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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: Elderberry on September 11, 2022, 11:07:51 pm
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DNYUZ 9/10/2022
Early in the pandemic, Alondra Barajas had a temporary job for the Census Bureau, doing phone work from the two-bedroom apartment she shared with her mother and four younger siblings. When that job ended in late 2020, she struggled to find employment.
But Ms. Barajas learned from an ad on Instagram that she might qualify for an unusual form of assistance: monthly payments of $1,000 for a year.
Since she started receiving the funds this year — while caring for her newborn, searching for a job and looking for a new place to stay — her outlook has seemed brighter.
“It’s helped me from hitting rock bottom,” she said.
The payments are part of a pilot program from the city of Los Angeles, one of the nation’s largest experiments with a guaranteed income. The idea is that the best way to close the wealth gap and give people the opportunity to build a more stable life is to provide unrestricted cash payments to some of the most vulnerable Americans.
The concept, sometimes referred to as universal basic income, has had advocates for decades. Andrew Yang made it a centerpiece of his 2020 Democratic presidential campaign. At the same time, detractors have long argued that the approach incentivizes people not to work. Still, it is gaining traction, city by city.
More than 48 guaranteed income programs have been started in cities nationwide since 2020, according to Mayors for a Guaranteed Income, a network of leaders supporting such efforts at the local, state and federal levels. Some efforts are publicly funded, and others have nongovernmental support. Jack Dorsey, the former chief executive of Twitter, donated $18 million to help the initiative.
California has become the epicenter of the movement. The Los Angeles program, funded primarily by the city, benefits 3,200 people who have at least one child, as well as an annual income below the federal poverty level. Several cities have moved ahead with efforts using private money: Oakland pledged to give 600 low-income families $500 for 18 months, and in San Diego, some families with young children will get $500 a month for two years.
More: https://dnyuz.com/2022/09/10/guaranteed-income-programs-spread-city-by-city/ (https://dnyuz.com/2022/09/10/guaranteed-income-programs-spread-city-by-city/)
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California is the epicenter of socialism.
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Hopefully the free shit crowd moves to California en mass.
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Let me see.....I'm not a really highly motivated person, and (1) I have to get some sort of job to earn 500 bucks a month or (2) I can sit on my rear end and the gov. will give me 500 smackers. What will I do?...hmmmmmm.....that's a toughie.
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The Los Angeles program, funded primarily by the city, benefits 3,200 people who have at least one child, as well as an annual income below the federal poverty level. Several cities have moved ahead with efforts using private money: Oakland pledged to give 600 low-income families $500 for 18 months, and in San Diego, some families with young children will get $500 a month for two years.
It's all "private money" until the State seizes it at the threat of gunpoint.
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The Los Angeles program, funded primarily by the city, benefits 3,200 people who have at least one child, as well as an annual income below the federal poverty level.
That's not a "guaranteed income," it's a welfare lottery.
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That's not a "guaranteed income," it's a welfare lottery.
Might be just someone(s) paying their kids who aren't competent to have a government job.
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Socialisms is all well and good, until you run out of other peoples money.
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Socialisms is all well and good, until you run out of other peoples money.
We ran out of other people's money a long, long time ago. (https://usdebtclock.org/)
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Future LA Times headline ---
DeSantis to City: Drop Dead