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Rapper
Jay-Z and singer Beyonce, pictured in 2014 with their daughter Blue Ivy
Carter, marry their two musical styles on a surprise joint album,
"Everything is Love"
Music's
most famous couple Beyonce and Jay-Z pulled a surprise by releasing a
joint album, a long-rumored collaboration that celebrates their marital
passionand black identity.
As a kid growing up in Stockton, California, a little extra money would've meant the world to Michael Tubbs' family.
Tubbs' mother worked long hours as a cashier at a Discovery Zone and
still had to borrow from check cashing places to get by. "If we had $300
a month, life would be less stressful, or we could move into another
neighborhood," Tubbs says. "Maybe she would've been able to go back to
school and get her BA, or pursue a passion."
Today, Tubbs is Stockton's 27-year-old
mayor. Last week, he announced the launch of an experimental program
that will give people like his mom about $500 a month, with no strings
attached.
Stockton will likely become the first city in the
nation to test out a version of universal basic income, an economic
system that would regularly provide all residents enough money to cover
basic expenses, with no conditions or restrictions. Stockton's mayor Michael Tubbs is spearheading one of the nation's first basic income experiments.
Stockton hopes to launch its program next year and enroll several
hundred of the city's residents for at least a couple of years,
depending on the availability of funding.
The concept of universal basic income — or UBI — has been around for
decades. Martin Luther King advocated for it in 1967 to create a minimum
standard of living. Up until recently, it has mostly been a subject of discussion among academics.
But universal basic income has started to gain traction as poverty has
grown and fears of automation killing jobs have mounted.
Large-scale trials began this year in Finland and Canada to test whether the program improves outcomes like health and employment.
In the U.S., the movement's epicenter is Silicon Valley, where
inequality is stark and labor-saving technologies like self-driving cars
seem just around the corner. Tech leaders, from Facebook's Mark
Zuckerberg to Tesla's Elon Musk, have endorsed the idea as insurance
against a jobless future.
Now, some of them are putting serious
money behind it. YCombinator, the tech incubator known for minting
high-profile startups, is hosting academics who'll research the idea using a control group and a random selection of approximately 3,000 participants in Oakland, California starting next year.
Meanwhile, a recently launched non-profit called the Economic Security Project has committed $1 million to the Stockton effort, with funding from donors that include Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes.
"There was not significant money in the space before" these groups got involved,says longtime advocate Jim Pugh, a robotics PhD who runs a tech and analytics firm that serves progressive causes. "It was definitely a significant uptick."
Rather than a research paper,Stockton
is planning a media campaign featuring program participants talking
about their experiences. "Alongside the data, we need stories," says
Natalie Foster, a co-founder of the Economic Security Project.
Backers hope larger cities and states will eventually adopt universal
basic income programs, much like they've passed higher minimum wages and
paid family leave laws while federal action has stalled. The hope is
that, pressure would build to take the program nationwide.
There are some wrinkles in this plan, however.
In its purest form, every American would receive a basic income, which
some estimates peg at about $10,000 per year. In the aggregate, that
would add trillions to the budget annually.
Policymakers could
lighten the burden by scrapping the rest of the U.S.'s targeted
anti-poverty programs, like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program (known as food stamps) and Medicaid Related: Global unemployment to hit 200 million as wages stagnate
That approach has attracted support from libertarians, who see a
single-payment safety net as less bureaucratic and more market-friendly
than the current alphabet soup of governmentprograms.
Conservative political scientist Charles Murray, known for his "bell
curve" theory about the relationship between intelligence and income, is
among UBI's leading proponents.
But many on the left see the idea as a Trojan horse for eliminating
benefits that currently lift millions of people out of poverty.
"The risk is high that under any UBI that could conceivably gain
traction politically, tens of millions of poor people would likely end
up worse off," wrote Robert Greenstein, the president of the Center on
Budget and Policy Priorities, in a blog post last month.
