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. [...]
Universal Basic Income by Sarah Glazer for CQ Researcher
Diane Pagen was interviewed for "Universal Basic Income" an article by Sarah Glazer, Contributing Writer for CQ Researcher Read the full article online: Universal Basic Income - by Sarah Glazer
Abortion, Policy and the Rights I Dream About Having
Read the new writing by Diane Pagen "Abortion, Policy and the Rights I Dream About Having" published in The Whole Life Democrat Blog
This month in the New York Daily News
America's Grenfell: Slow death of the poor Read the full article here Watch this YouTube related video: