A lot of stuff has changed in Santa Clara County since I started writing Byebye and Shlort in 2015. At that time the big break for downtown’s homeless former foster youth was still Martha’s Kitchen. Now there are the shower trucks, and other stuff I’m probably no longer hip to.
Now Dave Cortese is announcing that Santa Clara County former foster youth will receive new financial support for a year, branded ever so trendily as “universal basic income” or “UBI,” as they age out of the foster system. What hasn’t changed is people’s callousness toward and judgment of former foster youth, which is like having a felony or something. Statistics, video, etc. on foster youth’s ending up homeless is widely and easily available on the internet.
The catch is that individuals must make it all the way to 24 before eligibility for the $1000/month support for one year. There’s enough for 72 individuals so far. The article linked above is worth reading in its entirety. I would embed a video on the subject but it’s only on Facebook, so.
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Eugenio Negro KKUP Radio Interview Byebye and Shlort
I was invited again by my excellent camarada Diane to talk about my book on her KKUP show. No spoilers happened. She was interested in the realistic Gentri-Fi part, ha ha ha! We didn’t talk at all about hatestep, the perceptual problems or my essay in dialogue. You’ll have to read the book for that!
ALSO DUDE, I don’t know how, but SJPL finally has both my books. Hella stoked. Is there a machine that you feed a book to it and it scans it in or …? Spooky! I had not previously had any luck getting the eBook or hardcopy of Meat Ladder to SJPL and an eBook of Byebye doesn’t even exist so wtf. OHH or Exitos Gnosis submitted it to some local-invitation cycle? Not gonna complain or ask questions!!! Get yer library account open and do Biblioboard!
Byebye and Shlort is “approved” by IndieReader.
BYEBYE AND SHLORT EARNS 4.5/5 STARS
Time to visit www.exitosngnosis.com and pre-order your Byebye and Shlort, recipient of a 4.5/5 score from IndieReader! It’s much cheaper before May! Or be smart and tell your library to get it for you!
Review here: https://indiereader.com/2019/03/byebye-and-shlort/
BYEBYE AND SHLORT – NEW NOVEL MAY 2019 BY EUGENIO NEGRO
Open Payments Shows Doctors Getting Paid by Drug Companies
Dear pediatricians in San José: don’t be pissed if your name shows up in my next book. For now I can see you!!!
https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov
Everyone else, use this link, which was evidently started as part of Obamacare to see how much money your local pediatrician has received from drug companies to give foster youth psychotropic drugs!
As you’d know if you’d get off the Netflix and read Karen de Sa’s reporting, foster youth are drugged to the neck by pediatric physicians and psychiatrists. The doctors get a reward of cash or goods from the drug companies, Medicare pays the companies for the drugs (because the patients are foster youth) and everyone goes home fat and happy. It’s a great way to screw young people and waste public money! And you think it’s fine!
Eugenio Negro Comics 