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Poverty

Hydra

(14,459 posts)

5. Ya, past time we did this

Reply to Erich Bloodaxe BSN (Reply #1)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 09:45 AM

Sep 2015

If we aren't going to make 100% employment and fair wages a priority, we need to provide a minimum income to everyone and stop shaming the people who lose out on our version of musical chairs.

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“I’m on welfare and so ashamed …” [View all] unhappycamper Sep 2015 OP

We need the true dignity of a universal stipend. Erich Bloodaxe BSN Sep 2015 #1

Ya, past time we did this Hydra Sep 2015 #5

In a country where it has become Unacceptable to be unexceptional I can't imagine the anguish. n/t orpupilofnature57 Sep 2015 #2

Well that is because our society lives in a "in America, yeoman6987 Sep 2015 #3

Well Put . orpupilofnature57 Sep 2015 #8

Recommend.... KoKo Sep 2015 #4

K & R historylovr Sep 2015 #6

So it seems if you are getting any of these scraps, meager portions that keep one desperate, hungry, jtuck004 Sep 2015 #7

oh fer fuck's sake De Leonist Sep 2015 #9