Monday, September 1, 2025

Tag: welfare

Blaming the poor while the rich sneak off with the welfare

Republicans say they only want to eliminate waste, fraud and abuse. To do this they're wasting lives, defrauding their constituents, and abusing the privilege of leadership.

States are hoarding $5.2 billion in welfare funds even as the...

Twenty-five years later, however, states are using this freedom to do nothing at all with large sums of the money.

Utah makes welfare so hard to get, some feel they must...

Utah’s safety net for the poor is so intertwined with the LDS Church that individual bishops often decide who receives assistance. Some deny help unless a person goes to services or gets baptized.

How Mitch McConnell’s callous indifference puts ordinary Americans’ welfare at risk

As the COVID-19 death toll mounts, McConnell refuses to advocate for ordinary Americans.

How corporate welfare hurts you

You often hear Trump and Republicans in Congress railing against so-called “welfare programs” – by which they mean programs that provide health...

Trump’s new war

Trump is specifically mounting a war on our country's poor people, though he euphemistically calls it a war of liberation.

Michigan Spent Eight Months Drug Testing The Poor And Found Zero...

Preliminary results from the state's welfare drug testing pilot program found it spent more than $300 but didn't find a single drug user.

One Percenters Get Their Own Special Social Welfare Deal

The IRS took five years to review the Crossroads GPS application for nonprofit social welfare status.

After Bill To Drug Test Welfare Applicants Is Unveiled, Lawmaker Proposes...

“There’s no reason why state legislators should get a pass, simply because we wear suits.”

Corporate Welfare in California

Right now, a grassroots movement is growing of Californians determined to reform this broken commercial property tax system, and who know California needs more stable funding for its schools, libraries, roads, and communities.

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AI death panels or cost control? Medicare pilot hands denials to private algorithms

Federal pilot in Arizona, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Texas, and Washington will pay private A.I. firms a cut of “savings,” prompting warnings of “AI death panels” and the “very worst of private insurance.”

From Guernica to Gaza

“Do not think yourself better because you burn up friends and enemies with long-range missiles without ever seeing what you have done.”

Wednesday night massacre at CDC: Resignations, walkout, and a showdown over vaccine policy

After the removal of Director Susan Monarez, top CDC officials resign and staff walk out as RFK Jr.’s HHS faces bipartisan alarm.

DRC to open bids for oil and gas drilling putting pristine forest and endangered...

Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) government opened another round of auctioning for 52 oil blocks, which threatens 64 percent of the country’s pristine forest.

When will MAGA Trump’s reckless war against America cause an equal, GOP-demolishing backlash?

Trumpism has always been a bad faith magic trick but day by day becomes America’s indefensible bad joke.