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The crime rate, especially drug crime, decreases significantly when more 16-44 year olds have access to affordable Vocational Education and Training, (VET) according to a new University of Melbourne report.
Drug crime rate decreased 13 per cent when more people had access to a publicly-funded place in VET. The research also recorded a five percent and 11 per cent decrease in personal and property crime respectively, including assault, theft and burglary.
Report author, Dr Cain Polidano from the Melbourne Institute found that the extra public funding of VET (TAFE and private colleges) reduced the costs of crime.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by rondon on Friday July 29 2016, @12:44PM
Serious question - regardless of the arguments before this, the sum of your argument seems to be, "because my family had it hard and made it out ok, everyone else that has it hard should do the same." Is that accurate?
Because I would think that having it hard would lead to some empathy, instead of disgust, which is what it appears that you have for poor people.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday July 29 2016, @04:25PM
Look up his post history, please. Uzzard is one of those pathological cases whose mental world is a bubble of predatory, self-regarding darkness. About half a dozen of his best (hah...) should convince you what I'm talking about. There is a kind of toxic solipsism at work here.
We are speaking here of a person whose entire political outlook begins and ends with "taxation is theft," which is how overgrown rebellious teenagers with beer guts and mesh caps say "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me." Remember that quote about the difference between Atlas Shrugged and LotR? It may not have been written specifically with carrion-face here in mind, but it could very well have been.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @11:39PM
> There is a kind of toxic solipsism at work here.
Its a defense mechanism. As a kid he was a social outcast. So he reacted by deciding that his social failures were not a function of his poor skills but rather that everybody else sucked. He aged physically, but intellectually he never matured out of that mindset. Whether his parents enabled that or not, he's a cautionary tale for all those parents who tell their children they are superior in the face of all evidence to the contrary. Which is especially ironic since he's the first to complain about that sort of attitude.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 29 2016, @10:29PM
Its a common rraction from people who have worked their way out of bad situations. Pretty sure there is some demographic layout to who feels that way as well.