he boycott even reached elected officials, with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeting about googling an adobo recipe, implying her personal breakup with Goya. No matter how delicious Goya products are, the treachery cannot go unpunished. Latinos deserve better. Everyone deserves better. The beans

can negatively impact both the customer experience and creativity

the estimated number of illegal immigrants in the U.S. more than tripled in 20 years--from 3.5 million in 1990 to 10.8 million in 2008.

Environmentalists say they believe that the coal industry, having dealt with a sharp downturn in recent years and facing an aggressive investor divestment movement, may be shifting its views on climate change more for its own business interests than any newfound love for the environment.

the technology performs as well as clinicians with more than 20 years’ experience.

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functions as an indirect school-choice system, with pricing built into the real-estate market

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nd a focus on protecting oneself—when the crumbling walls scream that no one else cares—displaces learning

When the poor immigrants and free African Americans who raised hogs and grew vegetables there needed firewood, they simply cut down trees, according to The Park and the People

It sorts people into the helpers and the helped, which reinforces prevailing beliefs about the best way to generate and distribute wealth instead of questioning what led us here in the first place.

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the benefits of wage earning to include reduced incentives for labor and sex trafficking; reduced birth rates and rates of child marriage and teen pregnancy; participation in banking, savings, and insurance programs; and the growth of taxation systems.

Samasource hires poor people in northern Uganda and trains them to provide services to these firms, moving women and youth above the poverty line with money that would otherwise have gone to a different vendor without a social mission

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we should think beyond short-term gains for the poor, a trap many effective altruists fall into.

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treating its symptoms rather than its root causes, then we should not forget that sometimes we don’t know what the root causes of poverty are, and even should we come to know what some of them are, we may still be unable to change them.

ffective altruism cannot be refuted by evidence that some other strategy will be more effective than the one effective altruists are using, because effective altruists will then adopt that strategy

if large-scale reform offers some prospect of reducing poverty, then effective altruists will try to assess its chance of doing good, and if the expected value of such action is higher than the expected value of more limited interventions, they will advocate working for the large-scale reform

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” Such altruism isn’t the opposite of egoism, Singer argues, nor does it require self-sacrifice, for in lending meaning and fulfillment to one’s life, it leads indirectly to one’s happiness and flourishing. In this conflict-free ethical zone, it is a win-win.

a proto-theory of the private sector’s relationship to the state—as a second, lesser choice to his own gospel of noblesse oblige.

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it reduces the targets to abstraction

Emotion, they believe, tends to misdirect help to dramatic crises and heart-tugging victims rather than those who need it most.

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So long as they fail to do so, their citizens profit from an international regime that foreseeably and avoidably harms the poor.

However, human beings also have a right to adequate protection from dangerous working conditions. Sweatshop labor therefore involves a dubious trade-off. It makes some people better off, but at the expense of those who are injured or killed in workplace accident

there is no question that sweatshops benefit those in poor countries.

overlook the weakest and most vulnerable members of a population, who are frequently illiterate, victims of discrimination, and consigned to geographically remote places. Many of them also suffer from disabilities that place out of reach the welfare gains able-bodied people can achieve

lack of money is not killing people. The true villains are the chronically disorganized and underfunded health care systems about which governments care little,

It is an illusion that lives can be bought like cars.

volunteered to be the objects of the “effective” altruism he endorses

but the underlying logic applies as well to an anonymous $100 gift to buy a violin for a needy music student

and responds that it might in a world that has overcome extreme poverty, but not in ours: where there are lives to be saved, other goods are not worth pursuing.

These two efforts come together in the effective altruism movement.

ffective altruism is in tension with the commonplace philosophy that identifies in democracy a powerful normative force

Effective altruists see the best state of affairs, I think, as that in which good-maximizing technocrats are in charge

if effective altruism aspires to endorse causes that aim to bring about political or institutional change,

Now Singer endorses a more moderate approach—tithing, for example—presumably seeking to appeal to a broader audience.

Its greatest advocates, such as Peter Singer, must be savvy about coalition-building, mobilizing public support, crafting appealing messages, and so on

What about civic duty—being an informed citizen, an active political participant ready to speak out against injustice, and a member of society willing to help others directly? Is that not part of a meaningful life?

Why should we pay for police when others protect us?

it is probable that $950 is unwisely spent

To prove politically progressive, it must avoid the familiar philanthropic problem of giving donors too much power over beneficiaries.

In that sense, effective altruism can be credited with making both ethical and empirical progress

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$100 million for the renovation of the Avery Fisher Hall at New York’s Lincoln Center (now to be renamed David Geffen Hall)

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So they don’t give to whatever cause tugs strongest at their heartstrings. They give to the cause that will do the most good, given the abilities, time, and money the

One year after graduating, Wage was donating a six-figure sum—roughly half his annual earnings