New Orleans The Trump-McConnell-Ryan tax giveaway of 2017 is a bad penny that just keeps coming up again and again. Although it was a stupendous tax break for corporations and the rich, the president tried to disguise its real purpose by claiming it would give working- and middle-class taxpayers a break. Headlines abound now about …
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The Poor Need Cash
New Orleans Other countries are increasingly getting the message: the poor need cash. It’s not enough in the lowest income categories to stake a claim on education, training, or jobs, especially low paying jobs inadequate to support families. Africa’s Tanzania’s welfare scheme is called the Productive Social Safety Net and provides at about $13 …
Roma Rising from Status as a Despised Minority
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Natalie-Jean-01-What-Would-You-Do-for-Love-200016389.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsSofia Bulgaria and other Eastern European and Balkan nations with significant populations of the Roma minority can easily be compared to African-Americans and their situation in the American South of fifty years ago. They are a despised minority that has begun to see some improvement after …