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Tech startup Propel designed a free app that helps people navigate public assistance programs. Founder Jimmy Chen created the business nearly six years ago with help from the Robin Hood Foundation, the city's largest poverty-fighting organization. He decided to base it in Brooklyn.
"There are 40 million Americans who are struggling financially and are using programs like the food stamp program,” Chen told NY1. “And we want our company to look like the people who are using our products."
those people in brooklyn struggling financially will be priced out
How much can you make helping to make apps/software with very low entry barriers and low margins? Me thinks, the bankers just throwing money at it and creating a bubble. As with Uber, for example. Carmel, the limo company, has an app out too. Kind of defeats purpose.
Plus there is conflict of interest with that particular company Propel. They are helping drive up their own consumer base by increasing the cost of living, and creating more people who need public assistance.
Tech startup Propel designed a free app that helps people navigate public assistance programs. Founder Jimmy Chen created the business nearly six years ago with help from the Robin Hood Foundation, the city's largest poverty-fighting organization. He decided to base it in Brooklyn.
"There are 40 million Americans who are struggling financially and are using programs like the food stamp program,” Chen told NY1. “And we want our company to look like the people who are using our products."
Opinion:
The fact that the Foundation is named after a purported folk hero that stole from the rich to give to the poor says it all.
How much can you make helping to make apps/software with very low entry barriers and low margins? Me thinks, the bankers just throwing money at it and creating a bubble. As with Uber, for example. Carmel, the limo company, has an app out too. Kind of defeats purpose.
Plus there is conflict of interest with that particular company Propel. They are helping drive up their own consumer base by increasing the cost of living, and creating more people who need public assistance.
Opinion: and so spins the wheel of trickle up poverty....
those people in brooklyn struggling financially will be priced out
Opinion:
The housing projects are the only roadblock standing in the way of final steps towards full gentrification.
This is a game of color but it is only GREEN that is of most interest to the developers in charge..................
This is a reflection of the failure of the educational system here in NYC. More resources should be being poured into the school system to help Black and Latino kids try to compete for the jobs of the future.
This is a reflection of the failure of the educational system here in NYC. More resources should be being poured into the school system to help Black and Latino kids try to compete for the jobs of the future.
Opinion:
More resources should be poured into schools to help all kids compete for jobs of the future.
Toss the video games......hit the books.....................Let the best of the entire bunch prevail............
How much can you make helping to make apps/software with very low entry barriers and low margins? Me thinks, the bankers just throwing money at it and creating a bubble. As with Uber, for example. Carmel, the limo company, has an app out too. Kind of defeats purpose.
Plus there is conflict of interest with that particular company Propel. They are helping drive up their own consumer base by increasing the cost of living, and creating more people who need public assistance.
And not a single Black or Latino engineer was to be found....
The problem is they don't pay enough to get the HBCU grads to relocate up here. Most young Black entrepreneurs don't stay in NYC. They go down South. A couple will come back after making it big, to make even more. But this is not a rags to riches city anymore, for most.
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