Left-leaning supporters insist that universal basic income should be an
add-on to the existing safety net, not a replacement. But that
assurance hasn't firmed up support across the aisle.
Joe Biden, former Obama Council of Economic Advisors chair Jason Furman, and Center for American Progress president Neera Tanden
have all opposed the idea for another reason: They say giving people
enough money to live on will drive them out of the workforce, and that
having a job is essential for emotional health and social status.
Basic income proponents disagree.
"That seems to rest on a thin theory of how one develops a work ethic —
that it takes either hunger or suffering or poverty or fear," says
political scientist and Economic Security Project co-founder Dorian
Warren. A recent review of decades of research on basic income-like
programs in the U.S. and Canada found that, in most cases, participants
reduce their work hours only slightly.
Within a couple of years, the Stockton experiment may shed more light
on that question. Tubbs thinks that participants might use the extra
income to take a break from work in order to advance their careers
through education, or invest in their kids.
"My constituents in
Stockton are incredibly resourceful, intelligent and hardworking," he
says. "And oftentimes all they need is an opportunity."
CNNMoney (New York) First published October 27, 2017: 6:47 AM ET
Teens beat down bus driver after he refused to let them on for free: cops
New York Post15 hours ago
A group of teenagers attacked and beat a bus driver in the Bronx when he
refused to allow them to ride for free, a video released by cops shows.
The teens boarded at the intersection of Conner Street and Boston Road
in the Bronx at about 5:28 p.m. on Saturday and tried to scoot by
without paying. The driver told the kids to pay, and they responded by
telling him to “just drive the f—king bus.” They started punching and
kicking him and then fled. The public bus, operated by the private
company Liberty Lines, goes between the Bronx and Westchester County.
The driver, 38, suffered minor injuries and declined to go to the
hospital. Union officials called the attack unacceptable and called on
Westchester ...
A group of teenagers attacked and beat a bus driver in the
Bronx when he refused to allow them to ride for free, a video released
by cops shows.
The teens boarded at the intersection of Conner Street and Boston
Road in the Bronx at about 5:28 p.m. on Saturday and tried to scoot by
without paying. The driver told the kids to pay, and they responded by
telling him to “just drive the f—king bus.” They started punching and
kicking him and then fled.
The public bus, operated by the private company Liberty Lines, goes between the Bronx and Westchester County.
The driver, 38, suffered minor injuries and declined to go to the hospital.
Union officials called the attack unacceptable and called on
Westchester County officials to install partitions in the buses that
protect the drivers from passengers.
“This attack is absolutely unacceptable, and we urge anyone who
recognizes these individuals to contact the police,” said Transport
Workers Union Local 100 President Tony Utano. “This attack also vividly
highlights why Liberty Lines buses need partitions installed.”
Cops are still searching for the teens.
My God people.... grow up! Why the hell are a bunch of so called adults worried about what someone said about them? What the hell is wrong with you? You're the idiot giving someone the power to hurt you with words. YOU have the problem, not them !!
Amendment I. Congress shall
make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the
press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition
the government for a redress of grievances.
Attendees at the "Reparations Happy Hour" in Portland, Oregon.
(Cameron Whitten/Twitter)
On Monday night, a bar in Portland,
Oregon hosted people of color and gave them $10 as they arrived — a
symbolic gift funded primarily by white people who were asked not to
attend the “Reparations Happy Hour.”
A local activist group, Brown Hope,
wanted the event to be a space for people of color in a mostly white
city to meet, organize, discuss public policy and potentially plan
various actions.
The notion of full-scale reparations — sought by some as compensation for the horrors of slavery, Jim Crow and the large wealth gap
between white and black U.S. households — was supported by 58 percent
of black people and 46 percent of Hispanic people in a 2016 poll.
However, 68 percent of white Americans do not support
reparations; when the topic was brought up during the 2016 presidential
campaign, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said it was “divisive” and unlikely to get through Congress.
