Poverty Issues

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There's something you can do that Colesworths and the rentseekers don't get to rule over.

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Every day the Albanese government allows the current jobseeker regime to continue is yet another day of war on the poors.

Alan said one method of forcing jobseekers to pass on payslips was to set up a requirement the provider knew the client could not meet, which would trigger a suspension of their benefits.

“If somebody’s working you can just book them in for an appointment that you know they can’t attend if you’re not getting the payslips. When they don’t attend, you just say ‘not attended’ and it’s cut the payment off automatically.”

Read the Grauniad article and stay angry.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... for-anyone

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Billionaires, they no likee UBI.

a movement has been developing in the US to call for the adoption of basic income as national policy. This movement includes influential progressive organisations, academic institutions, grassroots organisers, and even a nationwide coalition of elected officials, all of whom have rallied around the vision of basic income for all within the next decade. So well developed is this movement that polls suggest that a majority of Americans now favour some form of basic income.

The rising popularity of this policy is scaring conservative lawmakers, political lobbyists, and their billionaire backers. They recognise the potential in this movement at this time, particularly in its push to denaturalise poverty, wealth and the social bases of each.

They see the inherent danger that a progressively funded basic income would pose to their ever-increasing wealth. And they sense, perhaps even intuitively, the threat to their power immanent in a people able to survive without having to submit to the tyranny of the market. So, now they are acting, in classically Machiavellian fashion, to see the threat off at the pass.

That is why across the country we are seeing efforts to kill basic income programmes, like the attorney general’s legal challenge in Texas.

Exceptional investigative work by the basic income researcher and advocate Scott Santens shows that one of the organisations supporting the backlash against basic income is the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA), which also crusades for causes such as banning free school meals and preventing the extension of Medicaid.

Predictably, the FGA is funded by hyper-conservative billionaires like Richard and Liz Uihlein, described by the New York Times as “the most powerful conservative couple you’ve never heard of”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024 ... sic-income