Which is it? People need clarity from charities
Well meaning and less than well meaning attempts at "feeding" poor New Yorkers aside, we need a Universal Basic Income.
A candidate for President wants a Universal Basic Income
Andrew Yang, a not-for-profit and for profit entrepreneur is running for President of the United States. I for one couldn't be happier. Those who have been reading me for some time, and those who know me, know that I couldn't be sicker of the current public "assistance" system: the one that distributes insufficient amounts of [...]
Basic Income Movie Night in NYC February 1st
You won't want to miss this first Basic Income Movie Night of 2018!
Pro-soda group’s “concern” for poor is bull-doo
So now, are we to believe that the pro-soda, pro-diabetes, pro-obesity lobby is coming to the defense of the poor in the United States? If the anti-soda tax people cared, they'd get behind a Universal Basic Income.
FDR’s Freedom from Want: Time to Remember
- Photo by John Simoes (jsfotographic.tumblr.com) - FDR despised soup kitchens and bread lines and thought them to be shameful evidence of our failure to create income distribution policies for our people.
Universal Basic Income as Antidote to Toxic Stress
Researchers at the American Academy of Pediatrics say that toxic stress in young children is a catalyst for chronic stress-related diseases later in life.
The Christmas Basket (A conversation starter for your post-holiday hangover)
To say the chosen families needed the help more than the others was to advertise that they were particularly destitute, since everyone in room was poor, including by the way the teachers, who made about $12 an hour.
Marco Rubio’s pre-Thanksgiving hypocrisy on helping “working families.”
In Rubio's Florida, for example, the maximum monthly welfare payment for a family is $303, even though a federal poverty line income is about $1500 a month for a family of three. That's some lifestyle.
All Tricks, No Treats: A Nation (Un)Committed to Children
It may seem anti-social to smother the baby you birthed, but for a teenager schooled in the values of American society, maybe not so much. Tiona Rodriguez, who was 17 at the time, may have needed some more adult direction to keep from going shopping and shoplifting right after birthing a baby and killing it. [...]
Creation vs. Consumption
There is something very satisfying about saving a piece of old furniture. I think of the people who have sat on it, or at it, maybe talking out a problem not different from the problems I have; or maybe they planned a birthday party, or a trip, or how they'd make the rent on a [...]