In the midst of everything bad happening in the economy, as well as the news about history’s biggest fraud, it turns that there is some good that has come out of it. According to Crain’s New York Business.com:
Hit with declines in funding from the economic crisis and the Madoff scandal, the Planned Parenthood Federation of America is laying off around 20% of its staff.
Roughly 30 people were let go earlier this week, according to a source who works for the nonprofit. Executives at Planned Parenthood confirmed the layoffs, but declined to give more details.
“As with many other nonprofit organizations, Planned Parenthood has had to make staff reductions at our headquarters due to the challenging economic times facing our country,” said Maryana Iskander, chief operating officer at the agency.
We can hope that the same will happen to the local affiliates as well.
…Part of Planned Parenthood’s funding declines stem from the closing of the Florida-based Picower Foundation, which shut down in December because its assets were managed by Bernard Madoff. The $1 billion foundation was one of the few major funders of reproductive rights issues.
Those are layoffs I’ll rejoice over. Now if we can just get Congress to cut off their public funding….Yeah, I know, not going to happen. But we can dream.
(Via Michelle Malkin.)
January 12, 2009 at 10:52 am
These layoffs will likely provoke PP’s strongest supporters in Congress to lobby for increasing PP’s govt subsidy in order to maintain its viability. A year ago, it would’ve been an empty amendment. But now, the votes are there.