C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
“Southern lawmakers have neglected basic worker protections and disinvested in social safety net programs while offering hefty subsidies to corporations, privatizing public goods, and giving the wealthy big tax breaks.
Key findings
Many states across the South use an economic development model that prioritizes the wealthy and corporations at the expense of workers and their families and fosters precarity to maintain racial and class-based hierarchies.
Southern families face high rates of economic insecurity, and underinvestment in health, child care, and transportation infrastructure blocks working families from full participation in the economy.
Southern states have some of the weakest wage theft and paid sick leave laws in the country and are less likely than other states to enforce laws that do exist to protect workers.”
www.epi.org
This is the consequence of failed, wrongheaded conservative political, social, and economic dogma – the false premise that ensuring economic security, access to affordable healthcare and childcare will act as a ‘disincentive’ to hard work and accomplishment, when in fact nothing could be further from the truth.
Key findings
Many states across the South use an economic development model that prioritizes the wealthy and corporations at the expense of workers and their families and fosters precarity to maintain racial and class-based hierarchies.
Southern families face high rates of economic insecurity, and underinvestment in health, child care, and transportation infrastructure blocks working families from full participation in the economy.
Southern states have some of the weakest wage theft and paid sick leave laws in the country and are less likely than other states to enforce laws that do exist to protect workers.”
How anti-worker policies, crony capitalism, and privatization keep the South locked out of shared prosperity: Rooted in Racism and Economic Exploitation: Part Five
Southern lawmakers have neglected basic worker protections and disinvested in social safety net programs while offering hefty subsidies to corporations, privatizing public goods, and giving the wealthy big tax breaks.
www.epi.org
This is the consequence of failed, wrongheaded conservative political, social, and economic dogma – the false premise that ensuring economic security, access to affordable healthcare and childcare will act as a ‘disincentive’ to hard work and accomplishment, when in fact nothing could be further from the truth.
