welfare
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Thousands Of Children Won’t Get Summer Food Program
Republican governors in Iowa and Nebraska are opting-out of federal summer food program for low-income children as a part of larger war on welfare.
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Biden to Expand Free Lunch Program to Provide Meals for 34 Million Students Throughout the Summer
While expanded vaccine eligibility hopefully means that the worst of the pandemic will soon be behind us, we’re still firmly in a recovery phase, and we have a long way to go before getting to whatever the new normal will be. In an effort to potentially reimagine what that new normal could look like, the…
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Pennsylvania Breakfast Diner Apologizes for Clearly Racist Sign They Claim They Didn't Know Was Racist…But They Knew. They Always Know
If there is one wypipo practice that I can’t stand, it’s when they say or post blatantly racist shit that plays on well-known racial stereotypes but doesn’t specifically mention race so they get to fall back and say, “I didn’t realize the connotation.” Because it’s almost certainly a copout and a lie. You didn’t realize…
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Georgia Mayor Says 'Privilege Is Wearing $200 Sneakers' In Racist Facebook Post
White people, on the whole, haven’t been doing too well this last month. If it’s not going full tilt Karen at black people for just existing, or having breakdowns over not getting a McMuffin, it’s going onto social media and saying some truly wild shit. “Privilege is wearing $200 sneakers when you’ve never had a…
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Trump Tries to Offset Damage From Tariffs With Welfare for White People
In an attempt to appease the rural, white casualties of his widely-decried trade war, President Donald Trump announced billions of dollars in federal aid to farmers, many of whom make up his base of proud Americans who hate big government, welfare and “those people” who are always asking for a handout. According to the Washington…
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Trump’s New ‘Work for Welfare’ Rules Protect Poor Whites at the Expense of Urban Blacks
Let’s talk about institutional racism, shall we? For those who don’t know (and at this point, there’s really no reason not to), institutional racism occurs when discrimination is perpetuated by the state or government, versus the actions of individuals, and given its outsize influence is wont to perpetuate more insidious and long-lasting damage on marginalized…
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The Sean Hannity Controversy Exposes the Racist Hypocrisy of Wypipo Welfare
On Monday, conservative right-wing zealot Sean Hannity paused his public fellating of Donald Trump and explained why it was totally cool that he received millions of dollars in government assistance and personally benefited from the “big government” and “welfare state” he publicly rails against. “It is ironic that I am being attacked for investing my…
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How Are The GOP Going to Make Up for Massive Tax Cuts to the Rich? Yep, Cuts to Medicaid and Welfare
Isn’t it just like the GOP to run out here an issue the trashiest tax bill in the history of tax bills, a tax bill that is literally cutting taxes for the top 1% and when asked how they are going to stop driving up the national deficit—remember the Republican Party is supposed to be…
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Black Women Were Too Lazy to Find Work and 4 Other Myths of Welfare Reform
Welfare reform is 20 years old. On Aug. 22, 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, “ending welfare as we know it.” Strategically placed next to him for the photo was Lillie Harden, an African-American mother from Little Rock, Ark., who had spent two years on welfare but now had…