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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Hazardous Duty Pay
New Orleans The irony and contradictions around so-called “essential” workers are vexing – mainly to the workers themselves. They have to go to work because they are, by definition, essential, yet employers in the main seem both committed to labeling them as essential and continuing to treat them, their health concerns, and their wage …
Workers and Bosses are Caught in a Reopening Catch-22
Pearl River In the United States when dealing with a program that is touted as a lifesaver for what will likely be fifty million unemployed workers and another program that is designed, ostensibly, to help small businesses retain their workers, we all know the topline horrors. For workers, the stimulus checks are still on their …