Posts Tagged ‘living wage’
Work Search Requirement Reinstated
May 14, 2021 – New Mexico’s Department of Workforce Solutions is reinstating the job search requirement that it put on hold during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now that businesses are reopening and expanding, those receiving unemployment support will again have to prove that they are actively seeking work. The Line opinion panelists discuss…
Read MoreThe Moral Problem of America’s Poverty
Sept. 18, 2020 – Rev. William Barber II is the co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign, an economic justice effort first envisioned by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the 1960s. Rev. Barber calls America’s staggering poverty numbers a moral problem worthy of attention in the current presidential campaign, as well as in political contests…
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