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New Orleans March 29: Stop the cuts emergency rally

Join us on Saturday, March 29, at 2 p.m. at Elk and Canal to protest Trump’s cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, WIC, and all other social programs. 

Put people’s needs over billionaires’ greed 

More than 1.5 million people in Louisiana are on Medicaid; 59% are working, others are children, seniors, and disabled people. Seventy-two million depend on Medicaid across the country. 

Urban and rural clinics and hospitals will close without Medicaid; 58% of Louisiana rural children use Medicaid. 

More than 867,000 people in Louisiana get SNAP (food stamps). 86% are children, seniors and disabled people. More than 42 million people in the U.S. depend on food stamps to feed their families. New Orleans has the highest rate of senior hunger in the U.S. 

Trump, supported by Gov. Landry, wants to impoverish all Louisiana workers. Their end game is to create millions in desperation so they can lower all workers’ wages. They lie about waste and fraud to convince other workers not to support poorer workers and the unemployed. 

Landry and his millionaire buddies refuse to raise the minimum wage which has been $7.25 since 2009. Yet $2 billion of Louisiana’s tax revenue is lost every year due to tax exemptions and subsidies to oil, gas, and other profit-making corporations. 

We reject the billionaires’ attempts to scapegoat immigrants and LGBTQ people. We reject the hideous expansion of prisons. Greedy billionaires are the problem. Across the country people are urgently organizing against these cuts. Join the fight! 

Get involved, reach out by Facebook or at LouisianaWorkersCouncils@gmail.com 

#WorkersOverBillionaires #PutThePeopleFirst #FeedThePeopleNotThePentagon #StopTheCuts #SaveMedicaid #HandsOffMedicaid #HandsOffSNAP #HandsOffWIC #HandsOffCHIP #PowerToThePeople #PeoplesNeedsBeforeBillionairesGreed #FundMedicaid #FundSNAP #FundWIC #FundCHIP #DefendThePostalService #StandWithFederalWorkers #HandsOffUSPS

Louisiana Workers Council

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