Feeding America, the second-largest food charity in the US, estimates that upwards of 54 million people, including one in four children in the US are facing food insecurity.
"They
will destroy America from within. The leftist billionaires who
orchestrate these plans are wealthy. Those tasked with representing us in
Congress will never be exposed to the cost of the invasion. They have nothing
but contempt for us who must endure the consequences of our communities being
intruded upon by gangs, drug dealers and human traffickers. These people
have no intention of becoming Americans; like the Democrats who welcome them,
they have contempt for us." PATRICIA McCARTHY
This is because despite all its declarations, the Democratic Party is not a party of workers. It, as Biden’s transition team attests, is a party of Wall Street, big banks, Amazon, and the military-industrial complex.
Hunger and evictions surge in the US
The worst social catastrophe to befall the US working class since the Great Depression of the 1930s continues to leave millions of people hungry, jobless and facing eviction.
Video taken outside a food distribution site in Dallas, Texas this past weekend by CBS News gives some indication of the widespread hunger facing workers and their families. Saturday’s giveaway hosted by the North Texas Food Bank was the largest ever put together by the organization.
Feeding America, the second-largest food charity in the US, estimates that upwards of 54 million people, including one in four children in the US are facing food insecurity.
The growing need for food among millions of workers and their families is coinciding with record levels of COVID-19 infections reported in states across the country. In Texas, over 1 million have contracted the coronavirus, with over 20,000 perishing, the second highest tolls in the country behind New York. The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation forecasts roughly another 190,000 deaths by March 1, 2021 if current trends continue.
On top of food insecurity, between 11 and 13 million renter households across the country are at risk of eviction, according to research by Stout, an investment bank and global advisory firm.
The Eviction Lab at Princeton University reports that eviction filings increased in several major metro areas following the expiration of CARES Act provisions at the end of July and before the CDC eviction moratorium was implemented on September 4. However, even with the moratorium, Princeton researchers note that evictions have continued across the country, and Stout estimates that with its expiration at the end of the year, this could lead to up to 6.4 million eviction filings.
The Eviction Lab data shows that two weeks after the CDC moratorium was implemented, evictions still continued to be processed, with 508 in Fort Worth and 1,053 in Houston, Texas. Filings also increased on a month-to-month basis in several cities, including Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and in the Florida cities of Tampa, Jacksonville and Gainesville.
In North Carolina, almost 25,000 eviction cases were filed between July and September, according to data from the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts, with almost 15,000 completed. Overall, Stout estimates that between 300,000 and 410,000 North Carolina households are unable to pay rent, with 240,000 expected eviction filings by January 2021.
In an interview with CNN, attorney Michael Trujillo commented on the bind that renters will find themselves in come January 1, 2021. “The pandemic is not going away before the end of the year,” he said, adding that without additional protections, “a huge wave of evictions” is on the horizon.
In a Hill-HarrisX poll taken between November 10 and November 13, 77 percent of US voters were in favor of passing a coronavirus relief package “as soon as possible.” Yet despite massive popular support for more stimulus, no relief is coming.
After the House and Senate passed the $2.2 trillion CARES Act at the end of March, which provided billions to Wall Street, large corporations and the well-connected, ensuring their financial stability for a lifetime, workers were left with limited protections and only temporary unemployment relief. Congress has yet to pass another bill long after the $1,200 stimulus checks have been sent out and enhanced unemployment benefits have expired. Months of inaction have left millions of workers and their families without additional stimulus, eviction protection, health care, food or medicine, exacerbating mental health issues and stress.
Included in the CARES Act was an eviction moratorium that expired, along with the federal $600-a-week unemployment supplement, at the end of July. After Congress failed to come to terms on another bill at the end of July, the Centers for Disease Control, on September 4, implemented a federal eviction moratorium, which required tenants to sign a declaration and provide a copy to their landlord. This, along with additional federal unemployment assistance distributed under the Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) and Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation (PEUC) programs, are set to expire the final week of December, leaving millions of people who have yet to find jobs or come up with the monies needed to pay back rent facing eviction in less than 50 days.
As of October, some 13 million people were receiving benefits through the PUA or PEUC program, more than from state unemployment insurance, which has also expired for millions of workers.
While the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) estimates that over 11.1 million people are unemployed, thousands of workers, primarily low-wage workers, continue to be laid off. Last week, the BLS recorded over 700,000 first-time unemployment filings for the 34th week in a row, with first-time unemployment claims exceeding any week throughout the 2008-09 Great Recession.
