A Pandemic is Another Terrible Time to be Poor

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CN04032020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts Pearl River     There’s no good time to be poor in America.  Not surprisingly, a pandemic bringing rampant disease and deaths in droves is a spectacularly bad time to be poor.  Some are even noticing the poor now, although that doesn’t necessarily mean that a whole lot …

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Indian Informal Workers are Starving

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My advice to anyone stuck at home and bored is to think about how lucky you are to have food and shelter.  While you’re bored, here’s my advice for a pick me up, and I’ll quote Dharmendra again,

“Kindly donate generously on ACORN International’s website to help us defeat hunger and defeat corona.  All donations will go to feed migrants in India.”

Just say, “Delhi” on the PayPal memo.

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Pandemic Challenges Ad-based Business Models

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CN04012020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans    One of the stark realities undergirding a number of industries that has been vividly exposed during the current coronavirus pandemic is the fragility of advertising-based business models that actually power tech giants and publications.   We might think the news is what counts or building connections …

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