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Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need
Here’s something for the white people among us: more efficient use of tax dollars.
«In the past 10 years, 270 million euros were spent on the construction, purchase and renovation of housing as part of the “Housing First” programme. However, Juha Kaakinen points out, this is far less than the cost of homelessness itself. Because when people are in emergency situations, emergencies are more frequent: Assaults, injuries, breakdowns. The police, health care and justice systems are more often called upon to step in – and this also costs money.
In comparison, “Housing First” is cheaper than accepting homelessness: Now, the state spends 15,000 euros less per year per homeless person than before.»
https://scoop.me/housing-first-finland-homelessness/#:~:text=In%20the%20past,person%20than%20before.
EV battery imports face scrutiny under US law on Chinese forced labor | Reuters
Ok, now it gets more real. Higher car prices or human rights?
Hang on, I’m thinking….
The GOP Is Over Its War On ‘Woke’ | HuffPost Latest News
Bad news for Florida Man
“After almost two years as a conservative rallying cry, Republicans may finally be over the war on woke.”
Washington State Votes To Kill Law That Restricted Community Broadband | Techdirt
“If entrenched broadband providers really wanted to thwart such options, they’d simply offer faster, cheaper service. Instead, they’ve found it **more cost effective to buy laws restricting the options**, even if local community members want to vote for it.”
Black Farmer’s Are Fighting to Be Saved As The Number of Black Owned Farms Grows Smaller
https://shoppeblack.us/black-farmers-fighting-to-be-saved/
“Oh, but, John, this article is two years old. Surely things are better now.”
Nope:
https://www.blackenterprise.com/black-farmers-federal-government/
Edit: wait, there’s more!
«the Reagan administration closed the U.S.D.A.‘s Office of Civil Rights. And so complaints were pouring in going back that far, but there was no office to process them.
Alexander Pires
“And I had heard a rumor from a couple of black farmers that there’s a room where they just stuff them all.”»
Food deserts in North Carolina
I was wondering where these “food deserts” actually are. My home state, with South Carolina as a bonus. Looks like the Black Belt to me. (Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi look similar.)
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-access-research-atlas/go-to-the-atlas.aspx#.UUDMojfNkS8
Law as code
Comment by JohnFen – https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37090710
I’ve actually always thought something like this:
«As a rough analogy that my lawyer told me early on, lawyers are like software engineers, and the law is like the operating system. A good lawyer writes robust “code” designed to deal with edge cases and unexpected conditions gracefully.»
Law as code, amenable to diffs and code review, and vulnerable to bugs.
Hello, blind spot, my old friend
«Experts on the way racialized thinking operates would read the same comments and see the fingerprints of racism all over them. In studying the same anti-Obama sentiment during the same period, psychologist Eric Knowles and his colleagues devised experiments to minimize the silencing impact of social desirability (that is, giving answers you know society wants you to give); to analyze based on implicit, not explicit, bias; and to control for other rationales such as ideology and partisanship. With all that stripped away, racial prejudice remained. They explained, “People may fail to report the influence of race on their judgments, not because such an influence is absent, but because they are unaware of it—and might not acknowledge it even if they were aware of it.”»
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Low-income voters are not voting against their own self-interest.
«Trump improved upon Mitt Romney’s margin with voters making under $30,000 a year by 16 points. But he still lost them—by 12 whole points.
The bulk of Trump’s support didn’t come from people who are most down on their luck. It came from people who are afraid they’re next.
…
So what did correspond with Trump support?
Racial resentment among white voters was particularly determinative.»
https://talkpoverty.org/2016/11/16/stop-blaming-low-income-voters-donald-trumps-victory/index.html
@tarheel 🔗 https://mstdn.io/users/tarheel/statuses/110826037160088717
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