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Premier Doug Ford is facing criticism for his comments about Ontarians receiving social assistance.
"I always say, if someone's on ODSP, I'll support them for life," Ford said last Monday at the Empire Club of Canada in Toronto, referring to the Ontario Disability Support Program. "What drives me crazy is people on Ontario Works — probably three, 400,000 — that are healthy."
The province has "never seen more jobs" available, Ford said.
"It really bothers me that we have healthy people sitting at home, collecting your hard-earned dollars. We need to encourage them to contribute back to the province and find gainful employment," he said.
Ontario Works provides short-term financial support for people looking for work. It's separate from ODSP, a long-term program for people with disabilities who can't work much or at all. [...]
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Unemployment relief delivered by the government in minuscule amounts, The Worker. July 3, 1933.
#toronto#canadian labor defence league#unemployment relief#poverty relief#capitalism in crisis#unemployment#starve or freeze#bennett government#communists#great depression in canada#political cartoons#editorial cartoons
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By the time the Works Progress Administration ended in 1943, it had provided jobs for 8.5 million Americans during the worst of the Great Depression--and created thousands of buildings, works of art, and other projects. When it went into effect in 1933, New York ordered its (male) relief recipients to "go to work or go to jail."
Here, hundreds of applicants line up to register for WPA jobs on August 26, 1933 in one of the bureaus set up by the agency. The administrator of this location said he had no doubt that he would meet his quota of 20,000 new workers for the week.
Photo: Associated Press
#vintage New York#1930s#WPA#jobless#unemployment#Works Progress Administration#New Deal#August 26#26 August#26 Aug.#Aug. 26#public relief#jobs jail
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The Biden administration announced a series of measures Thursday to track down and punish fraudsters who scammed billions of taxpayer dollars that were supposed to provide relief to Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Biden is pledging $1.6 billion to bolster law enforcement manpower and new programs that will be used to prosecute scammers, prevent fraud, and provide assistance to victims of identity theft.
“We want to not only capture them and get their funds, we want to send a signal to them that you can run, but you cannot hide,” said Gene Sperling, a Biden senior adviser who is overseeing the implementation of the COVID-relief plan.
THE LATEST
• The administration’s plans call for creating 10 Department of Justice “strike forces” that will include U.S. attorneys and other law enforcement officials to investigate COVID-relief fraud and help recover stolen tax dollars. The teams will target criminal syndicates and other major fraudsters. Three strike forces already are in place and have recovered millions of dollars in stolen relief funds, officials said.
• The administration also will propose increasing the statute of limitations to 10 years for fraud involving the pandemic Unemployment Insurance program, which has been hit especially hard by scammers.
• Some $300 million will be distributed to inspectors general at the Small Business Administration, the Department of Labor and the staff of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee, a government watchdog over pandemic spending. The money would be used to hire investigators and make sure they have the resources needed to pursue specialized cases of pandemic fraud.
• In his proposed budget to be released next week, Biden will offer a package of legislative reforms to prevent, detect and recover payments made improperly through the Unemployment Insurance program.
• Federal grants would be made to states to help modernize their information technology systems to enable them to respond more quickly to fraud, decrease erroneous payments and provide more efficient claims processing.
• New initiatives also would be put in place to identify victims of identity theft, including an early warning system to stop potentially fraudulent transactions before they occur and a one-stop shop to report identity crimes.
WHY IT MATTERS
The federal government distributed more than $5 trillion in pandemic relief under programs approved by Biden and former President Donald Trump. The money was distributed quickly, leading to an increase in fraud and other improper payments, such as those that shouldn’t have been made or were made in the wrong amount.
The Government Accountability Office reported last month that the extent of fraud in COVID-relief programs is not yet known but that the Unemployment Insurance program alone was believed to have made more than $60 billion in fraudulent payments.
From March 2020 to last January, at least 1,044 people pleaded guilty or were convicted of defrauding COVID relief programs, the GAO report said. Federal charges were pending against another 609 individuals or entities for attempting to defraud COVID-relief programs.
Also, the federal government gave $5.4 billion in COVID aid to small businesses with “questionable” Social Security numbers, the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee reported in January. The watchdog identified nearly 70,000 questionable Social Security numbers used to obtain pandemic aid from two programs run by the Small Business Administration.
WHAT'S NEXT?
The Republican-led House Oversight and Accountability Committee has opened an investigation into fraud in COVID-relief programs. The committee held its first hearing on the subject last month.
Sperling, however, said the administration’s anti-fraud package isn’t a direct response to the GOP investigations. Most of the proposals were being prepared before last November’s election, he said.
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FISCAL CONSERVATIVES! . HERE’S AN IDEA LETS INVESTIGATE THE WHOLE COVID RELIEF HANDOUTS TO THE RICH AND TRUMP ALLIES?
