Targeted UBI

 

 

The billionaires are doing ok. The millionaires are doing ok. Working class and impoverished Americans are in the lurch. 

The United States needs a targeted universal basic income for people who really need financial support.  Many basic jobs don’t pay a living wage and many Americans will never earn enough money from a low wage job. Supplementing worker incomes when they need extra money stabilizes families and neighborhoods.

Marc Sims 

Chicago

Every industry is going to change this decade. Not a little bit not a few every industry every single industry is going to be reinvented.

"The Future Is Faster Than You Think:" Peter Diamandis + Steven Kotler

https://youtu.be/2wNwwVEe6GY?t=1897

 

College students increasingly caught in remedial education trap

The problem of students not being ready for college is as old as American higher education.

https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2016/08/18/remedial-education-trap

 

The dirty little secret about education writ large; relative performance though out life tends to be remarkably static.

A 3rd grade reading level is a strong predictor of college completion.

Clip by Marc Sims.

https://www.c-span.org/video/?c4616997/schools-college