The economist Robert Browne once estimated
a fair value for reparations of $1.4 trillion to $4.7 trillion and
wrote that reparations should ''restore the black community to the
economic position it would have had if it had not been subjected to
slavery and discrimination.''
U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan and President Barack Obama stand
together at the end of a ceremony commemorating the 150th anniversary of
the 13th Amendment, which formally abolished slavery in the aftermath
of the U.S. Civil War, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, December 9,
2015.
(Reuters)
Eric J. Miller, a professor at Loyola Law School, said
the case for reparations involves a reckoning with the country's
history.
“Part of our history is our grandparents participating
in these acts of terrible violence [against black people],” he told
HuffPost. “But people don’t want to acknowledge the horror of what they
engaged in.”
“The cognitive dissonance of learning that your
property is got and preserved on the back of the misery of others is not
an incredibly nice thing to live with. So people would rather discount
it,” Miller said.
Cameron Whitten, the 27-year-old activist who organized
the event, said that attendees felt seen and valued by the Portland
event — but noted there are much larger goals.
Attendees are seen at the "Reparations Happy Hour" in Portland, Oregon.
(Cameron Whitten/Twitter)
“We’re creating a platform to make sure our leadership is being seen and honored,” Whitten told Blavity.
“This isn’t just, ‘We’re here to socialize.’ We’re here to do the work.
In a place like Portland, where our community is so fractured … our
first step is to bring us back together, and then from there organize
and mobilize to create policies to create justice in our communities.”
There was enough interest in the idea, which was funded
by about 100 people who were mostly white, to hold other happy hours,
which will be called "Reparations Power Hour" to accomodate those who
don't drink.
Whitten anticipated some of the criticism he's faced,
telling the New York Times the event is not meant to diminish the
seriousness of reparations.
In 2014, the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates made the case
for reparations in the Atlantic. H.R. 40, which was introduced in
Congress in January 2017, would study various reparations proposals.
Meghan’s pot farmer nephew, 25, hands police a PEPPER SPRAY after
being caught with a KNIFE outside a London nightclub following whirlwind
tour of the capital’s tourist attractions
Meghan Markle's family travelled to London ahead of wedding to Prince Harry
They uploaded photos to social media including cardboard cutouts of the royals
Megan's nephew Tyler Dooley, 25, busted with a knife at a nightclub on Sunday
Bouncers confiscated the blade and Dooley fled before cops arrived at the club
Published:
22:35 EDT, 20 May 2018
| Updated:
13:25 EDT, 21 May 2018
Meghan Markle's estranged family have uploaded photos of their time in London after being snubbed from the wedding guest list.
The
newlywed's former sister-in-law Tracy Dooley and her son, Meghan's
nephew Tyler, arrived in the UK ahead of the nuptials last week.
The pair were set to appear on Good Morning Britain as commentators on Meghan's wedding to Prince Harry but were dropped by ITV at the last minute.
Despite
the rebuff however, they have been documenting their time in the
capital, enjoying British classics including Toad-in-the-hole, posing at
landmarks and alongside cardboard cut outs of the royal family.
Meghan's
cannabis-growing nephew was caught trying to take a knife into a London
club on Sunday claiming he brought the blade because Donald Trump
warned the capital was like a 'war zone'.
It is also reported that he handed police a pepper spray when officers arrived, according to Sky News.
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Photos uploaded to Tracy Dooley's Facebook page show her in London bars and pubs
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Meghan's nephew Tyler Dooley, 25, enjoyed the pub-grub classic Toad-in-the-hole
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The pair were joined by their friend Ronnie Tanner, pictured here at Hampton Court Palace
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Tyler Dooley, 25, was one of a
number of the Duchess of Sussex's family to fly into the UK and try to
cash in on her big day despite not being invited to the royal wedding.
But
he ran into trouble in the early hours of Sunday morning at Kingston
nightclub Bacchus after he surrendered the four-inch lock-blade knife to
club bouncers.
