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Richest man in the world has launched a $2 billion fund to help the homeless

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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, richest man in the world, and his wife have launched a $2 billion fund to help the homeless.

They will create a network of nonprofit preschools in low-income communities.

Jeff Bezos ($164 billion) has a higher net worth then Bill Gates ($98 billion) and Mark Zuckerberg ($64 billion) combined.

They have two strategies.

* they will fund existing nonprofits and issue annual awards to organizations doing “compassionate, needle-moving work” to shelter and support the immediate needs of young families.
* they will operate a network of high-quality, full-scholarship Montessori-inspired preschools.

The fund’s vision statement comes from nonprofit Mary’s Place in Seattle: no child sleeps outside.

55 thoughts on “Richest man in the world has launched a $2 billion fund to help the homeless”

  1. $2,000,000,000 is nothing to sneeze at but it is still only 1.19% of his wealth. I’d say if he’s serious he’d pledge to leave the vast bulk of his estate to the fund when he dies. By the way, your photo interpretation skills seem to run to the imaginative and bawdy side. Clearly the person in the black sweatshirt is to the left of the other person and not behind them…

  3. Preschools are useless if the rest of the school system in low income areas are broken. Why doesn’t his fund simply build more affordable housing to help keep people from sliding into homelessness in the first place?

  4. And SJW, Virtue Signalling PR stunt. Nothing more. …and, in that pic…is that a homeless guy getting sodomized bent over a dumpster by another homeless guy?

  5. $2000000000 is nothing to sneeze at but it is still only 1.19{22800fc54956079738b58e74e4dcd846757aa319aad70fcf90c97a58f3119a12} of his wealth. I’d say if he’s serious he’d pledge to leave the vast bulk of his estate to the fund when he dies.By the way your photo interpretation skills seem to run to the imaginative and bawdy side. Clearly the person in the black sweatshirt is to the left of the other person and not behind them…

  7. Preschools are useless if the rest of the school system in low income areas are broken. Why doesn’t his fund simply build more affordable housing to help keep people from sliding into homelessness in the first place?

  8. And SJW Virtue Signalling PR stunt. Nothing more….and in that pic…is that a homeless guy getting sodomized bent over a dumpster by another homeless guy?

  9. By the way, your photo interpretation skills seem to run to the imaginative and bawdy side. Clearly the person in the black sweatshirt is to the left of the other person and not behind them…” Oh, i know that. But I made you look, didn’t I? Hahahahahahahhahaha.

  11. By the way” your photo interpretation skills seem to run to the imaginative and bawdy side. Clearly the person in the black sweatshirt is to the left of the other person and not behind them…””Oh”” i know that. But I made you look”” didn’t I? Hahahahahahahhahaha.”””

  13. Because that probably won’t give him a tax break haha. But in all seriousness…if we want things to get better got to start moving the big job creators out of the big cities. Otherwise the cost per person to employ and the cost for the companies will always go up.

  14. Because that probably won’t give him a tax break haha.But in all seriousness…if we want things to get better got to start moving the big job creators out of the big cities. Otherwise the cost per person to employ and the cost for the companies will always go up.

  15. There should be a dispersal tax to get that shift going. Say, a corporate income surtax to add for companies that do not spread their operations out geographically. Small cities (30,000 – 75,000) would be a very low surtax. Towns (>29,000) would be surtax of zero. SF and NY and Chicago would have the max surtax. Feds can make that tax take effect gradually over a 6 year period or so.

  16. There should be a dispersal tax to get that shift going. Say a corporate income surtax to add for companies that do not spread their operations out geographically. Small cities (30000 – 75000) would be a very low surtax. Towns (>29000) would be surtax of zero. SF and NY and Chicago would have the max surtax.Feds can make that tax take effect gradually over a 6 year period or so.

  19. Want to really help the homeless? End the drug war. Build the wall, prosecute the employers of illegal aliens, eliminate income taxes for incomes under $30k. Eliminate the federal reserve, and institute commodity backed money. Eliminate the captured regulatory agencies that afford advantage to large corporations, over small corporations, and sole proprietors, for instance the FDA, and the EPA. Eliminate fractional reserve banking, and let the market set the interest rates. Make campaign contributions, and paid lobbying illegal. Eliminate rent control, and building codes, other than structural, HVAC, and fire safety. Let people decide how they want to live, and let the market set rents, and expand the housing supply. In other words, eliminate all those things that government does that benefit the wealthy, at the expense of the middle, and lower economic classes, and the things government does to “solve” problems, that make them worse. Prime examples of these are the drug war, and rent controls that raise rents for all but a privileged few by restricting supply.

