In their quest to pay for their tax cuts for billionaires in the Big Billionaires First Bill, Mr. Trump and his Congressional Republican allies cut vital social services for millions of vulnerable Americans. Food Stamps or the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) was one of them. With onerous new work requirements, the removal of work … Read more
In yet another week of the cruel government shutdown fiasco orchestrated by Donald Trump and his MAGA Project 2025 allies where they solicit private donors to pay for the demolition of the East Wing for a extravagant ballroom at a time when working and middle class citizens see rising health and food prices, the former … Read more
On Friday, CNN reported that House Democrats unveil full $1.9 trillion Covid relief bill with minimum wage increase: House Democrats took another step Friday in their effort to advance a $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill, releasing the full bill text, which includes an increase in the federal minimum wage to$15 per hour, $1,400 direct checks … Read more
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