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@#26 ... So giving a homeless guy a sandwich to make sure he doesn't spend the $5 bucks I'd have given him on booze is actually cruel in your mind? ...

How $750 a month changed the lives of a group of homeless people in California (December 2023)
www.usatoday.com

... Can putting money directly in the hands of people experiencing homelessness make a difference? A new California study on basic income suggests it can.

Ben Henwood, a professor at the University of Southern California Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work, partnered with the nonprofit Miracle Messages to give 103 people in the San Francisco Bay area and Los Angeles County $750 per month for a year. The six-month report is preliminary, but Henwood said the findings provide insight into ways to help address the problem.

"They're just segments of the population given the income disparities, that despite having jobs and working, they're not making enough to just afford basic needs and they're getting priced out of the housing market," he said.

Miracle Messages CEO and founder Kevin F. Adler said the $2.1 million study grew out of a pilot program from the nonprofit that gave 14 unhoused people $500 per month. In that study, he said the funds donated funds allowed two-thirds of the people to secure housing.

"What we've seen is most of the money being spent on a mix of housing and food security," Adler said. "We've also had folks use money for family emergencies, child care, and other basic needs." ...

[emphasis mine]

House Republicans Pass a Hot Potato on Healthy Federally Subsidized Meals (2014)
time.com

... House Appropriators awoke Thursday to an op-ed in the New York Times by Michelle Obama warning them not to pass legislation that she says weakens healthy standards for school lunches passed in 2010.

"[S]ome members of the House of Representatives are now threatening to roll back these new standards and lower the quality of food our kids get in school," the First Lady wrote.

"They want to make it optional, not mandatory, for schools to serve fruits and vegetables to our kids. They also want to allow more sodium and fewer whole grains than recommended into school lunches." ...


Republicans Declare Banning Universal Free School Meals a 2024 Priority (June 2023)
newrepublic.com

... As states across the country move to make sure students are well fed, Republicans have announced their intention to fight back. ...


@#3

The back-pedaling has already begun.

From the backpage...

Trump: Lowering Prices is Very Hard
drudge.com

... As a candidate, Donald Trump campaigned -- and won -- this year on the promise he would lower prices for Americans angry after the COVID pandemic's inflation brought steep price increases, but now he's backtracking, saying he's not sure he will actually be able to fulfill those vows.

Outrage at Trump, and the people who voted for him based on that pledge, was palpable on Thursday. ...


Then there's this...

Trump says he isn't worried about potential conflicts of interest at Musk's DOGE: 'Elon puts the country long before his company'
www.yahoo.com

... In a new interview with Time Magazine, President-elect Donald Trump brushed back concerns that Elon Musk's companies could create a conflict of interest for his work on DOGE.

"I think that Elon puts the country long before his company," Trump said in the interview. ...

Trump, who Time named its 2024 Person of the Year, said that he trusts Musk, whose companies hold billions in federal contracts.

"He considers this to be his most important project, and he wanted to do it," Trump told Time.

"And, you know, I think, I think he's one of the very few people that would have the credibility to do it, but he puts the country before, and I've seen it, before he puts his company." ...


... he puts the country before, and I've seen it, before he puts his company. ....

What is the "country" that Mr Musk would place before his companies? What does that "country" look like?



I disagree. This country was a libertarian country from inception to the New Deal.

That is flat out not true. That's an invention from a fantasy of a time that never existed.

Michael Lind asked a question that no Libertarian has answered. The closest was a massive "not fair!" from the Competitive Enterprise Institute. Boil it all down and what it says is Libertarian rule can't happen without perfect humans, and we ain't got those. Of course they hide behind public choice theory to justify their rationalization.

Every time Libertarianism starts to take hold, the people revolt. For a fun read, check out https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2022/06/think-twice-founding-free-market-utopia

Experts Warn of Bird Flu Pandemic as Signals of Mutation Mount
www.sciencealert.com

... Health experts have been sounding the alarm about the potential pandemic threat posed by bird flu, which has been showing signs of mutating as it spreads among cows and infects people in the United States.

There is no guarantee that bird flu will ever begin transmitting between humans, and US health authorities have emphasised that the risk to the general public remains low.

The deadly bird flu variant H5N1 first emerged in China in 1996, but over the last four years it has spread more widely than ever before, reaching previously untouched regions such as penguin-haven Antarctica.

More than 300 million poultry birds have been killed or culled since October 2021, while 315 different species of wild birds have died across 79 countries, the World Organisation for Animal Health told AFP.
h5n1 virus particles

Mammals that ate the infected birds, such as seals, have also experienced mass-die offs.

The situation changed again in March, when the virus began spreading among dairy cows across the United States in another first.

Fifty-eight people have tested positive for bird flu in the US this year, including two who had no known exposure to infected animals, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

There are also fears that some human cases are going undetected. Researchers said last month that eight out of 115 dairy workers tested in Michigan and Colorado had antibodies for bird flu, suggesting an infection rate of seven percent. ...



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