| This week: Despite Surge in Organizing, Union Membership Rates Dropped in 2022 |
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RECENTLY FROM CLASP
January 26, 2023
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Despite Surge in Organizing, Union Membership Rates Dropped in 2022
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The American labor movement is experiencing a reawakening. Across a breadth of employers and sectors—from Starbucks to Amazon, the New York Times to the University of California—workers are standing up for a voice on the job, better working conditions, and improved pay and benefits. Despite the surge in union organizing activity in 2022, union membership unfortunately decreased. The inability of workers to translate union organizing campaigns into union representation is a direct result of our broken and outdated labor laws — laws that favor employers while curtailing workers’ rights. That’s why Congress must pass the PRO Act.
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Loss of Roe Causing Dire Impacts on People with Low Incomes and People of Color
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| Fifty years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the Roe v Wade decision. Last June, the Court eliminated the constitutional protection of the right to abortion, decimating access to reproductive health care and jeopardizing health, lives, and economic security. Today, we are seeing these predicted harms playing out in real time. |
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What You Can Do to Help Kids Stay on Medicaid in 2023
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State administrators, service providers, advocates, and parents/caregivers must take proactive steps to ensure that children are not improperly disenrolled from Medicaid when states restart the re-enrollment process in the coming months.
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Congress and States Must Do More to Address EBT Skimming
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Late last year, Congress included provisions in the year-end omnibus bill to address EBT skimming from SNAP recipients. This is a promising step, but we encourage federal and state lawmakers to do more.
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This is the second-largest increase in discretionary funding in the history of CCDBG—following the $2.4 billion increase in FY 2018.
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Tomorrow, January 27, is EITC Awareness Day! The Earned Income Tax Credit—a program with long-standing bipartisan support—is being recognized tomorrow for the critical role it plays in fighting poverty. We’ll be joining partners on social media in celebrating EITC Awareness Day. Read more about refundable tax credits here.
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On January 20, Ashley Burnside participated as an informational witness for a Montana state legislative hearing on H.B. 249, which would implement a state Child Tax Credit in Montana.
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On January 13-14, Clarence Okoh presented on “Supporting Schools in Saying No to Problematic EdTech” at the Northeast Media Literacy Conference 2023.
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