{"id":1751,"date":"2009-09-18T01:07:58","date_gmt":"2009-09-18T06:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=1751"},"modified":"2009-09-18T01:07:58","modified_gmt":"2009-09-18T06:07:58","slug":"exporting-the-impoverished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2009\/09\/18\/exporting-the-impoverished\/","title":{"rendered":"Exporting the Impoverished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetizen.com\/node\/39927\"><img src='https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/files\/2009\/09\/PSO1213.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a good ethical puzzle for a social problems or public policy class.\u00a0 Is it morally acceptable for New York City to address their homeless problem by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetizen.com\/node\/39927\">providing them a one-way airline ticket<\/a>.\u00a0 Apparently, the city has saved thousands of dollars by giving indigent residents the option of moving to another city or state.<\/p>\n<p>On one hand, this seems to meet the conditions of market exchange &#8212; two parties engaged in a voluntary transaction.\u00a0 And with the city&#8217;s unemployment over 10 percent, perhaps helping the homeless move addresses a jobs\/labor spatial mismatch?\u00a0 On the other hand, it seems as if the city is &#8220;giving up&#8221; on its residents.\u00a0 It is presuming that providing social services is an economic drain rather than a human capital investment.\u00a0 More importantly, it is signaling that some residents of the city are more valuables than others.<\/p>\n<p>HT: Planetizen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a good ethical puzzle for a social problems or public policy class.\u00a0 Is it morally acceptable for New York City to address their homeless problem by providing them a one-way airline ticket.\u00a0 Apparently, the city has saved thousands of dollars by giving indigent residents the option of moving to another city or state. On [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1753,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions\/1753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}