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New York promises to pay people an additional $365 a week on the condition that they remain unemployed. As opposed to offering a universal basic income that has no such condition, that continually shows increases in employment as a result.
The maximum unemployment check will increase from $504 to $869 per week, the state’s first rise in payouts since 2019.
Unemployed New Yorkers Get Benefit Boost
After years stuck at $504 per week, the maximum unemployment insurance payout set to hit $869 on Oct. 13 — helping more than half of those currently on the rolls.
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October 10, 2025 at 2:01 PM
New York promises to pay people an additional $365 a week on the condition that they remain unemployed. As opposed to offering a universal basic income that has no such condition, that continually shows increases in employment as a result.
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2 studies of the Rx Kids program are out today—one about the moms and one about the kids. Here's what happened when $1500 was given to ALL pregnant moms in Flint and also $500/mo for a year after birth:
Flint saved $6.2M in NICU expenses due to fewer premature births
Postpartum depression fell 14%
Flint saved $6.2M in NICU expenses due to fewer premature births
Postpartum depression fell 14%
The US town that pays every pregnant woman $1,500: ‘We’re not OK with our babies being born into poverty’
Infants in Rx Kids in Flint, Michigan, saw lower rates of prematurity and other issues, saving millions in NICU visits
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September 15, 2025 at 5:52 PM
2 studies of the Rx Kids program are out today—one about the moms and one about the kids. Here's what happened when $1500 was given to ALL pregnant moms in Flint and also $500/mo for a year after birth:
Flint saved $6.2M in NICU expenses due to fewer premature births
Postpartum depression fell 14%
Flint saved $6.2M in NICU expenses due to fewer premature births
Postpartum depression fell 14%
why do we have to listen to trumps tariffs why can't we just give him a fake paper with big numbers he likes on it and just ignore the tariffs in the real world
May 20, 2025 at 7:59 PM
why do we have to listen to trumps tariffs why can't we just give him a fake paper with big numbers he likes on it and just ignore the tariffs in the real world
GOD DAMN IT I CAN'T GO ANYWHERE WITHOUT SOME FUCKING IDIOT SMOKING NEAR ME EVERYONE WHO SMOKES IN PUBLIC AT THE ENTRANCE OF PLACES OR GAS PUMPS OR ANYWHERE ELSE SHOULD BE JAILED
May 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
GOD DAMN IT I CAN'T GO ANYWHERE WITHOUT SOME FUCKING IDIOT SMOKING NEAR ME EVERYONE WHO SMOKES IN PUBLIC AT THE ENTRANCE OF PLACES OR GAS PUMPS OR ANYWHERE ELSE SHOULD BE JAILED
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We live in a country where about half the population thinks the other half must be FORCED TO WORK with the threat of starvation and homelessness. After universal basic income is achieved, we will live in a country where each of us knows that none need to be forced and that we all WANT TO CONTRIBUTE.
April 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
We live in a country where about half the population thinks the other half must be FORCED TO WORK with the threat of starvation and homelessness. After universal basic income is achieved, we will live in a country where each of us knows that none need to be forced and that we all WANT TO CONTRIBUTE.
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Yes!
April 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Yes!
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If you take seriously the idea that we need to have zero trade deficit with every country, we better get to helping massively develop every poor country until they’re rich enough to afford our high value manufactured goods. Sounds like a job for USAID.
April 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
If you take seriously the idea that we need to have zero trade deficit with every country, we better get to helping massively develop every poor country until they’re rich enough to afford our high value manufactured goods. Sounds like a job for USAID.
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Will there be EVEN ONE arrest for all the "fraud" that Elon Musk has found?
March 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Will there be EVEN ONE arrest for all the "fraud" that Elon Musk has found?
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Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
March 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
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Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
March 14, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
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A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
March 14, 2025 at 2:52 AM
A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
Do not let anyone play games with you.
