Showing posts with label food stamps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food stamps. Show all posts
Saturday, June 21, 2025

The U.S. Senate parliamentarian still has not ruled on the GOP's wacky current policy vs. current law baseline

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The current policy is the temporary Trump tax cuts from 2017.  The current law is the tax compromise worked out by Barack Obama and John Boe...
Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Harvard University pays its graduate student employees $40k minimum but tells them to go on Food Stamps to make ends meet

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 Harvard University Encourages Students To Go On Food Stamps, Even Though It's the Richest School In The World With A $53 Billion Endowm...
Tuesday, May 30, 2023

The debt ceiling compromise freezes spending in the next fiscal year about $400 billion too high, and does nothing to pay for the $4.9 trillion added to the debt over and above "normal" deficit spending

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The Washington Examiner, here : In exchange for a two-year hike in the federal borrowing limit, the legislation roughly freezes next year...
Tuesday, May 2, 2023

As usual the media and the Democrats, but I repeat myself, are portraying the House Republican bill which lifts the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion as a bill with "big spending cuts"

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This is how NPR, who else?, frames the issue from the beginning: The House of Representatives has narrowly approved a Republican bill to ra...
Sunday, March 26, 2023

The poor retailers

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  Shrinking food stamp benefits for families mean yet another challenge for retailers
Sunday, March 5, 2023

WaPo ignores that it was Obama's war on coal which impoverished the Ohio River Valley and is now going hungry after the end of COVID-19 food assistance

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A mile-long line for free food offers a warning as covid benefits end   In Kentucky, a state that has been hit particularly hard by the coll...
Saturday, September 1, 2018

Tucker Carlson says there's nothing free about this market, falls short of calling it an expression of global fascism

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But who knows, maybe his forthcoming book connects the dots between the multinational corporations and their revolving door governments, a...
Friday, August 31, 2018

At the end of 2017 we still had 14 million more on food stamps than at the pre-Great Recession average

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16.5% of the U.S. population was on food stamps on average in 2017, versus 11% on average from 1973-2008. In 2017 over 42 million rece...
Thursday, January 11, 2018

Did you know food stamp recipients soared 3,639,173 in October 2017?

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An increase of nearly 8.7% from September 2017, the month prior. We now have 45.6 million on food stamps when a year ago October it wa...
Tuesday, December 12, 2017

If the economy is on the mend under Trump, why did the number on food stamps go up nearly 800,000 in September?

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We're also witnessing a slow down in road travel, in addition to the odd up-tick in the food stamp numbers. In October 2015 road t...
Thursday, September 1, 2016

Trump uncucks himself, delivers illegal immigration speech in Arizona yesterday which couldn't have been much stronger, but the hot mess he created over the last two weeks gives one pause

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- The Daily Caller - http://dailycaller.com - TEXT: Donald Trump’s Speech In Phoenix On Illegal Immigration Posted By Alex Pappas ...
Wednesday, March 9, 2016

John Kasich's Ohio miracle is totally phony and depended entirely on federal money through Medicaid expansion under Obamacare

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No wonder John Kasich took the Medicaid expansion under Obamacare. John Kasich has been bad for Ohioans, is already poison for the pre...
Friday, November 6, 2015

Rush Limbaugh: 94 million not in labor force are ALL on welfare, ALL have an EBT card, ALL getting food stamps, ALL getting disability

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Today, here , with the right's version of The Big Lie: "We don't have 5% unemployment. We've got 20% unemployment.  B...
Saturday, October 31, 2015

The New York Times criticizes Republican tax plans, pretending revenues are needed to cover spending

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Here : "All of these candidates deny fiscal reality. In the next 10 years, revenues will need to increase by 40 percent simply ...
Thursday, October 15, 2015

Rush Limbaugh thinks the 46 million on food stamps are the U-3 "counted" unemployed, many of whom actually can and do work

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Yesterday, here : "Today, there are 46 million Americans unemployed, and 94 million not working. Now, these 46 million people, th...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

CBS News claims Trump keeps the EITC

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Here . For the current 5-year period 2012-2016 the Joint Committee on Taxation has previously estimated the annual cost of the Earned In...
Thursday, September 17, 2015

Pompous ass Steve Gruber Show doesn't fact check while imagining it possesses journalistic integrity

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"49 million on food stamps." "McCain got more votes than Romney."
Saturday, January 10, 2015

Persons taking food stamps in October 2014 are UP 0.5% from September

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Persons taking food stamps in October 2014 number 46,674,364. This is up 0.5% from September. But compared to October 2013 persons tak...
Friday, December 19, 2014

Average food stamp participation under Obama is 43.2 million annually to date, 84% higher than under Bush

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Under Bush it was 23.5 million on average, and under Clinton 23.1 million.
Saturday, December 6, 2014

Food stamp recipient level declines again in September 2014

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Those receiving food stamps in September 2014 declined to 46,459,998 according to Friday's report. The decline is a statistically ...