Citizens in Austin, Texas who are classified as facing ‘extreme hardship’ will receive $1,000 per month for a year in the program that promises to reduce crime.
A total of 85 Austin residents will receive monthly balloon payments of $1,000 according to the city’s Equity Office. Information on how those residents will be chosen and what they will need to qualify for the program has not yet been announced.
The pilot program’s size indicates that city officials aren’t all too confident in the virtue of doling out the cash.
Last year, Austin City Council decided to fund the program at $1.1 million at the recommendation of the ‘Reimagining Public Safety’ task force. Paula Rojas, the co-chair of the task force, explained that the program was developed in order to decrease crime. “A lot of the research we did showed us that increasing police does not make the city safer,” she said. “But there are many other programs that can actually prevent the need for policing. One of these is this guaranteed monthly income.”
The program is not unique and is modeled after an experiment run in Stockton, California that has also inspired similar programs in both Los Angeles and Chicago.
Only one member of the council opposed the measure, stating that they believed the federal government should provide guaranteed income at a much larger scale.
Progressives, it seems, have given up on job creation and have once again turned to handouts.
#1: StraitGate To: Bill D Berger (#0)
What is wrong with people? One ain't they, and every journalist should know that.
StraitGate posted on 2022-04-17 20:03:25 Reply Private Reply
#2: BTP Holdings To: StraitGate, BillDBerger (#1)
But you are a preacher, not a teacher. School Marms know the English language, or should, unless they teach in the inner city. Then they had better know Ebonics. ;)
BTP Holdings posted on 2022-04-17 20:28:14 Reply Private Reply
#3: Lod To: StraitGate (#1)
Lod posted on 2022-04-17 21:36:04 Reply Private Reply
#4: StraitGate To: Lod (#3)
I'm trying to help people here. I'm a teacher, not a cop.
StraitGate posted on 2022-04-17 22:03:11 Reply Private Reply
#5: Lod To: StraitGate (#4)
It's now past my bedtime. Night all.
Lod posted on 2022-04-17 22:07:05 Reply Private Reply
#6: Bill D Berger To: StraitGate (#1)
Who knows what's correct anymore with 70+ different "preferred" pronouns?
Bill D Berger posted on 2022-04-17 23:48:20 Reply Private Reply
#7: Bill D Berger To: StraitGate (#4)
Why are we changing our language at the demand of less than 1% of the population? It used to be that language and meanings changed organically over time, not seemingly overnight due to the feelings of a miniscule delusional minority.
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That's why they are going after kids.
Bill D Berger posted on 2022-04-17 23:58:40 Reply Private Reply
#8: StraitGate To: Bill D Berger (#7)
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StraitGate posted on 2022-04-18 00:32:14 Reply Private Reply
#9: Bill D Berger To: StraitGate (#8)
They started by asking for tolerance. Now that they have the whip hand, they aren’t asking anymore; they are telling. It isn’t tolerance they want, but subservience.
Not using someone’s preferred pronouns or calling a non-binary person a woman is discrimination and a hate crime.
In 1984, O’Brien does not stop torturing Winston Smith as soon as he is willing to say 2 + 2 = 5. Winston has to be coerced into genuinely believing what he knows is not true. That’s what the LGBT agenda requires, and why the liberal establishment backs this sick agenda so aggressively.
Bill D Berger posted on 2022-04-18 06:43:44 Reply Private Reply
#10: StraitGate To: Bill D Berger (#9)
StraitGate posted on 2022-04-18 07:50:02 Reply Private Reply
#11: Esso To: StraitGate (#4)
Try to be patient with me, I don't do it on purpose, I just never had a very good grasp on the English language.
Esso posted on 2022-04-18 09:29:23 Reply Private Reply
#12: Lod To: Bill D Berger, StraitGate, 4um (#9)
Lod posted on 2022-04-18 10:10:46 Reply Private Reply
#13: Bill D Berger To: StraitGate (#10)
Bill D Berger posted on 2022-04-18 10:34:13 Reply Private Reply
#14: StraitGate To: Esso (#11)
I'm talking about journalists who use pronouns incorrectly either in ignorance or deliberately to push the queer/feminist/commie social change agenda. A journalist who does so deliberately is my sworn enemy. One who does so in ignorance is like an electrical engineer who doesn't know Watt's law, or the difference between power and energy. Or a mechanical engineer who doesn't know force from pressure. Or a pianist who doesn't know middle C from Z flat.
StraitGate posted on 2022-04-18 10:40:32 Reply Private Reply
#15: Bill D Berger To: Lod (#12)
The world has gone completely insane. I've read 1984 a few times and seen the movie...it's remarkable how the language is being manipulated into newspeak just in the past 5 or 6 years.
Using puberty blockers and and mutilating kids in the name of trans rights = "gender affirming care"? That's freaking insane.
Watching the leftist talking heads go after Musk lately is really something... they are all claiming freedom of speech is a threat to democracy
Freedom is slavery.
I'm glad I'm old at this point.
Bill D Berger posted on 2022-04-18 10:47:05 Reply Private Reply
#16: Esso To: StraitGate (#14)
Thanks. I need all the help I can get.
I just paid my property tax bill. Man, I need to quit going out to my mailbox on Sundays.
Esso posted on 2022-04-18 11:19:37 Reply Private Reply
#17: Esso To: Bill D Berger (#15)
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It's beyond insane.
Amen.
Esso posted on 2022-04-18 11:55:36 Reply Private Reply
#18: Esso To: Bill D Berger, 4um (#15)
You're not alone...
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Esso posted on 2022-04-18 20:48:10 Reply Private Reply