by Courtney Cowan | Mar 3, 2021 | BOOKS, Enough Money, Meaning and Friends
Our communities are organized to manage growing poverty. They are not organized to reducepoverty. Every community spends a lot of money to help people manage crises . A mayor in a Utahcommunity once told me that 90% of the 911 calls came from a relatively small but...
by Courtney Cowan | Oct 21, 2020 | BOOKS, Enough Money, Meaning and Friends
Our nation’s economy was designed by settlers who came from countries with economic systems that included plutocracies, castes, feudal systems, and slavery. They all had in common a belief that a few deserve to be wealthy and that almost everyone else should be poor....
by Courtney Cowan | Oct 14, 2020 | BOOKS, Enough Money, Meaning and Friends
Three more bullet points to finish off the previous blog post, “So, at the risk of sounding overly simplistic about how to fix a problem that we have spent trillions of dollars not solving since the War on Poverty was launched 50-plus years ago, let me break it down...
by Courtney Cowan | Oct 7, 2020 | BOOKS, Enough Money, Meaning and Friends
So, at the risk of sounding overly simplistic about how to fix a problem that we have spent trillions of dollars not solving since the War on Poverty was launched 50-plus years ago, let me break it down in this way: ● Get over the idea that “the poor will always be...
by Courtney Cowan | Sep 30, 2020 | BOOKS, Enough Money, Meaning and Friends
The United States has the largest GDP on earth, estimated at $18 trillion. For perspective, China is the second-largest at about $11 trillion; Russia has an estimated GDP less than the state of Texas, and North Korea’s economy is smaller than Vermont’s. As Warren...
by Scott Miller | Jun 12, 2020 | BOOKS, Enough Money, Meaning and Friends
What’s wrong with charity as a solution to poverty? Nothing is wrong with charity per se. Expecting that it will solve the long-term problem of someone experiencing poverty is the problem. … instead of prescribing the fix(es): Let me give you some food, a ...