Mississippi’s Politicians and Powerful are the Real Welfare Queens

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

Greenville, Mississippi   In the ongoing conservative war against the poor, welfare or Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) spending was converted to a block grant program, allowing states, purportedly, to design their own best practices and programs.  In many ideologically based, conservative dominated southern and up-north states, block grants allowed them to reduce or curtail …

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Food Crisis Growing in Honduras Cities

ACORN ACORN International

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CN04062020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans       Central America doesn’t get the press on the coronavirus pandemic, but it’s as real there as it is in other countries, except perhaps more dangerous since these countries lack the same level of infrastructure and capacity.  Guatemala managed to break into the news cycle …

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A Pandemic is Another Terrible Time to be Poor

Ideas and Issues

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/CN04032020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple Podcasts Pearl River     There’s no good time to be poor in America.  Not surprisingly, a pandemic bringing rampant disease and deaths in droves is a spectacularly bad time to be poor.  Some are even noticing the poor now, although that doesn’t necessarily mean that a whole lot …

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