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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
IIRC, one of the homeless on Reddit received help from a social program and is now doing a graduate degree in science.
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Exactly, which is why I think something like a guaranteed income would be better than a huge jumble of social assistance programs with different rules, regulation, and hoops to jump through. That person posted in the same thread I linked and is one of the lucky ones. How many more are there who weren't as lucky, who might have been saved with a basic income program?
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I was approved for Social Security Disability. Within six months, I was living indoors, and enrolled in community college with a 4.0 taking 19 credit hours. I'm currently finishing my graduate degree (science).
Could never have escaped the streets without SSD. There's just way too much bull#### that thwarted my best efforts. Despite years of hard work and continuously trying, there were too many setbacks, #######s, and fiery hoops to jump though.
I would have died under a bridge if I hadn't gotten SSD.
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