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After 4 years of GOP whining and reality denial, it is someone else's turn. At least until midterms.
that is why I also support second chance employment and ban the box laws.
funny thing is that incarceration has proven less effective than treatment and the conditions in which the United States keeps our incarcerated population has been proven to be MUCH less effective than nations who treat them like humans and usually have lighter sentences at both keeping people from reoffending AND cutting down on the violence while they ARE incarcerated.
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People who are heathy do not commit crimes. Much of crime is behind either mental health issues, drug/alcohol addiction poverty ECT. The countries that address those while giving people soft skills in the process while treating people as people have much lower rates of re-offending. Likewise, in the states people who engage in problem solving courts whether it be drug court, mental health court or veteran's court have been shown to have a marked decrease in re-offending than people who go through the normal system. It has also been shown that once people do get out those who have a job, housing healthcare and a support system are MUCH less likely to re-offend than those who do not. You cannot punish addiction, mental health, poverty or even lack of life skills away.
I applaud you for being able to work while disabled, and I applaud your employer for making whatever modifications (if any) are necessary to accommodate you. Once again, a progressive law (now under attack by Republicans), the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, made America great. Let's not dismantle that greatness!
I do not work I am on SDISI ( would love to work) In fact, I wish SSDI and certainly SSI were set up differently as currently they scare people away from working. Here is the thing the people who are disabled, elderly ECT OK. If someone is eperenicing hardships loss of job whatever and needs help OK, however those people in the latter group need to show that they are working (improving their situation) to get off of assistance. Meanwhile, people on NEED based assistance meaning things like SNAP, SSI and mediciaid should expect whomever is providing them (the government in that case to have a say in what they are doing with those resourcesI applaud you for being able to work while disabled, and I applaud your employer for making whatever modifications (if any) are necessary to accommodate you. Once again, a progressive law (now under attack by Republicans), the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990, made America great. Let's not dismantle that greatness!
Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 - Wikipedia
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The statistics don't back up your claim, although your locality may be an anomaly.
| U.S. Unemployment Rates by Year | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Unemployment Rate (December) | Notable Factor or Event |
| 1929 | 3.2% | Market crash |
| 1930 | 8.7% | Smoot-Hawley |
| 1931 | 15.9% | Dust Bowl |
| 1932 | 23.6% | Hoover’s tax hikes |
| 1933 | 24.9% | FDR’s New Deal |
| 1934 | 21.7% | Depression eased |
| 1935 | 20.1% | N/A |
| 1936 | 16.9% | N/A |
| 1937 | 14.3% | Spending cuts |
| 1938 | 19.0% | FLSA started minimum wage |
| 1939 | 17.2% | Drought ended |
| 1940 | 14.6% | U.S. draft |
| 1941 | 9.9% | Pearl Harbor |
| 1942 | 4.7% | Defense spending tripled |
| 1943 | 1.9% | Germany surrendered at Stalingrad |
| 1944 | 1.2% | Bretton Woods |
| 1945 | 1.9% | World War II ended; minimum wage: 40 cents |
| 1946 | 3.9% | Employment Act |
| 1947 | 3.6% | Marshall Plan negotiated |
| 1948 | 4.0% | Truman reelected |
| 1949 | 6.6% | Fair Deal; NATO |
| 1950 | 4.3% | Korean War; minimum wage: 75 cents |
| 1951 | 3.1% | Expansion |
| 1952 | 2.7% | Expansion |
| 1953 | 4.5% | Korean War ended |
