{"id":5562,"date":"2018-05-05T17:18:50","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T21:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/?p=5562"},"modified":"2018-05-05T18:03:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-05T22:03:55","slug":"dr-carson-on-employment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/?p=5562","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Carson on Employment"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Official Portrait of Dr. Ben Carson, HUD Secretary. Public Domain in US.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We need to watch activity in Washington D. C. to stay aware of things that can affect us. One example is the question of how the famous and successful pediatric brain surgeon, Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital<\/a> in Maryland<\/a>, and now\u00a0Housing and Urban Development Secretary,\u00a0<\/em>Dr. Ben Carson<\/a>, is handling operations at HUD and what he believes should be our policy moving forward.<\/p>\n

“… recognizing that the federal government has been responsible for creating a system that causes people not to necessarily want to work, because if they make more money, their rent goes up, or they may no longer be eligible for their apartment, and this is a nonstarter. So we really need to figure out a way to incentivize people while at the same time providing them with the help that they need in order to move up that ladder.<\/p>\n

In the past, when people started moving up the ladder of self-sufficiency, we pulled the rug out from underneath them. I don\u2019t want to do that.<\/p>\n

We have to understand that in 30 states you can actually make more money from just sitting back and receiving entitlements than you can from working a minimum-wage job, so it shouldn\u2019t surprise us that a lot of people elect to take the first option.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More of that\u00a0Genevieve Wood (<\/a>@genevievewood<\/a>\u00a0) can be read at\u00a0https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2018\/04\/29\/exclusive-interview-ben-carson-on-draining-the-swamp-fighting-poverty-and-kanye-west<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have to understand that in 30 states you can actually make more money from just sitting back and receiving entitlements than you can from working a minimum-wage job, so it shouldn\u2019t surprise us that a lot of people elect to take the first option. — Housing and Urban Development Secretary\u00a0Dr. Ben Carson in an April 29, 2018 interview by\u00a0Genevieve Wood (@genevievewood\u00a0)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[1143,1138,1142,1144,1139,1140,1146,1141,1145,1147],"class_list":["post-5562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","tag-benefits","tag-carson","tag-entitlement","tag-genevieve-wood","tag-hud","tag-interview","tag-make-more-money","tag-policy","tag-self-sufficiency","tag-surprise"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3sKnr-1rI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5562"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5571,"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5562\/revisions\/5571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alt-fw.org\/public\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}