They need to compare the girls vs. the boys. I worked for years in a summer jobs program for low income teens. From talking to the teens over the years, I saw the girls giving money to their moms for food or utilities and buying school clothes and toiletries. The boys, however, spent their money on alcohol, drugs, concerts, cars, and gasoline for those cars. It was a rare boy who helped his family, although some of the younger ones did. I became disillusioned with the program's benefits for the boys, especially when so much of the money went to alcohol and marijuana. I also saw parents snatch their child's paycheck and force their child to endorse it over to the parents. That was usually with girls. Of course, this effort is digital, so parents might have a harder time taking the money. I just hope that financial literacy and some monitoring goes along with it.
Yeah. Amazing that when you have to consider your future spendings you will delay chucking it away. If you only get 50 bucks once, you might as well just splash out on something you would never be able to get anyway. However, taking $5 each time and putting it aside means you get that in 10 weeks. And it is a real reward instead, as you have taken care of the important stuff first. The young are just young, they ain't stupid.
I can’t tell you how much I love that UBI has finally entered the conversation in a mainstream way. Andrew Yang may be a preening schmuck, but he did do one good thing.
WHAT'S ALL THIS TALK ABOUT GIVING TEENAGERS A UTI? UTIS ARE VERY PAINFUL, I GET THEM ALL THE TIME, BUT NOT WHEN I WAS JUST A TEENAGER! LET THEM WAIT UNTIL THEY ARE OLD ENOUGH TO...wait, what's that? It's UBI, you said? Oh. Well, that's different. Nevermind.
Ta, Robyn. What a terrific idea! I never got to be a high school senior; got a GED at age 67. My mother, the 20th anniversary of whose death is this very day, threw me out two weeks after my 16th birthday. Amazing that I turned out all right, and that my life is so lovely and blessed. Who knows? Maybe last night's DNC Chicago WonkMeet will yield yet another love story!
If you ever want to see just how frikking crass "rich" people are, and how gullible MAGA types are go to the trump sneakers web page. Not merely sneakers but a slew of footwear. Ugh
Pure joy! Side effects may include watery eyes, occasional sniffles, laughter, patience with the elderly, thinking every dog is cute, and second scoops of ice cream!
The best part of the program is that it's giving teen experience in handling money. They have a "salary" and they have to budget -- how much to save, what to spend it on, paying for groceries and utilities come before leisure activities.
I'd bet these teens do a better job of being independent in their 20s than a lot of their peers from higher socioeconomic backgrounds.
When I was a teenager, my disabled father was initially denied his disability from the VA because he was only marked as "60% disabled" by the doctors. He still had use of his hands, right? Never mind that his legs were swollen from a botched four way heart bypass surgery and he was slowly dying of congestive heart failure.
Eventually, though, when I was in 11th grade, another VA doctor came through on the appeal and said "60% disabled in EACH LEG - so 120% disabled, unable to work" and he was allowed to retire on full pension early. Once he had his full VA benefits, as his dependent, I qualified for a tiny monthly check of $110 a month in lieu of an allowance.
That money went to the following things: School expenses. Clothes. Lunch money. When my father gifted me an ancient Hyundai Excel, it went to gas money.
That small stipend was the difference between being able to live like a normal teenager along with my peers, and living in abject poverty like I had in 10th grade.
They need to compare the girls vs. the boys. I worked for years in a summer jobs program for low income teens. From talking to the teens over the years, I saw the girls giving money to their moms for food or utilities and buying school clothes and toiletries. The boys, however, spent their money on alcohol, drugs, concerts, cars, and gasoline for those cars. It was a rare boy who helped his family, although some of the younger ones did. I became disillusioned with the program's benefits for the boys, especially when so much of the money went to alcohol and marijuana. I also saw parents snatch their child's paycheck and force their child to endorse it over to the parents. That was usually with girls. Of course, this effort is digital, so parents might have a harder time taking the money. I just hope that financial literacy and some monitoring goes along with it.
