The child poverty rate more than doubled in 2022 as Covid-era aid programs expired, erasing major economic gains for the poorest Americans.
“Biden officials pushed hard to make that program permanent but couldn’t overcome opposition from centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who argued the government’s spending was stoking inflation.”
F@#& Joe Manchin!
Centrist my hairy ass. If it walks and talks like an obstructionist republican ballsack…
…then he’s a centrist.
Only when the overtone window puts hard line conservatives in the center.
So like I said.
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I’d say they’re in the same vein and IRA is effective but many policies were watered down. You seem to know something I don’t about this bill, I see Manchin as obstructionary. How could you possibly not?
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Oh wow! I didn’t know all of that. What a wicked bit of drama 😍 Thank you.
Next time you see some loser with FJB written somewhere, cross out the B and put an M
LOL, “centrist”.
That man is not a centrist.
Capitalists will always view the uplift of their captive labor market as a bad thing. Covid era expansion of government aid was always intended to be life support for a monetarily ensnared working class in order to maintain the exploitation on the other side of the pandemic. Why do you think they are so adamant about the “return to work”? It isnt just the corporate property developers suffering directly from unused realty, but the middle managers suffering from irrelevance of not being able to physically wield power over employees. Keeping workers stuck in a cycle of poverty is how late-stage capitalism operates most efficiently for the ruling class.
They are pretty open about that. The wealthy feel that they need to cause pain in the economy globally in order to diminish workers’ ability to make demands. They have the means and the motive to make 2008 happen again.
…the middle managers suffering from irrelevance of not being able to physically wield power over employees
Imagine thinking middle management have any more influence than the rest of us working peasants to influence over the ruling the 1%. What an utterly bizarre thing to claim.
Capitalists will always view the uplift of their captive labor market as a bad thing.
I’m a neoliberal capitalist pig and I love uplifting the poor. I literally dedicated my life to it. I fully support just straight up handing the poor money.
You’ll also note Joe Biden is a capitalist pig-dog too, and literally fought for this program
Keeping workers stuck in a cycle of poverty is how late-stage capitalism operates most efficiently for the ruling class.
This is the opposite of the truth.
It really is crazy that under the COVID relief bills we saw direct payments to citizens, the child tax credits, and no cost healthcare at point of service for ONE disease. And then poof it was gone.
Especially on that last one, I’m surprised I don’t see it wrapped into the Medicare for All movement more often as an example of a dramatic expansion of the government’s role in healthcare for all Americans, however temporary and limited.
Democrats don’t want Medicare for All anymore than Republicans do. So it’s not surprising that they dropped benefits as quickly as possible before people got used to them.
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In context of Medicare for All … yes: BoTh SiDeS.
There are differences between both political parties. But on healthcare issues, both parties are very protective of insurance company interests. To pretend otherwise is incredibly immature.
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Accurately pointing out what is the same and what is different across Republicans and Democrats is absolutely constructive. Start with the facts, don’t just disregard the facts because they conflict with your theory about how noting any equivalency between both parties is GOP propaganda.
That’s exactly the same kind of mindless allegiance in practice that GOP devotees are brainwashed with. If you’re so sucked up into some theory that you can’t acknowledge the faults in your own in-group, your perspective is next to useless. Politics calls for impartial analysis, not herd mentalities and division for its own sake.
Making it permanent was pushed many times, but was getting rejected.
Yup, many of their pockets are just as lined with big pharma money as republicans
I’m not saying I wish covid was worse, but maybe if it’s been like a little worse we could of got single payer healthcare?.. I dunno I really thought that was going to make it obvious how much better that’d be.
I know what you are saying. These folks were actively asking for the 2% of Grandma’s and immunocompromised to be sacrificed for the greater good. Maybe if they saw their ERs shut down in the suburbs and country line they did in the city, they would take it more seriously
title sounds like clickbait. it’s so weird to use collapsing, when the real story is the covid era programs are expiring (as OP thankfully points out, thanks OP).
The programs in question were incredibly effective at ending child poverty in the US. Their ending will increase child poverty.
Sure, but my point is that the article title is burying the lede by not pointing that out in the title. There’s also like 4 articles posted that specific detail already.
It’s already a long ass title. How much are they suppose to fit in there?
There’s several other posts from other news articles that just get to the point and are less click-baity.
“Child poverty increases sharply after tax credit expiration” (PBS)
“Many Americans facing hardship as benefits created during COVID-19 end” (PBS)
“US Child poverty jumped and income declined in 2022 as COVID benefits expired” (modified slightly from the AP title)Those all bury the lead.
wtf are you smoking? They all literally get right to the point of the article.
US will always be US…years after we received the meager covid relief funds, a certain group was still complaining about too much free money…
Not collapsing. Being torn right the fuck back down, by conservatives and Republicans who hate Americans and don’t care about the well-being and safety of our most vulnerable.
“strongest safety net in American history” yeah can people stop making up outright lies about Biden? He’s barely doing anything, I have two cats and they both probably get less sleep
You could have bothered to read even the first paragraph of the article before commenting…
Just two years after orchestrating the largest expansion of the U.S. safety net in a half-century, Biden’s $2 trillion bet that big-government policies could vastly improve life for the poorest Americans is coming to a close.
It’s an objective fact. It probably says more about our previous leaders than it does about Biden.
Yet another democrat “we’d love to but…” When will people learn that Manchin switching sides is all part of the play? Lieberman did the same to nerf the ACA. When democrats get a majority, it’s always by a small enough margin that you can pay a couple of people off to switch sides. Then with the tiniest of temporary victories, democrats can still claim “this is the greatest mostest bestest amazingest progressivest president in US history” which sounds impressive until you see the reality. It’s a baby rattle that distracts the dumbest diehard democrat fans who think democrats actually intend to make progress. Meanwhile the rest just vote democrat because they’re not republicans, but we’re not stupid enough to think it’ll make a difference in this crooked system.
What happens if he does get impeached? Are we having a new election a year a before the next one? Or does VP Harris become president harris?
Nothing happens other than him getting a bump in the polls. No presidential impeachment has ever led to a conviction, even when they were caught in tape doing the thing they were accused of… All an impeachment has ever done its made the party that conducted the impeachment perform worse at the polls because they’re seen as “playing politics.”
To add to the other comment Biden would need to be impeached by the House and convicted by the Senate (where Dems currently have a majority). If it were somehow successful, Harris would become the new president until what would have been the end of Biden’s term.
Basically impossible right now, but helpful to know what the process looks like.
Dont forget though who becomes the vice president. Whoever Harris chooses. Aka she can make Bernie a stand in VP until the next election. Imagine how much that would piss off the GOP.
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If Biden is too old, so is Bernie, who is older by two years. I love Bernie, but no. His chance has passed.
No one is electing him as president. He would be acting as a stand in VP for less than a year. It’s a joke.
You’d be surprised how many people still want Bernie to run.
Aka she can make Bernie a stand in VP until the next election. Imagine how much that would piss off the GOP.
She wouldn’t do that because it would piss off her own party even more.
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