Just this guy...you know? Art/BehavSci/Boston/ChildWelfare/Philosophy/Politics/Sports @Kennedy_School, @SFAIalumni @UMassBoston & @BostLatinSchool 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