Winner of #TCFBest: New York City’s Undocumented Immigration Commissioner

This week’s #TCFBest featured an impressive diversity of nominations.

• Twitter user @dissidentiL submitted Cass Sunstein’s (@CassSunstein) New Republic essay explaining “Why Paternalism Is Your Friend.”  Sunstein argues that in certain kinds of cases, the government can and ought to pass regulations that push individuals to act in their own best interest. 
• WonkBlog's Dylan Matthews (@dylanmatt) asks “Why Do People Hate Deficits?” Matthews examines nine common reasons for objecting to deficits, and concludes that the case for each is probably a bit weaker than it might initially seem.
• Brendan Pastor (@brendanpastor) provides a fascinating analysis of the ways in which organized labor is contributing achieving some of the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals.
• Twitter user @mccrthykrr submitted urban planning expert Anne Gadwa Nicodemus’s (@metrisarts) article, “Artists and Gentrification: Sticky Myths, Slippery Realities.” Nicodemus argues against seeing artists as “shock troops” of gentrifications and suggests including artists in more collaborative urban planning projects.

This week’s winner comes to us from Sayu Bhojwani (@SayuBhojwani) also courtesy of @mccrthykrr. Writing in Quartz, Bhojwani reflects on her early days living in New York working as a volunteer stuffing envelopes. Although Bhojwani had a master’s degree from Columbia and two years of teaching experience under her belt, she was living in New York on an expired visa. Her rise from those early days to her appointment in 2002 as New York City’s first commissioner of immigrant affairs offers a glimpse of the squandered opportunities imposed by current U.S. immigration policies.

The floor is now open for nominations for next week’s #TCFBest. As always, you can submit your nominations in the comments below, via the Twitter hashtag #TCFBest, on our Facebook page, or by email to [email protected].

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