Leftists Losing Jobs As Impact Of USAID Closure Spreads

Forbes magazine recently published a piece entitled: "The Invisible Job Crisis: America's Third-Largest Employer Is Hemorrhaging Talent," which relates:

    Nonprofit organizations and the social sector at-large is America’s third-largest employer at 10% of the workforce, comprising 5.2% of GDP and contributing $1.4 trillion to the economy. Nearly a year into federal budget cuts eliminating social safety net programs, closure of USAID and the downstream impact of philanthropy quietly pulling back funding – the sector faces a gathering storm.

    A survey and conversations with long-term unemployed social sector workers highlights an employment crisis that threatens not just individual livelihoods, but the sector's foundational capacity to serve communities.    

What types of communities?  The article states (bold added):

    Leaders at organizations operating in the current environment are struggling to strike a balance between survival and stated values and mission, as the federal government has taken a stance against missions aligned with equity, inclusion and justice. 

    "We stopped advertising programming for houseless youth and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We still do the programming, although we ensure there isn’t public advertising," noted one respondent, showing how organizations are having to hide their work to survive.

    "We’ve had to significantly invest in physical security due to death threats and beef up our digital security due to cybersecurity threats”, shared one respondent whose organization experienced reputational attacks alongside funding losses that lead to layoffs.

    "As a long-standing nonprofit in Texas that has a social justice advocacy history, we are alarmed by the aggressive stance Texas is taking. We feel at risk of losing funding if our positions are not aligned with the state leadership," reported another respondent, reflecting how political polarization compounds financial instability. 

In other words, those at the forefront of the war against traditional Americans and who publicly push hatred and discrimination of white men. The following comment in the article, suggesting that the large NGOs and billionaires need to step up and fill the shortfall in taxpayer funding, is also revealing:

Rather than retreating during polarization - as 47% of organizations with a stance on DEI, immigrant rights, LGBTQIA+ rights, and expressions of support for Palestinian rights anticipate - large funders must provide countercyclical support. This means multi-year general operating grants that allow organizations to maintain workforce capacity during political and economic turbulence, funding for organizational resilience infrastructure (legal support, security, communications capacity), and explicit commitments to continue funding organizations facing political backlash for mission-aligned work.  

The problem they face, however, is that the wealthy don't become wealthy by spending their own money--the whole purpose of these NGOs was to carry out the wishes of the wealthy but using taxpayer funds to do it.