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| Topic | San Fran to offer Guarunteed Income to Transgendered People |
| adjl 11/17/22 4:34:57 PM #9: | chelsea___wtf posted... The program, one of several city programs intended to help support San Francisco residents, will support 55 people Which makes the whole thing pretty pointless. I mean, good for those 55 people, but that's such a paltry drop in the bucket compared to even just the number of trans people on the streets, let alone the total homeless population or the housed population (of any demographic) that has virtually no financial security. This is too small-scale to be useful as a UBI experiment, too small-scale to make a serious impact on the poverty problem, and the fact that it's restricted to a specific demographic (even a demographic that's among the highest risk of becoming homeless and that tends to experience the worst conditions once homeless) is inevitably going to breed too much political ill will for the program to have any real future. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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