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Supporters Ask: How Is Fair Start Different from The Ministry for the Future?

Fair Start is bottom-up democratic override using the first human right, rather than top-down authority. The Ministry for the Future is a climate fiction ("cli-fi") novel by…
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Take Action: Urge Yale Law’s Heather Gerken to Admit Free Speech Doctrine Depends on the Power Relations of Speakers

* Special update: After writing this open letter Professor Philip Pettit of Princeton University called the claims in it "home truths" and allowed us…
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Vanessa Brown Calder at the Libertarian Cato Institute Nails the Population Question. Urge Her to Add a Coda.

Deep gratitude to Vaness Brown Calder at Cato for a truly reasoned analysis of declining fertility rates. If public health in an objective good…
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Washington D.C. Baby Bonds Are a Great Step Towards Justice. TAKE ACTION: Urge the Council to Keep Going

The Council for the District of Columbia made history recently by moving towards #birthequity with baby bonds. Why should only rich kids get trust…
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One Form of Protest to Change the World? To End Child Torture?

When we talk of changing the world we actually mean changing the behavior of the people in it. We mean changing things like this…
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Words on Basic Justice – Who We Should Become – From Fair Start Co-Director Gabby Mora

By Gabby Mora Children are the future. Isn't that what everyone says? It is a lovely sentiment. Sadly, very little is done to secure…
A line graph compares median family wealth by age for White and Black Americans born 1943–51. White wealth is consistently much higher, peaking at $317,500 in their 60s, while Black wealth peaks at $54,800. Action Alerts & Toolkits

Take Action: Effective Altruism Without a Fair Start in Life? Not Possible.

What is the most good we can do? This is a question effective altruists (EA) grapple with. And that community, which is large and…
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Fair Start in the New York Times. Now Take Action.

Kudos to Scott Mortman, a brilliant attorney and thought leader with Fair Start, who nailed the issue of what we owe the future in…
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Herald the End of Superpower

Writing in The Hill, Benzel and Kotlikoff may be correct that the U.S. is seeing its last days as an economic superpower, relative to China and India.…