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Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social |
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. Results showed that close to half of the participants secured housing, and nearly $600K saved in public service costs due to fewer ER visits & jail stays. They also saw improved mental health.
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Merit St. Media, Crusader for Truth
@tommytimp.bsky.social
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"Competing in the Olympics should be its own reward. It's undignified to compensate people merely for doing what they do every day."
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Robots Everywhere
@robotseverywhere.bsky.social
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The math checks out. We need more municipalities putting facts before politics. Great job, Denver.
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Scott Santens
@scottsantens.com
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Basic income works. It always works.
youtu.be/hqJq9pnZxDc?...
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Stay Spicy, kids ♾️
@howdidwegethere.bsky.social
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It's as if helping people in need works
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Jason D. Salvagni
@trisalvagni.bsky.social
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Jon Arnesen
@jonarnesen.bsky.social
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Next season: revenge of the incarceration industrial complex, public services providing corporations, health insurance lawyers, medicines trade mark rights brokers, and gentrification lobbying profiteers et al 🤬
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Jarda
@jarda.bsky.social
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That's why this program has to be canceled ASAP. Spending money to help someone is sooo un-American! Pure communism.
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Quietly Curious 🇺🇦🇨🇦
@quietlycurious.bsky.social
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This is awesome!
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SGC Illustration
@sgcillo.bsky.social
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Stop giving wealthy people more money & actually get better results giving it to people who actually need it. Dang. An idea so crazy it just might work!
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Harvey Fliester
@harveyfliester.bsky.social
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Have you considered the fact that forcing other people to suffer is worth an extra 600k to a lot of America?
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Ryondor
@ryondor.bsky.social
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Helping people helps people.
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Profit Greenly
@profitgreenly.bsky.social
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I know reporters don't have a lot of time, but it'd be great if they actually read the study results. Tldr; $9M spent to save $600k, control group C ($50/mo) saved more than test group B ($6.5k initial payment + $500/mo). Would've been better if they'd built cheap/free public housing instead.
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Comfortably Numb
@numb.comfortab.ly
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UBI has been the answer all along, who knew.
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Gar57
@gar57.bsky.social
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Knock it off! Those are un-rantable numbers. C’mon!
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WildGorillaMan
@wildgorillaman.bsky.social
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Weird how that keeps happening. After this many trials if UBI was a drug it would already be marketed.
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Roman's Reviews
@romanryba.bsky.social
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Wait, we needed a study to determine that humans have basic needs and will utilize available resources that allow them to obtain said needs?
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Joachim Heijndermans
@jheijndermans.bsky.social
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The South Park team reads this, then spends the next 10 years mocking Denver with more "homeless are zombies" episodes.
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Mighty Apollo
@mightyapollo.bsky.social
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It’s not perfect, but the more I visit Denver the more it grows on me.
bsky.app/profile/migh...
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Lingfeng Ge
@lingfengge.bsky.social
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I guess the majority of local governments across the world don't have enough money to do the same
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Sean
@swblather.bsky.social
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But somebody might have spent some amount of that money unwisely! It's obviously a complete failure!
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Wolfreak76🇨🇦∆ø
@wolfreak76.bsky.social
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And that's why something like this will never be widely implemented. Homeless is big business in most places. All they see in that statement is there was a $600k drop in revenue going to large corporations.
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BevBall
@bevball.bsky.social
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this makes so much sense
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Just S
@justs.bsky.social
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Does giving people money solve money problems? Too soon to tell. We need another 2,000 studies before we decide it was probably still a bad idea.
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@bluecabazon.bsky.social
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Everywhere this has been tried the same results occur! But of course that won’t work in ______! fill in the blank with any city you choose because you just know they’re all going to say it!
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Paul Arzooman
@zoopaul.bsky.social
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They gave money to people who would then spend that money in their communities thereby boosting their economies. I would say that was a win all the way around.
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Trickcyclist 🦋
@trickcyclist.bsky.social
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In the England our government trashes their tents and throws all their belongings in a skip. Now they want to fine them £2000 for sleeping on the streets. England is a fucked up shit hole, due entirely to our caring compassionate government.
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fredesque
@fredtaming.bsky.social
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gonna need a few more of these to really see if it’s worth it
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@nojustdan.bsky.social
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American politicians have such a severe aversion to helping those truly in need that they are penny wise and dollar dumb.
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SenpaiShey
@senpaishey.bsky.social
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Wow. So it’s money that people needed this whole time. Who would’ve thought
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⸸ Andrea Celeste ⸸
@manufacturedtulpa.bsky.social
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those who oppose ubi and favor means testing prefer a more expensive solution that hurts people over a cheaper solution that helps people. same with people who oppose drug decriminalization
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SPosner 🍍
@suepkoi57.bsky.social
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Netherlands did same with same results.
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Bill Stewart
@billstewart.bsky.social
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As my mother-in-law once said, if she got a raise she'd just fritter it away on rent and groceries anyway.
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Agave 🍉
@tieflingkisser.bsky.social
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Every time a study is done like this, the results are positive and it never gets more broadly implemented because the people with the power to do so don't care.
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Charlie
@cstcharlie.bsky.social
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But…. but what if some of them didn’t DESERVE it?!?!
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Nate? | They/Them 🔞 🏳️⚧️ 💛🤍💜🖤
@thenathanspade.bsky.social
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"But that's communism/socialism. They didn't earn their right to live." Life isn't a privilege. It's a right, and everyone deserves that right.
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Tim
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I bet there were a lot less police interactions as well.. meaning they could... cut the police budget and give that money directly to homeless people.
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Jaze
@jaze.bsky.social
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Proof that trickle UP works!!
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Victoria
@vqh888.bsky.social
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It's the cash💝
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Schwester Esther "Ära der erneuerbaren Energie"
@schwester-esther.bsky.social
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we knew it since decades ... care for the people is the only way!
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Lost Squishy
@lostsquishy.bsky.social
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Wild how a housing first approach can help all the other stuff improve
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Jay Daigle
@profjaydaigle.bsky.social
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Okay, but nearly half of the participants they DIDN'T give $1000 also secured housing. (The $50-a-month group started from a somewhat higher base, though, which seems like a partial randomization failure.)
This is much less impressive than the headline.
www.denverbasicincomeproject.org/research
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Old Unreliable
@oldunreliable.bsky.social
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Totally unAmerican. Probably unconstitutional.
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lovesdaryl 🌹🇺🇦🇪🇺
@lovesdaryl.bsky.social
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How many times does this experiment need to be repeated to finally have consequences?
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Adeyinka Young
@jonswift.bsky.social
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Can we do more of this? And as an aside, let’s keep Joe Manchin away from this, please and thank you.
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Shoggy
@shoggy.bsky.social
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Damn bro you were not the Phil Lewis I was hoping you were. No shade to you but I wanted Mr. Moseby
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Terry Blade
@terryblade.bsky.social
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No, we must spend all the money on anti-homeless architecture
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Jules
@julesk.me
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It works just like decriminalizing drugs works. Will the corporations do anything to help us.. nah Only take
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Chris Geroux
@cgeroux.bsky.social
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So in summary, being nice pays.
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