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Employers do not want single payer because employees could change jobs without fear of losing coverage, and employees would have more choice regarding employment.
Photo: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift from the Trumpauer-Mulholland Collection.
Just two weeks after the March On Washington, on September 15, 1963, white supremacists planted a bomb under the steps of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The explosion killed four young girls attending Sunday school.
This terrorist act was a brutal reminder that the success of the march and the changes it represented would not go unchallenged. In the face of such violence, the determination to continue organizing intensified. These glass shards are from the church’s stained-glass window.
Innovation and forward-thinking may be Hawaii’s two biggest exports
in 2017. Earlier this month, the state earned the distinction of being
the first in the U.S. to formally accept the provisions
of the Paris Climate Agreement after President Donald Trump decided to
withdraw the nation from it, and now, Hawaii is taking the lead in
embracing yet another innovative idea: universal basic income (UBI).
Today, Hawaii state representative Chris Lee wrote a Reddit post about House Concurrent Resolution 89,
a bill he says he introduced in order to “start a conversation about
our future.” According to Lee, “After much work and with the help of a
few key colleagues, it passed both houses of the State Legislature
unanimously.”
The bill has two major provisions. First, it declares that all families
in Hawaii are entitled to basic financial security. “As far as I’m told,
it’s the first time any state has made such a pronouncement,” wrote
Lee. The second provision establishes a number of government offices “to
analyze our state’s economy and find ways to ensure all families have
basic financial security, including an evaluation of different forms of a
full or partial universal basic income.”
Have to remember to reblog the good news posts. I hope this is a rock that starts an avalanche.
It’s completely, 100% natural and should always be acceptable to change your opinions.
It shouldn’t be embarrassing.
You shouldn’t have to pretend you were never wrong about anything and that you’ve always felt the same way about everything.
You didn’t catch someone being a “hypocrite” when some older post of theirs conflicts with a new one. The simplest explanation is that they learned or reconsidered something.
The ability to evolve your understanding of things should be something to celebrate and respect. How did we end up with this shitty fucking culture where a change of perspective is treated like a shameful flaw.
“Is it really that bad if someone sees who you are? Why is it humans have a problem with letting someone else see that they are human?”
