Do not confuse welfare with Universal Basic Income. If you get $1k in welfare does it make sense to take a $1k job, lose your welfare and end up with the same $1k? No.
If you get $1k UBI, does it make sense to take a $1k job and end up with $2k? Yes.
This is why so many pilots show increases in work.
@scottsantens Welfare that cuts off as soon as you have other income always seemed to me like it was clearly designed to trap people.
That being one of the frequent criticisms against government aid, you'd think they would have designed it not to do that.
...or, more cynically, they made sure that was in there, so they could always attack it on that basis.
(...which, in the light of recent House shenanigans about The Border Crisis™, seems entirely on-brand.)
@woozle @scottsantens In a smart system (…I know :/) it’d function on different tiers instead of getting cut off at a certain point, and the tiers wouldn’t be larger than one can afford to lose.
And not just income, as unmarried disabled people find, which is especially cruel.
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