PROTEST
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
At 4:30 pm
Mpls Federal Building
4th St and 3rd Ave (across from City Hall)
Downtown Mpls
· Stop the time limits on welfare!
· Stop Workfare/Slave Labor!
· Restore the entitlement
Ten years ago, on August 22nd 1996, President Clinton signed the disastrous so-called welfare “reform” into law. This law has brought more poverty, homelessness and suffering to our families! This law put a five year lifetime limit on welfare. It forces us into dead-end and low-wage jobs, or to work for free as volunteers or in Workfare. This law took away our basic guarantee to welfare when we need it.
*In the past the Government had to give us welfare if we qualify based on our family’s income. Now the welfare offices can turn us away if the money runs out!
Ten years ago, the Minnesota Welfare Rights Committee started protests around the country to fight to stop this criminal law. Poor families in 26 states held protests to demand that the Government refuse these changes. Since the law went into effect, low-income families in Minnesota and around the country have been fighting to stop this war on the poor!
Poor families in MN and around the U.S. fought to stop the law and continue to fight back against the rich man’s war on the poor in Minnesota and across the country.
Organized by: MN Welfare Rights Coalition and Welfare Rights Committee
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