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The county created the Department of Homeless Solutions and Equitable Communities in April

After six months of gathering ideas and strategies, Community Foundation releases the result

Russell Shaw Higgs / Flickr Universal Basic Income, a program popularized --by presidential candidate Andrew Yang, might be coming to a Connecticut city.  This hour, we talk with members of a task force that are working to create a pilot program in Hartford, providing UBI to a select group of single parents. Universal Basic Income test programs have popped up in California and other parts of the globe - we talk about who benefits and who will pay for it. Could Universal Basic Income become the core part of government programs in the future? Would it mean ending SNAP, Medicaid, unemploym...

If at first you don’t succeed … fourth time — to get the school’s board of trustees to revoke President Trump’s honorary degree, awarded to him in 1988 after speaking at commencement. The basis for the latest — Office of Multicultural Affairs — complaint is the president’s alleged violations of Lehigh’s “Principles of our Equitable Community.” These principles include the usual flowery academese about “respect,” “sensitivity,” etc. For example, they state: “We affirm academic freedom within our community and uphold our commitment to the highest standards of res...