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X @Elon Musk
Elon Musk¡ 2025-11-19 19:06
Poverty is an engineering problemTÎTSUĂ (@tetsuoai):I see poverty as more of an engineering problem than an unsolvable social issue. With Grok and Optimus, we could solve the labor shortage, drive costs to near zero, and create a future where poverty is statistically irrelevant.The scale of whats coming over the next decade is https://t.co/2cvGb5shBw ...
X @The Economist
The Economist¡ 2025-11-19 13:00
The barest necessities of life in Cuba cost far more than the official average monthly wage. According to a Spanish-backed think-tank, 89% of Cuban families âlive in extreme povertyâ https://t.co/2EwH44bMXc ...
X @The Economist
The Economist¡ 2025-11-14 12:20
Excluding government support, one in four children in New Mexico live in poverty. This month all of the stateâs families became eligible for subsidised child care https://t.co/BKC5EQeM6w ...
X @The Economist
The Economist¡ 2025-11-06 15:05
Concern for the poor and the planet rubs some the wrong way https://t.co/HRj2EyV72V ...
From Air-Con Courts to Barefoot Grit: Redefining "Enough" | Yi Lin | TEDxKCISLK Youth
TEDx Talks¡ 2025-11-05 17:14
Good evening everyone. I'm Ye and thank you for coming. May I ask you to think about the last time you wanted to wash your hands.Perhaps it was just an hour or two ago when you were eating dinner and there was some food on your hands. Or maybe it was right before you came to the auditorium after you used the restroom. In any case, when we turn our heads down the hall, there's a sink with a faucet that gushes clean water at the flick of the tap.Well, when I was in northern Thailand coaching basketball to the ...
âThere are children going to bed hungryâ: Nonprofit leaders discuss Americaâs food crisis
MSNBC¡ 2025-11-04 03:16
Today, the Trump administration under court order said it would authorize reduced payments of SNAP food benefits this month. Not only will these payments be cut in half, but they'll also be significantly delayed. Across the country, nonprofit organizations and other entities are working overtime to try to narrow the gap imposed by these reduced benefits by organizing food drives and surging resources to food banks.The patchwork efforts to compensate for a massive government program face significant obstacle ...
My son âdoesnât need the extra worryâ: Mother gets emotional speaking about SNAP
MSNBC¡ 2025-11-03 22:01
I want to bring in Hazel Willow. Hazel lives in Maine and relies on SNAP food benefits. Hi, Hazel.It's so kind of you to come on the program and and I know this isn't easy to talk about, but I just wonder before we get to the news today, can you help people understand you're a mom, what these last days and weeks have been like for you. >> Hi, Chris. Thanks so much for having me.Um yeah, it's difficult to be vulnerable about this stuff because in society, you know, we're not supposed to talk about um the har ...
The Power of Music Collaboration | SAMUEL DIXON | TEDxDiobu
TEDx Talks¡ 2025-11-03 17:37
[Music] So my mom registered to give birth to me in one hospital in in July. So but before she would one morning before she even try to wake up I don't come out you know you know because it would have been said that I lived in due but God made sure that I did not just say I live in due I was born in Dube so she gave birth to me in our yard you know there's different between growing up in Dube and being born in Dube so she as she was trying to leave the passage I came out you know so I was born in Dube No. S ...
âA really hard hitâ: Food banks struggle as government shutdown passes one month mark
MSNBC¡ 2025-11-01 16:08
But we're going to begin this conversation about the devastation from the ongoing government shutdown, now on its 32nd day. Yesterday, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to distribute SNAP food aid funding out of its contingency fund. The administration planned to start to pause those benefits for many of the 42 million Americans who receive them today.The threat to aid benefits combined with thousands of federal workers furled has put immense pressure on food banks and pantries across the cou ...