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Musk is unilaterally wrecking the government from within and lining his own pockets. Get him out, terminate his access to all government systems. If you can't rally the public against a cartoonishly corrupt bond villain who's stealing from them in plain sight then get out of politics
Senate Democrats met privately today for lunch to discuss strategy. They widely disapprove of the six-month bill that House Republicans passed, but they remain jittery about a government shutdown if it fails. With Rand Paul a NO, the bill needs at least 8 Dems to pass the Senate. Jury's still out.
March 12, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Musk is unilaterally wrecking the government from within and lining his own pockets. Get him out, terminate his access to all government systems. If you can't rally the public against a cartoonishly corrupt bond villain who's stealing from them in plain sight then get out of politics
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I know this is going to sound naive or earnest, but I genuinely find myself shocked by how little people seem to be upset by the levels of corruption we're seeing. Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already? Or isn't actually getting stories about the corruption?
March 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I know this is going to sound naive or earnest, but I genuinely find myself shocked by how little people seem to be upset by the levels of corruption we're seeing. Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already? Or isn't actually getting stories about the corruption?
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The funniest thing about all this is Joe Biden built a "bring back US manufacturing" button and Trump could have just kept pressing it but instead he insisted on smashing the "crash the stock market" button
March 11, 2025 at 10:38 PM
The funniest thing about all this is Joe Biden built a "bring back US manufacturing" button and Trump could have just kept pressing it but instead he insisted on smashing the "crash the stock market" button
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100%. Do not enable all of this. A short term government shutdown is nothing compared to illegal systematic government shutdown via DOGE
@tommalinowski.bsky.social is completely correct here. If Democrats provide the decisive votes to sanction Trump’s criminal government, it’ll be a historic failure of both principle and politics. newrepublic.com/article/1925...
March 11, 2025 at 3:17 PM
100%. Do not enable all of this. A short term government shutdown is nothing compared to illegal systematic government shutdown via DOGE
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It’s awesome that we have a car dealer president now.
March 11, 2025 at 8:51 PM
It’s awesome that we have a car dealer president now.
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Still not good that 4 members of the Supreme Court agreed with a clearly unconstitutional executive action. Won't be good either when 47 ignores it and his loyalist Congress does nothing.
The US Supreme Court has denied Trump‘s bid to cancel nearly $2 billion in USAID spending. The vote is 5-4. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
www.supremecourt.gov
March 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Still not good that 4 members of the Supreme Court agreed with a clearly unconstitutional executive action. Won't be good either when 47 ignores it and his loyalist Congress does nothing.
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Love to say you’re running government like a business and then immediately gut the accounts receivable team
BREAKING: The IRS is drafting plans to cut as much as half of its 90,000-person workforce, AP sources say.
The IRS is drafting plans to cut as much as half of its 90,000-person workforce, AP sources say
The IRS is drafting plans to try to cut its workforce of roughly 90,000 people in half through a mix of layoffs, attrition and incentivized buyouts, according to two people familiar with the situation...
apnews.com
March 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Love to say you’re running government like a business and then immediately gut the accounts receivable team
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I hate it here!
SCOTUS holds that the EPA *cannot* order cities to maintain acceptable water quality standards by limiting the discharge—usually sewage—that they dump into nearby bodies of water (like oceans and bays). The four women justices, dissenting, say that's ridiculous. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
March 4, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I hate it here!
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I’m not really surprised by anything the admin has done, but I expected the vibes to be closer to “private equity stripping a company down for parts” rather than “meth head stripping the walls for scrap metal”
March 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
I’m not really surprised by anything the admin has done, but I expected the vibes to be closer to “private equity stripping a company down for parts” rather than “meth head stripping the walls for scrap metal”
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You know things are going poorly when people in the ponzi scheme industry are like, "woah woah woah, seems a little scammy"
March 4, 2025 at 2:15 AM
You know things are going poorly when people in the ponzi scheme industry are like, "woah woah woah, seems a little scammy"