Summer 2019 meeting in Brooklyn with members of Pressenza
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16th Annual U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Congress Opening Session
Organized by the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network, Basic Income Canada, and Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, Associate Professor Michael A. Lewis, this year’s Congress will bring together researchers, activists, policymakers and students from around North America and around the world who focus on universal basic income guarantee (BIG) policy. Kicking off [...]
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.
What adolescents want to say about school
Earlier this week while in East Harlem, New York, I stopped into a lunch spot around the time the kids were getting out of school. Four young women sat down near me to have a bite, too. On my way out, I stopped by their table and introduced myself. Then I asked them if they [...]
Dead Men and Their Children
Alton Sterling has a child, and that child's life will never be the same. But if he is a child, especially a black child in the U.S. chances are violence was everywhere before his father was murdered.
Selfies by Statesmen
There was something stirring in me as I saw the story of the Obama "selfie" at a state funeral. I try to put my finger on it, but it is evasive. I did not like it. Perhaps it's the joking quality of it. For a moment, before I knew where it had been taken, I [...]
“Help” vs. Income
Some say the problem with poverty is that too much money is given to the poor. Some say that too little is. Neither group is right. If the number the NY Post gives this week is correct, a half a million dollars does sound like a lot of money. The Post wanted to make the [...]
News wrap up, July 12
We spent a good deal of time with the news media yesterday, catching up on what the President, Romney, and our fellow New Yorkers and other public figures are doing. The prevailing stories of the day were whether or not Mitt Romney lied about how long he was at Bain Capital; whether the reputation of [...]
GOP race is “heating up”
I've watched the GOP debates, including the latest, South Carolina. The practical and intellectual content is about as hot as a wet pickle. The content is smoke and mirrors: nothing about banking systems, foreclosures, justice, the dismantling of free speech via the National Defense Reauthorization Act, or the poverty that creates the need for the [...]