ACP In The News — June 1, 2017

The New York Times
DOES “WRONG MIND-SET” CAUSE POVERTY OR VICE VERSA?

Ben Carson has proposed, in effect, a human experiment.

Consider someone with the right “mind-set.” Take away everything he owns, drop him onto the street, and he will soon lift himself out of poverty.

“And you take somebody with the wrong mind-set,” Mr. Carson, the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, continued last week in a SiriusXM radio interview with his longtime friend Armstrong Williams. “You can give them everything in the world. They’ll work their way right back down to the bottom.”

Poverty, Mr. Carson is saying, is in part a state of mind. But while that idea holds truth, researchers who study poverty say Mr. Carson has greatly confused cause and effect.

Poverty is in some ways a state of mind, their studies show, in that it can cause people to think less clearly, to sleep less well, to contend with distraction and to internalize shame. But it’s the experience of deprivation that leads to the mind-set, researchers say. It’s not the mind-set that leads people into poverty, or that explains why many never escape it. Read more…


The Daily News
BROOKLYN BOROUGH PRESIDENT URGES NEW YORKS TO AVOID CLOGGED EMERGENCY ROOMS

Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams is warning New Yorkers to stay away from clogged emergency rooms unless absolutely necessary.

Video public service announcements will be played at events at Barclays Center, MCU Park, and BAM Cinema.

“Our goal is to help reduce these health care costs and, more importantly, make sure everyone gets quality medical care in a timely and efficient manner,” Adams says in one of the clips. Read more…

 

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