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Posted in: Main points of Japan's ¥108 tril emergency package See in context

Low-income families:

"Middle" income families are getting hit just as hard as low income and are also in need of support. The assumption that middle income families are able to absorb the impact of being laid off/out of work as easily as "high" income families is wishful thinking at best. Japan has been using the term "working poor" for years. People who are middle class in name alone, working and making just enough to pay all the vast and myriad expenses that come with living here from month to month. These people who will be excluded from government support, because on paper they are middle class, will be facing all manner of hardships and possibly destitution.

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Posted in: Bag snatcher says he needed money for living expenses, pachinko See in context

Pachinko is worse than most other forms of gambling because of it's easy access and how it keeps you in your seat with anticipation, slowly doling out bill after bill of your hard earned cash.

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Posted in: Concern raised over exclusion of bar hostesses, sex workers from virus compensation See in context

We're in a pandemic. People are dying. More will die. Who are we to determine who lives and dies? If we're talking about morals, I'm more morally inclined to save lives in whatever form that may take regardless of profession. Some may say that's naive. Well, I'm intentionally keeping it simplistic because, bottom line, those people don't deserve to suffer or die when the government is fully capable of helping them alongside everyone else in this country.

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