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
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
Bloomberg News recently reported Trump’s $28 Billion Trade War Bailout Is Overpaying Farmers: President Donald Trump’s $28 billion farm bailout may be paying many growers more than the trade war with China has cost them. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s calculations overshot the impact of the trade conflict on American soybean prices, according to six … Read more
Many stories have been written about the recent attack from the 2016 Popular Vote Loser Administration on the poor by making it harder for those in the lower classes to qualify for the SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), commonly known as Food Stamps, program. Fellow Blog For Arizona contributor AZ Blue Meanie released a piece … Read more
With Robert Mueller’s testimony sucking up all the media oxygen last week, you may have missed a couple of important stories. The latest tranche of bailout money from the Trump administration to bribe farmers to stick with Trump despite his disastrous trade policies that are financially ruining them is starting to roll out now. Another … Read more