surfallday
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Comment · 6 years ago
Comment · 6 years ago
>>who I thought were exceptionally intelligent
what made you think that?
Comment · 6 years ago
great point to balance out the hype! This should be mentioned by article authors! I appreciate that comment.
Comment · 6 years ago
>>It would be useful if he could find out where that money went and why isn't it being used to provide scholarships and training to disadvantaged students.
100%
Comment · 7 years ago
I am extremely skeptical of the 35% number.
>>Less than half of the homeless population neither has an addiction nor a mental illness.
Above quote implies close to half. I just find it hard to believe.
If a person is otherwise "functional" (or as you say "like you") I would really want to know more about their situation if their time on the street is longer than one month.
For contrast id like to point out that in the cases of migrant caravans comprised of THOUSANDS (https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/10/20/migrant...) of people and families. Caravan migrants are so poor they cant afford a bus/train ticket. As far as i know most of those people do not WALK to the US to sleep on the streets. As far as i know they are able to find housing.
Just to recap people with almost no education/English/money and minimal social network DO NOT endup on the streets of major cities in their thousands.
I make a point of this - because for this problem to get resolved we have to think critically about what the problem actually is.
And to be super clear - we absolutely need a better safety net for people who fell on hard times and could no longer keep their previously expensive home.
But also we need to be clear about the causes of homelessness we see in major US cities.
Comment · 7 years ago
>>"You aren't, for instance, going to get a homeless person who doesn't do drugs"
what does that even mean (like they only abuse alcohol?)?
There are not thousands but 10s of thousands of discarded needles being cleaned up monthly and weekly (https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2019/09/04/the-city-picks-...)
>> Feels like an inherently biased sort of investigation.
this is a weird call out.
What is the proposed alternative here?
Comment · 7 years ago
>>The author presumably has no problem with the wealthy doing drugs
1. Probably true and 2. Probably because "the wealthy" doing drugs generally does not result in outbreaks of typhus and typhoid fever; and MASSIVE rat infestations like we see in LA.
“The country has been so traditional in the persistence of the idea that women did not belong in the work force,” Ms. Michel said, “but the idea that poor women, especially black women, should work has persisted.”
https://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a27496656/3-wom...