I really, REALLY wish my governor would do this. I’m 100% convinced it would make a HUGE difference in the homelessness issues that have been getting worse and worse for years in my city.
I’m a fan of basic income for those 55 and older. This encourages retirement and opens up the job market. It will also help with homelessness.
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Automatically at 55, special circumstances prior to.
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Why not?
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Ah, you don’t want to work. Makes sense.
Yeah that ubi of social security that starts at 65 really got those old bastards out of the job market??? The proof is that even with a form of ubi for older people didn’t suddenly get them out of the job market, they stayed and kept on blocking jobs.
Damn, $500 a month would definitely turn my life around.
That’s so in incredibly saddening. That’s below min wage, like $3 an hour. And that much? Can do a lot?
I hope your life gets better.
Thank you so much. What makes it worse is that I have a full time job and still struggle to make it to the next paycheck. Things will get better for sure. I’m working hard and hoping for a promotion to make a little more. Could be worse. There are people who have it way worse than me. I was just saying that $500 a month would go a long ways for me and my kids.
Shit I make a pretty decent wage for my part of the country, and that would still be like 10% more money every month. Maybe not life changing for me, but it would damn sure help. And there are MANY people making less than me that would be impacted heavily by something like this.
Shit got really expensive lately. You literally need to make at least $75k a year or more to live somewhat comfortable. Went to costco the other and bought a couple of things, it was a solid $100. Even walmart and aldi have become pricey.
It would be a huge boon to many more of us than bootstrppers will ever admit.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
These payments allowed them to find a studio apartment, purchase a vehicle, improve their mental health, and give them the momentum to strive for a healthy, stable future, they said.
“Many participants reported that they have used the money to pay off debt, repair their car, secure housing, and enroll in a course,” Mark Donovan, the project’s founder and executive director, previously told Insider.
While those receiving larger payments had the largest gains, all groups benefited — after six months, one-third of participants said they lived in their own housing, compared with less than 10% before the experiment, according to the six-month report.
Similar basic-income experiments with comparable findings have been conducted in San Francisco, upstate New York, and Santa Fe, New Mexico, as well as in Vancouver, British Columbia.
They relocated to a shelter in the Denver area in the year before receiving their first basic-income payments, though Searls said it was difficult finding employment without having a permanent place to stay.
A lot of these tasks, such as finding an apartment and securing a car, they handled on their own through word of mouth or Craigslist, though they said Donovan, the project’s founder, reached out to them a few times to ask whether he could provide them with resources.
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