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“massive amount of confusion and chaos.” “The timing is really terrible,” Beauregard said. “What’s the rush? Why do we need to make a big change now and another big change three months later?” “From our perspective, it’s unwise do to major changes like this back to back,” she said.
Most co-payments will be between $1 and $8, but inpatient services, such as hospital admissions or mental health and substance abuse admissions, will be $50.
The farm bill passed by the House called for many food stamp recipients to be locked out of the program for up to three years if they fail to work or enroll in job training.
Most co-payments will be between $1 and $8, but inpatient services, such as hospital admissions or mental health and substance abuse admissions, will be $50.
If Congress won't make more food stamp recipients work for their benefits, the Trump administration will. The US Department of Agriculture unveiled a proposed rule Thursday that would expand work requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, as the food stamp program is formally known.
I'm confused if this applies to Kentucky only, or it's a federal policy, applying to all states.
How can anyone argue with this! This isn't even saying they have to work, they just have to make the effort! C'mon!
Some Medicaid recipients will be exempt from the co-pays, including pregnant women, children, and individuals receiving hospice care. People whose income is at or below the federal poverty level also are exempt.
Humorist Will Rogers jokingly advised in a column in 1932:[12]
"This election was lost four and six years ago, not this year. They [Republicans] didn’t start thinking of the old common fellow till just as they started out on the election tour. The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover was an engineer. He knew that water trickles down. Put it uphill and let it go and it will reach the driest little spot. But he didn’t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellows hands.
They saved the big banks, but the little ones went up the flue."
In 1896, Democratic presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan described the concept using the metaphor of a "leak" in his Cross of Gold speech:[9][10] There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity will leak through on those below. The Democratic idea has been that if you legislate to make the masses prosperous their prosperity will find its way up and through every class that rests upon it.[11]
Except that the trickle down never happens. Accordingly, so the argument goes, we should dump trickle down economics in favour of policies to cure inequality
This is the argument that, confusingly, elected Donald Trump, voted for Brexit and now provides the policy platform of the Australian labour movement.
Trickle down economics is fake; it has never existed anywhere.
It is no more than a disparaging way of framing the ideas at the core of Australian economic policy from Bob Hawke to Malcolm Turnbull.
originally posted by: TonyS
If Congress won't make more food stamp recipients work for their benefits, the Trump administration will. The US Department of Agriculture unveiled a proposed rule Thursday that would expand work requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, as the food stamp program is formally known.
This is precisely why Trump will lose in 2020. The optics are simply awful; its as if he's intentionally and specifically targeting Democrat voters.
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
We just keep working, we keep sacrificing, we keep pushing our dollars up the chain....and keep getting a boot to the face as our reward.
Most SNAP recipients who can work do so. Among SNAP households with at least one working-age, non-disabled adult, more than half work while receiving SNAP — and because many workers turn to SNAP when they are between jobs, more than 80 percent work in the year before or after receiving SNAP. The rates are even higher for families with children. (About two-thirds of SNAP recipients are not expected to work, primarily because they are children, elderly, or disabled.)
I'm not sure what stocks have to do with any of this directly or ever did, but stocks go up and so that means value of a company goes up, and that means the company is growing, and that means more jobs, and that means more of the better paying jobs too, and that means lower unemployment rate...
We increased military spending, and reduced services for citizens