by Pat Hartman | Apr 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
In Emeryville (in California’s Bay Area) the City Council decided to incrementally raise its minimum wage for workplaces with 55 or fewer employees. It went to $13 per hour in 2016, then $14 the next year, and $15 in 2018, and this coming July it goes up to $16. Yes,...
by Pat Hartman | Apr 9, 2019 | Uncategorized
What would be the advantage of distributing the same amount to everyone, with no strings attached? It seems counterintuitive, but associate professor of philosophy at the University of San Diego Matt Zwolinski explains how the universality would be an economic...
by Pat Hartman | Apr 2, 2019 | Uncategorized
In some circles, Universal Basic Income (UBI) is an idea that sounds perfectly natural. After all, in ancient times when the hunters and gatherers brought home food, they shared it with everyone. They could have eaten their babies, but they didn’t. Despite being...
by Pat Hartman | Mar 26, 2019 | Featured Articles, Uncategorized
Richard R. Troxell, co-founder and President of House the Homeless, wrote an Amicus Brief having to do with fines levied on the homeless. In that document he cited a white paper that he also authored, using as one source the data gathered by the 2016 Traumatic Brain...
by Pat Hartman | Mar 19, 2019 | Uncategorized
A hundred years ago, it was called shell shock because artillery shells were what landed in the trenches and exploded around the British troops. It was also called battle fatigue, and it could strike at any time, in the first firefight or after years of combat...
by Pat Hartman | Mar 12, 2019 | Uncategorized
At the intersection of homelessness and the criminal justice system, one of the most important legal documents the last two decades has been negated by a federal judge in Florida. When some kind of pattern or practice of wrongdoing has been identified, a consent...
