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This podcast episode illustrates how work requirements work in practice:

They often trap people in low quality, low-wage jobs — and enrich temp agencies along the way

Thank you @marketplace.org Krissy Clark for telling this story so well

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Chapter 6: The Welfare to Temp Work Pipeline
Podcast Episode · The Uncertain Hour · S6 E6 · 55m
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May 23, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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jazzreads.bsky.social
My love of reading is strongly link to this man…
May 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.
"WE'VE ARRANGED A society based on science and technology, in which nobody understands anything about science technology. And this combustible mixture of ignorance and power, sooner or later, is going to blow up in our faces. Who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it?" "Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking. A way of skeptically interrogating the universe with a fine understanding of human fallibility. If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan, political or religious, who comes ambling along."
May 4, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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kevinmkruse.bsky.social
In the last few days, the president fell asleep at the pope’s funeral, said he wasn’t making decisions in the White House and fell for an obvious photoshop.

Cool. Cool cool cool.
April 30, 2025 at 11:13 AM