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There's lot of character's to simp for in one piece but I got a soft spot for asl and ussop ( it's a crime theirs not many luffy or ussop smut out there )~
God I dunno if I could ever sexualize Luffy. That's like my brother right there. He has a very unfuckable non-sexual aura, like he's written in a very aroace way in the sense he's never once had a romantic encounter where he returned the other person's feelings. He just wants to eat tasty food and have adventures with his homes!
But like... he IS kind of loyal to the point of being possessive even in a platonic friend way? Or at least I can picture a fic where it's spun as such 😏 i can kinda see where he would be extremely reluctant to let go if a new friend or close friend of his didn't want to sail around on the ship or be a straw hat anymore. I mean, just look at how he let Sanji absolutely beat his ass because he wasn't willing to let Sanji walk away to join the Vinsmokes (although that was mostly because Luffy knew he didn't want to, but, you know)
Ussopp definitely takes some time to grow on you, especially depending on which version of him you're plucking from the story. The timeskip where he's more buff and self sufficient is definitely more appealing than "lying crybaby with a slingshot" that we get introduced to. I have to admit I need to rewatch the series 😩 Ussopp kinda gives me those "if you pass out drunk in front of this guy he might cop a feel" kinda vibes, at least for the kinds of things I write 😏
#also hey guys guess whos gonna have more free time to write cause of.... stuff... like unemployment lmao#its a relief honestly I'll finally have free time again#also it was destroying my body. they genuinely kept forgetting i was disabled and i have repetitive motion injuries in my elbows and wrists
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my security clearance went through!!! (after like two weeks) so i get to START my JOB in a week and a half
#FUCKING FINALLy#you guys don't understand how much of a relief this is for me i HATED my unemployment era sm#ramblings
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Stevenson, AL woman charged in COVID scheme gets 14 months and must repay $120,025
Stevenson, Alabama woman charged in COVID scheme gets 14 months and must repay $120,025...
A Stevenson, Alabama woman was sentenced to 14-months in prison on Wednesday after conviction from her involvement in a scheme to defraud COVID-19 unemployment programs in multiple states.
29-year-old Randa Faye Allison appeared before Judge Curtis L. Collier in Chattanooga on Wednesday for sentencing.
As part of the filed plea agreement with the court, the Department of Justice says Allison pled…
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#Alabama#arrest#COVID-19 relief fraud#Fraud#Jackson County News#jail#Marion County News#prison#Randa Faye Allison#Stevenson#Stevenson News#unemployment
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#plies#bragging#biden harris 2024#BidenHarris#gdp#student loan relief#unemployment#stock market#14 million jobs secured#elections matter#elections 2024
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#I didn’t even get to the interview stage for a job I wanted and thought I was really qualified for#like I’m a writer#I have a degree in creative writing#but the jobs I’m qualified for???!#apparently I don’t like them#loved my education but so many career avenues I’m not interested in perusing#or like I know mentally I can’t handle them#I don’t want to write grants or have any responsibility with money#I don’t want to worry about money AT WORK#I don’t want to continue journalism because it’s a bad when the best part was the relief of being done with a story#I don’t want to feel burn out with a job#that’s it#but apparently I’m not qualified enough for content managing#which is what I want to do I believe I’d enjoy it and be good fit for it#anyway I have 30 dollars and I’m PRAYING my unemployment comes on the 22#because if it doesn’t I’m fucked I’m so fucked i won’t have money for any bills and I’ll be homeless
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The cash infusions approved by Congress greatly eased the financial hardship caused by high unemployment and reduced hours of work during COVID.
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"RED RIOTERS ROUTED BY LOYAL JOBLESS," Toronto Globe. June 20, 1933. Page 1.
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Strike Attempt Fails at Thunder Bay Unemployment Camp
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(Canadian Press Despatch.)
Fort William, June 19. - Rioters at the Trans-Canada Highway unemployed camp at Martin, near here, were driven off with a fire hose and hammer handles wielded by camp workers who resented a strike brought on by the discharge of two alleged Communists over the weekend.
Armed with rocks and pick handles, about twenty-five men resisted efforts of police and camp officials to force them to leave the camp. They were joined by thirty more men who quit their work. When police and trusted camp workers drove them off with hammer handles and a fire hose, they retreated from the camp singing "The Red Flag."
[AL: As always coming from an anti-Communist paper like The Globe hard to take seriously their account of this relief camp strike near what is now Thunder Bay, Ontario. Indeed, the second paragraph indicates that a large protest was broken by police aided by scabs, but tells us little about how big the second group of non-strikers was. Don't have access to the local papers yet.]