A Washington Post analysis found that among higher education workers, low-wage and administrative staff have seen ongoing monthly job losses or have not been called back to campus, while higher paid instructors have been hired back. The Post found that while colleges hired 180,000 workers during the fall semester last year, only 20,000 jobs were added this year.
Mass unemployment has led workers to apply for state unemployment benefits, but hundreds of thousands have yet to receive anything nearly eight months into the pandemic. In Wisconsin, reporters working with Wisconsin Watch found that nationally only 56 percent of unemployment claims were paid from March through August, while in Wisconsin the level was only 42.5 percent. As of November 10, more than 94,000 people in the state were still waiting for either state or federal unemployment benefits.
For those who were fortunate enough to receive benefits, their expiration and the inability to find safe well-paying work have left them unable to afford basic necessities.
The out-of-control spread of the virus coupled with overcrowded hospitals prompted a flurry of public health declarations over the past 72 hours from Republican and Democratic governors, such as Iowa Republican Kim Reynolds and Michigan Democrat Gretchen Whitmer. These included curfews, mask mandates and calls to limit social gatherings to 10 people or less. However, not one politician in either party is advancing the necessary demand to resume lockdowns of all non-essential businesses, with guaranteed pay for jobless workers and small business owners.
As Democratic President-elect Joe Biden made clear in his speech yesterday after meeting with corporate executives, the number one concern of the ruling class is “to get the economy back on track,” not to stop the spread of the virus, feed the hungry, provide relief or house the homeless. All policy is focused on ensuing the flow of profits to the corporations and Wall Street.
Not once in Biden’s speech did he call for resuming the unemployment benefits in the CARES Act or extending eviction moratoriums.
This is because despite all its declarations, the Democratic Party is not a party of workers. It, as Biden’s transition team attests, is a party of Wall Street, big banks, Amazon, and the military-industrial complex.
In the latest round of political theater on Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer wrote a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell appealing, “for the sake of the country,” to “come to the table and work with us to produce an agreement that meets America’s needs in this critical time.”
The letter noted that the negotiations should begin from the previous failed starting offer of $2.2 trillion, which McConnell and the Republicans have dismissed, a position from which they have not budged for the last six months. Despite the intransigence on the part of the Republicans, the fact is that the Democrats and Republicans in the Senate have found time to advance several of President Trump’s federal judges past committee hearings, including Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett, allowing them to be approved.
Ultimately, both parties see the provision of even the most meager benefits as a “disincentive” for their real aim: getting workers back on the job in factories and other workplaces amid a raging pandemic.
Despite his Wall Street, big business, Big
Tech, and billionaire donations, Biden has attempted to portray himself as a
small-town fighter from Scranton, Pennsylvania.
US food banks and homeless shelters struggle to meet record demand
ahead of Thanksgiving
With the Thanksgiving holiday less than two weeks away, food banks
and homeless shelters across the United States are struggling to meet the
growing demand caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
In Dallas, Texas, thousands of people lined up in their cars in
what has been described as the largest mobile food distribution in history. The
North Texas Food Banks handed out 7,000 turkeys and 600,000 pounds of food on
Saturday. Organizers said it was enough to feed 25,000 people.
The state of Washington has seen the number of people who rely on
food banks double from one million to 2.2 million this year. Linda Nageotte,
the CEO of Food Lifeline, told the Seattle Times that she expects that “by the
end of this year one in five Washingtonians could be facing hunger.”
People line up and check-in for a
food giveaway at Harlem's Food Bank For New York City, a community kitchen and
food pantry, Monday, Nov. 16, 2020, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)
The pandemic has also placed an extra burden on food bank workers,
who now need to prepare and box food packages together before they can be
distributed. It is labor intensive work that is even more difficult during a
health crisis. In an attempt to lighten the load on food banks, the Washington National
Guard has sent 550 soldiers to 26 distribution sites to help.
In Rochester, New York, the food bank Foodlink is working to feed
a line of 50-100 people on any given day. The organization Dimitri House, which
operates a food pantry and homeless shelter in Rochester, has had similar
issues and has also decided to prepare meals ahead of time and distribute them
to families for pick up.
Laurie Prizel, the executive director for Dimitri House, told
ABC13 WHAM that “we’re getting a large number of working poor individuals
coming through as well, not just the typical somebody on a fixed income trying
to survive. It’s people who are holding down two jobs or lost their jobs. We’re
saving the average family at least $100 on a Thanksgiving meal, and it’s allowing
at least the families to come together.”
