2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: It's Time to Look in the Mirror, Bernie: Sanders Needs to be Criticized for his Failed Theories [View all]bravenak
(34,648 posts)Which means all jobs will require background checks and drug tests. Our felons are nearly unemployable as it is, with such a high minimum it will be that much harder to get a foot in the door. And looking a black incarceration rates, many of the rejected will be black. Unless we get programs to hire felons and train them for free at tech schools or inside the prison as a rehabilitation element, we will fail the least among us. Imagine how hard it would be for the undocumented to get a job if every job require a background check or finger printing? Might make it difficult to live.
We have to hav a wholistic approach and think of thing that may cause a butterfly effect o unentended consequences.
Would I like a program that trains felons and helps them find jobs? Yes. I also think child support should offer job training and placement for absentee parents. I am way to the left of both candidates so I try to think of how to help the ones eberybody feel safe ignoring.
Trade school should be free. Works projects are sorely needed. We need to used the public and private sector to get it done. Tax credits shoukd go to those willing to hire at 15 dollars an hour in a non discriminitory way, help transition people into the wirkforce and help them gain skills, pay them well, get a nice tax reduction. Then they can stop tax aviodance and still help the community.
We need more public housing in nice easy to access locations, designed to build a community atmosphere. We need to zone it in our city plans and enforce it. More daycare subsidation.
This is why I chose Hillary. She thinks about all of it.