Oddbean new post about login | logout Addendum 3 cont'd In 1 Year Child Poverty in U.S. More Than Doubled Staggering rise follows GOP & Joe Manchinβs crusade to kill expanded child care credit https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/09/child-poverty-rate-child-tax-credit Poverty in United States: 2022 https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2023/demo/p60-280.html https://persagen.com >> search: "joe manchin" #GOP #JoeManchin #poverty #Medicaid #PovertyIndustrialComplex #capitalism #PrivateEquity #corporations #DefundCorporations #HumanRights #WealthInequality #inflation #CorporateGreed #avarice #DefundBillionaires https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/054/201/205/757/552/original/5c9560123fc27d06.png
Addendum 3 cont'd 2/ Child poverty is a choice https://popular.info/p/child-poverty-is-a-choice * 2022: child poverty rate spiked to 12.4% * 7.2% than 2021, per U.S. Census: https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/newsroom/press-kits/2023/iphi/20230912-iphi-slides-poverty.pdf * children who exp. poverty endure immediate hardships: food insecurity/hunger; inadequate clothing; lack of health care; overcrowded/substandard housing/homelessness" * long-term consequences of child poverty are severe: https://www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/0713_dutta-gupta_testimony.pdf #poverty #PovertyIndustrialComplex #DefundCorporations #HumanRights #GOP
Addendum 4: Commoditization of debt Credit card debt collection https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/the-waste-stream-of-consumer-finance Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37490241 Commoditization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commoditization * process by which goods that have economic value end up becoming simple commodities in eyes of market, consumers, corporarations #ommoditization #debt #ConsumerDebt #poverty #PovertyIndustrialComplex #capitalism #corporations #CorporateGreed #avarice #DefundCorporations #HumanRights #GOP
Addendum5 See also A3 cont'd, above Child Poverty More Than Doubled in 2022 After Congress Let Tax Credit Expire https://truthout.org/articles/child-poverty-more-than-doubled-in-2022-after-congress-let-tax-credit-expire * child poverty skyrocketed in 2022 after lawmakers allowed pandemic stimulus provisions to expire * left millions to languish even as pandemic & its economic consequences raged on Income, Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2022: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2023/income-poverty-health-insurance-coverage.html
A5 cont'd No Accident Poverty Just Jumped Spiked after lawmakers let antipoverty programs expire https://inequality.org/research/poverty-spike * 60% incr. 2021-2022 b/c politicians allowed proven income support programs to expire * frising prices, low wages, high rents, broken healthcare system * w/o safety net/level playing field, financial security often out of reach for families Income, Poverty & Health Insurance Statistics: https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-kits/2023/income-poverty.html #GOP #GOPmenace #poverty #ChildPoverty #HumanRights #inflation
Addendum 6 Perusing my morning informational feeds and this parasite popped up via the Hacker News post (I script the most upvoted &/or commented to be emailed to me, daily). An article by billionaire neofascist Joe Lonsdale, https://blog.joelonsdale.com/p/jefferson-and-americas-lost-idea, espousing his twisted ideology. The HN discussion, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37532234, thus far fails to correctly identify Lonsdale for who he is, the danger he presents. Lonsdale's Cicero Institute cloaks itself as a solution to the issue of homelessness.
cont'd That solution includes the demonization of homelessness and the involuntary (for-profit) incarceration and treatment. Billionaires profiting from human misery; poverty industrial complex. Vancouver, B.C. Canada billionaire (who behind the scenes funds elections of far-right political candidates here and Alberta - e.g. Take Back Alberta far-right group) has the Pacific Prosperity Network. ...
cont'd 2/ PPN funded the anti-addition, anti-homeless "Vancouver Is Dying" propaganda - used to elect a political neophyte mayor of Vancouver; used by TBA in recent Alberta election. Back to Lonsdale: model acts (carbon copy legislation distributed to U.S. legislatures to enact neoconservative agendae) are a bane of U.S. politics. Like ALEC/others, the Cicero Institute churns out model acts including this gem: Reducing Street Homelessness Act https://invisiblepeople.tv/private-prisons-for-homeless-criminalization https://persagen.com/docs/cicero_institute.html
cont'd 3/ https://persagen.com >> seach: "cicero institute" OR "joe lonsdale" "Reducing Street Homelessness Act" "chip wilson" OR "pacific prosperity network" "vancouver is dying" homeless* AND discriminat* ... See also: Billionaires, existential risk from https://mastodon.social/@persagen/111071729378344690 #JoeLonsdale #Musk #DefundBillionaires #homelessness #CiceroInstitute #corporations #DefundCorporations #neofascism #ModelActs #ModelLegislatin #discrimination #GOP #GOPmenace #capitalism #socialism #PublicHealth https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/076/189/898/521/962/original/54218d2af0dc9002.png
