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Welfare - Workfare - Archives
- ILO- Global Study: 150 million unemployed (9/1998)
- "Workfare wasn't meant to be fair" (9/1998)
- US: Youth Violence Legislation / Minimum Wage -
Children's Defense Fund (9/1998)
- US: NY Court Rejects Workfare Pay Claim (9/1998)
- UK: Blair targets "sink estates" - with
backdoor privatisation (9/1998)
- UK: Employment Rights - A Reference Handbook (9/1998)
- Japan: The New Poor Demand Safety Nets (9/1998)
- UK: Brighton Against Benefit Cuts - Fighting
'New Deal' workfare! (9/1998)
- Europe: ICFTU on Slaves in Europe (9/1998)
- Brazil: Thousands Protest Poverty in Brazil (9/1998)
- US: Keeping the Rich Invisible? (9/1998)
- US: Workfare Protest on Anniversary of Welfare-
"Reform" (8/1998)
- US: Prison Labor (8/1998)
- US: Hunger at Home - The Growing Epidemic (8/1998)
- US: Workfairness, Wisconsin's W-2 Workers Together, the
Welfare Warriors (8/1998)
- US: What Does It Mean to Be Homeless With Your Children
in San Francisco? (8/1998)
- Women heading households (8/1998)
- US: Campaign for a Fair Minimum Wage (8/1998)
- US: Homeless protest at U.S. governors' conference (8/1998)
- US: Workfare - Mother forced to quit breast feeding her 2
month old baby (8/1998)
- US: Food Not Bombs Western Regional Gathering (8/1998)
- Japan: No Jobs In Japan For Those Over 50 (8/1998)
- US: ITT - Social Security vs. Securities (8/1998)
- US: Workfare - Resisting in Ohio! (8/1998)
- Europe: NGOs' Futures Left In Doubt As EU-
Funding Row Goes On (8/1998)
- US: Women and Social Security: "Preposterous"
Claims (8/1998)
- US: New Workfare- Program for about 35,000 disabled
People in NYC (8/1998)
- US: National Day of Protest on Workfare (7/1998)
- US: Imprisoning the American poor (Le Monde diplomatique)
!!! (7/1998)
- US: Workfare Mothers trapped in the System (7/1998)
- France: Sans-papiers on Hunger Strike (7/1998)
- US: Prison Industrial Complex and the Global Economy (7/1998)
- Children: Industrialized World Forgets Its Young Homeless
(7/1998)
- US: National Organizers' Summit on Welfare Reform and
Workfare (7/1998)
- Denmark: Workfare - Magazine sues government for human
rights violation (7/1998)
- US: The Growing Anti-Workfare Movement (7/1998)
- URL: Tedrico's Homeless Page (7/1998)
- US: Gore Questions Privatizing Social Security (6/1998)
- US: Workfairness called for a national day of protest on
Aug. 22 (6/1998)
- Preventing the ILO from becoming an Appendage of the WTO (6/1998)
- New Zealand: Poverty - Walk for Change (6/1998)
- ILO Reaffirms Basic Workplace Rights (6/1998)
- US: Number of Jobs - Results from a Longitudinal Survey (6/1998)
- US: Social Security - "Shortfall"- Warnings
Distort Reality (6/1998)
- Canada: The poor fight back against repression in
Vancouver and Toronto (6/1998)
- US: Minimum wage (6/1998)
- US: Broken Lives - Facts About Poverty (6/1998)
- Canada: Workfare in Kingston (6/1998)
- US: Details on Food Stamp restoration (6/1998)
- US: CA Gov Fighting Minimum Wages For Workfare
Participants (6/1998)
- US: Welfare and Human Rights Monitoring Report (6/1998)
- US: Welfare and Human Rights Monitoring Report (URL) (6/1998)
- US: Children's Defense Fund Update - June 1, 1998 (6/1998)
- US: Welfare- "Reform" in Wisconsin (5/1998)
