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Bob’s Burgers, Christmas in the Car (S04E08)
This is what every mayor should be doing.
He’s the mayor of Stockton California, he’s piloting an experimental guaranteed income/universal income study program called SEED, partially to give financial help to some low income people, but at this point mainly to provide more scientific sources for citing these kinds of programs as viable in larger programs and for our greater economy.
It’s testing the low end of the possible range, a small amount of money with a small sample group. For the study, just 125 residents are receiving only $500 a month, with no strings on how to spend it.
He was elected to city council in Stockton in 2013 at about age 22. In 2017 he was elected Mayor of Stockton (getting 70% of the vote and beating a republican incumbent mayor) And shorty afterward the study began.
Here’s an article from october of 2019 detailing how it’s been going
It’s long and all of it is very interesting to me but here are some highlights
… the economic decisions they made during the first five months of the program were “really rational,” said Stacia Martin-West … the co-principal investigator on the project. Each recipient was given a debit card that automatically loads with $500 each month, so the researchers can categorize spending. Of the money tracked, 40 percent went towards food. Sales and merchandise made up another quarter of the monthly spending, and about 12 percent was spent on utilities.
About 43 percent of SEED recipients are currently working full or part-time, according to the researchers. 20 percent reported a disability, 8 percent had retired, 5 percent were students, and 11 percent are taking care of parents or children (I suspect this means they live with them for little or no rent – for example with elderly parents who have already paid off their mortgage and own the home outright – and spend their time as caretakers, using the UBI supplement to live on) … only 2 percent said they weren’t actively looking for work. (and if you total that up you get 89% with a left over 11% who must be healthy and able to work, aren’t going to school or taking care of someone who is unable to care for themselves, and are not working but are currently seeking work.)
When Paradela, who works with children who have autism, first got the SEED postcard in the mail, she was skeptical. Getting a large, no-strings-attached grant like this seemed too good to be true.
After talking to researchers and social workers about the program, Paradela felt a little more confident. And when the money finally showed up that first month, “it came just in time,” she said: Her car battery had died, and she needed money to fix it. A few months later, her car was hit by a driver making an illegal U-turn. If the vehicle stayed out of commission, she wouldn’t be able to get to work, or visit her mother in the hospital down in Hollister.
Recovering from an accident like this can plunge many Americans into debt: The Federal Reserve Board estimates that 40 percent of Americans can’t cover an unexpected $400 expense; other studies put that destabilizing amount at $1,000. If it had been a normal month, Paradela wouldn’t have been able to cover it, either.
Universal 👏🏻 Basic 👏🏻 Income 👏🏻 WORKS 👏🏻
hey it's ok everyone, the consumer doesn't ALWAYS die. they could just suffer the effects for life! and just shove that death toll aside for the wealthy execs that already want to cover it up.
welcome to libertarianism
The last play I watched before the pandemic was a Beauty And The Beast adaptation and when Gaston proposed to Belle there was this little boy in the audience who yelled NOOO DON’T SAY YES, so when Belle naturally turned him down Gaston turned to the boy with his hands on his hips and said “well, now look what you’ve done”
#no one breaks the fourth wall like gaston
Kurt Cobain didn’t die to become a cute tank top at Urban Outfitters
Neither did my ancestors
do you think it’s fun for fi when link is being a ridiculous showoff to no one except himself and fi doing all this fancy sword swinging in an empty room or is fi in the sword just rolling her eyes & thinkin “why are you like this”
i like this answer…bet she gets so flattered by the idea of link wanting to try out the new & improved blade right away, so cute 😭
Sweet, sounds based. Let's do that.
tiktok is tumblr at its worst but worse
i’m serious. the glorification of mental illnesses and trauma, constantly trying to one-up each other’s suffering, faking really serious conditions for clout, obsessing over the blandest possible white men, whatever the fuck “reality shifting” is, fandom culture, unhealthy sexual fantasies, etc… except this time your real face and name are attached to it
The art history version of “you’d look prettier if you smiled more”
you know what? fuck this *un-smiles your painting*
Not to be a dick but like have you ever seen someone that was either your age or younger who looks SOOOOO much older than you and you’re just like...how??? I still have this little honey bun baby face and it’s wild when I see people younger than me who could pass for an older sibling and it’s always jarring to me
I see that shit all the time. My hometown’s most popular newspaper posts the most recent mugshots and crimes they committed under every news article. So many of those people look so much older than me 🤣
Example:
Used his picture because fuck him
Oh shit nice shout out to Louisiana, people doing the most illiterate state proud.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003)
Hella outta pocket for the “whip-handle” metaphor. (x)
"potterhead"? oh like WEED? like MARIJUANA? lol!
@death2america made this into a tshirt design
thank you for your service