#workingpoor
(Note: probably should say and “CHARGE *their employees* $800 per month for a bed in a shared room.” )
"There is no large group of malingers on Medicaid. Onerous work requirements for day laborers will put deserving people in horrible pain. Disgraceful."
-N Ornstein
"The way that cruelty will be implemented is notable for its reliance on claims we know aren’t true and policies we know won’t work — what some of us call zombie ideas.
& it’s hard to avoid the sense that the counterproductive viciousness is actually the point."
#Medicaid #WorkingPoor #Sadism #Resist #USPol
https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/attack-of-the-sadistic-zombies
From Farm to Factory: What Actually Constitutes Good Work?
https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/05/08/from-farm-to-factory-what-actually-constitutes-good-work/
#Capitalism #exploitation #labormovement #organize #solidarity #cooperatives #unions #workingpoor
💥 The Gut Punch. Working harder. Affording less. Sound familiar? You're doing everything right. But the system? It's broken. The Cost of Living is a brutally honest look at what it really takes to survive today—and why that’s not okay. ⚠️ Eye-opening. Personal. Unfiltered. 📖 Read it now and see what’s keeping us stuck. 📘
#WorkingPoor #SocialJustice #CostofLiving #PovertyAwareness #BookClub
💥 If you care about justice, read this. This isn’t about politics. It’s about people. Living on the Edge is for everyone who believes a full-time job should mean a full life. 💥 Powerful. Unfiltered. Urgent. 🎯 Get it now then pass it on.📘
#WorkingPoor #SocialJustice #SystemicChange #PovertyAwareness #BookClub
Meet America’s invisible workforce. They stock our shelves. Care for our elders. Hold our economy together. And they’re barely scraping by. Living on the Edge gives them the voice they’ve always deserved. You won’t finish this book unchanged. 📘
#WorkingPoor #SocialJustice #SystemicChange #PovertyAwareness #BookClub
They work. They hustle. They’re still broke.
📘 *Living on the Edge* is more than a book.
It’s the story of too many.Hard work isn’t the problem.A broken system is. Living on the Edge: The Struggle of the Working Poor pulls no punches. Real stories. Real people. Real consequences. This isn’t just a book—it’s a wake-up call.
#WorkingPoor #SocialJustice #SystemicChange #PovertyAwareness #BookClub
They work. They hustle. They’re still broke.
📘 *Living on the Edge* is more than a book.
It’s the story of too many.
#WorkingPoor #SocialJustice #SystemicChange #PovertyAwareness #BookClub
@puniko @fuchsiii ja, aber arme #Lohnarbeiter*innen profitieren auch nicht von #NSAfD, wählen die aber wissentlich trotzdem weil diese wollen dass Andere mehr leiden!
#auspol #WorkingPoor #Food #MWM
I wish one was close to me. Too far, can't afford. And I not alone after discussions with others.
https://michaelwest.com.au/new-cohort-of-working-poor-fronting-food-charities/
@maggiejk I’ve paid more than I borrowed and I’m on track to have my student loans paid off when I’m 74! Dept of Education are loan sharks ripping off working people like nurses, teachers, social workers, secretaries, and anybody else who dared to go to college without being born rich. #oligarchy #StudentDebt #WorkingPoor
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/20/down-syndrome-australia-subminimum-wage
$4.20 per hour is not enough to live on – but exploitation is “legal”
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/jan/28/larry-was-paid-420-an-hour-in-australia-its-not-enough-to-live-on-but-its-completely-legal
Abolish Sub Minimum Wage https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dj4N8NtD9RKJj7eypPgKkIPggKI2aONCrwBOEzjrEIg/edit?tab=t.0
#Capitalism #livingWage #minimumWage #subminimumWage
#wageslavery #workingpoor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4Q-aGE-74w
#MAGA voters are in love with Men who DESPISE THEM
The #LivingWage means thriving, not just surviving on #minimumWage
The 2024/25 Living Wage rate is $27.80.
Living Wage Movement #Aotearoa coalition of faith groups, community organizations and unions since 2012.
https://www.livingwage.org.nz/
Hear Union Organizer & author Lyndy McIntyre who documented the struggle
https://www.3cr.org.au/sticktogether/episode/power-win
(Book) Power To Win
https://www.otago.ac.nz/press/books/power-to-win
#LaborMovement #Organize #Solidarity #unions #Workingpoor #communityradio #3CR
NOT JUST MAINE! #USDA ending local purchasing programs for #Maine #FoodBanks and #schools
#MainePublic | By Nicole Ogrysko
Published March 12, 2025
"The U.S. Department of Agriculture is ending two national programs that help food banks and schools in Maine — and around the country — purchase produce from local farmers.
"USDA told Maine officials and partners late last week that it has terminated the Local Food Purchase Assistance Program. It helped #GoodShepherd Food Bank buy produce from about 100 Maine farmers, which is then distributed to local food banks around the state.
"'That program is incredibly important to the state of Maine, both in food today — food that we source and distribute today — and in food tomorrow, which is the economic viability for those 100 #farmers and for our partner agencies to experience fresh, nutritious produce," said Good Shepherd President Heather Paquette.
"At the same time, Paquette said the food bank recently learned that USDA will stop delivering about 1 million pounds of food through the Emergency Food Assistance Program to Maine. Those deliveries are on hold for Good Shepherd — and food banks around the country — through at least June.
"Paquette said the USDA delivery represented about 20% of food that Good Shepherd moves around the state.
"The cuts — both to government food deliveries and to funds that Good Shepherd used to buy local produce — are concerning, Paquette said, because more Mainers are experiencing #FoodInsecurity.
"Our need is up every year," she said. 'This year we distributed 10% more food cases than we distributed the year before that, and that year was 10% over the [prior] year. So we're experiencing double-digit need increase in the state of Maine.'
"A spokesperson for the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry said the state received about $1.3 million for the Local Food Purchase Assistance program.
"USDA has also terminated the Local Food for Schools program, which provided more than $720,000 last year to Maine schools. Schools used those funds to buy food directly from local farmers to serve in their cafeterias.
"The program provided a big boost to the state's farmers, because more than 100,000 students eat at Maine schools every day, said Anna Korsen of the food security non-profit Full Plates Full Potential.
"'That has a huge impact on local economies, on #SmallFarms, and it's just better for kids," she said. 'The food's healthier, they're getting fresh, local foods in the school cafeteria.'
"A spokesperson for Maine's Department of Education said the state was expected to receive nearly $2.8 million for the Local #FoodForSchools program over the next three years. The funding was supposed to be disbursed later this spring.
"Maine still has a statewide local food purchasing program for schools. But Korsen said the federal program provided more purchasing power for Maine schools. In 2023 before Maine received federal #LFS funding, schools in the Pine Tree State spent just more than $168,000 on local food, Korsen said.
"These USDA programmatic cuts are separate from those that the department is making at the University of Maine System [which were just reversed]. And unlike those impacting UMaine, the termination of USDA's local purchasing programs affects food banks and schools around the country."
https://www.mainepublic.org/business-and-economy/2025-03-12/usda-ending-local-purchasing-programs-for-maine-food-banks-and-schools
#KillThePoor #USPol #MadKingTrump #RESIST! #FoodIsLife #WorkingPoor #SNAP #SaveTheFarms