#fort william#thunder bay#relief strike#relief camp#strike#unemployed protest#age of the camps#unemployment relief#unemployed workers#working class struggle#communists#anti-communism#national unemployed workers association#great depression in canada#northwestern ontario
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Jobless women form a line a block long to register for relief at 348 East 149th St. in the Bronx, November 2, 1931.
Photo: Ossie LeViness for the NY Daily News
#New York#NYC#vintage New York#1930s#relief line#Ossie LeViness#Great Depression#unemployment#unemployed women#jobless#joblessness#November 2#Nov. 2
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Things Biden and the Democrats did, this week #14
April 12-19 2024
The Department of Commerce announced a deal with Samsung to help bring advanced semiconductor manufacturing and research and development to Texas. The deal will bring 45 billion dollars of investment to Texas to help build a research center in Taylor Texas and expand Samsung's Austin, Texas, semiconductor facility. The Biden Administration estimates this will create 21,000 new jobs. Since 1990 America has fallen from making nearly 40% of the world's semiconductor to just over 10% in 2020.
The Department of Energy announced it granted New York State $158 million to help support people making their homes more energy efficient. This is the first payment out of a $8.8 billion dollar program with 11 other states having already applied. The program will rebate Americans for improvements on their homes to lower energy usage. Americans could get as much as $8,000 off for installing a heat pump, as well as for improvements in insulation, wiring, and electrical panel. The program is expected to help save Americans $1 billion in electoral costs, and help create 50,000 new jobs.
The Department of Education began the formal process to make President Biden's new Student Loan Debt relief plan a reality. The Department published the first set of draft rules for the program. The rules will face 30 days of public comment before a second draft can be released. The Administration hopes the process can be finished by the Fall to bring debt relief to 30 million Americans, and totally eliminate the debt of 4 million former students. The Administration has already wiped out the debt of 4.3 million borrowers so far.
The Department of Agriculture announced a $1 billion dollar collaboration with USAID to buy American grown foods combat global hunger. Most of the money will go to traditional shelf stable goods distributed by USAID, like wheat, rice, sorghum, lentils, chickpeas, dry peas, vegetable oil, cornmeal, navy beans, pinto beans and kidney beans, while $50 million will go to a pilot program to see if USAID can expand what it normally gives to new products. The food aid will help feed people in Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Chad, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Haiti, Kenya, Madagascar, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, and Yemen.
The Department of the Interior announced it's expanding four national wildlife refuges to protect 1.13 million wildlife habitat. The refuges are in New Mexico, North Carolina, and two in Texas. The Department also signed an order protecting parts of the Placitas area. The land is considered sacred by the Pueblos peoples of the area who have long lobbied for his protection. Security Deb Haaland the first Native American to serve as Interior Secretary and a Pueblo herself signed the order in her native New Mexico.
The Department of Labor announced new work place safety regulations about the safe amount of silica dust mine workers can be exposed to. The dust is known to cause scaring in the lungs often called black lung. It's estimated that the new regulations will save over 1,000 lives a year. The United Mine Workers have long fought for these changes and applauded the Biden Administration's actions.
The Biden Administration announced its progress in closing the racial wealth gap in America. Under President Biden the level of Black Unemployment is the lowest its ever been since it started being tracked in the 1970s, and the gap between white and black unemployment is the smallest its ever been as well. Black wealth is up 60% over where it was in 2019. The share of black owned businesses doubled between 2019 and 2022. New black businesses are being created at the fastest rate in 30 years. The Administration in 2021 Interagency Task Force to combat unfair house appraisals. Black homeowners regularly have their homes undervalued compared to whites who own comparable property. Since the Taskforce started the likelihood of such a gap has dropped by 40% and even disappeared in some states. 2023 represented a record breaking $76.2 billion in federal contracts going to small business owned by members of minority communities. This was 12% of federal contracts and the President aims to make it 15% for 2025.
The EPA announced (just now as I write this) that it plans to add PFAS, known as forever chemicals, to the Superfund law. This would require manufacturers to pay to clean up two PFAS, perfluorooctanoic acid and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid. This move to force manufacturers to cover the costs of PFAS clean up comes after last week's new rule on drinking water which will remove PFAS from the nation's drinking water.
Bonus:
President Biden met a Senior named Bob in Pennsylvania who is personally benefiting from The President's capping the price of insulin for Seniors at $35, and Biden let Bob know about a cap on prosecution drug payments for seniors that will cut Bob's drug bills by more than half.
#Thanks Biden#Joe Biden#jobs#Economy#student loan debt#Environment#PFAS#politics#US politics#health care
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A taxonomy of corporate bullshit
Next Tuesday (Oct 31) at 10hPT, the Internet Archive is livestreaming my presentation on my recent book, The Internet Con.
