ardent_wolf

ardent_wolf t1_j551ttc wrote

Reply to comment by HistoricalMap6718 in Minor Labor Laws NJ by HistoricalMap6718

Don’t bother going to anyone at this company. They clearly don’t care, and you’re probably not the first person this has happened to. Just report them and let the state fine them for this. The DoL will get you your money especially with the screenshots of your schedule. They fucked around, let them find out. You don’t owe them a courtesy, and if the ‘owner’ has such little involvement that they don’t know this is happening that’s on them. Not your problem to fix.

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ardent_wolf t1_iyeub3m wrote

Reply to comment by Teknicsrx7 in Study finds that New Jersey has the second lowest rate of child abuse cases in the country with 188.9 cases per 100,000 people under the age of 18 in the state. by Artemistical

The study isn’t the problem, and there are few metrics that would be useful besides reported cases. But the article doesn’t discuss any context, it simply says how many cases each state reports and then tries to sell courses to social workers in NY.

Discussion of how much child (or any other type of) abuse is happening in a given state should also include socioeconomic indicators that influence child abuse rates to help fill in the gaps from unreported crimes. The reports themselves mean little.

Say, for example, that a state introduces a massive budget increase to its child protective services dept and hires many well-paid social workers. They start spending money to advertise their reporting hotline, institute mandatory reporting across a variety of industries, and educate the populace about signs of child abuse. Their cases will increase dramatically, but that doesn’t mean their policies led to more child abuse. Hence the issue with the study as presented in this article.

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ardent_wolf t1_iyedosg wrote

Reply to Study finds that New Jersey has the second lowest rate of child abuse cases in the country with 188.9 cases per 100,000 people under the age of 18 in the state. by Artemistical

I’m tired of seeing this study constantly misrepresented. The PA sub was all over this too because it said they have the lowest, which completely ignores the terrible state of child protective services in PA.

2nd lowest rate of child abuse cases does not mean 2nd lowest rate of child abuse. It simply means only PA reports less child abuse than NJ per 100,000 people. It’s impossible to definitively show which states actually abuse children more, and reported cases are the best metric we have. But it does not mean what OP says it means.

Low case rate can be from lack of child abuse. It can also be if cases are difficult or cumbersome to report, if an entity is or isn’t bound by mandatory reporting laws, the existing infrastructure and agencies set up to process complaints and investigate them properly, etc.

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ardent_wolf t1_ir29an0 wrote

Reply to comment by Aynile_Wreckoning_69 in Anti-Malinowski ads by Aynile_Wreckoning_69

The other line of attack in that ad would bother me in normal times (it was something about a hand-out to hotels? Idk some luxury industry, I tuned it out) but only an idiot would think democrats give favors for donors. Kean would do the same thing, he’d just also probably vote along party lines to infringe upon my rights so whatever.

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ardent_wolf t1_ir1th5s wrote

Reply to Anti-Malinowski ads by Aynile_Wreckoning_69

Lol he keeps blasting Malinowski for helping pass a bill to help prisoners. I fully support helping rehabilitate prisoners.

Every ad is just “I want you to keep more of your money” like dude you are targeting the wrong audience, I am so poor I didn’t even subscribe to YouTube premium. What money would I be keeping 😂

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