Hi, Everybody,
I asked a local blogger/organizer whom I greatly admire if I could help in any way, and (to my surprise) he responded as follows:
You indicated that you had an impulse to offer to help but felt that not being from here was a disability. But there are lots of ways in which an experienced researcher could vastly increase my productivity. Specifically, there are a range of issues where I'd love it if someone could gather and summarize research on policies, for example:
· Impact of raising minimum wage to $15 on small business
· Comparison of quality of healthcare and satisfaction with healthcare between US and countries with different forms of universal healthcare;
· Impact of quality early childhood education on life trajectory of children
· Examination of most effective strategies for cities expanding affordable housing
· Impact of college debt on college graduates and what demographic populations are most impacted with student debt (surprise= African Americans), how much interest is paid by these graduates, cost of tuition free college;
In short, I could probably tick off about 20 such topics and having someone pull together articles and provide brief summaries and the links would make it really easy for me to pull together blogs. Let me know if you are interested in trying this.
You all know me well enough to know that I am much more likely to do this if I am working with a few other people. So, I wonder if any of you would like to join me in this little project. Or know anybody who would. I will explain more at Friday’s meeting of the Mother Church, if anyone is curious. Of course, Santa Fe residence is not necessary. Collaboration by email would work fine.
Nick
Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
Clark University
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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