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Showing posts with label welfare. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 6, 2026
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Saturday, December 27, 2025
Friday, December 19, 2025
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Welfare cuts have fuelled rise of far right and populism, top UN expert says | The far right | The Guardian
Exclusive: Poverty rapporteur says governments must rethink welfare state as essential to fabric of society…
Thursday, February 13, 2025
Monday, January 1, 2024
Nebraska Gov. Stands By Rejection Of Federal Funds To Feed Hungry Kids | HuffPost Latest News
"I don't believe in welfare," Republican Gov. Jim Pillen said of declining a federal program that would feed food-insecure children in the summer of 2024…
Sunday, October 29, 2023
Russia raises interest rate to 15% after steep climb in inflation
Consumers have more to spend after an increase by Moscow in welfare benefit payments to families and older people, seen by many analysts as an effort by Vladimir Putin to shore up domestic support for the war.'…
Monday, September 4, 2023
The Welfare-to-Work Industrial Complex (Reveal podcast)
How “work requirements” spawned a lucrative industry profiting off people in need.
“Get a job!” That sums up our current cash welfare system in a nutshell. Ever since so-called welfare reform in the 1990s, the system has been based on the idea that welfare recipients must be doing some kind of work or job-readiness activity to receive government assistance. It’s a system that plays on what Americans have long wanted to believe – that all it takes to move out of poverty is a can-do attitude and hard work.
Now, there is a growing chorus of politicians who argue that even more programs that help people in need should have more and tougher work requirements attached. Recently, Republicans successfully fought to create new work requirements for food assistance under the debt ceiling deal.
In this episode, Reveal partners with The Uncertain Hour podcast from Marketplace to explore the lucrative industry built on welfare-to-work policies. Critics say these for-profit welfare companies have cultivated their own cycle of dependency on the federal government. Krissy Clark from The Uncertain Hour takes listeners into America’s welfare-to-work system.
We meet a struggling mother of two in Milwaukee who hits hard times and turns to a local welfare office for help – a welfare office outsourced to a private for-profit company. Inside, staff preach the power of work, place people into unpaid “work experience” and enforce work requirements for welfare recipients, all in the name of teaching self-sufficiency. But who’s set to benefit most, that struggling mother or the for-profit company she turned to?
Then, Clark has a frank conversation with the founder of America Works, one of the first for-profit welfare-to-work companies in the country.
Interview:
“Get a job!” That sums up our current cash welfare system in a nutshell. Ever since so-called welfare reform in the 1990s, the system has been based on the idea that welfare recipients must be doing some kind of work or job-readiness activity to receive government assistance. It’s a system that plays on what Americans have long wanted to believe – that all it takes to move out of poverty is a can-do attitude and hard work.
Now, there is a growing chorus of politicians who argue that even more programs that help people in need should have more and tougher work requirements attached. Recently, Republicans successfully fought to create new work requirements for food assistance under the debt ceiling deal.
In this episode, Reveal partners with The Uncertain Hour podcast from Marketplace to explore the lucrative industry built on welfare-to-work policies. Critics say these for-profit welfare companies have cultivated their own cycle of dependency on the federal government. Krissy Clark from The Uncertain Hour takes listeners into America’s welfare-to-work system.
We meet a struggling mother of two in Milwaukee who hits hard times and turns to a local welfare office for help – a welfare office outsourced to a private for-profit company. Inside, staff preach the power of work, place people into unpaid “work experience” and enforce work requirements for welfare recipients, all in the name of teaching self-sufficiency. But who’s set to benefit most, that struggling mother or the for-profit company she turned to?
Then, Clark has a frank conversation with the founder of America Works, one of the first for-profit welfare-to-work companies in the country.
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Thursday, August 3, 2023
The Welfare to Temp Work Pipeline -- Chapter 6 (Uncertain Hour podcast)
Since the 1990s, most cash welfare recipients have been required to get a job or do mandated “work activities” to receive their monthly check. These requirements are intended to help parents who are struggling financially into jobs that will help keep them out of poverty and off government benefits. But is the work requirement system meeting either of those goals?
According to our analysis of data from Wisconsin, an average of nearly 70% of employed welfare participants worked at temp companies. These companies put people to work in other companies, trying to fill temporary jobs where the work is often grueling and the pay low.
