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As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would be over 50%.
When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.
Janet Baker, Musician (1933) |
Count Basie, Musician (1904) |
Steve Case, Businessman (1958) |
Kim Cattrall, Actress (1956) |
Jackie DeShannon, Musician (1944) |
Loretta Devine, Actress (1949) |
Jacqueline Emerson, Actress (1994) |
James P. Cannon, Activist (1974) |
Charles Eames, Designer (1978) |
Georgia Harkness, Theologian (1974) |
George Jackson, Activist (1971) |