He reportedly said he
brought the weapon from the US to London because President Trump had
warned that the city is 'like a war zone'.
The
Met said they were called to Bacchus but he reportedly 'ran off' before
they arrived and Scotland Yard has confirmed they would not be taking
any further action.
Mr Dooley's
attempts to make money off the back of his tenuous link to Meghan
includes trying to sell a new strain of cannabis he has called Markle's
Sparkle from his Oregon farm.
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Despite being snubbed from the guest list, the mother and son have clearly been enjoying their time in the capital
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Tyler Dooley (seen far left
arriving at Heathrow) said he brought the knife from the US to London
because President Trump had warned that the city is 'like a war zone'
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Tracy Dooley has uploaded several pictures, including this one from Hampton Court Palace Golf Club
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Tyler
Dooley and his American girlfriend (above) spend part of the royal
wedding festivities rocking out to a cover of Oasis' Don't Look Back In
Anger at Druids Head in Kingston
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They have been posing at landmarks and alongside cardboard cut outs and masks of the royal family
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Dooley clan then headed to
nearby Bacchus (above), a pulsating late-night dance club. Bouncers were
taken aback when Tyler Dooley announced he had a knife
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Tyler Dooley (above) is a legal
pot farmer from Oregon. He was not invited to the royal wedding but flew
to London and was busted with a knife by club bouncers hours after the
ceremony
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Tracy has been sharing tourist photographs during her time in London
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Tracy shared this image, captioning it: 'The after party is always the best!'
Dooley,
25, was not invited to the royal wedding, but was celebrating
in Kingston, southwest of London, early Sunday when he surrendered the
four-inch lock-blade knife to club bouncers,The Sun reported.
The
incident occurred after midnight at nightclub Bacchus, where Dooley was
celebrating with his girlfriend, mother Tracy and older brother TJ.
Dooley,
a legal marijuana farmer from Oregon, and his family arrived in London
earlier in the week and had planned to appear on Good Morning Britain as
commentators on Meghan's wedding to Prince Harry. They were dropped by ITV on Thursday, however.
Cut
out of the official post-wedding celebrations at Frogmore House in
Windsor, the Dooley clan apparently decided to observe the occasion by
barhopping in Kingston.
Video of the
evening shows the Dooleys rocking out in the Druids Head, as rock band
The Jaxx play a cover of the Oasis hit single Don't Look Back In Anger.
Later, the family would cross Kingston's market square to Bacchus, a pulsating late-night dance club.
'They were all obviously a bit tipsy from celebrating the wedding, but not in bad spirits,' a witness told the Sun.
'As
Tyler came up to the bouncer, he said, "I have a knife on me." He
pulled it out and handed it to the staff,' the source added.
The
Duchess of Sussex's nephew explained to the bouncers that 'he’d brought
it from America because Donald Trump had said London wasn’t safe.'
Earlier
this month, Trump claimed that knife crime in London is so bad that one
unnamed hospital is 'like a war zone for horrible stabbing wounds' with
'blood all over the floors'.
Police
figures for London show a 44 per cent increase in homicide for the year
ending in April 2018, as well as a 21 per cent increase in knife crime.
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TJ (left), Tracy and and Tyler
Dooley (right) had been scheduled to appear on Good Morning Britain to
comment on the royal wedding, but were dropped by ITV on Thursday
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The Dooley clan are seen out on the town on their eventful trip to London for the royal wedding
Bouncers at Bacchus were not impressed by Dooley's explanation, however.
'They
acted very calmly and dialed 999 and that’s when some local guys told
him he’d get arrested. At that point he ran off,' the source said.
It
is illegal to carry knives in public in the UK, unless they are folding
knives with a blade under three inches. Police do not consider lock
knives to be folding, since the blade does not always immediately fold.
It's
unclear if Dooley would have broken any laws by bringing the blade into
the country from the US, as he allegedly told bouncers he did.
