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Just this guy...you know? Art/BehavSci/Boston/ChildWelfare/Philosophy/Politics/Sports @Kennedy_School, @SFAIalumni @UMassBoston & @BostonLatin alumnus
Jun 20, 2020 10 tweets 5 min read
As @RevDrBarber said: to change the narrative, we have to change the narrator. Economic justice demands that we listen to people in poverty and act on what we hear. #PoorPeoplesCampaign In a country with world-historic amounts of wealth, the fact that tens of millions of children live in poverty in unconscionable. Why tolerate extraordinary wealth if it's premised upon extraordinary cruelty? #PoorPeoplesCampaign
Jan 28, 2020 10 tweets 14 min read
If you care about poverty and the social safety net in the US, please read this important piece on Administrative Burden from @emilymbadger & @sangerkatz in the @nytimes. It supports the case that @ideas42's Economic Justice team has been making for years. @emilymbadger @sangerkatz @nytimes @ideas42 To wit: if we want to genuinely help people living with low incomes, we should make the social safety net easier to access, more generous, and more humane. See @ideas42's "Poverty Interrupted" white paper where we lay out 3 behavioral design principles: ideas42.org/wp-content/upl…
Jun 25, 2019 4 tweets 3 min read
A brilliant duo discussing a vital topic: @DrIbram & @jemelehill on antiracism. #AspenIdeas A critical observation from @DrIbram: respectability politics further deepens racism's roots by tacitly accepting racist beliefs. #AspenIdeas