Yesterday the House Agricultural Committee approved a farm bill that included, according to NPR, cutting the food stamp program by $2.5 billion a year. Both those supporting this cut (primarily Republicans) and those opposing (primarily Democrats) quoted the Christian Bible, including from the New Testament book of Matthew, “When I was hungry you gave me [...]
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Mitt Romney: “My Campaign is About the 100 Percent” [Video and Transcript]
“Well, first of all this is a campaign about the 100 percent and over the last several years you’ve seen greater and greater divisiveness in this country. We had hoped to come back together, but instead you’ve seen us pull apart and politics has driven us apart in some respects. My campaign is about the [...]
Poverty Not an Election Story Worth Covering
FAIR HAS an article out focusing on poverty and the coverage the subject does not get from top echelon national media in the country. It’s simply not on big media’s radar. Part of the issue is that neither Barack Obama or Mitt Romney talk about poverty. There’s no advantage to it, because both political parties [...]
The First NEWSROOM Award Goes to Chris Hayes
Ep. 3: Preview The “award” I’m about to give is a nod to HBO’s new series created by Aaron Sorkin, “Newsroom,” and the idealist notion in the 24/7 media orgasma era that ratings don’t have to drive content. What you’re about to read is the story of a nation rotting due to the inability to [...]
Poverty is Growing in the ‘Exceptional’ USA, But It Isn’t a Campaign Concern
Joyce L. Arnold, Liberally Independent, Queer Talk, equality activist, writer. Seriously addressing the increasing levels of poverty will not be done by Obama or Romney. It is being addressed by hunger, homeless and health care advocates, Occupiers, 99%-ers, and others, but we won’t hear much if anything about that from Campaigns or media. Like poverty, [...]
23 Democrats Voted Against Gillibrand’s Food Stamp Rescue Legislation
Congress has grown increasingly concerned about spending for the food stamp program. Some 26 million Americans received the aid in 2007, while more than 44 million received it last year, at a cost of $76 billion. The Congressional Budget Office estimated recently that demand will continue to grow through 2014 in the wake of the [...]
Desperation Inside the 99%
A woman in the border city of Laredo, Texas who was angry because she had been denied food stamps killed herself and shot and critically wounded her two children late on Monday, authorities said on Tuesday. – Reuters Yesterday on Sean Hannity’s radio show, he made a startling statement about the poor that revealed the [...]
Woman Gets Prison Over Food Stamp Fraud
From Matt Taibbi: Last week, a federal judge in Mississippi sentenced a mother of two named Anita McLemore to three years in federal prison for lying on a government application in order to obtain food stamps. – Woman Gets Jail For Food-Stamp Fraud; Wall Street Fraudsters Get Bailouts This is about fundamental fairness. When Wall [...]
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