{"title":"Annie Lowrey","description":"Annie Lowrey is a contributing editor for The Atlantic. A former writer for the New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, and Slate, among other publications, she is a frequent guest on CNN, MSNBC, and NPR. Lowrey lives in Washington, DC.","products":[{"product_id":"the-time-tax-how-the-government-wastes-our-time-and-how-to-fix-it-hardcover","title":"The Time Tax: How the Government Wastes Our Time--And How to Fix It - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful investigation into American bureaucracy, how it wastes our time and drives inequality, and how we can make paperwork work for us\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNobody likes doing paperwork, and Americans do a lot of it. Filing your taxes and getting a driver's license is bad enough. Negotiating with your doctor and insurer or getting out of a rental contract is worse. And accessing disaster assistance, unemployment, disability, or Medicaid can be a nightmare, the stakes life-or-death. If time is money, the hoops we jump through to comply with the rules are one more bill we as citizens are forced to pay, and an extortionate one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJournalist Annie Lowrey has termed this the \"time tax\" the paperwork, aggravation, and mental effort imposed on citizens when they access the rights and benefits that are supposed to be theirs. How did the world's wealthiest country end up with such a convoluted, punitive, and inept system of public administration and so much fine print larding up everyday life? Lowrey traces a pathbreaking history of administrative burdens in the United States from the colonial era to today, revealing how they were historically a tool of discrimination. And she examines the contemporary effect of time taxes on the public, from how they entrench poverty to how they reduce trust in government.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLowrey diagnoses the problem and gives this miserable experience a name--and she shows that it doesn't have to be this way. Other countries have made cutting red tape a priority. There's no reason we can't do the same. \u003ci\u003eThe Time Tax\u003c\/i\u003e will enrage you, enlighten you, and, most important, provide a point-by-point guide for reclaiming your precious time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51362588819679,"sku":"9780063442559","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/VEJEqoyvFy9780063442559.webp?v=1789023113"},{"product_id":"give-people-money-how-a-universal-basic-income-would-end-poverty-revolutionize-work-and-remake-the-world-paperback","title":"Give People Money: How a Universal Basic Income Would End Poverty, Revolutionize Work, and Remake the World - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the 2018 FT \u0026amp; McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA brilliantly reported, global look at universal basic income--a stipend given to every citizen--and why it might be necessary in an age of rising inequality, persistent poverty, and dazzling technology.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Imagine if every month the government deposited $1,000 into your bank account, with nothing expected in return. It sounds crazy. But it has become one of the most influential and hotly debated policy ideas of our time. Futurists, radicals, libertarians, socialists, union representatives, feminists, conservatives, Bernie supporters, development economists, child-care workers, welfare recipients, and politicians from India to Finland to Canada to Mexico--all are talking about UBI. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this sparkling and provocative book, economics writer Annie Lowrey examines the UBI movement from many angles. She travels to Kenya to see how a UBI is lifting the poorest people on earth out of destitution, India to see how inefficient government programs are failing the poor, South Korea to interrogate UBI's intellectual pedigree, and Silicon Valley to meet the tech titans financing UBI pilots in expectation of a world with advanced artificial intelligence and little need for human labor. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Lowrey explores the potential of such a sweeping policy and the challenges the movement faces, among them contradictory aims, uncomfortable costs, and, most powerfully, the entrenched belief that no one should get something for nothing. In the end, she shows how this arcane policy has the potential to solve some of our most intractable economic problems, while offering a new vision of citizenship and a firmer foundation for our society in this age of turbulence and marvels.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378745606367,"sku":"9781524758776","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/4kFYhGZncH9781524758776.webp?v=1789261637"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/annie-lowrey.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}