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Louisville, Kentucky, United States – Patricia Iverson feels shut down. The 33-year-old single mother of two had been working hard to pay off bills to move into a bigger apartment. But when the coronavirus pandemic recently forced the company she worked for in Louisville, Kentucky, to drastically reduce her hours, she felt like she had no other option but to leave and find something else. “It just didn’t make sense to stay for a few days a week,” she said. Iverson, like so many mothers who were laid off or quit during the pandemic, is now looking for a new job one that will pay the bills, and allows her to be around her children, who have asthma and seizures. ....
There are two kinds of government spending public works and social welfare. Public works spending involves benefits that are available to everyone and that people cannot provide for themselves things like a clean environment, strong national defense, fast highways, convenient airports and good schools. Social welfare spending is targeted by need. It helps disadvantaged people get things that people who are better off are able to provide for themselves, such as food, housing and health care. Public works spending is much easier to sell politically, as long as people see a genuine need. Former President Trump ADVERTISEMENT President Biden’s public works program has a strong social welfare component: not just traditional improvements like roads and bridges, but also investments in the work force, including proposals for paid family and medical leave for workers, child care, universal pre-kindergarten and free community college. ....
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