Date: Wed, 10 Dec 1997 02:40:29 -0500 (EST) From: "Liam R.Flynn" <trinity-AT-hot-shot.com> Subject: M-G: Welfare & jobs,fair wage? > 12/09/97 23:00 Welfare Activists Citing Job Shortages WASHINGTON. > Thousands of activists are planning demonstrations across the > country today to protest what they contend are major shortfalls in > newly established federal welfare policies. The events are timed to > coincide with a report by a Washington advocacy group suggesting the > new plan for moving welfare recipients into jobs is hampered by an > insufficient number of available jobs paying at least modest > salaries. The report by The Preamble Center for Public Policy found > the U.S. economy in 1997-1998 will create only about half the > low-skill jobs needed for welfare recipients, with the ratio > reaching 8-to-1 in some states.{UPI} Liam R.Flynn liam-AT-stones.com ICQ*5031073 NEC/EUROPE/INTERNET*WIRELESS SERVICE//// Internet Wireless Broadcast/to=liam-AT-stones.com [information&internet:without a modem] --- from list marxism-general-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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