Draft Questions Week 10
By: YuYu Madigan
1) In regards to the King County emergency relief fund, the qualifications are listed as: individuals, including undocumented immigrants, must make below 50% of the area median income. Do you believe this to be a fair metric given our areas inflated mean income?
2) Washington State implemented a moratorium on evictions as highlighted in the Why COVID 19 is hitting Washington Latinos Especially Hard but highlighted that landlords were still threatening residents if they don't pay rent saying that "they don’t know any better because they’re not up to date on the legal protections that renters have". What ways can we educate people and put a stop to this predatory behavior? Is a moratorium on evictions enough?
3) Grass roots campaigns as highlighted in Undocumented Workers... are not enough, government assistance is far from enough. What other options do we have and what as citizens should we put more time into changing to be enough?
4) In the Why Covid crosscut article, Alvarez says: ""I think employers take advantage of Latinos,” she said in a recent interview in Spanish. “Latinos kill themselves working, and we’re part of this country. But the government doesn't value us as human beings.” This struck me as exactly the definition of social death - in what other ways does this crisis relate to Cacho's ideas on social death?
1) In regards to the King County emergency relief fund, the qualifications are listed as: individuals, including undocumented immigrants, must make below 50% of the area median income. Do you believe this to be a fair metric given our areas inflated mean income?
2) Washington State implemented a moratorium on evictions as highlighted in the Why COVID 19 is hitting Washington Latinos Especially Hard but highlighted that landlords were still threatening residents if they don't pay rent saying that "they don’t know any better because they’re not up to date on the legal protections that renters have". What ways can we educate people and put a stop to this predatory behavior? Is a moratorium on evictions enough?
3) Grass roots campaigns as highlighted in Undocumented Workers... are not enough, government assistance is far from enough. What other options do we have and what as citizens should we put more time into changing to be enough?
4) In the Why Covid crosscut article, Alvarez says: ""I think employers take advantage of Latinos,” she said in a recent interview in Spanish. “Latinos kill themselves working, and we’re part of this country. But the government doesn't value us as human beings.” This struck me as exactly the definition of social death - in what other ways does this crisis relate to Cacho's ideas on social death?
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