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#Medicaid and #Workfare
https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/an-overview-of-medicaid-work-requirements-what-happened-under-the-trump-and-biden-administrations/

Workfare in New York
https://web.archive.org/web/20230208181401/http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/workfare.html

The Suburban Century Begins (July 1992)
https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/politics/ecbig/schnsub.htm How neoliberalism pits the working poor against the welfare poor. Three decades later and nothing has changed.

Analysis: #McCarthy #Medicaid Proposal Puts Millions of People in Expansion States at Risk of Losing Health Coverage https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/mccarthy-medicaid-proposal-puts-millions-of-people-in-expansion-states-at-risk-of "The McCarthy proposal could [also] jeopardize coverage for millions more, by prompting some states to drop the #ACA Medicaid expansion or dissuading states that have not yet taken the expansion from adopting it." #Healthcare #poverty #workfare

Expanding Work Requirements Would Make It Harder for People to Meet Basic Needs https://www.cbpp.org/research/poverty-and-inequality/expanding-work-requirements-would-make-it-harder-for-people-to-meet Arguments for work requirements "ignore the realities of the low-paid labor market, the lack of child care and paid sick and family leave, how health and disability issues and the need to care for family members affect people’s lives, and ongoing labor market discrimination." #welfare #workfare #poverty #ForcedLabor

Permalinks:

#Medicaid and #Workfare
https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/an-overview-of-medicaid-work-requirements-what-happened-under-the-trump-and-biden-administrations/

Workfare in New York
https://web.archive.org/web/20230208181401/http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/workfare.html

The Suburban Century Begins (July 1992)
https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/politics/ecbig/schnsub.htm How neoliberalism pits the working poor against the welfare poor. Three decades later and nothing has changed.

Analysis: Congressional Republicans’ Budget Plans Are Likely to Cut Health Coverage
https://www.cbpp.org/research/health/congressional-republicans-budget-plans-are-likely-to-cut-health-coverage "Justifications for work requirements rest on false assumptions about people who participate in #Medicaid and about why people are out of work or are paid low wages. They ignore the realities for people in the low-paid labor market ..." #healthcare #GOP #workfare #pandemic #disabled

Is Georgia running out of inmate labor? Who would employ 50,000 new, low-skill workforce entrants, many in poor health and lacking transportation, during a looming recession? #Workfare is a form of #slavery.