New Mexico Gives $1,200 Relief Checks To Unemployed Workers

On November 23 New Mexico lawmakers passed a coronavirus relief bill that will deliver a one-time $1,200 check to all workers who had previously qualified for unemployment benefits through state or federal pandemic programs. The bill also provides smaller stimulus checks to undocumented immigrants and dependents, as well as additional funds for food banks, virus testing and contact tracing efforts. Much of the money came from $319 million in unspent federal relief funds.

Workers in Louisiana should demand that money designated for pandemic relief actually go towards bailing out the people. The LA government got $1.8 billion in federal funds as part of the CARES act. The state could easily give emergency aid to workers—including all of our undocumented siblings. We just need to fight for it.

Workers Voice Socialist Movement

We are workers, employed and unemployed, youth, students, and seniors. We are multi-racial and multi-national and organize for the unity of the working class. We are funded by and for workers, for the liberation of all workers and oppressed people.

We organize for jobs and higher wages, against racism, women’s, and LGBTQ oppression, and for solidarity with immigrants. We organize for community schools, lower rents, and food on our tables. We organize for workers’ power so that everything will one day be removed from the capitalists’ private ownership.

We oppose the Pentagon, which is looting our tax dollars and handing them over to war-profiteering private companies, while social programs are gutted. We oppose war for empire which is pursued only to lower our wages and plunder the world’s resources while destroying the environment. We reject the monopoly media who feed us lie after lie.

The labor of workers produces enormous wealth here in Louisiana, the U.S. and the world– so much wealth that everyone could have housing, meaningful jobs, education, healthcare, and genuine equality. But this wealth is stolen and privately owned by the capitalist class for their greed and profit. We believe that we, the workers of the world, can unite in revolution to overcome capitalism and build a better world.

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