Posted on 03/30/2007 8:55:36 AM PDT by CAWats
NEW YORK — Good behavior at school, regular trips to the doctor and job training all have long-term rewards — but soon city officials will be offering some residents a more immediate payoff for such accomplishments: cash.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced Thursday the details of a plan to pay some poor families up to $5,000 a year for making healthy choices. All but $8 million of the $50 million in private funds proposed for the program, which is set to start in September, has been raised, city officials said.
Similar efforts have seen successful in countries including Brazil and Mexico, where there has been widespread praise for World Bank-supported programs that give financial rewards to parents for sending their children to school and regular doctors' visits.
In New York, few school absences and regular doctor and dentist visits will earn the rewards, which are known as conditional cash transfers. Also on the list: behaving properly at school, scoring well on standardized tests, maintaining adequate health coverage and combining work with job training.
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We need to behave more like a third-world country. Yeah, that's the ticket ...
Will this program run in perpetuity? How could it be discontinued without causing riots?
Let the lawsuits commence!
This will be a nightmare.
This program sounds like a graft magnet. For example: school principals will verify that students had perfect attendance in exchange for 30% of the payment. What a mistake.
Have you ever known a welfare program to end?
It won't be discontinued. When the private money runs out, it will become an entitlement paid for by increased taxes.
Just for starters, how will it be verified that people are taking their kids to drs and dentist? What a nightmare of redtape! And that's excluding ever other documentation that will be involved.
No rhetorical question goes unpunished!
Thank you, Ma'am, may I have another?!
Heh heh heh...
Checked the constitution looking for the right of the government to stick its hand in the pockets of citizens to reward lifestyle choices; couldn't find it. Anyone? Maybe it's in the constituion of New York state...
They're giving them money for buying TV dinners?
If this money is available, everyone will demand it as an entitlement. If they don't get it, the lawyers will have a field day. What a stupid idea.
New York City to Reward Poor for Doing Right Thing : From the New York Slimes
MIKE'S MILLIONS TO BE 'REWARD' $$ FOR POOR: From the New York Post
In fairness to King Bloomberg, this is not using taxpayer money (yet). Just freelance paternalism for the stupid sheeple who can't help themselves.
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