New Orleans Visiting with friends at the Interfaith Worker Justice confab at Tulane last evening, Jeff Zinsmeyer, a long esteemed colleague came up and said hello. We sat down and visited for a little along with Henry Allen of the Discount Foundation based in Boston. I had stumbled onto a project of Jeff’s, while writing …
Category: Citizen Wealth
Poor Give More
Ocean Springs The poor are more generous that the rich, and in fact the poorer you are, the more likely a larger portion of your income is given to others. For the poor experience drives empathy and action. For the rich it turns out that talk is in fact cheap. Quoting from Frank Greve of …
Money Guard
New Orleans A colleague forwarded me an interesting “citizen wealth” strategy for lower income families to protect small resources: having a “money guard.” The P2P Foundation (peer to peer) included a piece on their website with the following story: Money guarding: “If you get a fairly decent chunk of money, you give it to …