Can this really be happening?

[Grime]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oakland...ome-residents/

I'm speechless.

[emiller35]

Yes, yes it can. I?m willing to bet this goes nationwide or at least some form of Universal Basic Income, within 2 years. I hope I?m wrong but with the current gross negligence of monetary policy, poor financial/economic education as a whole, and the latest updates on the 4th stimulus package they are now bringing to the table, it ain?t going to be pretty when it all comes to roost.


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[Irving]

Meh, the funding is private. The rest of the article is about publicly funded programs though. My initial reaction to this kind of thing is always negative, but similar kind of experiments have been tried before with positive results. I don't know that it'd be successful on a national scale; but I don't know that it wouldn't be successful either. Neither does anyone else who says that they do.

I can say that if stuff like this continues, there is a lot of fat that needs to be cut out of the budget elsewhere. That of course is the problem, as that other stuff never seems to go away.

[Grime]

Local people of color only
"And it is the first program to limit participation strictly to Black, Indigenous and people of color communities."

Not sure how this part is ok.

[theGinsue]

"We are focusing on people of color".

Total horseshit. If there is a need, there is a need, regardless of color. When you make color a requirement you are creating a racist program, pure and simple.

[bryjcom]

“ we are only giving people of color money due to racism” because Clown world

[GilpinGuy]

(Didn't read it) If this is truly from private funds I don't give a shit if they throw it in the fireplace.

[Great-Kazoo]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oakland...ome-residents/

I'm speechless.

Meh, the funding is private. The rest of the article is about publicly funded programs though. My initial reaction to this kind of thing is always negative, but similar kind of experiments have been tried before with positive results. I don't know that it'd be successful on a national scale; but I don't know that it wouldn't be successful either. Neither does anyone else who says that they do.

I can say that if stuff like this continues, there is a lot of fat that needs to be cut out of the budget elsewhere. That of course is the problem, as that other stuff never seems to go away.

You're all a few days late to the party.


https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/il...ng/ar-BB1eTkgY

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation...lack-residents

[Irving]

(Didn't read it) If this is truly from private funds I don't give a shit if they throw it in the fireplace.

What if it works though? Honest question. We don't have to think too hard on it, because if it does work, it'll probably be ended. But what if it works?

[GilpinGuy]

Im not really sure what "works" would mean. But if it works through private funding, then great. Just like religious charities, etc. Doling out even more taxpayer money is a giant f-that IMHO.

Now, do away with ALL entitlements and we might be able to talk about a small UBI for all...not just minorities. That'll never happen though. Entitlements are vote catchers.