NY Times : Poverty fell in April and May
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Interesting article.
Only thing I will say is I think its a combination of improving the social safety net along with UBI. Yang was not in support of improving the social safety net.
The big takeaway is America can lower poverty and difficult economic situations if it wants too.
Only thing I will say is I think its a combination of improving the social safety net along with UBI. Yang was not in support of improving the social safety net.
The big takeaway is America can lower poverty and difficult economic situations if it wants too.
Popular measures of poverty are almost always piss-poor indicators.
The US has had the ability to create a robust social welfare system to ensure the health and well-being of all citizens for decades and the government has willing chosen not to do that, purely on racism and ideology.
Andrew Yang's vision of UBI was and is woefully incomplete - and would not be a remedy to the issues at hand.
The US has had the ability to create a robust social welfare system to ensure the health and well-being of all citizens for decades and the government has willing chosen not to do that, purely on racism and ideology.
Andrew Yang's vision of UBI was and is woefully incomplete - and would not be a remedy to the issues at hand.
But but socialism 
Poverty has been falling for the last 100yrs
wheres all the "this is meaningless because the poverty metrics are shyt" progressives at. Surely we arent accepting these metrics now that the uplift can be attributed to government.
You're an idiot in so many unique ways.
A letter to Steven Pinker (and Bill Gates, for that matter) about global poverty — Jason Hickel
Direct cash payments from government can easily coexist with a free market economy. This will help reduce precarity.. will spur more risk taking ,entrepreneurship and reduce the harmful impact of racism and bias, in addition to greatly reducing the poverty rate.
Not to mention help the economy by Creating more consumption.
I don't know why you are acting like the months in the study were under a centrally planned economy.
UBI, NIT, Unemployment benefits are an effective way to end poverty and more beneficial to business than raising minimum wages or creating price controls to ensure affordability.
What exactly is your objection to this policy? Cost? Ideology?
Direct cash payments from government can easily coexist with a free market economy. This will help reduce precarity.. will spur more risk taking ,entrepreneurship and reduce the harmful impact of racism and bias, in addition to greatly reducing the poverty rate.
Not to mention help the economy by Creating more consumption.
I don't know why you are acting like the months in the study were under a centrally planned economy.
UBI, NIT, Unemployment benefits are an effective way to end poverty and more beneficial to business than raising minimum wages or creating price controls to ensure affordability.
What exactly is your objection to this policy? Cost? Ideology?
Who said anything about a free market? Central planning? or even objected?I asked where are all the "poverty metrics used are shyt" guys...
I support UBI, if implemented correctly.
More people have access to clean water and shelter than ever before, In 1990, nearly half of the population in the developing regions lived on less than $1.25 a day. This rate dropped to 14 per cent in 2015...Say what you want about the metrics or the rate... but things have been moving in the right direction for a long time.
Sorry that offends you.
