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Absolutely. In fact, many welfare schemes are designed to encourage young people to stay in education rather than dropping out early to work. In any case: sinc
by DanI-S 13y ago
Absolutely. In fact, many welfare schemes are designed to encourage young people to stay in education rather than dropping out early to work.
In any case: since poor, unemployed young men commit crime, and we're never going to see 100% employment, lifting them out of poverty will reduce the impact of crime on everyone else. Intolerable for Ayn Rand; pragmatic for the rest of us.
- lmickh 13y agoPoverty rates have actually increased since the introduction of welfare and welfare reform in the US. Long term stability of your proposal aside (see the jump in Disability dependencies that followed the welfare reform), it doesn't match the data that shows a drop in crime over the same time period.
- spamizbad 13y agoHas it really? It dropped significantly in the 60s and 70s. Following that period, it tended to track economic trends (Poverty goes up during recession, comes back down during the good times) Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/07/11/poverty-in-the-50-years-since-the-other-america-in-five-charts/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/07/11/p...