Title VII provides for a broad set of remedies for employees that are discriminated against on thesis of race. color. religion. sex or national origin. Unless this provision is fixed. it could make former welfare recipients second class citizens and punish people who leave welfare by taking away their basic. fundamental rights. The legislation also continues to restrict Social Security income and Medicaid eligibility to those immigrants who were receiving such benefits as of August 22. 1996. This is a blatant violation of. and retreat from the bipartisan budget agreement which had promised to restore these benefits to legal residents who subsequently become disabled. Legal residents pay taxes and contribute to our society in the same way citizens do. and there is no moral justification for excluding them from our Nations safety net.
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