Though LGBTQ+ youth make up about 7% of the general population, they disproportionately comprise 40% of homeless youth. On Saturday, Cyndi Lauper demonstrated her true colors, by throwing her annual sold-out benefit concert in New York to raise money for LGBTQ+ homeless youth. While fundraising efforts are critically important, we need policy change in order […]
It’s easy to donate to a holiday donation drive or to bake a pan of lasagna, but it’s uncomfortable to open yourself up to a stranger in need. It was cold and wet the first time I visited the tent city. It was only a few weeks before Christmas and Seattle was experiencing one of […]
I foolishly and selfishly thought that my comfortable middle-class upbringing would shield me from knowing financial instability. I was wrong. Lazy. Entitled. Get a better job. If you’ve been paying attention to the recent discussion on raising worker wages—often led by fast food worker protests—you’ve heard and read sentiments like these. No doubt, the issue […]
David Brooks devoted his column Tuesday to bemoaning moral relativism. The most sensational example Brooks trots out to highlight the lack of morals among the poor and uneducated comes from Robert Putnam’s Our Kids, his new book about the opportunity divide between college- and high school-educated America. It involves Elijah, a boy with a troubled […]
