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WWWP · 02-07-2019, 02:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Dharma & Greg

Wait, what exactly do you do? My OH cynicism senses are tingling at the idea of getting po' people off welfare with a non-profit organization. I'm assuming you don't just pay their bills so what exactly is it that you're doing and how will it build to anything useful?

Like any nonprofit our agency gets funding through the state, county, and grants for a variety of specific purposes - California's "Value in Preschool" program, for example. We can pay a percentage of childcare costs with those funds, and my agency runs a dozen "model" preschools throughout the county.

The backing philosophy is that investing in children now creates empowered adults later.

We also have a lot of persuasion on the legislative level.

OccultHawk · 02-07-2019, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by WWWP

I work for a nonprofit connecting local low-income/homeless/at-risk families with community resources and childcare subsidies. I'm in the business of helping families get off government aid and become self sustainable. I started at the end of January, so I'm still new, but the more I learn about the depth of our agency the more I love it here.

Dude. Like that’s no **** right wing code for we undercut what little welfare there is. Meet this criteria lose your food stamps. You are now empowered. You’re welcome. Adios.

OccultHawk · 02-07-2019, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by WWWP

Like any nonprofit our agency gets funding through the state, county, and grants for a variety of specific purposes - California's "Value in Preschool" program, for example. We can pay a percentage of childcare costs with those funds, and my agency runs a dozen "model" preschools throughout the county.

The backing philosophy is that investing in children now creates empowered adults later.

We also have a lot of persuasion on the legislative level.

Go ask the real social workers if you’re the good guy.

**Marie Monday** · 02-07-2019, 03:11 PM

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Originally Posted by WWWP

Like any nonprofit our agency gets funding through the state, county, and grants for a variety of specific purposes - California's "Value in Preschool" program, for example. We can pay a percentage of childcare costs with those funds, and my agency runs a dozen "model" preschools throughout the county.

The backing philosophy is that investing in children now creates empowered adults later.

We also have a lot of persuasion on the legislative level.

Cool. It might be heavy work but at least you know that you're helping people. That sounds like a beautiful concrete result. I mean, the result of my day was this graph in which I made the dots go towards the straight line. Yay

OccultHawk · 02-07-2019, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by MariaExpressesHerself

Cool. It might be heavy work but at least you know that you're helping people. That sounds like a beautiful concrete result. I mean, the result of my day was this graph in which I made the dots go towards the straight line. Yay

Because losing your government aid is helpful af

**Marie Monday** · 02-07-2019, 03:15 PM

^It is if you've really become able to sustain yourself I guess. Maybe I'm naive

OccultHawk · 02-07-2019, 03:16 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

*thumbs up*

Are you going to tell me you don’t know enough to be able to sniff out the bull**** in that rhetoric? Go work in social services and get back to me.

OccultHawk · 02-07-2019, 03:19 PM

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Originally Posted by MariaExpressesHerself

^It is if you've really become able to sustain yourself I guess. Maybe I'm naive

Lose your aid and then try to get back on when **** goes tits up and you’ll find out. The whole thing is about establishing reasons to force you into pointless menial labor.

The Batlord · 02-07-2019, 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by OccultHawk

Dude. Like that’s no **** right wing code for we undercut what little welfare there is. Meet this criteria lose your food stamps. You are now empowered. You’re welcome. Adios.

Yeah that's what I'm thinking, like, where is this money coming from that's saving you from government aid? No matter how you word things you still need all those dollars you're getting from the government to pay for **** unless a third party is just giving you money out of a bottomless well.

OccultHawk · 02-07-2019, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by elphenor

sounds like she helps toddlers?

quality pre-k means better development

I don't think she's kicking people off welfare, mate

sounds like they can lobby the gov for money because they can say in the long term this will save you money

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I'm in the business of helping families get off government aid and become self sustainable.

If you ain’t hearing that you’re ****ing deaf.

And seriously? WTF do you know about Pre-K and how it’s funded and who profits off that ****?