Posted on 05/25/2024 11:06:18 AM PDT by EBH
The program will give 100 people in one of Cleveland’s neighborhoods a wage subsidy or guaranteed salary of $50,000 a year for three years.
Participants will also receive health insurance through their employer.
“Dignifying historically low wage work and beyond the direct care industry thinking about jobs like that turnover hospital beds and also jobs that happen in community through local coffee shops and diners and things like that,” Cotten said.
Councilmember Stephanie Howse-Jones said the city council voted to invest $600,000 into the pilot.
She said this program could be beneficial for both employees and businesses.
“In this pilot, we want to be able to demonstrate and show economically businesses that there is a positive return on the investment by investing in your employees,” Howse-Jones said.
Cotten hopes this program can set families up for long term success.
“It’s giving folks three years of demonstrated work history, that allows them to develop social capital, individual agency, and allow them to chart the next chapter of what they think their life should look like,” Cotten said.
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I forgot! LOL
Long time Communist saying,”We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us!”
GHW Bush and Milton Friedman suggested programs such as this
A horribly dangerous idea. Guaranteed to develop a permanent underclass which will be for sale to the highest bidder.
How do you make Homey starve?
Hide his welfare check under his work boots.
“Will there be any looting?’’
There’s sure to be.
Heck. They’re doing that now. Just walk in, take up to $990 and you’re good to go.
IT IS NOT UNIVERSAL
IT IS 100 selected people.
“She said this program could be beneficial for both employees and businesses.”
Never mind the tax payer.
And how much will be skimmed off the top to reward the politically connected who are running the program? And who did these businesses donate to who will get a ‘free’ employee for 3 years. Will a single white person be eligible?
And if they simply still will not report to the worksite, just deposit the paycheck to their online banking account, eh?
So. There are at least 100 friends or family members of Cleveland Council Members who are getting free money.
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