How anti-worker policies, crony capitalism, and privatization keep the South locked out of shared prosperity

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Overview • Read the Report
Summary: Southern lawmakers have neglected basic worker protections and disinvested in social safety net programs while offering hefty subsidies to corporations, privatizing public goods, and giving the wealthy big tax breaks.

Key findings
Many states across the South use an economic development model that prioritizes the wealthy and corporations at the expense of workers and their families and fosters precarity to maintain racial and class-based hierarchies.

Southern families face high rates of economic insecurity, and underinvestment in health, child care, and transportation infrastructure blocks working families from full participation in the economy.

Southern states have some of the weakest wage theft and paid sick leave laws in the country and are less likely than other states to enforce laws that do exist to protect workers.

https://www.epi.org/publication/rooted-racism-part5/

[msongs]

1. they vote for their own oppression. having their hatreds enacted is more important than their own well being. too

bad for them

[Irish_Dem]

2. The GOP keeps the south poor so they keep voting their rage, hatred, victim status?

They blame everyone else.

[Aristus]

3. It's almost as if they didn't have the power of the vote down there.

Of course, I’ve heard more than one evilgelical pastor tell his flock of sheep that good Christians vote Republican.

The South is what happens when an entire region refuses to think for itself.