Denver experimented with giving people $1,000 a month. It reduced homelessness and increased full-time employment, a study found.
Denver experimented with giving people $1,000 a month. It reduced homelessness and increased full-time employment, a study found.
UBI, or universal basic income, is a form of direct cash assistance to help the most vulnerable get back on their feet. A new study in Denver suggests it works.
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Similarly, Colorado had a program to give out free birth control and it reduced abortions by like 30%. But Republicans shut the program down because it isn't about saving babies, it's about controlling women.
115 4 ReplyYeah if it was possible they would have brought womens rights back to the 1930's if they could.
12 1 ReplyThat is completely ridiculous. Republicans have no interest in bringing civil rights back to the 1930's.
Their goal is the 1830's.
15 0 Reply1630s gang represent! Back when men were men, knew how to wield a pike, and were willing to give their life for the Spanish crown.
2 0 ReplyTrue asf. If it was legal they would have brought back whipping as a punishment for crimes.
1 0 Reply
Partly true. It's also about breeding peasants for when their Neo-Feudalist Corporate Theocracy plan eventually succeeds.
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