London's Metropolitan Police Service said in a statement that they were called to the club at around 1.55am on Sunday.
Cops said they recovered the knife from bouncers but no arrest was made, as the suspect had left the scene.
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Tyler Dooley is seen arriving at the family hotel in Waterloo on Wednesday
Dooley's brother TJ is said to have returned to the scene to apologize and attempt to explain the incident to bouncers.
When
a reporter from the Sun approached the Dooleys at the DoubleTree hotel
in Kingston, the family declined to comment and hid inside a utility
closet.
Mother Tracy Dooley was married
to Meghan's half-brother Tom Markle Jr, and Meghan used to babysit the
elder brother TJ as a child.
Tyler Dooley, through the company he runs with his mother, has introduced a specialty cannabis strain called 'Markle Sparkle'.
The family were bound back for America on Sunday night, according to Tracy Dooley's Facebook posts.
'Had a great time mate!' she wrote. 'We had loads of fun in London.'
Pint-size pickpocket, 14, convinces blind man he is a cop before
stealing his wallet in Manhattan subway station and using his credit
card to blow $500 in clothes store
Subway surveillance cameras caught a teen boy, 14, robbing a legally blind man
The boy pretended to be a police officer, offering to help the man get to his train
He can be seen unzipping the man's backpack and stealing his wallet
The boy's own mother turned him in to police a week after the incident occurred
A wily
14-year-old boy who posed as a New York City police officer while
snatching a legally blind man's wallet in a Manhattan subway station on
pretense of helping him was arrested on Sunday.
His
mother turned the baby-faced youth in to police nearly a week after
authorities said he fled the subway station at 34th Street and Eighth
Avenue, near Macy's, leaving his victim behind.
On
May 14, police said he approached the 64-year-old man, identifying
himself as an officer and offering to lead him through the station and
past a turnstile to his train.
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A
14-year-old teen was arrested Sunday after pretending to be a police
officer so he could rob a legally blind man in the New York City subway
Surveillance video shows the man standing quietly as the teenager unzips his backpack and takes the wallet.
The boy then bolts out with the wallet, which police said contained $85 cash and several credit cards.
One card was charged $500 at a nearby store, police determined during an investigation that is ongoing.
Authorities released the video with the victim's face blurred out and several still images that led to Sunday's arrest.
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Police released surveillance camera footage and pictures of the teen who robbed the man
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The teen can be seen unzipping the unsuspecting man's backpack and taking items out of it
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The teen's own mother turned him into police a week after the robbery occurred
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The subway robbery occurred at the subway stop in midtown Manhattan near Macy's
In the video, he is wearing a dark blue shirt, black and white pants, boots and has his own backpack strapped on.
The teenager's name was not released because of his age. The victim was not named either.
The boy faces charges of grand larceny and criminal impersonation of a police officer.
It
was not immediately clear if the young suspect had an attorney, or
whether he has been arraigned, appearing in court to admit or deny the
alleged offense.
Teen, 14, pretends to be a police officer to steal a legally blind man's wallet in the subway
Mail Online•
Teen, 14, pretends to be a police officer to steal a legally blind man's wallet in the subway
A
wily 14-year-old boy who posed as a New York City police officer while
snatching a legally blind man's wallet in a Manhattan subway station on
pretense of helping him was arrested on Sunday. His mother turned the
baby-faced youth in to police nearly a week after authorities said he
fled the subway station at 34th Street and Eighth Avenue, near Macy's,
leaving his victim behind. On May 14, police said he approached the
64-year-old man, identifying himself as an officer and offering to lead
him through the station and past a turnstile to his train. A 14-year-old
teen was arrested Sunday after pretending to be a police officer so he
could rob a legally blind man in the New York City subway Surveillance
No wonder Meghan hasn¿t invited them! You can bet your life...
EXCLUSIVE: Meghan's pot farmer nephew's tasteful wedding...