- Europe: EAPN on Civil Society and the New
Forms of Poverty, East and West (5/1998)
- US: Companies that have programs to hire welfare
recipients (5/1998)
- US: Children's Defense Fund Update - May 22, 1998 (5/1998)
- UK: Edinburgh Claimants Defy Court Sentence / Strike
Action (5/1998)
- Australia: Work for the Dole (5/1998)
- US: Social Security: Facts, not Fiction (5/1998)
- US: Children's Defense Fund Update - May 15, 1998 (5/1998)
- UK: Brighton Against Benefit Cuts: Workfare and the dole
bludger myth (5/1998)
- Canada: Canada/US poverty rates (5/1998)
- Canada: Quebec Superior Court: Workfare violates human
rights (5/1998)
- US: Teens Working More Hours (5/1998)
- Canada: Canadians got poorer in the '90s (5/1998)
- Canada: Stop the War on Immigrants and Refugees! (5/1998)
- Canada/US: Poverty in US vs Canada (5/1998)
- US: Travel Reservations by Prison Labor (5/1998)
- US: Santa Monica, CA Homeless Action (5/1998)
- US: Mental Health Care Cut by Mangled Care (5/1998)
- US: The Right's "Remedies" for Medicare (5/1998)
- US: Children's Defense Fund Update - May 5, 1998 (5/1998)
- US: Children's Defense Fund Update - April 28, 1998 (4/1998)
- Canada: Preschoolers' parents encouraged
to join workfare (4/1998)
- UK: Welfare benefits replaced by "workfare"
forced labour programs (4/1998)
- US: Prisons For Profit - Nation Editorial (4/1998)
- US: Housing vouchers help move from welfare to work? (4/1998)
- US: Children's Defense Fund Update - April 17, 1998 (4/1998)
- US: New Party - Organize for Social Justice (4/1998)
- US: Homeless Health Care Manual (4/1998)
- US: Defend Social Security! - Militant, vol.62/no.15 (4/1998)
- US: Many Workfare Participants Are Taking the Place of
City Workers (4/1998)
- US: Children's Defense Fund Update - April 10, 1998 (4/1998)
- US: Workfare workers disrupt NY hearing (4/1998)
- Sweden: "Arbeit für alle" in Schweden? (4/1998)
- Germany: Arbeits statt Knast, Knast statt Arbeit, Jungle
World, april 22, (4/1998)
- US: New York Workfare Workers Disrupt Hearing (4/1998)
- US: Welfare "reform" and the death of
liberalism (4/1998)
- US: Barriers that prevent homeless people from accessing
food stamp benefits (4/1998)
- URL: US: Homeless Info Archives (4/1998)
- Canada: Anti-Workfare Struggle (Ontario) (4/1998)
- US: Deal Emerging on Social Security "Reform" (4/1998)
- US: LA Rally for Living Wage at United Airlines (4/1998)
- US: Sozialhilfe- "Reform" in den USA (4/1998)
- Europe: ENU- Konferenz in Glasgow: Für Arbeit, gegen
Zwangsarbeit! (3/1998)
- US: Restoration of Food Stamps to immigrants (3/1998)
- Finland: Welfare State Reaches Turning Point (3/1998)
- US: Oakland Adopts "Living Wage" Policy (3/1998)
- US: Jobs with Justice: The Poverty of Welfare Reform (3/1998)
- US: Children's Defense Fund Update - March 20, 1998 (3/1998)
- Canada: Poverty-Related Diseases (3/1998)
- US: Homelessness - Local cold wet weather shelters (3/1998)
- US: Juvenile offenders would be tried as adults and
housed in adult facilities (3/1998)
- Workfare: "Voluntary or Involuntary?" (3/1998)
- US: Crime and Punishment 1999 (3/1998)
- Social housing a better choice (3/1998)
- US: Children's Defense Fund Update, March 13,1998 (3/1998)
- LIST: workfare-discuss on workfare-discuss@icomm.ca
(3/1998)
- Making of a Teen Gulag / Workfare Discussion List / Book
on Living Wages (3/1998)
- Canada: Toronto: Stop the Tory Welfare
Cuts! (3/1998)
- US: Children's Defense Fund Update, March 6, 1998 (3/1998)
- US: Labor, The Environment, The Poor: Organizing for
Power (/1998)
- US: Children's Defense Fund Update, March 2, 1998 (2/1998)
- Poland: "Eat the Rich" - Anti-Capitalist
demonstration in Cracow (2/1998)
- Ireland: Campaigning for a minimum wage (2/1998)
- Russia: "The Unemployeds Union" (2/1998)
- US: Children's Defense Fund Update, February 20,1998 (2/1998)
- Germany: 40,000 March For Jobs (2/1998)
- US: Fewer Workers with Health Insurance (2/1998)
- LIST: 'Food Not Bombs' Discussion List (2/1998)
- US: NYC: Rally for Mad-Housing (2/1998)
- US: Uninsured NY Workers Face Difficulties
Getting Health Care (2/1998)
- US: Children's Defense Fund Update, February 13,1998 (2/1998)
- US: "Big Issue"- homeless newspaper cultivates
advertising (2/1998)
- US: Workfairness- Rally: Welfare slavery has got to go! (2/1998)
- US: Children's Defense Fund Update, February 6,1998 (2/1998)
- US: Beyond the Prison Industrial Complex: Berkeley
Conference (1/1998)
- US: Prison labor report from the AFL-CIO (1/1998)
- US: Workfare Tax Credits (1/1998)
- US: NYC Welfare Boss Exposed (1/1998)
- Canada: Latest Attack on the Poor in BC -- Forced Waiver
of Privacy (1/1998)
- Global March on Five Continents Targets
Child Labor (1/1998)
- US: Children's Defense Fund Update, January 23, 1998 (1/1998)
- UK: British Labour govt. welfare to work proposals (1/1998)
- US: Wie man mit Arbeit ärmer werden kann
(german) (1/1998)
- US: Prison Laborers Do Time in Factories With Fences (1/1998)
- US: McPrison Franchise (1/1998)
- "Flexible working cuts costs and creates jobs":
wrong on both counts! (1/1998)
- US: CCA (worth $3.5 billion) accounts for half of the
private 77,000 prisoners (1/1998)
- US: Social workers and corporate SF fight Service
Employees Int' Union (1/1998)
- US: welfare recipients are being forced to give up the
drive for higher education (1/1998)
- US: Food Not Bombs-Worcester - Local volunteers
prosecuted (1/1998)
- Canada: Poor Women Speak Out In Ottawa (1/1998)
- France: French unions back unemployed demands for bonus (1/1998)
- UK: Fight for welfare state reviving British Labor left (1/1998)
- US: LaborTalk: Welfare Reform - It's Tough to Be a Loser (1/1998)
Archives: September 1996 - December
1997
- Giant Companies Entering Race to
Run State Welfare Programs (9/1996)
- The War on the Poor: A Defense
Manual (9/1996)
- Employers who use social welfare
as an unofficial subsidy to allow them to pay poverty
wages (9/1996)
- Privatization of Welfare Programs
(12/1996)
- Workfare in Westchester County
(12/1996)
- Sweden: More Social Democratic
Betrayals (12/1996)
- Welfare State - Grassroots
Resistance? (12/1996)
- !!! The Poverty Profiteers
Privatize Welfare (12/1996)
- Homeless Conference (1/1997)
- Protest Attack On Social Security!
(12/1996)
- Norway's welfare state (12/1996)
- Mass Movement can Stop Theft of
Workers' Retirement Fund (12/1996)
- Grassroots Action to Abolish
Homelessness (12/1996)
- Mar 1: The Day Hunger Starts /
March for Bread and Work (1/1997)
- Homelessness, Child-Poverty...
