• Unconditional cash enabled recipients to find full-time employment. [increased employment by 12 pct pts]You mean when you gave people money, they didn't laze about all day, and it actually helped them find work?!? UNPOSSIBLE!!!
Oh yeah. In 2011 the water heater went out and I nearly had a breakdown over it. Four hundred dollars? When you don't have it, it may as well be four thousand.
During the Sandy flooding a hot tub store down the highway from me actually had several of their hot tubs on outdoor display float away. One ended up stranded on the nearby train tracks.
I think every study that's been done on it finds it works Really Well, but there's too many people in this country that believe that if you're not working 80 hours a week you deserve to starve -- unless you're already rich, in which case you've already proved yourself to be a Superior Being. So there's no real political will to make it a large-scale program.
Billionaires are building space ships for themselves instead of helping people. Tells us all we need to know about how they should be taxed to the Nth degree.
My town! Doin’ something nice! And Mayor Robert Garcia is a grad of the uni where Professor Mildred Pierce teaches. Makes me proud.
Yes, this is solid and thoughtful implementation of a program, something of a test drive, if you will.
• Unconditional cash enabled recipients to find full-time employment. [increased employment by 12 pct pts]You mean when you gave people money, they didn't laze about all day, and it actually helped them find work?!? UNPOSSIBLE!!!
When I was little I remember seeing a small boat going down a flooded street.
exactly...more please...
Oh, and you can add the 15$ minimum wage 'experiment' that Seattle did...Raging success
Oh yeah. In 2011 the water heater went out and I nearly had a breakdown over it. Four hundred dollars? When you don't have it, it may as well be four thousand.
Yep. I gave him more consideration than he was likely due based on that fact alone.
Where abouts are you, if you don't mind me asking?
During the Sandy flooding a hot tub store down the highway from me actually had several of their hot tubs on outdoor display float away. One ended up stranded on the nearby train tracks.
Yep. Filmed just 15 miles up the road from me. Don't remember why, but they ended up having to sell the store not long after the show ended.
AI shortening some workweeks to zero should benefit everyone, including the soon-to-be unemployed.
Stockton, CA has also tried this. I don't remember the details, but IIRC, it worked pretty well.
Wonder if we'll ever see water again. North county was 108 degrees today.
I think every study that's been done on it finds it works Really Well, but there's too many people in this country that believe that if you're not working 80 hours a week you deserve to starve -- unless you're already rich, in which case you've already proved yourself to be a Superior Being. So there's no real political will to make it a large-scale program.
Billionaires are building space ships for themselves instead of helping people. Tells us all we need to know about how they should be taxed to the Nth degree.
We told you not to try and eat that worm. And that donkey TOLD you to get yourself checked...