"Research shows it costs taxpayers $31,065 a year to criminalize a single person experiencing homelessness while the yearly cost for providing supportive housing is $10,051."
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A Dutch supermarket chain introduced slow checkouts for people who enjoy chatting, helping many people, especially the elderly, deal with loneliness.
The move has proven so successful that they installed the slow checkouts in 200 stores.
This sounds just like the Texas deep freeze in February 2021 and the failures of fossil power plants in Ercot. These allegedly "firm" resources (gas, coal) proved to not be there when we needed them during winter cold snaps. That's unacceptable & dangerous.
periodic reminder that Fahrenheit 451 isn't about government censorship but a society so inundated with entertainment and technology that it's discarded the humanities voluntarily, in the process becoming cruel, bigoted and inhuman.
The 12 Republican-led states that refused to expand Medicaid accounted for 74% of all rural hospital closures between 2010 and 2021, an American Hospital Association report found last year.
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I, for one, am stunned to learn that the evidence-free claims of surging violent crime that powered Fox News’s coverage from late September until 11 pm on Nov. 8 were largely unfounded. https://t.co/oDy8iHZu3x
My flight is overbooked and they lady offered $700 for anyone who volunteered to fly out tomorrow.
So I yelled “it’s a scam - legally they owe you $1500 or 4x your ticket whichever is lowest!”
So EVERYONE waited till she said $1500 to stand up. Why am I like this?😂