(1/1997)
- Bread & Work Alliance"
Forms to Fight Welfare "Deform'/March 1st Rally
(1/1997)
- No Jobs for Those Pushed Off
Welfare (1/1997)
- The Global Sweatshop: Alternatives
and Resistance (12/1996)
- Workfare and Dr. King (12/1996)
- Legal protections against being
required to disclose a social number (12/1996)
- CDF: Uninsured Children in Working
Families need Health Coverage now! (1/1997)
- Fingerprinting welfare recipients
- Poverty & Privacy Issues Resource (1/1997)
- Criminally liable for violating
the Full Employment Act (1/1997)
- !!! California to privatize
welfare? (1/1997)
- Wall Street aims to plunder Social
Security (1/1997)
- "Workfare workers, we're not
slaves, we want jobs at union wage!" (1/1997)
- CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND - 1/31/97:
Confusion over the welfare law / / The Wisconsin example
faulters
- ROCHESTER: VICTORY FOR HOMELESS
STRUGGLE (1/1997)
- Headwaters & the Homeless
(1/1997)
- Welfare Changes Don't Empower
(1/1997)
- Summary: Welfare, Health, Housing
& Immigration News 2/1997)
- End Legislated Poverty, Canada:
Welfare Rates in B.C. (2/1997)
- UK: Unemployment Statistics: Who
believes the Government? (1/1997)
- "Welfare Reform"
Exposed: Child Endangerment (2/1997)
- Joblessness Hits Record High In
Germany (2/1997)
- Immigrants at risk of being lost
in desert of welfare (2/1997)
- Unions Pledge to Organize Workfare
Workers (2/1997)
- What Is A Social Wage, Why Is It
Attacked? (2/1997)
- National March for Jobs, Justice
and People's Needs (2/1997)
- AFL-CIO to organize one million
workfare participants (2/1997)
- Bericht Armutskonferenz in
Oesterreich (2/1997)
- Constitutional Implications of
AFL-CIO Policy (2/1997)
- Book: Myth of the Welfare
Queen(2/1997)
- 2nd Annual National Fast for the
Homeless (2/1997)
- Stop Clinton strike busting &
welfare attacks (2/1997)
- Privatizers seek workfare loot
(2/1997)
- 2000 March in Oakland against
Welfare Cuts (2/1997)
- NY Workfare Participants Demand A
Union (2/1997)
- Book review: women's poverty in
the U.S. (2/1997)
- Homes Not Jails Boston Action
(2/1997)
- Poor People in Poor Health
(3/1997)
- Welfare Protesters Jailed in
Minnesota (3/1997)
- March for Immigrants' Rights, L.A.
(3/1997)
- Workfare organizing &
prospects for labor struggle (3/1997)
- Overworked and Underemployed
(3/1997)
- Detroit Protest Against Food Stamp
Cuts (3/1997)
- Children victims of poverty,
exploitation (3/1997)
- Welfare May Be Safety Net for
Battered Women (3/1997)
- CDF: President's Budget Part I and
II (3/1997)
- N.C. protests food stamp cuts
(3/1997)
- Women's Poverty Gap Splits All
Europe (3/1997)
- Thousands March For Immigrant
Rights In L.A. (3/1997)
- FY95-FY98 Funding for Homeless
Assistance Programs (3/1997)
- Showdown coming over welfare cuts
(3/1997)
- March for Social Justice, London,
12 APRIL (3/1997)
- 40,000 Workers Protest Job Cuts in
EU (3/1997)
- Police raze homeless in New York
City (3/1997)
- Protest against Summit on
America's Future in Philadelphia (3/1997)
- Coalition For The Homeless #3: Who
Are The Homeless? (3/1997)
- Coalition For The Homeless Fact
Sheet #7: Homeless Families (3/1997)
- Growing Gap Between The Rich And
The Poor in (Canada (3/1997)
- Mich. guv wants welfare recipients
to sweep streets (3/1997)
- Campaign to Restore Welfare Rights
(3/1997)
- Anti-Deportation Protest In Miami
(3/1997)
