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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Extra Cruel': Trump Admin Ends Job Program for Seniors as Work Requirements Loom
Bloomberg Law reported Friday that the Labor Department "quietly ended" its Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP), which helped low-income Americans aged 55 or older find part-time employment or job training at nonprofits and government agencies. The program, described as a bridge to full-time employment, served tens of thousands of people across the country.
The Trump White House has proposed zeroing out funding for SCSEP in its budget request for fiscal year 2026, smearing the program as an "earmark to leftist, DEI-promoting entities."
In a July 17 letter to Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer and Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, a group of Democratic lawmakers led by Rep. Judy Chu (D-Calif.) warned that the withholding of SCSEP funds has already had "devastating impacts," pointing to program grantees in several states that have been forced to furlough thousands of low-income seniors.
Oh look another $300 million disappeared. And blaming it on DEI is the most fucked up thing of all, you filthy Nazis.







https://www.commondreams.org/news/senior-job-training-program

wcmagumba
(4,371 posts)but I'm so sick of seeing Trump's ugly mug in the news all the time...Just a small request to the world...
Brenda
(1,708 posts)She is white and her husband is black and we live in a very red state.
I was talking to her the other day and just blurted out "I wish he would just fucking die!" She slowly shook her head left to right and said but the system....I interrupted and said "I know there are many horrible people in this administration. But only CHUMP is the MAGA cult leader. When he's gone, they will fracture and lose all power!"
She said, "Okay, yeah, you are probably right about that."
Codifer
(1,015 posts)that tsf is but a token, a mannequin who does the bidding of the real fascist powers lurking behind in the shadows. Vance will not be effective at that task.
Those evil powers in the shadows, however, will find some loon to be their symbol and point person; after all, they found (groomed) reagan, both bushes, and the current ass clown.
markodochartaigh
(3,368 posts)who are routinely discriminated against in the job market couldn't make the connection that diversity,equity, and inclusion was about them as well.
B.See
(5,891 posts)House of Roberts
(6,124 posts)then denying job training and placement means only one thing: You don't deserve any aid and we're not going to help you, even if you WANT TO WORK.
Brenda
(1,708 posts)These white christian nationalists (Project 2025), just like NAZIS, are making sweeping changes in order to harm and really, to kill certain people. People they deem unnecessary and unworthy of not only getting a hand up in a racist, sexist world but unworthy of being allowed to live.
How can MAGA Americans NOT SEE THIS SHIT as normal people do???
Yeah, I know. Cult.
pfitz59
(11,638 posts)The oligarchy wants to eliminate the 'weak' and 'undesirable'.
Brenda
(1,708 posts)that what you said is true.
These policies were rammed into place in the first 6 months. Chump friendly Supremes are allowing it to happen.
Who can really stop them?
rubbersole
(10,120 posts)Totally unaware they're just as useless as anyone not a billionaire to the billionaires. It has never been more obvious.
Wiz Imp
(6,061 posts)House of Roberts
(6,124 posts)Bloomberg Law reported Friday that the Labor Department "quietly ended" its Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP), which helped low-income Americans aged 55 or older find part-time employment or job training at nonprofits and government agencies.
BoRaGard
(6,376 posts)
AllaN01Bear
(26,495 posts)AllaN01Bear
(26,495 posts)Karasu
(1,638 posts)dalton99a
(89,460 posts)Seinan Sensei
(1,066 posts)This is a very, very bad dream
☹️
Fil1957
(139 posts)MLWR
(409 posts)Godot51
(555 posts)... hurry up and die poor, inconsequential old people and get out of our hair.
Wiz Imp
(6,061 posts)Karasu
(1,638 posts)and a lot more Republicans want to do it without being stupid enough to actually fucking say it out loud.
But these are ALSO the same people who want to go all-in on AI, so...they really need to make up their fucking fascist minds already.
Warpy
(113,701 posts)I have visions of old people hunched over their walkers, doing stoop work in the fields since these fucking assholes eliminated most farm workers.
Kid Berwyn
(21,339 posts)
gets his rocks off hurting others.
No wonder his own mother feared him.
B.See
(5,891 posts)doesn't apply to those 65 or older.
Bottom line, it's a despicably heinous act to impose work requirements on people who, by virtue of their age, are more likely to need Medicaid, may have medical issues that preclude or may make employment more difficult, and then shut down an agency whose purpose is to find placement for these individuals,
as if it isn't already difficult for people above a certain age to find a job. There IS no defence for this kind of shit.