The Savannah Bananas are the best story in sports.
Their owner went $1.8 million in debt to build the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball โ and it's working.
The team now makes $200,000 per home game and is about to embark on a 70-game tour across 22 states.
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The rich donโt spend the money they have, and the poor donโt have money to spend.
This is a problem when 70% of the economy relies on consumer spending.
Closing our staggering wealth gap isnโt just the right thing to do. Itโs essential to save our economy from collapse.
@baileymeyers One of the first Brits to climb Everest was George Mallory. It took me almost three years to realize his last name is pronounced MAL-ory and not ma-LORY. I still say it the second way first.
Hmmm. I just had a bizarre experience, involving a global news organisation and a trillion dollar corporation. (I got caught in the middle, so... owch.)
Itโs not the sort of experience the people involved usually talk about in publicโฆ so I think Iโll talk about it in public.
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โIn Finland, the # of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.โ https://t.co/EH3reri9lz
1/ There is an epic zoning reform effort underway in MA. It is like nothing we have seen in zoning policy since at least the 1950s, when zoning swept the suburbs so thoroughly that The Boston Globe concluded in 1960, "Suburban Boston is zoned to the eyeballs."
For those who want a quick recap on #epidemiology:
It was plumbing that ended the cholera epidemic, not drinking sewage to strengthen everyone's immune system.
Thanks for coming to my #tedtalk. #CovidIsNotOver
The fundamental driver of homelessness in US cities is a lack of housing supply โ not drug use, poverty, mental illness, or climate.
This explanation from @JerusalemDemsas should end the debate once and for all: