The GOP's latest plan to avert a debt ceiling crisis: Creating one tailor-made for poor people.
over the next decade, they would have little impact on the overall federal budget. Pushing it as an answer to America’s reliance on deficit spending, then, is something of a red herring.
It’s about forcing desperate people to provide cheap labor to businesses that are unwilling to pay fair wages. So, if this push isn’t about the nation’s fiscal health and it isn’t about lowering unemployment, then what’s it about? It’s about forcing desperate people to provide cheap labor to businesses that are unwilling to pay fair wages. The fact that in 2018 about a third of families that received SNAP benefits hadand three-quarters had at least one person working belies the claim that the program is encouraging unemployment and that work requirements are necessary.
If Republicans really believe otherwise, there’s already something of a natural experiment under way. Last month, the
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