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In the US, many states put homelessness people on buses to western states like California. They don’t want to deal with them in their own states and then compla
by IOT_Apprentice 3y ago
In the US, many states put homelessness people on buses to western states like California. They don’t want to deal with them in their own states and then complain about how NY and especially California have dirty streets and homeless problems. The cognitive ignorance is amazing.
The US has many institutional problems in sectors that impact life. No nationalized healthcare, very short training of police officers with no federal standards & longer programs as they have in the EU or other industrialized nations.
We have a prison industrial complex where we imprison more people than ANY other country.
And we now have a fully broken political system. Between Citizens United unleashing unlimited dark money & a 2 party system where it is more important NOT to do anything involving improving things other than tax cuts for our wealthiest.
Homelessness due to unemployment, bankruptcy, medical bankruptcy or mental/psychological issues are obvious results.
There is tremendous room for improvement across all areas, but there is too much institutional & corporate influence in maintaining the status quo.
- seanmcdirmid 3y agoA lot of states/charities will give people open tickets so they can get “home” but they don’t verify that it’s really their home, so it’s just used to go where they want, which is often the west coast during winter or really any time. The bus is also cheap enough that you can scrounge up some money for a ticket in a few days. Vancouver is a mirror of Seattle in its homeless problem, the Canadians handle it better, but the underlying issues are very similar, so it’s not like the USA is fairly special in this regard.