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Universal Basic Employment program aiming to reduce poverty in Cleveland
Cleveland 19 News ^ | 5/21/24

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at cleveland19.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Local News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cleveland; communism; downthedrain; moneydownthedrain; ohio
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From Universal Basic Income to Universal Basic Employment at $50,000 a year for normally low paying jobs?

Sounds like a great idea on the surface, but 50K to be a barista?

Nope, I don't get it.

1 posted on 05/25/2024 11:06:18 AM PDT by EBH
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To: EBH

SOMEbody needs to consult John Smith on where this historically leads.


2 posted on 05/25/2024 11:14:38 AM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: EBH

Are there enough taxpayers to support these people ?


3 posted on 05/25/2024 11:15:14 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: EBH

Where does the money come from?

- from taxes coerced from people who are working at a normal job without a subsidy.

Will the people at normal jobs feel resentment when they see others getting free money from the government for not doing anything?

- yes, they will feel resentment, but they can’t do anything about it.

What happens when this program is extended to all, as the word “universal” implies?

- money becomes valueless and the economy crashes, causing almost universal misery.

Almost? Who won’t become miserable?

- the ruling elite, which always takes care of itself first, and flings $hit at the working stiffs.


4 posted on 05/25/2024 11:15:14 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Delusional people should not be allowed to dictate what we say or think.)
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To: EBH

It’s communist nonsense. And what’s worse, it’s not even balanced communist nonsense.

Joe gets $50,000 a year for three years. Jim, who lives next door, gets nothing. Zero. Zip.

Joe had better keep his big mouth shut about this. But he probably won’t.


5 posted on 05/25/2024 11:16:04 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: EBH

Idiocy


6 posted on 05/25/2024 11:16:45 AM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: EBH

and you know who the 100 people are


7 posted on 05/25/2024 11:18:29 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: EBH
Running a plantation is not cheap.

8 posted on 05/25/2024 11:23:25 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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The problem is a ‘work history’ the problem is poor work social skills and weak employment ethics.


9 posted on 05/25/2024 11:24:23 AM PDT by GOPJ (Trump's deplorables welcome the Bronx clowns to the family... )
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To: Leaning Right
In communist countries “no work, no eat, no free money.”

10 posted on 05/25/2024 11:24:51 AM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: EBH

It won’t end poverty.

Even if the leftist utopia of starting everyone with exactly equal money, income, goods, houses, etc could be realized, within a year, there’d be disparity. The issue is largely money management.


11 posted on 05/25/2024 11:37:59 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: EBH

$600,000 voted for.

100 people × $50,000/yr × 3 yrs = $15,000,000.

One of the 100 people better be better at math than the politicians that voted this in...


12 posted on 05/25/2024 11:48:36 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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The math looks bad, and while the story is not clear, it appears that the subsidies will not be $50,000 per person, but rather the difference between their current income and $50k.

So, the person making $40,000 will get $10k.


13 posted on 05/25/2024 11:59:06 AM PDT by Round Earther
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To: moovova
I see you didn’t get the memo.


14 posted on 05/25/2024 12:02:34 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: EBH

When I was going through school there was an axiom intended to convince us to take our schooling seriously. It was “play now, pay later; pay now, play later.” Unfortunately our socialist leaning government has turned that on its head to now it is “play now, play later; pay now, pay later.”


15 posted on 05/25/2024 12:06:01 PM PDT by caseinpoint (Don't get thickly involved in thin things.)
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To: EBH

Will there be any looting?


16 posted on 05/25/2024 12:16:54 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Round Earther
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.

the city council voted to invest $600,000 into the pilot.

Putting those together, the average is $2,000 per person per year, if my math is correct.

17 posted on 05/25/2024 12:29:21 PM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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Correction: The problem isn't a ‘work history’ the problem is poor work social skills and weak employment ethics. In short - teach 'work ethic' before handing out jobs to people will fail one more time....
18 posted on 05/25/2024 12:38:39 PM PDT by GOPJ (Trump's deplorables welcome the Bronx clowns to the family... )
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To: Round Earther

That makes better sense.


19 posted on 05/25/2024 12:52:20 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: FoxInSocks

I’m thinking there will be a catalog with 100 jobs. Only 12 will actually get filled. The other 88 — people will interview for them but the jobs never actually get filled.


20 posted on 05/25/2024 12:53:04 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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