North Carolina First State To Eliminate Federal Unemployment Benefits

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16. Strictly voluntary? If you know the history of the cities that adopted this "voluntary" relocation

scheme, with cops who help the impoverished to decide to "voluntarily" relocate, you should not expect this.

See, e.g., Hawaii Buys One-Way Tickets For the Impoverished. Expect Cops to Help "Run Them Out of Town"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023385311

"If you’re a state with the highest rate of homelessness in the country, you’ve got a number of options. You could build more shelters. You could enact new tax credits for the working poor. Maybe provide more counseling and other services.

"Or you could take the route lawmakers in Hawaii did: offer homeless residents a one-way ticket out of the state.

"State legislators passed funding this year for a new program to offer one-way flights to any of the state’s estimated 17,000 homeless persons. Lawmakers appropriated $100,000 over the next two years for the “return-to-home” program, but that funding could increase if the initiative is viewed as a success.
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"The problem is that in many cities that have implemented similar programs, like New York, San Francisco, and Baton Rouge, “voluntary” doesn’t always mean voluntary, particularly when a city’s police department gets involved. When a homeless person has a run-in with the law, they are often presented with a choice: go to jail or “volunteer” for a one-way ticket. In addition, there is little verification that the person using the one-way ticket will have any better opportunity at their destination, because at that point Hawaii has shed its responsibility for providing care and services.

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2013/07/29/2371121/hawaii-homeless/