• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Although good salary is relative

    At one point, way the fuck back in 2008, Obama toyed with the idea of a program to hire college seniors for a 100 hour period of community service that would pay $40/hr. This was pitched as a compromise with the Booker / Clinton “baby bond” proposal that suggested everyone simply get a $2500 bond at birth which would mature to $5000 by the time they were 18.

    $40/hr for a kid out of high school in 2008 was fucking phenomenal. So of course the idea never got past white papers.