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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great. When there already aren’t enough workers, people will get to buy a handle of vodka & Netflix & chill. Dumb public policy. [/quote]

Riiiiight, because $800/month is enough to live the good life in MoCo. $800 would get you a shared room in a basement. Ten years ago.

However, it COULD make the difference for someone who needs to fix their car to get to a job interview, to not have to choose between utilities and groceries, or not have to ration insulin and die.[/quote]

Why do you hate poor people? Give them skills to move up not money.  Noone should have to be a dependent of the state.[/quote]

Skills to move up. Right, a single mother with three minimum wage jobs and no childcare should just learn to code. Why didn’t we think of that?[/quote]

How many single mothers are there with three minimum wage jobs and no childcare?  Our country already has many, many safety net programs for situations like this, including: Medicaid, CHIP, SNAP, Earned Income Tax Credit, Section 8, Head First, subsidized cell phones, subsidized child care, Pell Grants, subsidized student loans, and on and on.

And a person who is working a minimum wage job is absolutely learning skills that can help her move up.  Work at McDonalds?  Move up to become a Shift Manager and then Assistant Manager.  Use their scholarship program to take classes, etc.

Our entrenched underclass is not due to lack of a safety net.  It is due to poor K-12 education, mental health problems, substance abuse, lack of work requirements and a continuing in-flow of uneducated immigrants.[/quote]

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