#universal-basic-income

#universal-basic-income

RICHMOND With clipboard in hand and neon green safety vest on, Amanda Jenkins calls out to a gray-bearded man sweeping the road at the Castro Street homeless encampment under Richmond Parkway.Will you fill out this survey?she asks.It's for our meeting in Sacramento next month.Surrounded by trailers and old cars covered with blue tarps and billboard posters (They're great at keeping the rain out you'd only know if you've lived outside!), she makes her way to the next person she finds at the quiet encampment.

The championing of the north by the Greater Manchester mayor, Andy Burnham, is a noble cause, but his past support for HS2 was a dreadful mistake.From the start, it was clear that the staggering 100bn cost more than all other rail projects put together would cripple all British rail investments everywhere.

A mountain man buys his first chain saw.He comes back to the store a week later complaining that it cuts down only two trees a day when he was told it would cut down 20.The service person says, Well, let's see what the trouble is, and starts it up.The mountain man jumps back and asks, What's that noise?

In the UK, being a woman means you're three times more likely than a man to have a mental health problem.Rates of self-harm among young women have more than tripled since the 1990s.For those facing interlocking systems of oppression, it gets worse.Black British women are more likely to be diagnosed with a mental health problem than white women.