Oddbean new post about login | logout A5 cont'd No Accident Poverty Just Jumped Spiked after lawmakers let antipoverty programs expire https://inequality.org/research/poverty-spike * 60% incr. 2021-2022 b/c politicians allowed proven income support programs to expire * frising prices, low wages, high rents, broken healthcare system * w/o safety net/level playing field, financial security often out of reach for families Income, Poverty & Health Insurance Statistics: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-kits/2023/income-poverty.html #GOP #GOPmenace #poverty #ChildPoverty #HumanRights #inflation
Addendum 6 Perusing my morning informational feeds and this parasite popped up via the Hacker News post (I script the most upvoted &/or commented to be emailed to me, daily). An article by billionaire neofascist Joe Lonsdale, https://blog.joelonsdale.com/p/jefferson-and-americas-lost-idea, espousing his twisted ideology. The HN discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37532234, thus far fails to correctly identify Lonsdale for who he is, the danger he presents. Lonsdale's Cicero Institute cloaks itself as a solution to the issue of homelessness.
cont'd That solution includes the demonization of homelessness and the involuntary (for-profit) incarceration and treatment. Billionaires profiting from human misery; poverty industrial complex. Vancouver, B.C. Canada billionaire (who behind the scenes funds elections of far-right political candidates here and Alberta - e.g. Take Back Alberta far-right group) has the Pacific Prosperity Network. ...
cont'd 2/ PPN funded the anti-addition, anti-homeless "Vancouver Is Dying" propaganda - used to elect a political neophyte mayor of Vancouver; used by TBA in recent Alberta election. Back to Lonsdale: model acts (carbon copy legislation distributed to U.S. legislatures to enact neoconservative agendae) are a bane of U.S. politics. Like ALEC/others, the Cicero Institute churns out model acts including this gem: Reducing Street Homelessness Act https://invisiblepeople.tv/private-prisons-for-homeless-criminalization https://persagen.com/docs/cicero_institute.html
cont'd 3/ https://persagen.com >> seach: "cicero institute" OR "joe lonsdale" "Reducing Street Homelessness Act" "chip wilson" OR "pacific prosperity network" "vancouver is dying" homeless* AND discriminat* ... See also: Billionaires, existential risk from https://mastodon.social/@persagen/111071729378344690 #JoeLonsdale #Musk #DefundBillionaires #homelessness #CiceroInstitute #corporations #DefundCorporations #neofascism #ModelActs #ModelLegislatin #discrimination #GOP #GOPmenace #capitalism #socialism #PublicHealth https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/076/189/898/521/962/original/54218d2af0dc9002.png