Every year, thousands of volunteers in Albany,
New York work to feed thousands of people in need. This year, however, the
Equinox Thanksgiving Day Community Dinner has found a creative solution to the
problem of social distancing. Instead of hosting a large event, the
organization raised $100,000 to deliver meals directly to the homes of people
in need. To accomplish this the organizers will work with restaurants to
purchase and prepare food, enabling them to feed needy people and support local
businesses in the process.
In Santa Rosa, California, the Redwood Empire Food Bank has done
what it can to keep up with the significantly higher demand than usual. During
a normal year, the food bank would hand out around 11 million meals. This year,
however, Redwood has already produced 22 million meals.
The wealth disparity in Santa Rosa, 55 miles north of San
Francisco, in California’s wine country, has been rising for years, resulting
in a poverty rate of 11.5 percent. According to the Census Bureau, the top 5
percent of households make an average of $331,000 a year, with the bottom 20
percent making just $16,000. It is no wonder that food banks in this area would
see such high demand for food assistance.
The San Francisco Bay Area has some of the highest levels of
income inequality in the country. In San Francisco County the top 5 percent
earn an average of more than $800,000 a year while the bottom 20 percent
average just over $16,000. The San Francisco-Marin Food Bank is currently
providing food aid to 55,000 households—nearly double its pre-pandemic
total—and is planning to give away 1,000 turkeys to families in need on
Thanksgiving.
Similarly, the Food Bank of the Hudson Valley has reported a 53
percent increase in demand in Westchester County, New York. Food shipments used
to arrive twice a month, now they come once a week and are still barely keeping
up with the need.
Westchester is often mistaken as a wealthy county with pockets of
poverty, but it is actually the opposite. Islands of ultra-wealthy
neighborhoods inflate the general cost of living, making otherwise typical
working class wages barely enough to survive on.
The pandemic has made it especially difficult to
operate homeless shelters and offer large communal Thanksgiving meals for the
homeless. Restrictive capacity requirements to limit the number of people
interacting indoors have forced shelters to limit the amount of beds they can
fill.
In many cases, shelters and food aid organizations have moved
their events outdoors to compensate for the restrictions on indoor events. In
Charlottesville, Virginia, the organization Volunteers from Charlottesville is
making “blessing bags” that will include a Thanksgiving meal and materials to
help people survive the winter.
After almost canceling the event, the organizers decided to push
through and host it outdoors at Washington Park, where they plan to hand out
100 bags the Sunday after Thanksgiving.
Albany’s Capital City Rescue Mission in New York has done its best
to continue with indoor activities throughout the pandemic. Doing its best to
maintain social distancing and mask wearing, the organization has continued
sheltering and feeding those in need and expects to feed thousands this holiday
season.
The need to provide meals to struggling families and the homeless
grows every year, but the economic crisis triggered by the pandemic has placed
a demand on charity organizations that can barely be kept up with. Such immense
social distress, even as Wall Street soars to record highs and trillions in
bailouts have been handed over to the banks and corporations, is a damning
indictment of the capitalist system and the two parties who represent it, the
Democrats and Republicans.
Without the intervention of the working class to shut down
non-essential production and demand full pay for workers to stay home in order
to suppress the pandemic, the need will only grow as the ruling class continues
to pursue its murderous “herd immunity” policy, which has already killed more
than 250,000 Americans and pushed millions into poverty.
THE
BIDEN AMNESTY
…or will it be continued non-enforcement? No matter, Wall Street
will write it!
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/11/bidens-plan-to-fix-americas-jobless.html
THE
BIDEN AMNESTY - Migration also allows investors and CEOs to skimp on labor-saving
technology, sideline U.S. minorities,
ignore disabled people, exploit stoop labor in
the fields, shortchange labor in the cities,
impose tight control and pay cuts on American
professionals, corral technological
innovation by minimizing the employment of American
graduates, undermine labor rights, and even
redirect progressive journalists to cheerlead
for Wall Street’s
priorities.
NEIL MUNRO
WHY DOES JOE BIDEN WANT TO IMPORT THOUSANDS OF MUSLIMS?
