COVID19 Food / Health / Job insecurity solutions

[vertical_doug]

May 6, 1935 was when Roosevelt signed WPA.

The first New Deal, was 1933 and supported by the business community. You can see it had a short term impact, but long term, it failed.

The second New Deal in 1935 which included social security, WPA and others, more directly benefitted working Joe's. You can see it had a more sustained impact.

I think our current stimulus is actually like the rebound in early 1930. The million dollar question is whether this is enough to prevent the secular decline you saw once the optimism faded.

(The problem with memories is time scales get compressed. We have just entered this recession, the question is whether everything you did over a 5-6 yr period in the 1930's needs to be done in 6 mo.)

[caleb]

In the Times today, from the president of the National Wildlife Federation:Opinion | The Pandemic Has Created a Youth Unemployment Crisis. We Can Fix It. - The New York Times

To maximize these benefits, three lessons from the C.C.C. should guide our recovery today.

First, all communities must benefit, including youth of color and Indigenous young people. Second, states, local governments and tribes must be full partners. Third, high-quality educational opportunities and apprenticeships must be included to ensure that the program’s participants are fully prepared for private-sector employment opportunities.

How much would all this cost? That depends on the scope of our ambitions. But clearly, there is plenty of work to be done and too many young people without jobs or prospects who are available to do it.

We can prevent a youth unemployment crisis from hobbling the next generation, strengthen local economies and bolster community resilience, but we must act now to put millions of young people to work restoring America’s natural treasures.

[j44ke]

Our local flower farm and florist had its entire wedding season cancelled due to covid19, resulting in thousands of tulips scheduled to come out of the fields sequentially and no place for them to go. So they leveraged their Instagram account (and other more localized forms of communication) to offer tulips as a weekly subscription and sold out the enter season! We bought a share and it is kind of a great thing, getting flowers on a weekly basis. And after all this, they are going to continue with the weekly flower package, so we'll probably buy in to that when it happens. Nice making something out of nothing, plus acclimating people to the idea of fresh flowers on a weekly basis - building for the future!

Tiny Hearts Farm – Organically Grown Flowers in the Hudson Valley



BTW their dahlias are amazing. And they are selling their extra tubers. Just saying.

[bigbill]

Thread dredge, the construction industry including roads and bridges, for the most part, stayed at work. Construction is why I kept going to work throughout all this. Infrastructure wouldn't necessarily be about the workforce, it would be about funding and the will to invest in something with a really long ROI.

If I were King, I'd invest in high speed rail, especially out west where the population is more sparse and cities are further apart. A stop here could put me in Anaheim in 90 minutes. I would also build more railroads by widening right of ways to add additional track to ship more containers to get trucks off the road on the major east-west interstates. I'm in Kingman, AZ which is on the old Rt66 and a major rail route. There is a constant stream of trains through here. Each train represents about 200 trucks not on I-40. I would build an electrical grid backbone with high voltage transmission lines to allow for renewables to power more of the nation. Then I'd build a bunch of nuclear plants, but that's just me, I'm not afraid of it.

[Too Tall]

Let's make Bill King. At the least he has stellar taste in bicycles and allen wrenches. Win win yeah?

[Matthew Strongin]

This is pretty cool. Community Refrigerators. The GoFundMe for one of them blew past their goal. Glad to see them getting broad support around here.

https://www.miamiherald.com/miami-co...245028015.html

[thollandpe]

September is Hunger Action Month. #hungeractionmonth

To my fellow Massholes (actual and in spirit), the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts has been in operation for 38 years, and never in that history has there been an increase in distributions as has occurred this spring. The number of food-insecure residents* is up 47% and food distributions are up 24%. They’re getting slammed.

* Translation: “food-insecure residents” means people who can’t afford to eat. Because rent eats first in too many households.

Usually this time of year I do a fundraiser bike-a-thon with coworkers and we compete for the top fundraising team. Usually we’re beaten by a group of doctors (insert Pinarello joke), which includes my cardiologist and I then have to endure his taunting. Unfortunately this year there will be no event, but we will do our damndest to support the Food Bank. And actually get out and ride.

Sign up here: https://www.bikereg.com/willbike4food

Or consider donating here: Will Bike 4 Food

Or here if you’d consider supporting my team’s effort: Will Bike 4 Food - Team Tighe & Bond

[JoB]

For the record, i donated primarily because of the cardiologist :-)

but seriously, took 3 min, $25 and now i feel better about myself. Can't beat it.

September is Hunger Action Month. #hungeractionmonth

To my fellow Massholes (actual and in spirit), the Food Bank of Western Massachusetts has been in operation for 38 years, and never in that history has there been an increase in distributions as has occurred this spring. The number of food-insecure residents* is up 47% and food distributions are up 24%. They’re getting slammed.

* Translation: “food-insecure residents” means people who can’t afford to eat. Because rent eats first in too many households.

Usually this time of year I do a fundraiser bike-a-thon with coworkers and we compete for the top fundraising team. Usually we’re beaten by a group of doctors (insert Pinarello joke), which includes my cardiologist and I then have to endure his taunting. Unfortunately this year there will be no event, but we will do our damndest to support the Food Bank. And actually get out and ride.

Sign up here: https://www.bikereg.com/willbike4food

Or consider donating here: Will Bike 4 Food

Or here if you’d consider supporting my team’s effort: Will Bike 4 Food - Team Tighe & Bond

[thollandpe]

For the record, i donated primarily because of the cardiologist :-)

but seriously, took 3 min, $25 and now i feel better about myself. Can't beat it.

You rock Jay-oh-Bee, thanks!

My damn heart doc is already on his way to $2000, https://www.pledgereg.com/3447/JamesKirchhoffer

And I'm just pulling on my socks, https://www.pledgereg.com/269194

Also, to be fair, he had neck fusion surgery last year and doesn't ride a Pinarello. Until they make a recumbent.

[JoB]

oh crap - i realized i just donated to the food pantry directly and not via your link. SORRY! (I did reference this thread so maybe the can credit you :-)