In 2019, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, eleven percent of Arizona’s population needed to use the Supplemental Food Assistance Program (S.N.A.P. or Food Stamps.) In the United States, the number is 12 percent. Of that eleven percent in Arizona: 72 percent are families with children (Nationally, it is 67 percent.) 24 … Read more
The Democrats in Congress, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer want the next phase of stimulus to help people combat the Coronavirus to include funds for: Hospitals and other medical needs. Aid for states and local governments. Increased food stamp aid. Aid to small businesses not covered in the previous … Read more
In the week to ten days since Individual One was acquitted by the Coverup Republicans in the Senate, the electoral fortunes of the Democratic candidates seeking to defeat the most vulnerable of them have considerably improved. How can this be? Exhibit A: Has the 2016 Popular Vote Loser shown humility and remorse since his acquittal … Read more
On Monday, February 10, 2020, the Trump Administration released its proposed budget for 2021. If passed, it would launch a New Reactionary Dark Age for the American People by cutting vital programs for the countries most vulnerable and further exploding the national debt. Among the proposals for cuts are: The Children’s Health Insurance Program. (C.H.I.P.) … Read more
What is it about Reactionary Social Darwinist Republican Conservatives that like to prey on the most vulnerable with draconian repressive social policies while fattening the wallets of the one percent with bloated and unpaid individual and corporate tax cuts? Last summer, the Trump Administration announced its intention to tighten rules in the SNAP … Read more