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MN Senate committee votes to double welfare grants
BY Staff | St. Paul, MN | 3/04/13
A bill to double the welfare grants moved closer to passage, March 4, when members of the Senate Health, Human Services, and Housing policy committee passed Senate File 165.
Minnesota Family Investment Program, Minnesota Welfare Rights Committee, welfare
North Carolina law would ban people who get welfare from playing lottery
BY Staff | Raleigh, NC | 1/25/13
Republican state Representative Paul “Skip” Stam says he will introduce legislation that'll make it a crime for merchants to sell lottery tickets to people receiving public assistance or in bankruptcy.
lottery, Paul Stam, Republican Agenda, Stop the War on the Poor, welfare
Minnesota: Hundreds rally for justice on legislature’s opening day
BY Staff | St. Paul, MN | 1/08/13
Hundreds of people filled the Minnesota State Capitol rotunda here, Jan. 8, the opening day of the state legislature, joining protests to demand justice.
Idle No More, Tax the rich, University of Minnesota, welfare, Welfare Rights Committee
Getting ready for Jan. 8 protest to demand ‘raise the welfare grants’
BY Staff | Minneapolis, MN | 1/06/13
Members of the Welfare Rights Committee and others gathered here, Jan. 6, to make signs and banners for the major Jan. 8 protest that will demand, “Raise the welfare grants; no more cuts; tax the rich.”
Minnesota Welfare Rights Coalition, Tax the rich, welfare
Poor people take demand to MN governor: “Raise the welfare grants now!”
BY Linden Gawboy | St. Paul, MN | 8/10/12
People crowded into Governor Mark Dayton’s reception area, August 9, to tell him to “Raise the welfare grants” in the state of Minnesota.
Governor Mark Dayton, low-income families, welfare, Welfare Rights Committee
Corporate Welfare: John Krenicki, Mitt Romney, paid not to work
BY Staff | San Francisco, CA | 8/02/12
While millions of retired Americans are struggling to make ends meet and millions more working people who have been laid off don’t know how or if they can ever afford to retire, laid-off corporate executives are living in another world.
Capitalism, corporate profits, RNC 2012, Wall Street, welfare
Politicians Target Social Services
BY Adam Price | United States | 7/01/02
Poor and working class communities, already hit hard by layoffs and shorter work hours from the recession, are about feel more pain as state and local governments cut health care, education, and other social services that our families need.
Budget crisis, Budget Cuts, crisis of capitalism, health care, military spending, safety net, war on terror, welfare
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