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Trump Is Trying To Take Away Food Stamps During The Pandemic

Trump Is Trying To Take Away Food Stamps During The Pandemic

Trump is appealing a court ruling that protected hundreds of thousands of people's access to food stamps during the pandemic.

5 years ago

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…

7 years ago

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…

7 years ago

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…

8 years ago

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…

8 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

9 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

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…

10 years ago

Callous Republican Senators Kill Unemployment Benefits Extension

GOP Senators voted almost unanimously to block a three month extension on benefits for the long term unemployed.

11 years ago

Marco Rubio Embarrasses Himself By Claiming Marriage Is the Solution To Poverty

Rubio, as an anti-poverty crusader, is nearly as hysterical as Reagan, and so was his contention that opposite sex marriage…

11 years ago

Republicans Devastate The Lives of 1.3 Million Americans as the Media Stays Silent

The media is not about to damage Republicans' electoral chances by telling Americans the real reason why they are in…

11 years ago

When Boehner and Cantor Say What The American People Want They Mean ALEC and the Kochs

In Republican parlance, when they say "what the people want," they mean their wealthy benefactors the Koch brothers, ALEC, and…

11 years ago

Southern Republicans Drag the Rest of the Nation Down by Doing the Kochs’ Bidding

The real tragedy is that as stupid Southern voters do the Kochs' bidding by keeping Republicans in power, at least…

11 years ago

Economists Agree With Democrats: GOP Hurting the Economy by Promoting Income Inequality

A panel of economists has joined President Obama, and struggling Americans to assert categorically that income inequality is crushing the…

11 years ago

Republicans Vote Against Their Own Survival as the Top 14 Child Poverty States Are Red

Red state Obama haters think they are punishing the president by voting Republican, but their only accomplishment is creating hunger…

11 years ago

In Two Farm Bills Being Conferenced, Democrats Once Again Play Mr. Nice Guy

The House farm bill tilts toward corporate farm favoritism while decimating the food stamp budget. The Democratic bill tries to…

11 years ago

For Many Americans There is Little To Be Thankful For On Thanksgiving

There are plenty of things for all Americans to be thankful for, but sadly, a substantial segment of the population…

11 years ago

McDonalds Tells Underpaid Starving Employees To Break Their Food Into Pieces

Because McDonalds' "sample budget" only left $27 a month for food, the company advised hungry employees to "break food into…

11 years ago

Republicans Honor Our Veterans By Making Sure That They Are Hungry and Struggling

Republicans have gone out of their way to keep America's Veterans in a struggle to find work after returning from…

11 years ago

Paul Ryan’s Ayn Rand Fantasy Is to Double Food Stamp Cuts and Starve Millions

As devastating as the food stamp cuts that took effect may be, they are just a preview of increased hunger…

11 years ago

Republicans Have Grown To Hate America As Much As They Hate President Obama

If you are an American who is not in the richest one percent, Republicans are in a blind rage to…

11 years ago

During the Obama Presidency Republicans Have Not Made a Single Concession to Help People

It can hardly be disputed that throughout Barack Obama's tenure as President, Republicans have not made one concession or presented…

11 years ago

Republicans Starve The Poor While Handing $20 Billion to Corporate Welfare Bums

As millions of Americans go hungry, federal government pays about $20 billion in cash annually to farmers and farmland owners…

11 years ago

Family Research Council Says Starving Children is Christian Thing to Do

Ken Blackwell of the Family Research Council (FRC) says there is "nothing more Christian" than cutting food stamps

11 years ago

Consumed By Hunger Lust, House Republicans Are Literally Trying To Starve The Needy

What House Republicans are doing has nothing whatsoever to do with politics and everything to do with increasing hunger for…

11 years ago

Republican Hunger Mongers Are Starving People To Give Corporations Welfare

Republicans certainly find revenue to fund billions of dollars for oil subsidies and agricultural corporations but they claim they do…

11 years ago

Republicans Claim that America Can No Longer Afford Compromise and Bipartisanship

There are myriad examples of the neo-conservatives' opposition to compromise and bipartisanship in the House, and to a lesser degree…

11 years ago

Republicans Enjoy A 4 Week Paid Vacation Having Done Nothing For The American People

Americans are having a difficult time understanding why Congress is taking a month-long recess when they have done absolutely nothing…

11 years ago

Republicans Are Behaving Like Unhinged Tyrants Who Realize Their Policies are Failing

Republicans are behaving like evil tyrants who realize their policies are failing and instead of changing course, they have adopted…

11 years ago

Republicans To Spend August Recess Promoting Poverty Creating Policies

Republicans will spend three weeks promoting the policies that drove 4 out of 5 Americans into unemployment, near or at…

11 years ago

As Republicans Make Millions Suffer, the Left’s Ideologues Obsess Over Edward Snowden

There is no doubt the people focusing on the plight of Snowden are sincere, but where is their compassion for…

11 years ago

McDonalds And Visa Give Republicans a Justification For Creating a Peasant Class

Fast food giant McDonalds teamed with Visa to provide them with a budget plan Republicans celebrated as justification for their…

