The SNAP benefit under the Trump administration is infuriating. Working for the Census, every day I ask folks if they have received SNAP benefits and let me just say - this program has made a big impact in people's lives.
what comes next... I don't know. At some point we needed to be over Covid and still... I'm worried.
"Hiding behind Covid to waste billions of taxpayers' dollars on their radical agenda..." Leave it to Scalise, one of the many repubs who do nothing but attack and have absolutely no helpful agenda of their own...how do they ever get elected??
It's mind-boggling. What really threw me is the former administration's interpretation of federal law that denied extra pandemic-related benefits, for food no less, to the poorest people receiving SNAP benefits. Let us not ask why the poor stay poor in America.
The good programs should be reintroduced on their own merit, outside the justification of a national emergency, which for good or ill, is no longer being treated as such.
But that won't happen because, as we all know, poor people won't work unless their children are threatened with hunger.
Hey flipshod, I appreciate your comment! I agree with your point that the positive aspects of the NHE should be added to programs independent of the emergency... but not sure about the meaning of your second comment???
The SNAP benefit under the Trump administration is infuriating. Working for the Census, every day I ask folks if they have received SNAP benefits and let me just say - this program has made a big impact in people's lives.
what comes next... I don't know. At some point we needed to be over Covid and still... I'm worried.
"Hiding behind Covid to waste billions of taxpayers' dollars on their radical agenda..." Leave it to Scalise, one of the many repubs who do nothing but attack and have absolutely no helpful agenda of their own...how do they ever get elected??
It's mind-boggling. What really threw me is the former administration's interpretation of federal law that denied extra pandemic-related benefits, for food no less, to the poorest people receiving SNAP benefits. Let us not ask why the poor stay poor in America.
The good programs should be reintroduced on their own merit, outside the justification of a national emergency, which for good or ill, is no longer being treated as such.
But that won't happen because, as we all know, poor people won't work unless their children are threatened with hunger.
Hey flipshod, I appreciate your comment! I agree with your point that the positive aspects of the NHE should be added to programs independent of the emergency... but not sure about the meaning of your second comment???
I was being ironic saying that we lack the will to care for the poor and justify it with Puritan misconceptions.
Oh good! Thanks for the explanation!