#cashstrapped — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cashstrapped, aggregated by home.social.
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Dollar-stores overcharge cash-strapped customers while promising low prices
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/customers-pay-more-rising-dollar-store-costs
#HackerNews #DollarStores #Overcharging #CashStrapped #Customers #LowPrices #ConsumerAwareness #EconomicInequality
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“Godsend” or “#ConcentrationCamp”? A Lucrative #ICE Deal Divides a #Colorado Town.
Trump has unleashed a gold rush among #PrivatePrison companies taking on #ImmigrationDetention. In #CashStrapped cities, residents aren’t sure the money is worth it.
Isabela Dias, November+December 2025 Issue
Excerpt: "[T]he prospect of a privately run #ICE facility has divided #WalsenburgCO. Some locals and public officials have welcomed the potential influx of money and jobs. 'It’s a godsend,' Mayor Gary Vezzani told a TV reporter in early July. 'If they use it for ICE or use it for a prison or use it for whatever they use it for, we really don’t care…It’s a pretty big paying customer for us. We’re not big enough, nor [is] anybody here big enough to stop it. So, we may as well take advantage.'
"The mayor’s comments sparked fierce backlash. At a July 15 county commissioners meeting, one resident succinctly shot back: 'We don’t want to be known as a town with a concentration camp.' At a city council meeting the same day, a speaker argued that 'what’s happening in Walsenburg isn’t just #corrupt. It’s #fascist. It’s a blueprint for #authoritarianism wrapped in barbed wire and dressed up as local revival.' "
#USPol #CORECivic #Colorado #DetentionCenters #ICEDetainees #ICESucks #PrivatePrisons #PrisonState #IndefiniteDetention
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#HinkleyPointC delayed to 2029 at the earliest as budget increases substantially
by Jack Loughran
January 24, 2024"#Environmental campaigners are currently making efforts to block its construction over claims that the government did not assess the environmental impact of its proposals for a #water supply."
#NoNukes #UK #CashStrapped #WaterIsLife #EDF #HinkleyPoint #ExtremeWeather #ClimateCrisis #NuclearPlants #UK #CoastalFlooding #RenewablesNow
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Ontario cities are set up to fail — but Toronto makes failure an art
https://www.tvo.org/article/ontario-cities-are-set-up-to-fail-but-toronto-makes-failure-an-art
"OPINION: There are really only two solutions for the city’s finances over the long-term, and they both require Queen’s Park to do something it doesn’t want to."
#DougFord #Ontario #Cities #Toronto #CashStrapped -
As Ontario rolls in tax dollars, why are its cities so cash-strapped?
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-cities-municipal-finances-revenue-1.6792990
"Mismatch between services municipalities provide and revenues they have available, experts say."
#Ontario #DougFord #Cities #Towns #CashStrapped #onpoli -
Britain’s flagship nuclear plant scrambles to avoid cash crunch
by Rachel Millard, Matt Oliver, February 2023
"EDF said there is a high likelihood that state-owned China General Nuclear (CGN) will not want to contribute to a crucial fresh round of funding for the #HinkleyPoint C project in #Somerset."
#NoNukes #Renewables #UK #NuclearIsNotCarbonFree #CashStrapped #Marshland #WaterIsLife