The World Economic Forum and powerful financial interests are proposing a “Green New Deal” which is “not Green”. What is proposed below is a Green New Deal for Workers ( M.C. GR Editor) *** Workers in 2020 have a unique opportunity to vote to put two fellow workers in the White House. Howie is a …
The World Economic Forum and powerful financial interests are proposing a “Green New Deal” which is “not Green”. What is proposed below is a Green New Deal for Workers ( M. C. GR Editor) *** The COVID pandemic and economic collapse have highlighted the race and class inequalities in our society. With more than 35 million jobs lost, millions have lost their employer-connected health insurance in the middle of a pandemic. COVID-19 deaths are disproportionately afflicting working-class people, particularly Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people. The case for universal healthcare through a publicly-funded Medicare for All has never been stronger. As income disappears, the rent — already too high — has become impossible for many to pay. The threat of eviction is with many of us every month. Even if eviction has been stopped by a temporary moratorium for some of us, we see our rent piling up each month so that we will be evicted anyway when the moratorium ends. We need a federal emergency housing relief program that helps people make their rent and mortgage payments during the emergency. To fix the fundamentals of the housing crisis requires a major investment in public housing, this time not just as segregated housing for the poor but as high-quality mixed-income developments that include middle-income workers and professionals. Congress and the president are responding to the economic collapse so poorly that the nation is falling into a depression. A poll this week reported that 50% unemployed workers,8.
