ATLANTA, Ga. (WRBL) — The Georgia Poor People’s Campaign announced the details of its major effort to mobilize millions of poor and low-wage voters Tuesday, Feb. 20, during a press conference at the Georgia State Capital. The plan consists of mobilizing, organizing, registering, educating, engaging, and empowering Georgians through canvassing, educational sessions and holding assemblies. […]
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From early afternoon on June 24 into the morning of June 25, a sit-in was staged outside the Georgia Department of Labor. Protesters demanded the Georgia state government retain, not slash, the $300 per week federal unemployment benefits that were extended under the CARES Act and American Rescue Plan Act during the pandemic. Over 223,000 people in Georgia will lose the federal benefits.
The supplemental benefits were slated to end on Sept 6, but 22 states across the country decided to end the benefits in June. Over 15 million working-class people across the country rely on unemployment insurance benefits to survive week to week. For millions of unemployed people and their families, these benefits are the difference between having housing and facing eviction.
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Lawmakers and labor leaders led by Democratic state Reps Dewey McClain and Sandra Scott chanted Open up these doors! in front of the Georgia Department of Labor s shuttered Atlanta career center.Â
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By Ross Williams | Georgia Recorder May 20, 2021
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Lawmakers and labor leaders led by Democratic state Reps Dewey McClain and Sandra Scott chanted Open up these doors! in front of the Georgia Department of Labor s shuttered Atlanta career center. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder
ATLANTA â Amanda Shorts had a great job as a project assistant for a civil engineering firm before COVID-19 came to Georgia. Now, she is one of more than 121,000 Georgians looking for work as of the start of the month.