"People still respond to us by saying they’re worried basic income will be a disincentive for work. People have been searching for decades to try to prove that these kinds of benefits disincentivise employment. It's just not there." www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr...
Twenty-five years of policy show that social support helps people thrive – and doesn’t disincentivise work
Beginning to suspect cops are quiet abolishing the police lmao www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...
No one was injured in the shooting, and the off-duty Chicago police officer did not return fire.
When Jamiroquai said “futures made of virtual insanity” he was talking about us.
giving people money to live when they don't have enough to do so is good, actually
Trump's economic plan is not more of the same or just a negotiating tactic. It will be implemented. And it will undermine US economic stability in ways the last time did not. Don't kid yourself or others. New from me in @foreignaffairs.bsky.socialwww.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
His radical agenda would wreak havoc on American businesses, workers, and consumers.
I've been thinking about this a lot with respect to my state research. Brain drain from banned states could do weird things to their unemployment rate. So far, the rate is still lower in banned states (sunbelt+), but rising faster vs Jun-2022 (Dobbs) than the unemployment rate in protected states
One way of putting this: if by creating job opportunities in distressed places, we are able to get unemployed or underemployed people into more or better jobs, we are increasing the sustainable national employment rate w/o excess inflationary pressures: www.liberalpatriot.com/p/helping-pe...
This column is the first in a series on place-based jobs policies.
being a helper is my favorite 🫡