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"This seems like another argument for Basic Income."

I stopped reading there.

The reason black youths have high unemployment rates is their (typically unwed) mothers already live off a combination of section 8 housing, food stamps, medicaid, other govt. programs and whatever they can get under the table to keep their reportable income low.

This produces an environment where one can not thrive - black children do not learn the value of work nor understand how society and the rest of the world works. More of this would make it worse. Social programing is problem. Why create more of it?

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> The reason black youths have high unemployment rates is their (typically unwed) mothers already live off a combination of section 8 housing, food stamps, medicaid, other govt. programs and whatever they can get under the table to keep their reportable income low.

Got a source, there, David Duke? FYI low-income/poor black youth ≠ all black youth.

Not all, I didn't say all.

The source is my current home in Georgia and my wife's experience as a HS teacher.

Having lived in Georgia, I want to say acouple things. First you need to know that your beliefs and the beliefs of your wife are the reason that jobs that actually pay well will never come to Georgia. You can't educate what amounts to 30% of your population give or take if you think they are morally bankrupt. There is a reason corps move jobs to georgia when they want to pay less.

Having gone to school in the south I will tell you that it is a really strange place. There was an expectation that as black person you would be stupid. Most of the black people I knew played along. I don't really get it.

"First you need to know that your beliefs and the beliefs of your wife are the reason that jobs that actually pay well will never come to Georgia."

How do you claim know what we believe??? Our experience does not mean we believe, or endorse the current status quo of the situation on the ground. But it really is the situation here. A lot of black youth in single parent welfare section 8 households with little hope for the future. From seeing it first hand, I don't believe basic income via the government is the answer.

So you have no source for your claim about the mothers of black youth being "typically unwed." What you are doing, then, is what we refer to in the common vernacular as "talking out of your ass."

White people smell like hotdogs and never take baths. Source: I live in Vermont and my husband works at a car dealership.

^this is how stupid you sound.

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