Welfare-to-work has been so good for temp agencies that some of them actively lobby for more work requirements for government benefits through campaign contributions and white papers. “It gives us a pool of more people we can help,” said the CEO of one temp company whose franchises have ranked among the top 10 employers of Wisconsin welfare participants. “A person loses self-esteem when they don’t go back to work. Whether it’s voluntary or involuntary work is very important for their psyche.”
On this episode, host Krissy Clark looks at the cozy relationship between for-profit welfare companies and temp companies desperate to put people to work in some of the country’s most precarious jobs. Plus, a frank discussion with an architect of our modern welfare-to-work system, former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson. For a deeper dive into the numbers about how private welfare contractors make money and some other eye-popping data, check out the work of our colleagues at APM Research Lab.
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According to our analysis of data from Wisconsin, an average of nearly 70% of employed welfare participants worked at temp companies. These companies put people to work in other companies, trying to fill temporary jobs where the work is often grueling and the pay low.
Welfare-to-work has been so good for temp agencies that some of them actively lobby for more work requirements for government benefits through campaign contributions and white papers. “It gives us a pool of more people we can help,” said the CEO of one temp company whose franchises have ranked among the top 10 employers of Wisconsin welfare participants. “A person loses self-esteem when they don’t go back to work. Whether it’s voluntary or involuntary work is very important for their psyche.”
On this episode, host Krissy Clark looks at the cozy relationship between for-profit welfare companies and temp companies desperate to put people to work in some of the country’s most precarious jobs. Plus, a frank discussion with an architect of our modern welfare-to-work system, former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson. For a deeper dive into the numbers about how private welfare contractors make money and some other eye-popping data, check out the work of our colleagues at APM Research Lab.
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Friday, June 2, 2023
Republicans love to make up fake crises. Here are five of the biggest
As the super-wealthy and big corporations pour money into politics – especially into the Republican party – they don't want the rest of America to notice they're rigging the economy for their own benefit, that their unrestrained greed is worsening the climate crisis and that they're also undermining democracy.
The game of the Republicans and their major donors is to deflect and distract – to use scapegoating, racism and outright lies to disguise what's really going on...
Monday, May 22, 2023
Opinion | America’s Poverty Is Built by Design - POLITICO
Importantly, he is not arguing for redistribution per se. He is arguing that if the rich pay their taxes and the government stops over-subsidizing them and instead invests in the general welfare with aid to the poor, poverty can be eliminated, without adding to the deficit...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
John Oliver on US state welfare: ‘Politicians have been relentlessly abusing the system’
When it was primarily white families who were the ones using it, the government was supportive but people suddenly began to panic when families of colour also needed help and conservatives in the 70s and 80s pushed cherry-picked narratives of abuse…
Thursday, July 14, 2022
Opinion: Post-Roe, the GOP is stepping up to support American families - CNN
The proposal called for paying families an unconditional cash benefit of $250 to $350 per child per month ($3,000 to $4,200 per year), which Republican Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Mike Lee of Utah characterized as "universal basic income" and "welfare assistance." 
Saturday, May 7, 2022
What support do mothers have in states banning abortion? - The Washington Post
Many of the states that are the most likely to ban abortion have the highest rates of uninsured women and the highest rates of maternal deaths...
Saturday, June 5, 2021
At least 10 states divert federal welfare funding to anti-abortion clinics | Abortion | The Guardian
Millions in aid intended to go to the neediest families is being used to finance clinics trying to dissuade women from having abortions…
Sunday, November 22, 2020
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Five myths about the safety net - The Washington Post
No, welfare programs aren’t the answer to poverty. But fraud isn’t widespread, either.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/five-myths/five-myths-about-the-safety-net/2020/04/16/dbbe0dec-7f37-11ea-9040-68981f488eed_story.html
Sunday, February 23, 2020
What the Trump budget says about the administration's health priorities
The Trump administration recently released its budget blueprint for the 2021 fiscal year, the first steps in the complex budgetary process.
The final budget will reflect the input of Congress, including the Democratic House of Representatives, and will look significantly different.
However, budget drafts by presidential administrations are not meaningless pages of paper. They are important policy documents highlighting goals, priorities and visions for the future of the country. ....
http://theconversation.com/what-the-trump-budget-says-about-the-administrations-health-priorities-131624
http://theconversation.com/what-the-trump-budget-says-about-the-administrations-health-priorities-131624
Wednesday, January 22, 2020
No one will be untouched by a warming planet, scientists say | CBC News
The cost of climate change is more than numbers — it's the human toll, experts say ....
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-2019-1.5427586
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-2019-1.5427586
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