  20. Want to really help the homeless? End the drug war. Build the wall prosecute the employers of illegal aliens eliminate income taxes for incomes under $30k. Eliminate the federal reserve and institute commodity backed money. Eliminate the captured regulatory agencies that afford advantage to large corporations over small corporations and sole proprietors for instance the FDA and the EPA. Eliminate fractional reserve banking and let the market set the interest rates. Make campaign contributions and paid lobbying illegal. Eliminate rent control and building codes other than structural HVAC and fire safety. Let people decide how they want to live and let the market set rents and expand the housing supply. In other words eliminate all those things that government does that benefit the wealthy at the expense of the middle and lower economic classes and the things government does to solve”” problems”” that make them worse. Prime examples of these are the drug war”” and rent controls that raise rents for all but a privileged few by restricting supply.”””

  25. Want to really help the homeless? End the drug war. Build the wall, prosecute the employers of illegal aliens, eliminate income taxes for incomes under $30k. Eliminate the federal reserve, and institute commodity backed money. Eliminate the captured regulatory agencies that afford advantage to large corporations, over small corporations, and sole proprietors, for instance the FDA, and the EPA. Eliminate fractional reserve banking, and let the market set the interest rates. Make campaign contributions, and paid lobbying illegal. Eliminate rent control, and building codes, other than structural, HVAC, and fire safety. Let people decide how they want to live, and let the market set rents, and expand the housing supply. In other words, eliminate all those things that government does that benefit the wealthy, at the expense of the middle, and lower economic classes, and the things government does to “solve” problems, that make them worse. Prime examples of these are the drug war, and rent controls that raise rents for all but a privileged few by restricting supply.

  26. Want to really help the homeless? End the drug war. Build the wall prosecute the employers of illegal aliens eliminate income taxes for incomes under $30k. Eliminate the federal reserve and institute commodity backed money. Eliminate the captured regulatory agencies that afford advantage to large corporations over small corporations and sole proprietors for instance the FDA and the EPA. Eliminate fractional reserve banking and let the market set the interest rates. Make campaign contributions and paid lobbying illegal. Eliminate rent control and building codes other than structural HVAC and fire safety. Let people decide how they want to live and let the market set rents and expand the housing supply. In other words eliminate all those things that government does that benefit the wealthy at the expense of the middle and lower economic classes and the things government does to solve”” problems”” that make them worse. Prime examples of these are the drug war”” and rent controls that raise rents for all but a privileged few by restricting supply.”””

  27. ” End the drug war. ” <-- Of course. Same as saying government should only do legal things. Same as with most of your post. " prosecute the employers of illegal aliens " <-- Not something I've heard of Trump! doing. Maybe exactly once. " eliminate income taxes for incomes under $30k " <-- Don't know that $30k is the right cutoff, but it should certainly be a flat rate thereafter. " Make campaign contributions, and paid lobbying illegal. " <- How about instead we kill those who want to destroy free speech, if they make any headway.

  30. There should be a dispersal tax to get that shift going. Say, a corporate income surtax to add for companies that do not spread their operations out geographically. Small cities (30,000 – 75,000) would be a very low surtax. Towns (>29,000) would be surtax of zero. SF and NY and Chicago would have the max surtax. Feds can make that tax take effect gradually over a 6 year period or so.

  31. There should be a dispersal tax to get that shift going. Say a corporate income surtax to add for companies that do not spread their operations out geographically. Small cities (30000 – 75000) would be a very low surtax. Towns (>29000) would be surtax of zero. SF and NY and Chicago would have the max surtax.Feds can make that tax take effect gradually over a 6 year period or so.

