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GOP Job Solutions Mean More Poverty, Fewer Jobs
Republicans across the country are pushing to cut unemployment benefits. As a result, we see moreanxiety amongst workers who are unemployed for longer and longer periods of time – especially amongst older workers. But what would happen to the poverty rates and smalls businesses if the GOP get their way and unemployment benefits are cut? Read this article to find out.
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To start off, how reforming Wall Street is a job for the American people; in Massachusetts: job creation up, unemployment down; and from Latina moms in Chicago: “Young people dying all around us because there are no jobs, because of poverty, injustice, foreclosures, lack of immigrant rights – but I’m done crying about it.”
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Scott Marshall is a vice chair of the Communist Party and chair of its Labor Commission. Scott grew up in Virginia where he first became active in the civil rights movement in high school, working on voter registration and anti-Klan projects in rural Southern Virginia and Tennessee. He was also active against the war in Vietnam.
Scott has been a life long trade unionist and was active in rank and file reform movements in the Teamsters, Machinists and Steelworkers unions in the 1970s and '80s. He was co-chair of the Save Our Jobs committee of USWA local 1834 at Pullman Standard in Chicago and active in nationwide organizing against plant shutdowns and layoffs. He was a founder of the unemployed organization Jobs or Income Now (Join), in Chicago, and the National Congress of Unemployed Organizations in the 1980s.
Scott has worked for the Communist Party since 1987 when he became the district organizer for the party in Illinois, a post he held until he was elected chair of the National Labor Commission in 1997. Scott remains active in SOAR (Steelworkers Active Organized Retirees). He lives in Chicago.
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