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Impact - April 1999
Submitted on 4.30.1999
April 1999 PRI Ideas in Action
Policy Update and Monthly Impact Report
No End to Welfare as We Know It in California
Submitted by Naomi Lopez on 4.30.1999
Despite the political rhetoric surrounding the success of national welfare reform, some California lawmakers are keeping a dirty little secret. These lawmakers believe that able-bodied adults should be allowed to linger indefinitely on California’s General Relief program – at county taxpayers’ expense.
Chump Change for Women
Submitted by Naomi Lopez on 4.8.1999
April 8 is "Pay Equity Day," the day when a working woman’s earnings supposedly catch up to those of a working man for the previous year. The "pay gap" this day is designed to protest not only lacks support but pales in comparison to a retirement gap that victimizes working women.
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