Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Hilary Cottam: Social services are broken. How we can fix them

"Well, the first thing I learned is that cost is a really slippery concept. Because when the government says that a family like Ella's costs a quarter of a million pounds a year to manage, what it really means is that this system costs a quarter of a million pounds a year. Because not one penny of this money actually touches Ella's family in a way that makes a difference. Instead, the system is just like this costly gyroscope that spins around the families, keeping them stuck at its heart, exactly where they are."

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Great instructive performance! I really liked! I completely agree that now social services are not as high quality as before.
According to the index of economic inequality, the USA is in the last place among the developed countries (OECD) and in the overall standings “overtaken” such countries as Senegal, Burundi and Niger. Example: the average salary of a school teacher is 58K, the average salary of a programmer is almost twice as much. This is not normal, because the average school teacher creates a more valuable “product” than the average coder. Both the bus driver, and the school teacher, and the coder should receive a normal salary.
In the US, there are no social guarantees at the federal level (exception: social security, covers only retirement and disability)
What to do? One option is to live in more "social" states. For example, in MA, unemployment benefit for an average IT professional will be about $ 800 per week with no children (with more children). Free or subsidized medical insurance is also available.. Another option is to pay for all of the savings.
good one post
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Since its inception, the Internet has become a powerful organizing tool in the social sphere, practically independent of the state. The original means of mass communication were: E-mail. Emerging the very first, this form of messaging has demonstrated the very possibility of almost instant communication via computer networks. Architecturally designed to exchange messages between two subscribers, it allowed the exchange of information to groups of people. Such modifications are groups or mailing lists. Newsgroups or newsgroups. Teleconferences have become the next stage in the development of communication systems. Their features were, firstly, the storage of messages and providing interested persons with access to the entire exchange history, and secondly, various ways of thematic grouping of messages.

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