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Austin becomes the first Texas city to experiment with ‘guaranteed income’
Posted on 5/6/22 at 7:41 pm
Posted on 5/6/22 at 7:41 pm
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Austin will be the first major Texas city to use local tax dollars to give cash to low-income families to keep them housed as the cost of living skyrockets in the capital city.
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Under a yearlong, $1 million pilot program that cleared a key Austin City Council vote Thursday, the city will send monthly checks of $1,000 to 85 needy households at risk of losing their homes — an attempt to insulate low-income residents from Austin’s increasingly expensive housing market and prevent more people from becoming homeless.
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Austin officials are working out how exactly the program will work and which families will receive the money. Austinites who qualify won’t have restrictions on how they can spend the money — but the idea is that they’ll use it to pay household costs like rent, utilities, transportation and groceries.
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Posted on 5/6/22 at 7:52 pm to Cs
everybody getting Gucci slides
Posted on 5/6/22 at 8:07 pm to Cs
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the idea is that they’ll use it to pay household costs like rent, utilities, transportation and groceries.
What the money will actually be used for:
This post was edited on 5/6/22 at 8:08 pm
Posted on 5/6/22 at 8:10 pm to Cs
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but the idea is that they’ll use it to pay household costs like rent, utilities, transportation and groceries.
So give them credit for those things?
Posted on 5/6/22 at 8:10 pm to Cs
Literally dozens of places have tried some variation of this and I have yet to see one legit study to show it has helped in any way.
Posted on 5/6/22 at 8:12 pm to Cs
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. Austinites who qualify won’t have restrictions on how they can spend the money — but the idea is that they’ll use it to pay household costs like rent, utilities, transportation and groceries.
Posted on 5/6/22 at 8:13 pm to Cs
I can't comprehend a policy that pays people simply for existing. That's not how it works. If you're not being a productive member of society and contributing something, why the frick would you be given money???
Posted on 5/6/22 at 8:24 pm to Cs
We already did a UBI experiment with the Covid stimulus checks.
Most people just put it into savings or bought SafeMoon. It contributed to the problems we're having now by not being used for productive means.
Democrats are slow learners when it comes to money.
Most people just put it into savings or bought SafeMoon. It contributed to the problems we're having now by not being used for productive means.
Democrats are slow learners when it comes to money.
Posted on 5/6/22 at 8:25 pm to Cs
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Austin will be the first major Texas city to use local tax dollars to give cash to low-income families to keep them housed as the cost of living skyrockets in the capital city.
Living in an expensive city isn’t a right.
Posted on 5/6/22 at 8:33 pm to Cs
How do I invest in Austin nail salons, weave parlors and Foot Lockers??
Posted on 5/6/22 at 8:35 pm to Cs
Leslie Cochran would have made bank
Posted on 5/6/22 at 8:41 pm to Cs
Lobserals claim that Abortion should be allowed because the fetus isn’t a viable human being. Yet we have millions and millions of non-viable human beings living off the government teet each day.
Can we abort the mooches first?
Can we abort the mooches first?
Posted on 5/6/22 at 8:47 pm to Cs
Just here to say that Austin is NOT a part of Texas. It’s a California city that got misplaced.
Posted on 5/6/22 at 9:30 pm to Cs
New tent sales will boom.
Posted on 5/6/22 at 9:48 pm to Cs
This is just another welfare program.
“Guaranteed income” sounds more palatable than “giveaway to the poors who won’t work.”
“Guaranteed income” sounds more palatable than “giveaway to the poors who won’t work.”
Posted on 5/6/22 at 9:48 pm to Cs
Good news for the Austin suburbs, I suppose.
Posted on 5/6/22 at 11:11 pm to Onyx Aggie
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Literally dozens of places have tried some variation of this and I have yet to see one legit study to show it has helped in any way.
What? Those programs were obviously so successful that poverty was permanently erased in those areas, thus why they no longer do those programs.
What these folks don't understand is that lack of money isn't a driver of poverty, it's the result of it. They are treating the symptom instead of the cause. Pushing personal responsibility and better life choices, things like getting a continuing education in a STEM field or a field that builds/repairs things (most liberal arts fields don't pay well), don't have kids before you're married, don't do drugs until they are legalized (or don't do them at all), moderate drinking at most, don't start smoking, take care of your things (ie: that $1k phone), purchase property and put your money into it instead of bling and trying to make your shitty Honda Escort sound like it should be on a NASCAR track, put money back for a "rainy day", etc.
But that's too difficult because it might hurt someone's feelings.
So we try UBI... again. And it will fail... again.
Posted on 5/7/22 at 12:07 am to Bard
Free money will work THIS time!
Posted on 5/7/22 at 3:19 am to Bard
Maybe all of the lazy, shiftless, drug dealing grifters in Texas will move there.
Posted on 5/7/22 at 3:46 am to Cs
What a neat way to disperse money for drugs and alcohol.
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