  32. Want to really help the homeless? End the drug war. Build the wall, prosecute the employers of illegal aliens, eliminate income taxes for incomes under $30k.
    Eliminate the federal reserve, and institute commodity backed money. Eliminate the captured regulatory agencies that afford advantage to large corporations, over small corporations, and sole proprietors, for instance the FDA, and the EPA. Eliminate fractional reserve banking, and let the market set the interest rates. Make campaign contributions, and paid lobbying illegal.
    Eliminate rent control, and building codes, other than structural, HVAC, and fire safety. Let people decide how they want to live, and let the market set rents, and expand the housing supply.
    In other words, eliminate all those things that government does that benefit the wealthy, at the expense of the middle, and lower economic classes, and the things government does to “solve” problems, that make them worse. Prime examples of these are the drug war, and rent controls that raise rents for all but a privileged few by restricting supply.

  34. There should be a dispersal tax to get that shift going. Say, a corporate income surtax to add for companies that do not spread their operations out geographically. Small cities (30,000 – 75,000) would be a very low surtax. Towns (>29,000) would be surtax of zero. SF and NY and Chicago would have the max surtax.

    Feds can make that tax take effect gradually over a 6 year period or so.

  35. Because that probably won’t give him a tax break haha. But in all seriousness…if we want things to get better got to start moving the big job creators out of the big cities. Otherwise the cost per person to employ and the cost for the companies will always go up.

  36. Because that probably won’t give him a tax break haha.But in all seriousness…if we want things to get better got to start moving the big job creators out of the big cities. Otherwise the cost per person to employ and the cost for the companies will always go up.

  37. By the way, your photo interpretation skills seem to run to the imaginative and bawdy side. Clearly the person in the black sweatshirt is to the left of the other person and not behind them…” Oh, i know that. But I made you look, didn’t I? Hahahahahahahhahaha.

  38. By the way” your photo interpretation skills seem to run to the imaginative and bawdy side. Clearly the person in the black sweatshirt is to the left of the other person and not behind them…””Oh”” i know that. But I made you look”” didn’t I? Hahahahahahahhahaha.”””

  41. $2,000,000,000 is nothing to sneeze at but it is still only 1.19% of his wealth. I’d say if he’s serious he’d pledge to leave the vast bulk of his estate to the fund when he dies. By the way, your photo interpretation skills seem to run to the imaginative and bawdy side. Clearly the person in the black sweatshirt is to the left of the other person and not behind them…

  42. $2000000000 is nothing to sneeze at but it is still only 1.19{22800fc54956079738b58e74e4dcd846757aa319aad70fcf90c97a58f3119a12} of his wealth. I’d say if he’s serious he’d pledge to leave the vast bulk of his estate to the fund when he dies.By the way your photo interpretation skills seem to run to the imaginative and bawdy side. Clearly the person in the black sweatshirt is to the left of the other person and not behind them…

  45. Preschools are useless if the rest of the school system in low income areas are broken. Why doesn’t his fund simply build more affordable housing to help keep people from sliding into homelessness in the first place?

  46. Preschools are useless if the rest of the school system in low income areas are broken. Why doesn’t his fund simply build more affordable housing to help keep people from sliding into homelessness in the first place?

  47. And SJW, Virtue Signalling PR stunt. Nothing more. …and, in that pic…is that a homeless guy getting sodomized bent over a dumpster by another homeless guy?

  48. And SJW Virtue Signalling PR stunt. Nothing more….and in that pic…is that a homeless guy getting sodomized bent over a dumpster by another homeless guy?

  49. Because that probably won’t give him a tax break haha.

    But in all seriousness…if we want things to get better got to start moving the big job creators out of the big cities. Otherwise the cost per person to employ and the cost for the companies will always go up.

  50. “By the way, your photo interpretation skills seem to run to the imaginative and bawdy side. Clearly the person in the black sweatshirt is to the left of the other person and not behind them…”

    Oh, i know that.

    But I made you look, didn’t I?

    Hahahahahahahhahaha.

  52. $2,000,000,000 is nothing to sneeze at but it is still only 1.19% of his wealth. I’d say if he’s serious he’d pledge to leave the vast bulk of his estate to the fund when he dies.

    By the way, your photo interpretation skills seem to run to the imaginative and bawdy side. Clearly the person in the black sweatshirt is to the left of the other person and not behind them…

  54. Preschools are useless if the rest of the school system in low income areas are broken. Why doesn’t his fund simply build more affordable housing to help keep people from sliding into homelessness in the first place?

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