| 1954 | 5.0% | Dow returned to 1929 level |
| 1955 | 4.2% | Unemployment fell |
| 1956 | 4.2% | Minimum wage: $1 |
| 1957 | 5.2% | Recession |
| 1958 | 6.2% | N/A |
| 1959 | 5.3% | Expansion |
| 1960 | 6.6% | Recession |
| 1961 | 6.0% | JFK takes office; minimum wage: $1.15 |
| 1962 | 5.5% | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| 1963 | 5.5% | LBJ takes office; minimum wage: $1.25 |
| 1964 | 5.0% | Tax cut |
| 1965 | 4.0% | U.S. entered Vietnam War |
| 1966 | 3.8% | Expansion |
| 1967 | 3.8% | Minimum wage: $1.40 |
| 1968 | 3.4% | Minimum wage: $1.60 |
| 1969 | 3.5% | Nixon took office |
| 1970 | 6.1% | Recession |
| 1971 | 6.0% | Emergency Employment Act; wage-price controls |
| 1972 | 5.2% | Ongoing stagflation; Watergate |
| 1973 | 4.9% | CETA; gold standard; Vietnam War ended |
| 1974 | 7.2% | Nixon resigned; minimum wage: $2 |
| 1975 | 8.2% | Recession ended |
| 1976 | 7.8% | Expansion |
| 1977 | 6.4% | Carter took office |
| 1978 | 6.0% | Fed raised rate to 20% to stop inflation |
| 1979 | 6.0% | N/A |
| 1980 | 7.2% | Recession |
| 1981 | 8.5% | Reagan took office; Reagan tax cuts; minimum wage: $3.35 |
| 1982 | 10.8% | Job Training Partnership Act; Garn-St. Germain Act |
| 1983 | 8.3% | Reagan increased military spending |
| 1984 | 7.3% | N/A |
| 1985 | 7.0% | Expansion |
| 1986 | 6.6% | Tax cuts |
| 1987 | 5.7% | Black Monday |
| 1988 | 5.3% | Fed raised rates |
| 1989 | 5.4% | George H.W. Bush took office; reforms made to address S&L Crisis |
| 1990 | 6.3% | Recession |
| 1991 | 7.3% | Desert Storm; minimum wage: $4.25 |
| 1992 | 7.4% | NAFTA drafted |
| 1993 | 6.5% | Clinton took office; Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act |
| 1994 | 5.5% | School to Work Act |
| 1995 | 5.6% | Expansion |
| 1996 | 5.4% | Welfare reform |
| 1997 | 4.7% | Minimum wage: $5.85 |
| 1998 | 4.4% | LTCM crisis |
| 1999 | 4.0% | Euro; Serbian airstrike |
| 2000 | 3.9% | Nasdaq hit record high |
| 2001 | 5.7% | George W. Bush took office; Bush tax cuts; 9/11 attacks |
| 2002 | 6.0% | War on Terror |
| 2003 | 5.7% | JGTRRA |
| 2004 | 5.4% | Expansion |
| 2005 | 4.9% | Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention Act; Hurricane Katrina |
| 2006 | 4.4% | Expansion |
| 2007 | 5.0% | N/A |
| 2008 | 7.3% | Minimum wage: $6.55; financial crisis |
| 2009 | 9.9% | Obama took office; ARRA; minimum wage: $7.25; jobless benefits extended |
| 2010 | 9.3% | Obama tax cuts |
| 2011 | 8.5% | 26 months of job losses by July; debt ceiling crisis; Iraq War ended |
| 2012 | 7.9% | QE; 10-year rate at 200-year low; fiscal cliff |
| 2013 | 6.7% | Stocks up 30% |
| 2014 | 5.6% | Unemployment at 2007 levels |
| 2015 | 5.0% | Natural rate |
| 2016 | 4.7% | Presidential race |
| 2017 | 4.1% | Trump took office; dollar weakened |
| 2018 | 3.9% | Trump tax cuts |
| 2019 | 3.6% | Goldilocks economy |
| 2020 | 6.7% | Pandemic and recession |
| 2021 | 3.9% | Pandemic and recovery; Biden took office |
| 2022 | 3.5% | Continued recovery; Fed raised rates to fight inflation |
| 2023 | 3.7% | Falling inflation |
Please note that I never used the word "lazy," which you have in quotes, implying you are quoting me as saying that. I did say that many people enter a phase of hopelessness. I think the progress that can be seen may have involved factors other than the welfare state.Saved by Grace, in every economic indicator other than net worth, African-Americans have made great strides since the 1960's. 24% now go to college v.s. 4%. Black unemployment is now much lower, 5.5%. In 1966 almost 45% of blacks lived in poverty; now it is between 15 and 20%.
Black net worth has increased, but the disparity has grown.
Black representation in politics has soared.
George Floyd: How far have African Americans come since the 1960s?
How much progress have black people in the US made towards equality since the 1960s?
I guess all that opportunity you said made them "lazy" actually made 6X as many go to college and created gainful employment for 40% more. Thank you, LBJ.
