[tang-soo]

Young homeless people in the Big Apple will soon be getting $1,250 in no-strings-attached cash each month — in a $2.5 million city-backed experiment to see if they use it to get off the streets and try to get jobs.

Isn't this Mad Max's "walking-around money" from 25-30 years ago? Same breath as "midnight basketball".

[Axenolith]

So, if there is 0$ of that money for overhead and govdouche pork sucking, that’s enough money to give 166 people $15,000 for a year...

The effect of that, in NYC, is going to be like taking an eyedropper of seawater an putting it in an olympic size swimming pool and trying to “observe” the effect of it.