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!
Next time you see some loser with FJB written somewhere, cross out the B and put an M
Centrist my hairy ass. If it walks and talks like an obstructionist republican ballsack…
…then he’s a centrist.
Joe Manchin gave us the IRA. Don’t forget that.
Too bad an Executive Act could’ve made that negligible, but I’m glad that Biden and the democrats insist on playing by the rules when their opponents are bragging about cheating
The important thing is that we found a way to blame Joe Biden for everything.
I mean after a certain point, isn’t inaction just complicity?
This is a great video about that. Really gets to the core of the complete phallacy of the DNC strategy. I’m starting to think they’re intentionally ineffective at this point.
It’s “fallacy”, unless you are talking about this book by Emily Willingham
I like your version, it really conjures imagery of the US getting fucked by the two party system.
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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 or 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.
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.
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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Yup, many of their pockets are just as lined with big pharma money as republicans
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.
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…
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.”
Impeachment only means charges have been brought up against him.
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.
The Dems would never allow Bernie near that much power.
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.
If Biden is too old, so is Bernie, who is older by two years. I love Bernie, but no. His chance has passed.