Biden has pledged a staggering 700 percent
increase in refugees from the most violent terrorist hotspots anywhere on
earth. RAYMOND IBRAHIM
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/11/murdering-muslims-every-day-these.html
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden
promised on Wednesday that Muslim Americans would serve at “every level” of his
administration. In a video message to civil rights organization Muslim
Advocates, Biden repeated his pledge to repeal the Trump administration's
travel ban on his first day in office. The former vice president added
that he would push for legislation to fight a rise in hate crimes in the United
States, according to media reports. “As president, I'll work with you to
rip the poison of hate from our society, honor your contributions and seek your
ideas,” Biden said in the video address. “My administration will look
like America, Muslim Americans serving at every level,” he added. RAYMOND
IBRAHIM
THE MUSLIMS KNOW HOW GOOD
OBOMB WAS TO THEM!
Biden’s Biggest Fundraisers
are Tied to Islamic Terrorists
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/11/why-do-muslim-terrorist-love-joe-biden.html
The Iran Lobby, the Pakistan Lobby, and the Muslim
Brotherhood are funding Biden.
“Of course, one of the main reasons the
nation is now “divided, resentful and angry” is because race-baiting,
Islamist, class warrior Barack Hussein Obama was president
for eight long years." MATTHEW VADUM
Judge
May Add 1 Million Migrants to the DACA Work Permit ProgramZach Gibson/Getty Images
16 Nov 2020583
4:17
A federal judge is hinting he will add another one million
illegal migrants to the work permit and amnesty program created by President
Barack Obama in 2012.
On Saturday, New York federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis struck
down President Donald Trump’s July curbs on Obama’s Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The judge said he blocked the July curbs
because they were signed by Trump’s deputy, Chad Wolf, whom he deemed
improperly appointed to the job.
The judge also invited the lawyers to submit “motions for relief
[benefits] in light of the court’s decision.” The lawyers will ask the judge to
add the one million illegals to Obama’s giveaway of work permits, Social
Security numbers, and residency approvals.
Business to Supreme Court: Ending DACA
Amnesty Will Boost Americans’ Wages https://t.co/BJClKWdaXX
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) October 5, 2019
Wolf was designated as the Acting Secretary of the
Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in November 2019. So far, he has not
been confirmed by the Senate. Wolf signed the curbs after a series of lower
court judges — and then the U.S. Supreme Court decided in June — that Trump’s
2017 cancellation of the work permit program was legal but insufficiently
justified.
The curbs signed by Wolf barred the acceptance of new illegals
and also trimmed the duration of work permits held by the migrants, nearly all
of whom were brought to the county by illegal-migrant parents.
If higher judges uphold the win by the lawyers at the Justice
Action Center, more than one million younger illegals could get work permits
via the 2012 DACA rule — even though millions of Americans now lack jobs or
must work for low wages amid a flood of legal immigrant and illegal migrant
labor.
The money graf pic.twitter.com/eTBonoXpIv
— Karen Tumlin (@KarenTumlin) November 14, 2020
The decision was touted by Mark Zuckerberg’s advocacy group,
FWD.us, which was created in 2013 to help pass the “Gang of Eight” amnesty and
cheap labor bill.
The Trump admin *must* immediately stop
resisting the Federal courts. DACA 2012 is the law of the land. Refusing to
follow a court order is extremely serious.
Open DACA to new applicants tomorrow morning.
If they don’t, they should face a congressional subpoena at
5pm. https://t.co/k7ZnsCIMZy
— Todd Schulte (@TheToddSchulte) November 15, 2020
Trump’s lawyers will likely appeal the new legal decision, which
dodged the issue of whether any president has the authority to award work
permits without direct approval from Congress.
A DHS statement said that Wolf has been properly appointed to
the acting DHS job, and said:
Garaufis’ ruling is another example of an activist judge
substituting his own policy preference for those of the Trump Administration.
His reasoning has already been thoroughly discredited, and his
unwillingness to seriously engage on the facts or the law is disappointing. DHS
is exploring its options to ensure its review of DACA continues as intended.
If Trump’s recent curbs are struck down, he can reissue the same
DACA curbs under his direct authority — or else the judge may apply Obama’s
2012 rules to the extra one million migrants.
Roughly 650,000 illegals now hold work permits under the
program,
At least 30,000 additional DACA beneficiaries have managed to
gain green cards via their program.
At least 300,000 additional children and youths have come across
the southern border since 2011, including many who were admitted by Obama’s
policy of loosening border controls. Trump, in contrast, blocked the inflow in
early 2020.
