Smokes!

who wears khakis on a first date tho? have i been missin a trick all these years?

Look up “mincome” or “minimal income” studies. There have been several that were very successful. You could also look into Utah’s houses for the homeless program which operates on the same principle. (If you want people to quit being poor, give them money. If you want them to quit being homeless, give them homes.)

you are correct

i am sorry, but as a Jew, i would never do it. he is turd

isn’t he also Jewish??? doesn’t he know what genocide it?? WTF

Thank you. I work in community mental health and every day I feel enraged by what I see—and who I am in the process. Yes, I care enormously about my clients, and yes, I think I’ve done some good, but who the fuck cares if a kid can use mindfulness techniques when he can’t get a job and has a 1/3 chance of ending up in…

Even Richard Nixon (who also oversaw the foundation of the Environmental Protection Agency and was president during the first Earth Day) was amenable to a National Minimum Income Act. The problems were two-fold: 1) there were the bootstrappy types and people deeply suspicious of who the recipients might be and 2)…

It’s also super damaging because, speaking from experience, if a poor person is able to navigate hurdle A and B but can’t make a dent in C, and it feels like they are the failures. When no, it’s just really hard and takes a really long time to break free of poverty. It’s so frustrating.speaking of research-does anyone…

Is a ClassPass like a race card?

I have not heard the NPR story, although I will listen to it. I just want to second what you said about cash. I am a legal aid attorney and so many of my clients’ problems would disappear if they had higher monthly incomes.

it sucks I’m angry

Please research “housing first” initiatives, too. Giving homeless people homes reduces homelessness? You don’t say!

Yeah. It’s amazing that we’ve all been exposed for so long to so much blather about “pathology” that it now sounds like a radical, crazy, dangerous idea that maybe the biggest problem with poverty is a lack of money, and maybe the best way to get homeless people housing and give them the leg up they need for the…

Have a look at this:

Every nonprofit, university and their dog is itching to do studies/interventions on resilience in Tribal communities. And yeah, we are resilient since (despite best efforts) neither the US government nor the non-Native community has been able to kill all of us off (but y’all came fucking close). Just another in the…

There is a brief TED talk on this though, if I remember correctly, it is centered more around poor people in other countries...it is very interesing: http://www.ted.com/talks/joy_sun_…

I’ve never understood this focus on resilience in poor communities. Of course these people are resilient. They have to be. People who aren’t don’t make it or, if they do, struggle with issues like addiction. The issue isn’t resilience, it’s lack of concrete resources especially money. Once the concrete issues are…

Yes, I remember the story you’re talking about. It’s frustrating that the concept has been so slow to catch on—there’s such an entrenched Victorian mentality around poverty, assuming that people are undeserving of the dignity of autonomy, because shame on them for being poor! But if you want to do something that…

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/afr…