New Orleans There are few lobbies as powerful as the nursing home owners’ groups in Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. All of which makes the intervention of federal rules extending some of the same accountability standards that hospitals now face, welcome news. The fact that the penalties go right to their pocketbooks is even better …
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Arkansas Playing Gotcha with the Poor to Cut Them Off of Medicaid
http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/01_Johnny_Guitar_1536998415215958.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans In a sordid and shameful episode a few weeks ago Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson pridefully announced that the state had managed to bar 4300 people from health care support through Medicaid because of its new work requirement policies. Seema Verma the head of the federal …
Fake-Work Ideology Will Kill People in Arkansas and Elsewhere
New Orleans Study after study details the fact that with 45 million Americans employed in low-paying service sector jobs paying usually minimal wages for often part-time hours in a period of almost record low unemployment hovering around 4%, work in this age of excruciating inequality is simply not enough to get a family out of …