Tag: welfare
States are hoarding $5.2 billion in welfare funds even as the...
Twenty-five years later, however, states are using this freedom to do nothing at all with large sums of the money.
Utah makes welfare so hard to get, some feel they must...
Utah’s safety net for the poor is so intertwined with the LDS Church that individual bishops often decide who receives assistance. Some deny help unless a person goes to services or gets baptized.
How Mitch McConnell’s callous indifference puts ordinary Americans’ welfare at risk
As the COVID-19 death toll mounts, McConnell refuses to advocate for ordinary Americans.
How corporate welfare hurts you
You often hear Trump and Republicans in Congress railing against so-called “welfare programs” – by which they mean programs that provide health...
Trump’s new war
Trump is specifically mounting a war on our country's poor people, though he euphemistically calls it a war of liberation.
Michigan Spent Eight Months Drug Testing The Poor And Found Zero...
Preliminary results from the state's welfare drug testing pilot program found it spent more than $300 but didn't find a single drug user.
One Percenters Get Their Own Special Social Welfare Deal
The IRS took five years to review the Crossroads GPS application for nonprofit social welfare status.
After Bill To Drug Test Welfare Applicants Is Unveiled, Lawmaker Proposes...
“There’s no reason why state legislators should get a pass, simply because we wear suits.”
Corporate Welfare in California
Right now, a grassroots movement is growing of Californians determined to reform this broken commercial property tax system, and who know California needs more stable funding for its schools, libraries, roads, and communities.
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10 organizing principles for defeating Trumpism 2.0
We need principles that build power now and for the long term.
GOP plans to sidestep Senate rules to force $4.6 trillion tax giveaway for the...
Republicans aim to make Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent by bypassing the Senate parliamentarian—an approach Democrats refused to take to raise the minimum wage.
Why more environmental justice organizations must join the call for a militarism-free future
An open letter initiated by CODEPINK urges the world to take the arduous baby step of recognizing the deadly intersection of war and environmental destruction.
A lawyer who helped the Kushners crack down on poor tenants now helps renters...
This attorney used to represent companies owned by Trump’s in-laws, whose apartments were known for shoddy maintenance and aggressive legal tactics.
Trump Administration fires thousands of US health workers, putting well-being of Americans at ‘serious...
Termination emails were sent out to employees of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and several smaller agencies.