Republicans have always opposed the “entitlement” programs of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid from the time that these programs were first enacted (it is an entitlement because it is a payroll tax on your earnings – for earnings in 2023, the cap is $160,200 – which you pay into over your working life. It’s your … Read more
Update to Congress Gives Itself One More Week To Pass The Omnibus Spending Bill. The New York Times reports, Lawmakers Unveil Sprawling Spending Bill to Avoid Shutdown: Top lawmakers on Tuesday unveiled a sprawling spending package that would keep the government open through next fall after reaching a compromise on billions of dollars in federal … Read more
It’s the first Monday in October, and you know what that means: SCOTUS is back in session. The Supreme Court announced last Wednesday that the public will be allowed back into the courtroom when the new term begins on Monday, for the first time since it imposed pandemic-related restrictions in March 2020. Supreme Court will … Read more
The Children’s Action Alliance (CAA) released its ratings of Arizona state legislators on how they voted for bills that would have assisted residing Grand Canyon State Children. The pro child measures included bills that: Increased postpartum care for new mothers through AHCCCS. Increasing kinship care for foster children/families to $300 a month. Allowing foster youth to … Read more
One thing is certain as the Democrats in the United States Senate starts to craft their own version of the Biden/Harris Build Back Better Plan. Whatever emerges will lift people up and move the country forward. The current version of the plan includes headline items like: an extension of the expanded Child Tax Credit (the … Read more