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So just f*ck the poor people of New York right? You transplants are really showing your privilege off today.
Transplants are all just fine with all the handouts. You need to be FROM here to see through all this nonsense. While we’re at it, is there anything else you need? A new iPad cause you just can’t afford one? A new motorbike so you can go to job interviews? The transplants are all very happy to help. Go ahead, just ask.
Transplants are all just fine with all the handouts. You need to be FROM here to see through all this nonsense. While we’re at it, is there anything else you need? A new iPad cause you just can’t afford one? A new motorbike so you can go to job interviews? The transplants are all very happy to help. Go ahead, just ask.
Native New Yorker here. Will the city pay for my new roof? Should only be about $12K.
So $5.50 day, 5 days a week, $27.50 a week, $110 bucks a month and that’s assuming you don’t go anywhere on the weekends, or have to drop or pick up kids before and after work, which could easily turn it into $11 bucks a day, $55 bucks a week, $220 a month. Yeah. It makes a difference.
Is it ok to be old and get the discount? Asking for a friend .
Mayor Eric Adams wants to better advertise the city’s half-price MetroCard program for poor New Yorkers known as Fair Fares, as only a fraction of eligible commuters have taken advantage of the discount.
“This is one of the failures of New York City. We expect people to come to government to find out about the resources and then we advertise in our own little circles, we talk to each other — those days are over,” Mayor Adams told amNewYork Metro during a press conference at City Hall Wednesday.
Hizzoner highlighted the three-year-old program as part of his city budget proposal released on Feb. 16, and agreed with the City Council to make Fair Fares a permanent part of the annual fiscal spending plan for the first time.
The mayor and the council agreed to partially restore funding to $75 million in the budget, still about 30% below the pre-pandemic allocation of $106 million.
The program allows working-age New Yorkers living at or below the federal poverty line to get MetroCards at half price.
Eligible residents can apply online at the Fair Fares website or call 311 to set up an in-person appointment with the Human Resources Administration.
New York has to be the greatest city in the world, it does so much for its low income residents! other cities take notes.
Outside of New York and few other select areas (such as California), local governments don't hand out taxpayers money in an orgy of wealth redistribution.
NYC and NYS for that matter are known HCL and HCODB precisely because of the vast amount of taxes, fees and surcharges extracted from those who have in order to provide for those that chronically do not.
I am a senior and have enjoyed $1.35 rides for several years. It would be petty of me to deny the same privilege to those less fortunate than I.
You do realize that your discounted rides are subsidized by other people, right? The same people you hate, i.e. people who make more money than you.
Anyway, the discounts should only for the low income elderly or disabled. Just simply being poor is not enough of a reason to get all these freebies. If you are able-bodied, you need to work to support yourself.
So it basically only covers people who refuse to work, right? Those incomes are impossible otherwise.
Only people who qualify for this scheme are those already on welfare, and or otherwise receiving some sort of public assistance in various forms.
No one is living on their own in NYC with a household income of < $14k per year. A single person earning minimum wage wouldn't qualify for this benefit.
Now if someone is in a shelter, subsidized housing, etc.. that would be another matter.
In short another scheme to benefit usual suspects.
"From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" (German: Jeder nach seinen Fähigkeiten, jedem nach seinen Bedürfnissen)
.................Karl Marx
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