#DOGE also announced drastic cuts at depts that provide critical #SocialServices including #VeteransAffairs [#VA], which administers #healthcare for #veterans, & the #SocialSecurity Administration, which sends out checks to #retired, #disabled & #widowed Americans [money Americans put into the #SSA out of their own paychecks].
#OPM …has laid off >200 of its own employees & allowed >400 to *opt in* to *voluntary* exit programs since #Trump took office…
Ummm... #Florida considers easing #ChildLabor laws after pushing out #immigrants
A new law under consideration in the state Legislature would roll back child labor laws to make up for a dwindling labor pool.
By Ja'han Jones, March 27, 2025
Excerpt: "Florida Gov. #RonDeSantis backs the law and has defended the idea of teenagers and college students working these jobs. DeSantis also explicitly linked the effort to the loss of immigrant labor. Speaking about the consequences of state verification laws at an event with border czar #TomHoman, the governor said, 'Yes, we had people that left because of those rules, but you’ve also been able to hire other people. And what’s wrong with expecting our young people to be working part-time now?'
"In recent years, several states — many of them led by #Republican governors — have rolled back child labor laws. This map from the Economic Policy Institute illustrates the spike in states rolling back these laws from 2021 to 2024. Back in 2023, for example, #Arkansas Gov. #SarahHuckabeeSanders signed a bill that made it easier for companies to hire children without getting consent from their parents. One month earlier, The New York Times published a bombshell report about the #exploitation of immigrant children in #factories operated by some of the most well-known companies in the U.S.
"That story should have spurred a nationwide push to strengthen child labor laws. Instead, states like Florida are going in the opposite direction, weakening such laws in part to deal with the fallout from the conservative movement’s demonization of immigrants. They’re essentially using child labor to paper over the gaps left by their draconian immigration policies.
"#Project2025, the far-right playbook for Trump’s second term, specifically calls for rolling back 'hazard' regulations around child labor. The text claims, 'Some young adults show an interest in inherently dangerous jobs' and argues that 'with parental consent and proper training, certain young adults should be allowed to learn and work in more dangerous occupations.'
"Even as child labor laws are being rolled back, the Trump administration is working to gut #SocialServices, including funds that help provide #SchoolLunches to children and programs, like the supplemental nutrition assistance program [#SNAP], that help feed poor families. And if those cuts stay in place, they may leave American families with few alternatives to sending their children to work to keep food on the table."
Full article:
https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/florida-child-labor-law-sb-918-rcna198275
#SB918 #FloridaPol #USPol #Scrooge #ICERaids #ChildLabor #HungerGames
Leaving the care of the vulnerable young and old up to the profit motive
"That process of "marketisation" — where the profit motive is used to regulate relationships between citizens and the state, and citizens and providers of social services, by transforming social relationships into market goods and services — has been applied to everything from education to health, housing, child care, aged care, and employment services... The federal government continues to support for-profit providers through huge childcare subsidies."
"The current system needs fundamental change".
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-22/childcare-aged-care-abuse-neglect-privatisation-australia/105067714
#care #SocialServices #privatising #ChildCare #AgedCare #education #regulation #marketisation #NeglectAndAbuse #governance
SDP challenges government over social, health and education cuts
The cabinet must clarify how it plans to cut 100 million euros from health and social services before the April elections, the main opposition party says.
The Concept Of Indigenous GIS
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Reading a paper (http://alturl.com/8wte5), they used the specific term ‘Indigenous GIS’ – and I found this intriguing!
As I read it, spatial data collection and analysis was done with a focus on how a tribe or social group might ‘see’ the data, including spatiotemporal....
