MangoCats

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Florida is making some progress on the early childhood side, they've been funding "Free VPK" for 20+ years now, and unemployed parents get automatic "Florida KidCare" insurance (basically Medicaid) for their children. Still, could be better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago

Maybe we won't be guillotining them anytime soon, but we can at least slow their roll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVgNJf6CsBA

[–] [email protected] 3 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Friend of ours is a well educated psychologist, she does drug counseling in lieu of jail. Convicts in her program have 4x better outcomes and her program (including her salary) costs the county less than 1/10th what they pay to keep drug charge convicts in jail. Still, the county refuses to expand the program and pays far more to send the majority of their drug cases to jail, because that's how the judges want to handle it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

Rent by the hour does tend to be more expensive...

Taking a tangent: with reliable UBI the homeless and poor would have enough of their own money to reliably pay for whatever type of shelter they desire, whether that's a standard apartment, or a bed in a big shelter dormitory for less per night, but either way: they would have a reliable source of income to pay for it with, instead of having to scrounge needs-tested welfare + whatever else they can scrape together.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 15 hours ago

I think that's all about who's doing the polling and how they are doing it: https://abcnews.go.com/538/trump-approval-polling-average-works/story?id=117999010

[–] [email protected] 12 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

My question: was the whole Canada / Mexico thing just a smoke screen for the newly increased China tariffs?

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