooms and the Making of American Inequality.'

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Joel Rose is a correspondent on NPR's National Desk. As the network’s transportation correspondent since 2023, Rose’s reporting focuses on roadway and pedestrian safety, an air travel system under stress and how emerging technologies are changing the ways we get around.
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