(Engage) – In this thought-provoking TedTalk, historian Rutger Bregman defies the general notion that impoverished people and communities are so because they make stupid decisions. “We, the rich, should stop pretending we know best,” Bregman says. He asserts his belief that things could be different is people get access to a basic income.
“When 500 people pass you by, and most of them don’t even look at you…that is when you feel you are worth nothing, not even a hello or a smile.” -A homeless man on Market St. San Francisco. By Lupita Peimbert. Sharing isn’t pertinent to the Holidays only. People get plenty of opportunities to be … More 9 Ways To True Acts of Giving.
At first sight, 33 year-old Nicholas Mittel was just another guy down on Market Street. He was not asking for money, though, although he looked like someone who probably did not have a home. Another so-called homeless man in San Francisco. He was busy working on a flower. A rose-like flower made of flax grass, … More Just Another So-Called Homeless on Market Street
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