Nice Times!
Yeah. Amazing that when you have to consider your future spendings you will delay chucking it away. If you only get 50 bucks once, you might as well just splash out on something you would never be able to get anyway. However, taking $5 each time and putting it aside means you get that in 10 weeks. And it is a real reward instead, as you have taken care of the important stuff first. The young are just young, they ain't stupid.
Joe Manchin is certain they spent it on drugs and cleverly covered their tracks.
I can’t tell you how much I love that UBI has finally entered the conversation in a mainstream way. Andrew Yang may be a preening schmuck, but he did do one good thing.
Wow! This is so wonderful!!
WHAT'S ALL THIS TALK ABOUT GIVING TEENAGERS A UTI? UTIS ARE VERY PAINFUL, I GET THEM ALL THE TIME, BUT NOT WHEN I WAS JUST A TEENAGER! LET THEM WAIT UNTIL THEY ARE OLD ENOUGH TO...wait, what's that? It's UBI, you said? Oh. Well, that's different. Nevermind.
I miss you, Rosanne Roseannadana
and Emily Litella
And Lisa Loopner.
I can hear the local Republicans screaming about communism and gubmint tyranny all the way up here in Minnesota.
'Communists!! I'm shocked to find there is communism here!!'
'Your cheque sir, for not growing food on your farm!'
'Why thank you!'
Ta, Robyn. What a terrific idea! I never got to be a high school senior; got a GED at age 67. My mother, the 20th anniversary of whose death is this very day, threw me out two weeks after my 16th birthday. Amazing that I turned out all right, and that my life is so lovely and blessed. Who knows? Maybe last night's DNC Chicago WonkMeet will yield yet another love story!
As my ex was fond of saying - this isn't hard. It takes very little to make a poor person less poor, while the appetite of the rich is insatiable.
If you ever want to see just how frikking crass "rich" people are, and how gullible MAGA types are go to the trump sneakers web page. Not merely sneakers but a slew of footwear. Ugh
This nice times makes me weepy, but w joy. What is even HAPPENING w this run of uninterrupted joy/optimism? Should I talk to my doctor?
Pure joy! Side effects may include watery eyes, occasional sniffles, laughter, patience with the elderly, thinking every dog is cute, and second scoops of ice cream!
The best part of the program is that it's giving teen experience in handling money. They have a "salary" and they have to budget -- how much to save, what to spend it on, paying for groceries and utilities come before leisure activities.
I'd bet these teens do a better job of being independent in their 20s than a lot of their peers from higher socioeconomic backgrounds.
𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 47% 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘴’ 𝘣𝘢𝘯𝘬 𝘢𝘤𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘴, 𝘴𝘶𝘨𝘨𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨.
Probably saving up for a welfare Cadillac.
Seriously though, this is a wonderful idea and could make a huge difference in the lives of kids who are economically underprivileged.
And they vote!
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And this is the thing - if you do good for people, it can actually pay off (haha) st the ballot box. Those tricksey Dems!
and here I thought teenagers bought lobster tails and oysters?
anyway, it seems as though personal minimal income or whatever it's called seems to be working fairly well wherever it's been tried.
When I was a teenager, my disabled father was initially denied his disability from the VA because he was only marked as "60% disabled" by the doctors. He still had use of his hands, right? Never mind that his legs were swollen from a botched four way heart bypass surgery and he was slowly dying of congestive heart failure.
Eventually, though, when I was in 11th grade, another VA doctor came through on the appeal and said "60% disabled in EACH LEG - so 120% disabled, unable to work" and he was allowed to retire on full pension early. Once he had his full VA benefits, as his dependent, I qualified for a tiny monthly check of $110 a month in lieu of an allowance.
That money went to the following things: School expenses. Clothes. Lunch money. When my father gifted me an ancient Hyundai Excel, it went to gas money.
That small stipend was the difference between being able to live like a normal teenager along with my peers, and living in abject poverty like I had in 10th grade.
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