- New Face of Union-Busting (3/1997)
- Working, but still poor in
Sacramento, Calif. (3/1997)
- Workfare Takes Jobs, Drives Down
Wages Across Country (4/1997)
- Workfare workers demand real jobs
(4/1997)
- Welfare 'reform' sparks resistance
across globe (4/1997)
- Japan: Homeless Are Growing
(4/1997)
- Slave-labor program known as
workfare (4/1997)
- March for Social Justice, London
(4/1997)
- Clinton's welfare
"reform" (4/1997)
- World Homeless Union (4/1997)
- Eastern Europe reform leaves
children behind (4/1997)
- Why we are marching April 27
(4/1997)
- Welfare Cuts Damage Pregnant
Women, New Mothers (4/1997)
- 1,700 Homeless Black Vets in
Delaware (4/1997)
- Welfare Privatization (5/1997)
- The 'reform' of welfare in
Appalachian Ohio (5/1997)
- Arrested Fighting Poverty (5/1997)
- Homes Not Jails Boston action May
10 (5/1997)
- Low-Income Residents May Sue After
Chemical Spill (5/1997)
- Protect workfare
"recipients" (5/1997)
- Protections for Workfare Workers
(5/1997)
- CDF: Child Act (5/1997)
- Clinton, Gingrich present killer
budget (5/1997)
- Women in Prison - Children in
Crisis (5/1997)
- Workfare Workplace Protections
(5/1997)
- Health care crisis grows (5/1997)
- Capitalism and child poverty
(5/1997)
- Workfare workes deserve
'prevailing wage' (5/1997)
- Big Biz Grab on Workfare (5/1997)
- Eye On New York, vol. 3, no. 21
(5/1997)
- Summary of Welfare, Health,
Housing & Immigration News (5/1997)
- URL: Phoenix Jobs With Justice web
site (5/1997)
- URL: Library of documents on
workfare (5/1997)
- URL: NZ site on jobs (5/1997)
- Crocodile Tears Over Youth
Unemployment (Canada) (5/1997)
- Welfare 'suicides': Murdered by
the government (5/1997)
- New video: "Poverty
Outlaw" (5/1997)
- The 'Dream Economy': A house of
cards (5/1997)
- Poor Women's Group Backs Calif.
Nurses' Struggle (5/1997)
- Homeless March from Philadelphia
to NYC (6/1997)
- Social Rebellion Erupts In
Argentina (6/1997)
- Where are the Jobs for Welfare
Recipients? (6/1997)
- "Grassroots have pressured 50
MofC to sign onto public works jobs bill" (6/1997)
- Homes Not Jails conf. Boston
6/13-15 (6/1997)
- World's 7 Richest Men Could Wipe
Out Global Poverty (6/1997)
- A Wealth Tax Ends Homelessness!
(6/1997)
- Headwaters Homeless Tragedy
(6/1997)
- Welfare Reform Violates Human
Rights (6/1997)
- US Prison population hits record
(6/1997)
- Meidcare Cutbacks, but $$$ for CIA
(6/1997)
- Religious Leaders Attack Welfare
"Reform" (6/1997)
- Joblessness: A Growing Global
Threat (6/1997)
- Handsnet Summary: Health,
Welfare... News (6/1997)
- Social Justice #26: Workfare in
the USA (6/1997)
- UK Joblessness Brought Riots
(6/1997)
- Welfare cuts demand political
response (7/1997)
- Day of Action on Workfare (7/1997)
- WorkFirst Program will create
poverty, not cure it (7/1997)
- Welfare as we knew it died on July
1 (7/1997)
- Social Security Wreckers (7/1997)
- Welfare Reform and Child Care
(7/1997)
- Workfare Casualties (7/1997)
- Children's Defense Fund Update
(7/1997)
- Handsnet Summary: Health,
Welfare... News (7/1997)
- BC Benefits includes cruel,
punitive, and unfair provisions (7/1997)
- Study: Welfare cuts lower wages
for all (7/1997)
- Mega -Theft: Clinton-Gingrich
Budget (7/1997)
- Budget Bill Penalizes Welfare
Workers, Abused Women (7/1997)
- Who's Looking Out for Nation's
Social Contract? (7/1997)
- How poor children are treated in
Amerikkka (8/1997)