11 years ago

Republicans Are Wearing Driving Millions Into Poverty as a Badge of Honor

One might be inclined to believe politicians would be repulsed that the richest nation in the history of the world…

11 years ago

Charles Koch Launches Campaign to Eliminate the Minimum Wage

Charles Koch has joined Republicans pushing to eliminate the nation's minimum wage. He implied that getting rid of minimum wage…

11 years ago

Republicans Expect the Elderly, Poor and Unemployed to Pay Off Their Debt

For some reason, only Republicans remember that it was the poor, public sector workers, and retirees who created the country's…

11 years ago

Republicans Have Gone From Hating the Government to Hating America

it is glaringly obvious that Republican hatred is directed toward the American people as much as the government meant to…

11 years ago

Southern States Are Pushing Themselves Deeper Into Poverty By Voting Republican

A rash of other, mostly poor Republican-controlled, Southern states are falling deeper into poverty and the greatest amount of their…

11 years ago

House Republicans Are Planning to Eliminate Food Assistance for 13 Million Americans

House Republicans have a ten year plan to eliminate food assistance for 13 million more hungry working Americans and seniors…

12 years ago

Fox News Preys on Poor Kids and Demands They Be Forced To Work For Their Food

Fox News has opened a new front in the war on America's poor children that reveals no-one is safe from…

12 years ago

Republicans Decide The Best Way To Help Poor Children Is To Give Them Less Food

Republicans are actively pursuing policies that target and punish the poor, or purposely keep them downtrodden as a punitive measure…

12 years ago

For America’s Hidden Hungry Children and Adults This Won’t Be a Happy Easter

There are millions of Americans who will seek out real Easter eggs to feed their children, wait for their $189…

12 years ago

Fox News Claims the Economy is Great in Order to Bash President Obama

In an attempt to bash the President over food stamp usage, Fox News claimed that the recession ended four years…

12 years ago

Republican Policies Result In 20%-32% of Kids In the Poorest Red States Living In Poverty

Republicans in Congress and statehouses have made every attempt to create a permanent underclass living in poverty, and they are…

12 years ago

John Boehner Promises To Take Healthcare Away from 30-40 Million People

John Boehner has promised that he will scrap the ACA , and take healthcare coverage away from 30-40 million Americans.

12 years ago

It’s ALEC Not President Obama That is Trampling Constitutional Rights

There is a group of Americans attempting to force a segment of the population to give up their constitutional rights…

12 years ago

House Republicans Congratulate Themselves On Killing a Million Jobs

Republicans are congratulating themselves for allowing the dreaded sequester to take effect knowing full well that in the first year…

12 years ago

Republicans Are Ready to Traumatize Poor Children

No matter how much they try to blame sequestration on Obama and the Democrats, Republicans set it up, and the…

12 years ago

If Republicans Think Latinos Are Uneducated, They Should Look at Their Own Base

A Republican Representative laments working on immigration reform because there's no point in Republicans trying to woo Latinos when they…

12 years ago

Republicans Are Once Again Trying to Hold The Economy Hostage Over Christmas

This Christmas is shaping up like every other year's end since President Obama has been in office, with Republicans holding…

12 years ago

WalMart earns record profits while supporting Republicans who want to slash their employees’ food stamps

At a time when Republicans are proposing deep cuts to programs like SNAP (food stamps), WalMart heavily supported Republican candidates…

12 years ago

Why Conservatives Should Be Thankful That the Rest of Us Elected President Obama

Conservatives should be thankful the rest of the population elected a President not inclined to deliberately cause suffering for 98%…

12 years ago

When Religious Belief is Put Aside for Corporate Global Domination

Two of the oddest couples in election history were created this year when Mormon Governor Mitt RMoney picked multimillionaire Congressman…

12 years ago

As Elections Get Closer, Lies Start Spewing Out of Republicans

The election of 2012 is fast-approaching, and there will be refreshing commercials as well as lies on the radio and…

12 years ago

Rush Limbaugh Claims All Black People Want is More Food Stamps

Rush Limbaugh claimed Mitt Romney got booed at the NAACP convention because all black people want is more food stamps.

12 years ago

GOP Cuts to Food Stamps are Counter-Productive and Cruel

By attacking poverty programs in a time of economic hardship, Republicans have proven how little human suffering accounts in their…

13 years ago

GOP Scam Artists Turn A Deaf Ear To Catholic Bishops When It Comes To Aid For The Poor

Republicans scammed the Catholic Bishops on birth control, and now they are ignoring the same Bishops' pleas that programs that…

13 years ago

Fox News And The GOP Are Wrong: Red States Use The Most Food Stamps

Republicans and Fox News call Obama the food stamp president, but the truth is that red states lead the nation…

13 years ago

Attacking Obama As The Food Stamp President Could Backfire On The GOP

I'm guessing there are far more people on food stamps, and at risk of going on food stamps, than there…

13 years ago