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JARED KNOWLES.
Jared Knowles“Our chief weapons will be better schools, and better health, and better homes, and better training, and better job opportunities to help more Americans, especially young Americans, escape from squalor and misery and unemployment.” ~ Lyndon B. Johnson (from Caro’s biography)
https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7309921/2026/06/09/world-cup-argentina-kansas-city-jail/ →
They raised taxes to pay for a temporary jail for the World Cup and it won’t be ready to open until the tournament is over. There’s always a jail angle.
This interests me for three reasons: 1) it is the kind of ambitious policy vision we need to see; 2) it models its assumptions and clearly explains them; 3) there are no notable US politicians speaking at the World Inequality Conference. We need leaders who are relevant voices in exactly these conversations.
Ms. Rachel is truly inspiring to me. Refusing to let children in immigration detention go unheard and unseen. She is using her profile and image so effectively and with such empathy and love. Truly powerful.