When Americans land in trouble abroad, these expats step in - 0 views
For Taste of Farm Life, There's No Place Like a Homestead - The New York Times - 0 views
Ohio drops revocation of driver's licenses - 0 views
Finding the Right Balance of Time and Money - The New York Times - 0 views
Free Time? Not Likely, for Time Is Anything but Free - The New York Times - 0 views
A Bold Plan to Prevent Homelessness - The New York Times - 0 views
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The tab might seem high up front — about $11,000 a year for a family of three. But it’s a bargain compared with the public cost of nearly $41,000 for that family in the shelter system now.
Seniors happy here, but have concerns - 0 views
Sustaining the Village Movement - 0 views
An Economy of Meaning - or Bust | naked capitalism - 0 views
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A human has only so many minutes in life. Time is the bedrock scarcity. If a person isn’t doing something meaningful in a given moment, he’s doing something less than meaningful. He’s wasting at least some of his potential. By meaningful, I don’t mean productive, in an economic sense. I mean important to the person, to her own wellbeing.
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In short, “good” economic systems would produce economies of meaning that help us to help one another live meaningful lives—to meet real needs and solve problems that matter.
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Cities, big and small, are the legs upon which all national systems rest. Already cities and their communities are hubs for innovation. With some further encouragement and support, and the right tools and programs, they could become more resilient and robust, and bigger heroes in the coming great transition.
Homeless Find a Champion in Canada's Medicine Hat - The New York Times - 0 views
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The results were startling, validating the housing first model and showing that the cost of housing the homeless was far less than the cost of the emergency services needed by the homeless while they were living on the street.“The reduction in days in jail alone pays for the program,” said Jaime Rogers, a Medicine Hat housing official. She cited studies that said the average homeless person costs taxpayers 120,000 Canadian dollars a year, or $91,600, in services, while it costs just 18,000 Canadian dollars a year, or $13,740, to house someone and provide the necessary retention support.That kind of evidence persuaded the conservative government of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper to pursue housing first as a national policy.
Why we should all have a basic income | World Economic Forum - 0 views
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Possibly of more importance, what don’t you do
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Thus basic income does not introduce a disincentive to work. It removes the existing disincentive to work that conditional welfare creates.
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The truth is that the costs of people having insufficient incomes are many and collectively massive. It burdens the healthcare system. It burdens the criminal justice system. It burdens the education system. It burdens would-be entrepreneurs, it burdens both productivity and consumer buying power and therefore entire economies. The total cost of all of these burdens well exceeds $1 trillion annually, and so the few hundred billion net additional cost of UBI pays for itself many times over. That’s the big-picture maths.
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CBUS - The Columbus Dispatch, 2017-03-18 - 0 views
https://medium.com/basic-income - 0 views
How Common Ownership is One Route to Social Transformation - Evonomics - 0 views
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A commons is an asset over which a community has shared and equal rights. This could, in principle, include land, water, minerals, knowledge, scientific research and software. But at the moment most of these assets have been enclosed: seized by either the state or private interests and treated as any other form of capital. Through this enclosure, we have been deprived of our common wealth.
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The restoration of the commons has great potential not only to distribute wealth but also to change society. As the writer David Bollier points out, a commons is not just a resource (land or trees or software) but also the community of people managing and protecting it. The members of the commons develop much deeper connections with each other and their assets than we do as passive consumers of corporate products.
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Managing common resources means developing rules, values and traditions. It means, in some cases, re-embedding ourselves in the places in which we live. It means reshaping government to meet the needs of communities, not corporations. In other words, reviving the commons can act as a counterweight to the atomising, alienating forces now generating a thousand forms of toxic reaction.
INEQUALITY - The Columbus Dispatch, 2017-03-19 - 0 views
Who Will Care for the Caregivers? - The New York Times - 0 views
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