I was intrigued when I saw this article on a city that had eliminated poverty. I was disappointed when I saw that the city was Dauphin, Manitoba.
Conspicuously absent from the article was any discussion of the demographics of Dauphin. Fortunately, Wikipedia provides a ballpark figure. Dauphin is about 80% white and most of the remaining 20% are aboriginals, or as we south of the border would put it, Native Americans.
The only speculation I would make about this is something I’ve mentioned here from time to time: it’s a lot easier to muster political support for something when the population is extremely homogeneous. Or even homogenous. You know, like milk.
What I’d like to see is a city in New York that had eliminated poverty. Or Illinois.
Also, I’m guessing that when they implemented their policy, they didn’t see a big influx in population. Being a rural community in Manitoba will do that.
Interstate migration was something that I thought would be a problem with a state-by-state approach. As I recall, Wisconsin’s welfare reforms from the early 90s were sold as a way to keep poor Illinoisans from coming to Wisconsin. I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of policies in neighboring states are premised on making sure that benefits are not ever attractive enough to bring people to the state.
I still call ’em Injuns, unless it’s Sunday, then they’re Redskins.
I say they should import the population of Pine Hills and see if it continues to work.
Oh, Christ, never mind. Pine Hills has seven or eight times their population, not to mention at least five more significant kinds of ethnicity.
I found it unsurprising that they didn’t mention Nixon at all, or that at least one of the consumption tax proposals includes an idea that isn’t that far removed from MINCOME.
Well, yeah, that’s another thing. Hereabouts that wouldn’t even be considered a good-sized village let alone a city.
“You know, like milk.”
I laughed pretty hard there, thanks.
No, Dauphin is not homogenous. It may be homogeneous. As dictionary.com says, homogenize is a
verb (used with object), homogenized, homogenizing.
to form by blending unlike elements; make homogeneous.
You need to “quickly peruse” a dictionary, preferably the American Heritage, the only one that even pretends to correct lousy grammar.