Dragonlady
Designing Woman
An employer shouldn't have to pay for his or her education. The employer and employee both benefit from the job, and the employee benefits for their educational investment.
I agree whole heartedly, but that's not how American companies work. It's all about the bottom line. People don't stay with the same companies forever, like our parents did, so corporations now take the view that they're giving you an education so you can move up and out of the company.
There is no evidence of poor people doing better if you give them less
There is considerable evidence that poor people do much better with more money. That $500 a month pilot program in Oakland found that after one year the families given the extra help were more financially stable, and less stressed than when the program started.
A much higher percentage of this group had found full-time work, than those who didn't receive the additional help. Without the stress of making ends meet and putting food on the table, these people had more time and energy to focus on upgrading skills, and finding work.
The USA has some of the highest rates of poverty, in the first world, and is #2 in the first world in elder poverty. In the richest nation in the world. I just about choked on my dinner when Joe Biden said Medicare recipients would have their drug costs capped at $2000. Holy crap!!! My drugs costs are capped at $100 through OHIP. And if I have less than $22,000 per year in income, I can get that waived too.