High Child Poverty Is A Deliberate Policy Choice

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Republicans want fewer children to receive food stamps.

They argue their proposal would simply move more parents into jobs, so the kids would be better off, but the result would be fewer children receiving benefits — whether their parents get jobs or not.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program currently exempts anyone raising minor children from its strictest “work requirements,” which deny benefits to people working less than 20 hours per week. Congressional Republicans are pushing to limit the exemption to parents whose children are younger than age 6 ― which would remove more than half a million children from the program.

The food stamp debate is not happening because there’s some kind of urgent problem with parents abusing the program, which has seen years of declining enrollment. It’s only happening because, for no important reason, Congress reauthorizes the program’s underlying statute every five years ― a tradition that is emblematic of the way federal budget policies disadvantage American children.

Kids make up almost a quarter of the U.S. population, but directly benefit from less than a tenth of federal spending, according to a new report by the Center for a Responsible Federal Budget, a think tank that opposes budget deficits. (Children don’t directly apply for benefits, but the government counts them as recipients when their parents do.) Adults, by contrast, benefit from 60 percent of federal spending, with more than half of that going to senior citizens through programs like Social Security and Medicare.

It’s a good deal for older Americans, and maybe not such a good one for children.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poverty/high-child-poverty-is-a-deliberate-policy-choice/ar-BBMbGwe?li=BBnb7Kz

Mighty Xtian of these Republicans.

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1. Add to that

all the jobs to be automated in the near future. Not much left for the unskilled.

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2. Rightwing evangelicals. The people that power the Republican Party, are pure evil.

They insist that poor women have babies, they provide no adoption support to help poor families that may want to adopt unwanted children adopt. They push for nutrition and early education for poor kids to be cut off. Then when they see society circling the drain because of THEIR actions, they double down with worst actions.

I am a deist. I don't believe in a Hell or any of the attributes of it. But I do believe our deeds on earth are watched and on our deathbeds, we get karma delivered to us before all goes dark, that karma is either good due to good deeds done over a lifetime, or it is bad because most of a life was spent denying or hurting people.