Free cash programs spread as more cities expand the anti-poverty safety net
Free cash programs spread as more cities expand the anti-poverty safety net
Across the country, city-led guaranteed income programs are delivering unrestricted payments to struggling households, including those ineligible for other aid. Conservative critics are pushing back.
"Free Cash" is a framing conservatives would use ... it's more a "stop homelessness and starvation" program.
Not everyone agrees. Conservative groups that pushed back against pandemic-era aid programs are now taking aim at guaranteed income too.
Tarren Bragdon, the president and CEO of the Foundation for Government Accountability, a right-leaning think tank, criticized GI projects’ “slow creep,” saying a too-generous welfare state discourages people from working — a concern both parties shared until roughly the last decade. His group, which has sought to curtail access to safety-net programs through tighter employment requirements, has also rolled out messaging to counter GI efforts in some of the cities pursuing them.
Considering conservatives are trying to get a corrupt, insurrectionist, traitorous dictator into the office of the President, I’m of the strictly personal opinion that they shouldn’t be given any voice to “push back” until they learn to unfuck their worldview.
a too-generous welfare state discourages people from working
Yeah, no one works in Scandinavia. Not a single person.
Dumb fucks.