unemployment
Poor People’s Campaign mourns COVID dead, demands immediate help for workers
November 24, 2020“People shouldn’t have to choose between going back to work and having a chance to live,” Rev. Liz Theoharis declared.
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A Broader View: Those at risk on our streets
November 20, 2020Lives riddled with (preventable) poverty and injustice. Cause of death: the failures of politicians unable to address the severity of this pandemic.
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22 million jobless, Senate Republicans go home for Thanksgiving without passing aid
November 20, 2020The Democratic-run House tried twice to reinstate the $600 weekly checks with the Heroes Act, but Senate GOP leader McConnell killed it both times.
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On anniversary of Great Depression, 25 million collecting unemployment
October 29, 2020Nine decades after the first Great Depression started, we are now in the midst of another, with a president who has no plan to get us out of it.
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Organizing report: Dallas Stops Evictions expands tenant movement to South Dallas
October 26, 2020DSE activists are expanding their tenant organizing to more areas of Dallas, to apartments where horrendous living conditions are the norm.
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