Government Policies and Inflation are Making the Poor Even Poorer

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/CN01022020.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsSan Juan   There was something to celebrate on the first day of a new decade.  President Trump for only the second time in his term of office did NOT tweet.  What a relief! The other time was the day after the Mueller investigation report was made public.  …

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The Horrors of Estate Recovery

Citizen Wealth Financial Justice Health Care

https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/CN10202019.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsNew Orleans    The horrors visited on low-and-moderate income families are numerous and their damage inestimable and often devastating now and onward to future generations.  Even knowing this, it is still shocking to find additional examples hidden right before our eyes. A case in point is estate recovery.  …

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Arkansas Playing Gotcha with the Poor to Cut Them Off of Medicaid

Ideas and Issues

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 …

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