Poverty rate among Hispanics in Nebraska soars (no abortions especially NO PUBLIC PD 4 HELP!)

[Omaha Steve]

Pro life stops after birth.

http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/poverty-rate-among-hispanics-in-nebraska-soars/article_b421eb00-e0e0-5f68-a989-aa3dd27c2b56.html




BRENDAN SULLIVAN/THE WORLD-HERALD
Sofia Hernandez, 1, sits with a bag of potatoes as her mother, Maria, receives food at the Juan Diego Center’s pantry in South Omaha. U.S. Census Bureau figures show that the poverty rate among Hispanics in Nebraska has risen dramatically in recent years.


POSTED: SUNDAY, JANUARY 4, 2015 12:00 AM
By Henry J. Cordes / World-Herald staff writer

Kids can go hungry when families fall through social safety net's gaps: http://www.omaha.com/news/metro/kids-can-go-hungry-when-families-fall-through-social-safety/article_dfbbf668-10ba-5d1b-af91-3a75bb069011.html

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Maria Benitez’s husband brings home $80 a day from his job painting houses. She supplements that by selling Mexican candies in South Omaha from a cart she pushes down the street.

But after paying rent and other bills, there’s often not much money left to feed the couple and their three children.

That’s why the 50-year-old Benitez recently stood in a light snow outside Our Lady of Guadalupe Church accepting free sack lunches handed out by James Parsons, who runs a street ministry assisting Omaha’s needy.

While Benitez and the two dozen others accepting the charity that day expressed their thanks, she also gratefully offered Parsons something in return: homemade tortillas from her kitchen.

FULL story at link.

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Wait till this next Congress gets done

with their Ryan Budget. One of the main reasons your state has these issues is your Business Leadership. Seems like every thing has a Libertarian anti worker family bent to it. This is the Hispanic Community,what is happening in the Somali and other Mid Eastern Groups in and around those Packing Houses. Now that is going to be the big story and it isn't pretty.

[pnwmom]

2. Where in the article does it talk about abortions?

Most of these families are Catholic, so they probably aren't interested in abortions, publicly financed or not. But aren't abortions legal in all states, including Nebraska?

[Omaha Steve]

3. There was a big blow up a couple years ago in NE

At the same time they wanted to be sure undocumented citizens would be discouraged (by fear) from abortions, the legislature turned around an eliminated prenatal care for those same low income Hispanics. They had been using a small clinic in South Omaha for that care. Even though it meant more $ down the road for the care of the children once they were born and needed more care than IF they had access to the prenatal care.

I still vent about their double standard in the legislature. Sorry about the misleading title.

[pnwmom]

4. What they did was reprehensible. Thanks for clarifying. n/t