Trump is appealing a court ruling that protected hundreds of thousands of people's access to food stamps during the pandemic.
Trump Is Trying To Take Away Food Stamps During The Pandemic
Moral Depravity of Republicans Sinks to New Low in Feud Over Food Stamp Cuts
It is patently evident now that when it comes to giving tax breaks to the wealthy Republicans in Congress have abandoned all moral guides to pursue their heartless agenda of appeasing their benefactors at the expense of vulnerable people across the country.
After Slashing Medicaid, The GOP Is Now Arguing Over How Much To Cut Food Stamps
Republicans in Congress – emboldened by the bully in the White House – are no longer trying to disguise how they feel toward lower and middle-income Americans.
Paul Ryan Is Plotting An Evil $500 Billion Cut To Medicare, Medicaid, And Food Stamps
For their next act of malevolence after voting to take away health care from 24 million people, House Republicans are plotting to cut $500 billion from Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, and unemployment benefits in 2018.
It is Time To Drug Test Corporate and Religious Welfare Recipients
If we are going to drug-test poor people to reduce the deficit, let’s start on the other end of the income spectrum and test the one percent.
Paul Ryan Wants A Racist President If He’ll Ravage the Poor and Elderly
It is possible Paul Ryan is not an avid nativist, but he is a Republican and the fact that he wants a racist to advance his conservative agenda exposes him as bad of a human being as Donald Trump.
To Address America’s Poverty Epidemic Doctors To Start Screening For Child Hunger
According to pediatricians, doctors should start screening their child patients for hunger, and the lesser-known problem of food insecurity
Republicans Willing to Take Food From 45 Million People Over Planned Parenthood
All we have to do so 45 million low income Americans can eat, is be willing to deprive millions of poor women of reproductive healthcare
Republican Welfare Reform Pushed A Third Of America’s Children Into Extreme Poverty
The economy is growing for the extremely wealthy, but there were 3 million more children living in extreme poverty in 2013 than in 2008
John Boehner To Hold Tax Repeal Vote To Increase Welfare For the Rich
Speaker of the House John Boehner will hold a vote to repeal the "Estate Tax" and give the very richest of the rich another government handout at the expense of the rest of the population.
A New Report Proves Republican Governed Red States Are Economic Parasites
A new report reveals that those same red state Republican voters who want the federal government cut to shreds are leeching substantially more assets from the federal government they want destroyed at the expense of blue states that are supporting them.
Real Economist Paul Krugman Calls Republican Budget A Trillion Dollar Con Job
Republicans only know one approach to economic policy; the abject failure and scam known as trickle down with a healthy dose of Draconian austerity. Those features epitomize the most recent budget proposal Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman officially and accurately labeled as a "trillion dollar con job."
Koch-Congress Preparing To Starve the Poor With Drastic Food Stamp Cuts
The big plan the new Koch Senate is due to propose this week is cutting food stamps substantially and giving the reduced amounts directly to states in the form of "block grants."
Republican Lawmaker Doesn’t Want To Fund Schools Because Blacks Get “Welfare Crazy Checks”
In comments made to the Jackson Clarion-Ledger, Mississippi State Representative Gene Alday said he opposed additional school funding because he feels blacks in the state already get too much help from the government and "they don't work."
Boehner And Republicans Plan To Reverse Growth Numbers and Kill Jobs
Now that Republicans will have control of both houses of Congress, they will start, immediately, passing legislation to revert back to Bush-era economics and undo the economic progress of the past six years.
Ted Cruz Says A Functioning Senate Subverts the Will of The People
In fact, there is very little that Ted Cruz even likes about this country, including the United States Constitution, that he would burn to the ground in a hot second if he were able.
Proof That Republicans Are Creating Poverty: America Is Number One In Low Wage Jobs
According to new research on America's world-leading economic inequality, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reported that in 2014, the exceptionally rich United States has the distinction of the highest proportion of low-paying jobs among every developed nation in the world. The report is just in time for Republicans on the campaign trail to boast to their supporters that America is number one in having over a quarter of its workforce laboring for poverty wages.
Mitch McConnell Puts His Foot In His Mouth By Calling The Founding Fathers Radicals
McConnell asserted that belief in, and support for, the government is "an act of true radicalism," something that makes the Founding Fathers and the great majority of Americans "true radicals."
Mitch McConnell Tries To Undo Everything Obama Has Done With Government Shutdown Threat
If any American thinks the Republicans will not follow through on their shutdown threat, they are deluded because McConnell's own words encapsulated the entire conservative mindset when he promised that "Obama won't like it, but that will be done. I guarantee it."
Rick Perry Takes a Break from Bullying Texans to Attack Obama
At a Republican gathering in New Hampshire, Perry took time to attack Obama for the economy his party destroyed and has done nothing to fix