Obama’s offer of work permits applied to
illegal migrants who arrived before they turned 16 and yet are younger than 30,
have lived in the United States for at least five years, have graduated from
Americans’ high-schools, and have not been “convicted of a felony offense, a
significant misdemeanor offense, multiple misdemeanor offenses, or otherwise
pose a threat to national security or public safety.”
Joe Biden has promised to continue the DACA program.
The DACA program has been bitterly defended by progressives and
by business groups, such as the FWD.us group of investors, partly because the
program helps Democrats protect the growing population of illegal immigrants in
the United States. The furor over the program also keeps media reporters from
spotlighting other aspects of the nation’s cheap-labor economic policies, such
as the resident population of at least 1.3 million white-collar visa workers.
The Justice Action Center lawyers are touted by FWD.us.
CNBC Television / YouTube
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Tech Elites Endorse Joe
Biden to Secure More Foreign Workers for U.S. Jobs
SERVING
THEIR RICH - If Biden and Harris win, the country will devolve to a kingdom
of state and regional duchies composed of often
semi-hereditary rulers in the pay of the rich, donor class, the clerisy (media
scribblers, complaisant judicial appointees and academic rent seekers who promote
favored policies and shut out the dissenters), an impoverished, smaller, and
powerless middle class and a vast layer of muzzled, docile poor serfs
(ILLEGALS). CLARICE FELDMAN
https://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2020/11/biden-minister-of-propaganda-neo.html
Sold Out: How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway
Crapweasels Are ScrewingAmerica's Best & Brightest
By
Michelle Malkin and John Miano
Analysis conducted in 2018 discovered that 71 percent of tech workers
in Silicon Valley, California, are foreign-born, while the tech industry in the
San Francisco, Oakland, and Hayward area is made up of 50 percent foreign-born
tech workers. Up to 99 percent of H-1B visa
workers imported by the top eight outsourcing firms are from India.
Joe Biden’s Donor List Includes More
than 30 Executives Tied to Wall Street
JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP/Getty Images.
2 Nov 2020601
2:52
Democrat presidential
candidate Joe Biden has more than 30 business executives on his donor list that
have connections to Wall Street.
Analysis of Biden’s more than 800 big donors,
those who have bundled contributions for his presidential bid against President
Trump, found that more than 30 of the executives listed have ties to Wall
Street.
CNBC reports:
CNBC reviewed a new
list of more than 800 Biden bundlers who raised at least $100,000 for the
campaign, and found that several of them had links to financial firms. A few had been
mentioned on the initial list of Biden fundraisers that was released in 2019
during the Democratic primary contests. [Emphasis added]
…
Beyond those from Wall
Street, Biden’s campaign saw fundraising help from leaders in Silicon Valley, including LinkedIn
co-founder Reid Hoffman and venture capitalist Ron Conway. [Emphasis added]
Those executives with ties to Wall Street
funding Biden’s campaign include:
Frank Baker, Brett Barth, Jim Chanos, Mark
Chorazak, David Clunie, William Derrough, Roger Altman, Blair Effron, Jon
Feigelson, Mark Gallogly, John Rogers, Jon Gray, Tony James, Jon Henes, Sonny
Kalsi, Orin Kramer, Brad Krap, Brian Kreiter, Marc Lasry, Nate Loewenthall,
Eric Mindich, Kara Moore, Charles Myers, Alan Patricof, Deven Parekh, Robert
Rubin, Evan Roth, Faiza Saeed, Rajen Shah, Jay Snyder, Rob Stavis, and Jeff
Zients.
As Breitbart News
reported, Biden’s campaign is being backed by nearly “all the big banks” on
Wall Street, according to CNN analysis, and Wall Street
executives and employees have donated more than $74 million to elect the former
vice president.
Trump, on the other hand, has accepted far less
money from Wall Street — taking just a little over $18 million dollars from
financial firms. This is a whopping $56 million less than what Biden has
accepted from Wall Street.
Despite his Wall Street, big business, Big
Tech, and billionaire donations, Biden has attempted to portray himself as a
small-town fighter from Scranton, Pennsylvania.
In a post on Sunday, Biden
wrote that “Donald Trump sees the world from Park Avenue,” whereas he sees the
world “from where I came from: Scranton, Pennsylvania.” In fact, Biden has raised over $1 million
from wealthy Park Avenue donors, more than eight times the less than $130,000
that Trump has taken from Park Avenue residents.
John Binder is a
reporter for Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter
at @JxhnBinder
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