I look forward to finding out more about what others are working on! – so PLEASE feel free to share any examples that you might have…
#GIS #spatial #mapping #indigenous #IndigineousGIS #FirstNation #perspective #cultural #social #naturalresources #archaeology #publicsafety #socialservices #planning #design #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #mapping #cartography #usecase #practical #pragamatic #resultsdriven #focused##
A Pragmatic Leader for a Progressive Pakistan: Shehbaz Sharif’s Strategic Approach
#BaaghiTV #Pakistan #Opinions #Politics #Economy #ShehbazSharif #PragmaticApproach #ProgressivePakistan #RegionalInfluence #EconomicReforms #DiplomaticEngagements #YouthEmpowerment #SkillDevelopment #Employment #DemographicPotential #SCO #CAYA #InternationalGirlsConference #China #Russia #CentralAsia #FY25 #Inflation #Education #Healthcare #SocialServices #FDI #PoliticalUnity
care of her children, take 3 buses to get to us & we had no work to give her, nor even any place to put her. She had to sit in a chair in the reception area the whole time she was there.
After calling #Spotsylvania Office of #SocialServices to find out what the hell was going on, we had to send her back home the same arduous way she came.
The cruelty of their treatment of this mother of small children on the part of #Spotsylvania County #DSS was clearly the point. When I spoke
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Rep Nick LaLota (R-NY) repeats decades old #GOP demand for work requirements for the able-bodied recipients of #Medicaid (or any form of welfare).
Well, I have personal experience of how abusive that can be: when I worked for a major #NGO in #NoVa, local #SocialServices in a deep red #GOP-dominated county sent a woman on #TANF to us, w/out telling or consulting us, to "volunteer" in no specified way in fulfillment of a work req't I'm not even sure was legal.
She had to find someone to take
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Close to 100,000 protest Belgian plans to cut social services in strategy to reduce debt https://www.byteseu.com/751962/ #BartDeWever #Belgium #BelgiumGovernment #BertEngelaar #Brussels #business #Europe #GeneralNews #InternationalNews #MilitaryAndDefense #NorthAtlanticTreatyOrganization #Politics #ProtestsAndDemonstrations #RobBeenders #SocialServices #socialism #TheoFrancken #WorldNews
Integrated youth services site coming to Yarmouth
The province says Yarmouth will soon be home to a “one-stop mental health and social services” site for young people ages 12 to 25.
#youth #mentalhealth #socialservices #site #Yarmouth #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/integrated-youth-services-site-coming-to-yarmouth-1.7441076?cmp=rss
2 missing children from Ohio found in remote fishing village in Iceland https://www.byteseu.com/674910/ #Iceland #LawEnforcement #MentalHealth #MissingChildren #ohio #Reykjavik #SocialServices #U.S.Marshals
2 missing children from Ohio found in remote fishing village in Iceland https://www.byteseu.com/674602/ #Iceland #LawEnforcement #MentalHealth #MissingChildren #ohio #Reykjavik #SocialServices #U.S.Marshals
With #Bluesky Soaring, Here's How to #CrossPost to #Threads and Other #SocialServices
Tired of posting the same content to multiple #socials? Two apps make it easy.
I’ve argued in many previous columns that Australia faces a prolonged skills shortage, higher living costs, elevated interest rates, while the demand for health and social services only goes up. This means, our current approach to healthcare and social services won’t hold up under these future pressures.
It’s time to fund more preventative models to ensure we can look after all Australians while spending less money and using fewer workers. In The New Daily I explain why it's so hard to fund preventative measures. Read here for free: https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/finance/2024/11/08/the-stats-guy-preventitive-politics
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North Dakota voters may end most property taxes. Government programs could face huge cuts
https://apnews.com/article/north-dakota-property-tax-election-ballot-measure-8cfb4588f2b066347fef44ceab7865d6
* money for Medicaid expansion, hospitals, nursing homes, education programs could all be on chopping block
* money for infrastructure projects also at risk
Americans Are More Reliant Than Ever on Government Aid
An aging population and economic distress raise dependence on federal and state support. Here’s why that matters for the 2024 election.
Why it matters: The explosion of people getting 25% or more of their income from government aid — and Republican reliance on their votes — vividly explains the rise of former President Trump and the remaking of the Republican Party.
#voteblue #election #socialservices #welfare #SocialSecurity #Medicare #GOP #republicans #democrats #governmentaid #trump #kamalaharris #giftlink
https://www.axios.com/2024/10/11/trump-welfare-government-aid-social-security
I hope that here in #CzechRepublic a serious discussion will begin about #gunregulation and #socialservices
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