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Month: June 2016

Advice To Men From The U.S. Women’s Summit: Be Better

June 23, 2016  Shawnda Chapman Brown
  • Economy
  • Justice

Last week the White House held its first United State of Women Summit in Washington D.C. to strategize about gender equality. Every woman knows the problem, in most cases intimately. My Uber driver, Houma, reminded me of this on the…

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Random Acts of Kindness By New Yorkers

June 21, 2016  Gloria Foster
  • Economy
  • Health

New Yorkers get a bad rep for being selfish and unkind. But last week, three people jumped onto the subway tracks at the City Hall R station to save a man who had fallen on the tracks. A CUNY graduate…

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When Hate Crimes Don’t Matter: Widespread Under-Reporting Masks The Problem

June 14, 2016  Gloria Foster
  • Justice

My pastime of late is reading the New York Times. It reports on issues that both delight and confound me. Among the more confounding, hate crimes, specifically the under-reporting of them. A disturbing example; the hate crime against Ms. Barbara…

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The Marshmallow Test & Radical Uncertainty

June 10, 2016  Margaret Michaels
  • Economy

Everyone knows the famous Marshmallow Test pioneered in the 60’s. Put a marshmallow in front of a kid. Tell them they can eat it NOW or they can get 2 marshmallows if they WAIT to eat it later. If the…

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Summer Dress Codes & Male Oppression

June 3, 2016  Margaret Michaels
  • Economy

If you are not helicoptering your way to the Hamptons on summer Friday afternoons, you are probably a worker bee who takes the subway to work. Summer in NYC is an extreme sport. How do you dress for it? Subway…

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Other People’s Problems

June 2, 2016  Gloria Foster
  • Economy
  • Justice

It is easy to make someone “the other.” I learned this recently in a class on Intersectionality. Race, class, gender, and whatever else we see as forming our identity, “intersect” to create our unique way of looking at the world.…

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Beggar Thy Neighbor: Underfunding Public Education

June 1, 2016  Margaret Michaels
  • Economy
  • Education

In economics, a beggar thy neighbor policy involves one country fixing their economic problems by making some other country’s problems worse. President Obama just told G-7 countries it is what shouldn’t be done in a slowing global economy. We don’t…

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