NOTES FROM THE WORKING CLASS: The Bowery Among Us

Betwixt and between New York City and Seattle, the former sites of Skid Rows are quickly becoming occupied by luxury homebuyers and high-end office buildings. Even though the poor have been forced out, they have not gone away. Skid Row has metastasized everywhere. There are more homeless than ever, but they have splintered off into small clusters. They live in the most harsh and frightful way: tucked under blankets, tarps and sleeping bags, in between alleys and in the empty spaces of retail parking lots, loading docks, storefronts, and on the greenbelts along side freeways. This Holiday Season please give to the shelter or mission in your neighborhood.


Happiness: We Still Need a Vacation Law

New legislation in New York City increases the hope of paid vacation time in the United States. Why aren’t the Democratic presidential candidates paying attention?


The Tulsa City-County Library System | Honoring the Twenty-first Century

This month, we profile the Tulsa City-County Library system in Oklahoma. The library’s many outstanding programs, ethnic research resources, and forward thinking services enrich life and learning for Oklahomans in the Twenty-first Century. The library also embodies the true meaning of the term Sankofa: We must go back and reclaim our past so we can move forward; so we understand why and how we came to be who we are today.


December 2019 Magazine

Time and money are two valuable assets. With money, we can make money and lose money, and then we can make money all over again. On the other hand, time is one asset that when we give it away, it’s gone. You can’t take back the time you have given away. Yet according to award-winning author and documentary filmmaker John de Graaf, you can, indeed, take back your time. 

 


Why Draw Up Articles of Impeachment?

There are those who would argue that Democratic members of the House of Representatives are engaged in a bitter and vengeful effort to unseat the president of the United States, that the focus of U.S. House Committee on Intelligence and the U.S. House Judiciary Committee has been much fuss about nothing. It is expected that the Judiciary Committee will release the actual articles of impeachment this week, and that a vote in the House will occur before Christmas.


Paradoxes of Fairness

Social fairness is paradoxical in nature, because fairness and unfairness are logically entangled with each other at both the societal level and individual level. This metaphysical nature of fairness has been utterly ignored by scholars since ancient times, although from time to time we might hear different writers mention the term of fairness paradox in the context of various specific issues that would signify the notion of social fairness.


How To Start A Business If You Have A Disability

Often, people with disabilities feel as though employers don’t take full advantage of their skill sets, and they become frustrated because they know they could be much more valuable to their workplace.Today’s guest post about how to start a business if you have a disability is brought to us by Patrick Young, founder of ableusa.info


Gift of the Givers

Gift of the Givers is the largest disaster response NGO of African origin on the African continent. This includes disaster intervention, the establishment of search-and-rescue, aquatic and medical teams, and 20 other categories of projects. Now a global humanitarian organization that has contributed R2.8 billion in aid to 43 countries, South Africa included. Gift of the Givers Founder Dr Imtiaz Sooliman has been providing...