[Publib] $50 for New Library Cards in NYC, thanks to Bloomberg

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In a message dated 8/28/2007 7:02:35 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,  
phenriksen at neflin.org writes:

http://www.nysun.com/article/56868

I'm very interested in how  the libraries are going to be affected by this.


The story includes:
 
 "Getting a library card, going  to the dentist, and keeping a job will soon 
yield up to $6,000 a year in bonus  cash under a test program that New York 
City is trying as part of Mayor  Bloomberg's anti-poverty initiative.  
About 13,000 families will be eligible for the payments, part of a $50  
million program whose details were announced yesterday by the deputy mayor for  
health and human services, Linda Gibbs. 
The idea is to offer payments to encourage behaviors that have been shown to  
reduce poverty. A library card for an elementary or middle school student 
will  bring his parents $50; a preventive dental visit brings $100 for each 
family  member; and a steady full-time job pays $150 extra a month." 
Note to Mayor Bloomberg:  How about you supplement the salaries of the  New 
York Public librarians?  Maybe if they showed their own library cards,  you'd 
see about convincing that cheap behemoth to give them a reasonable  raise? 
M. McGrorty



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