- Euro Grey Hair Workers March For
Jobs (8/1997)
- Welfare Rights Union opposes use
of homeless as strikebreakers (8/1997)
- Death of a workfare worker
(8/1997)
- 'Poverty industry' makes billions
off desperation (8/1997)
- 125-Mile Welfare Rights March
Arrived at U.N. (8/1997)
- Return of the Work
House--"Factories Within Fences" (8/1997)
- Take Back the Flats for the
Homeless... (8/1997)
- Child poverty: The United States
leads the pack (8/1997)
- Disabled children cut off,
workfare workers fight back (8/1997)
- New stage in fight for welfare
rights in Wisconsin (8/1997)
- Humboldt Homeless Under Seige
(9/1997)
- "Save the Dream" march
across the Golden Gate Bridge (9/1997)
- Children's Defense Fund Update
(9/1997)
- LaborTalk: What Working Women Want
(9/1997)
- 50 million in U.S. live in poverty
(9/1997)
- The Real Welfare Cheats: Corporate
America (9/1997)
- Family aid program: slavery
revisited (9/1997)
- Welfare Workers Of World Unite
(9/1997)
- Report: NY Welfare Changes Hurt
the Poor (9/1997)
- Children's Defense Fund Update
(9/1997)
- Children's Defense Fund Update
October 3 (10/1997)
- Women: Choice or Poverty Trap?
(10/1997)
- Protections for Workfare Workers
(10/1997)
- I am working part time in our
Labor Pool (10/1997)
- Growing Gap Between The Rich And
Everybody Else (Canada) (10/1997)
- Nation's Largest Housing Project
gets New Tenant Head (10/1997)
- NY Workfare Recipients Vote to
Unionize (10/1997)
- Wealth and Poverty in USA
(10/1997)
- Jobs with Justice sets day of action (11/1997)
- Income Inequality kills the poor (11/1997)
- MI House Passes Unemployment Insurance Bill (11/1997)
- Homeless: SanJose, Eureka, San Francisco Police Abuse (11/1997)
- National Day of Action For Welfare Workfare Justice! (11/1997)
- Workfare workers say poor won't be divided (11/1997)
- Worcester Food Not Bombs Boycotts Court Proceedings (11/1997)
- Unemployment: The Game is Rigged (11/1997)
- LIST: Homeless People's Network list (11/1997)
- Child Labr Increasing In Europe Says ICFTU (11/1997)
- Santa Clarita Homeless Shelter opens (12/1997)
- Welfare/workfare national action day Dec 10 (12/1997)
- Japan: Homeless Day Laborers Hit By Downturn (12/1997)
- 388,000 New Yorkers suffer from hunger (12/1997)
- National Day of action for welfare justice set (12/1997)
- Workfare workers hold historic union meeting (12/1997)
- The poor of Montreal raid bourgeois banquet (12/1997)
- Homeless Protest in Japan (12/1997)
- Prison Labor Projects (12/1997)
- Welfare Reform and Falling Wages (12/1997)
- NY March for Workfare Union (12/1997)
- Child Labor Alive & Well in U.S. (12/1997)
- The cry in 60 cities: 'Workfare justice' (12/1997)
- US Conference of Mayors said hunger appeared to be
growing (12/1997)
- Jobs with Justice: Volunteer staff and a bottom-up,
militant organizing style (12/1997)
- The Prison Industrial Complex and the Global Economy (12/1997)
- Gov't to the Poor: Sleep in the Streets (12/1997)
- Nationwide protests vs. workfare (12/1997)
- NYC: Low-Income Housing to be canceled (12/1997)
- List: Squatters - join Homeless People's Network list (12/1997)
- France: Les luttes de chomeurs et d'exclus se multiplient
(12/1997)
- AMERICA All work, low pay (12/1997)
- Welfare & Girls' Health News (12/1997)
- Cleveland: Homeless Newspaper Vendors Taxed (12/1997)
- MacWelfare (12/1997)
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