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Re:Supporting civic engagement with paid time off by mccv on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @04:53PM (#13545678)
Interesting. From my standpoint (CEO of a company that co-signed here) this isn't money spent. We already have a flexible vacation policy, and this just makes it explicit that civic engagement can be counted against that. Agree that it does amplify the voice of tech as a demographic, which is, sadly, not reflective of the general U.S. population.

The flip side is that a fund dedicated to compensating part-time working minorities to participate in politics would likely be painted as "protest checks". Would love to tease this out more though.

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Re:Supporting civic engagement with paid time off by kindarooster on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @05:08PM (#13545845)
I love the idea of encouraging civic engagement. And there are probably things that can be done on a political level to make the playing field more even. We have the responsibility of making those things happen and supporting civil engagement via vacation policy is a good way to enable it.

It's just easy to forgot sometimes that many of us do come from a place of privilege so it's good to remind ourselves of it sometimes.

It's odd to me the government doesn't incentive participation in politics more and yet we have things like compulsory jury duty.

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Re:Supporting civic engagement with paid time off by jchrisa on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @06:05PM (#13546338)
Oregon has a tax credit for political donations. http://oregontaxcredit.com
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