There are six lies that corporations have told since time immemorial, and Nick Hanauer, Joan Walsh and Donald Cohen's new book Corporate Bullsht: Exposing the Lies and Half-Truths That Protect Profit, Power, and Wealth in America* provides an essential taxonomy of this dirty six:
https://thenewpress.com/books/corporate-bullsht
In his review for The American Prospect, David Dayen summarizes how these six lies "offer a civic-minded, reasonable-sounding justification for positions that in fact are motivated entirely by self-interest":
https://prospect.org/culture/books/2023-10-27-lies-my-corporation-told-me-hanauer-walsh-cohen-review/
I. Pure denial
As far back as the slave trade, corporate apologists and mouthpieces have led by asserting that true things are false, and vice-versa. In 1837, John Calhoun asserted that "Never before has the black race of Central Africa, from the dawn of history to the present day, attained a condition so civilized and so improved, not only physically, but morally and intellectually." George Fitzhugh called enslaved Africans in America "the freest people in the world."
This tactic never went away. Children sent to work in factories are "perfectly happy." Polluted water is "purer than the water that came from the river before we used it." Poor families "don't really exist." Pesticides don't lead to "illness or death." Climate change is "beneficial." Lead "helps guard your health."
II. Markets can solve problems, governments can't
Alan Greenspan made a career out of blithely asserting that markets self-correct. It was only after the world economy imploded in 2008 that he admitted that his doctrine had a "flaw":
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/greenspan-admits-flaw-to-congress-predicts-more-economic-problems
No matter how serious a problem is, the market will fix it. In 1973, the US Chamber of Commerce railed against safety regulations, because "safety is good business," and could be left to the market. If unsafe products persist in the market, it's because consumers choose to trade safety off "for a lower price tag" (Chamber spox Laurence Kraus). Racism can't be corrected with anti-discrimination laws. It's only when "the market" realizes that racism is bad for business that it will finally be abolished.
III. Consumers and workers are to blame
In 1946, the National Coal Association blamed rampant deaths and maimings in the country's coal-mines on "carelessness on the part of men." In 2003, the National Restaurant Association sang the same tune, condemning nutritional labels because "there are not good or bad foods. There are good and bad diets." Reagan's interior secretary Donald Hodel counseled personal responsibility to address a thinning ozone layer: "people who don’t stand out in the sun—it doesn’t affect them."
IV. Government cures are always worse than the disease
Lee Iacocca called 1970's Clean Air Act "a threat to the entire American economy and to every person in America." Every labor and consumer protection before and since has been damned as a plague on American jobs and prosperity. The incentive to work can't survive Social Security, welfare or unemployment insurance. Minimum wages kill jobs, etc etc.
V. Helping people only hurts them
Medicare will "destroy private initiative for our aged to protect themselves with insurance" (Republican Senator Milward Simpson, 1965). Covid relief is unfair to people that are currently in the workforce" (Republican Governor Brian Kemp, 2021). Welfare produces "learned helplessness."
VI. Everyone who disagrees with me is a socialist
Grover Cleveland's 2% on top incomes is "communistic warfare against rights of property" (NY Tribune, 1895). "Socialized medicine" will leave "our children and our children’s children [asking] what it once was like in America when men were free" (Reagan, 1961).
Everything is "socialism": anti-child labor laws, Social Security, minimum wages, family and medical leave. Even fascism is socialism! In 1938, the National Association of Manufacturers called labor rights "communism, bolshevism, fascism, and Nazism."
As Dayen says, it's refreshing to see how the right hasn't had an original idea in 150 years, and simply relies on repeating the same nonsense with minor updates. Right wing ideological innovation consists of finding new ways to say, "actually, your boss is right."
The left's great curse is object permanence: the ability to remember things, like the fact that it used to be possible for a worker to support a family of five on a single income, or that the economy once experienced decades of growth with a 90%+ top rate of income tax (other things the left manages to remember: the "intelligence community" are sociopathic monsters, not Trump-slaying heroes).
When the business lobby rails against long-overdue antitrust action against Amazon and Google, object permanence puts it all in perspective. The talking points about this being job-destroying socialism are the same warmed-over nonsense used to defend rail-barons and Rockefeller. "If you don't like it, shop elsewhere," has been the corporate apologist's line since slavery times.
As Dayen says, Corporate Bullshit is a "reference book for conservative debating points, in an attempt to rob them of their rhetorical power." It will be out on Halloween:
https://bookshop.org/a/54985/9781620977514
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/27/six-sells/#youre-holding-it-wrong
#pluralistic#corporate bullshit#lies#books#reviews#taxonomies#labor#denialism#consumerism#Nick Hanauer#Joan Walsh#Donald Cohen#history#object permanence#taking the right seriously
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