St Paul, MN - Minnesota Coalition for a People’s Bail Out organized a picket line at the Minnesota Department of Revenue Building, where Governor Pawlenty proposed his plan to address the $5.2 billion budget deficit, Jan. 27.
Deb Konechne, a spokesperson for the Coalition said, “Governor Pawlenty proposes balancing the budget on the backs of poor and working people. He wants to cut services, like health care for working-class Minnesotans and turns around and proposes tax cuts for corporations. We will fight his proposal every step of the way.”
The Minnesota Coalition for a People’s Bail Out brings together union members, welfare rights organizations, community, tenant and anti-war groups.
The Coalition is promoting a People's Bailout Bill that includes:
* Extension of Unemployment Insurance for additional 13 weeks,
* Expansion of eligibility for Unemployment Insurance,
* A jobs creation program,
* Moratorium on the five-year limit on welfare,
* Moratorium on housing foreclosures,
* Moratorium on evictions from foreclosed housing, and a
* Moratorium on layoffs of state and University of Minnesota workers
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