But who really cares about making kids’ lives better? It’s not radical vaccine politicizers and anti-immigrant school boards (translation: Republicans). It’s Democrats who get things done for kids and families.
Consider the child tax credit payments authorized in President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan (you know, the robust social safety net that no South Dakota Republican supported). New Census data shows that after those first child tex credit checks rolled out in July, the number of kids going hungry in America dropped dramatically:
Before the first tranche of tax credit payments hit bank accounts in mid-July, about 11 percent of households with children reported that they sometimes or often did not have enough to eat in the past week. After the money went out, the rate dropped to just over 8 percent — a decrease of nearly 24 percent — and the lowest rate recorded since the beginning of the pandemic.
Researchers say it is too early to fully understand the latest drop in hunger rates, but it appears to be closely tied to the child tax credit payments. Households with children saw a major decline, while adults in households with no children saw virtually no change over the same period, with about 6 percent reporting a lack of food sometimes or often [Helena Bottemiller Evich, “Round One of Child Tax Credit Payments Slashed Hunger Rates, U.S. Data Shows,” Politico, 2021.08.12].
Republicans will give you all sorts of slogans about family values and freedom, but Democrats can’t eat slogans. Democrats support practical freedom by passing policies that do real good for real people.
And still SD votes repub.
… with their hands out for my tax money.
I would rather have a vibrant and healthy technology economy here in South Dakota .. perhaps the biggest failing of our leadership if not maintaining this for young people to have future proof jobs.
Installing 5G doesn’t cut it.
Not even close.
Well John, that begs the question. What would? I’m serious.
Comrade Dale knows that the implementation of 5G will expose his Russian ties and stymie his disinformation access security.
Think Dale’s not a Russian disinformation agent?
That’s what you said about Dusty’s “Red Sparrow” before she accessed the Young Republicans during their most vulnerable time, camping in the Hills.
Add free school lunches to the list of Biden’s fight against child hunger.
Letting kids go without meals doesn’t seem a very “pro life” position from the passionate conservatives of the GOP.
sorry – “compassionate conservatives”
John Dale-I’d rather see those kids fed real food instead of BS that conservative thought police seem desiring for our schools than more technology. Hard to learn when your stomach’s growling! Grudz=case in point.
Come on, the pubs hated trying to feed the kids well at school. Aka Michele Obama. They don’t get their shots are against masks. Their suicidal, so let them be.
Free school lunches: that’s another simple, huge change, and an admirable commitment to fighting hunger.
There is no such thing as a free lunch, Messrs. Jake and H. Somebody always has to pay the breakfast bill at the end, and more often than not it falls to grudznick and fellows like me.
grudznick sings the song Republicans always sing, when they’ve put our economy in the ditch, again.
Lunch for kids isn’t free but it’s really, really cheap when Americans buy it as a group.
More good news for ranchers and farmers and they need it. A better market for their products even if Pothole Johnny and EB5 Rounds continue to stand in the way of COOL. Today Biden helps the poor and the hungry with expanded food benefits. This lifts the hopes of agriculture as well as our fellow less fortunate citizens. Booyah!!
“WASHINGTON — The Biden administration has revised the nutrition standards of the food stamp program and prompted the largest permanent increase to benefits in the program’s history, a move that will give poor people more power to fill their grocery carts but add billions of dollars to the cost of a program that feeds one in eight Americans.
Under rules to be announced on Monday and put in place in October, average benefits will rise more than 25 percent from prepandemic levels. All 42 million people in the program will receive additional aid. The move does not require congressional approval, and unlike the large pandemic-era expansions, which are starting to expire, the changes are intended to last.” New York Times 8.15.21
Go Biden/Harris!!
Last Spring Biden announced a 35 billion dollar grant to keep food stamps benefits going until September.
Well, grudz, I’m glad you’re spending your money on breakfast for poor kids…you have to spend your money on something other than whiskey, gravy and preparation H. Your reward will be in heaven.
https://www.salon.com/2022/12/19/congress-just-passed-858b-military-budget–but-is-blocking-12b-to-fight-child-poverty_partner/
Congress increased Pentagon budget by 90 billion this year, but magats won’t allow 12 billion per year to go to child tax credits which reduced poverty by 40%. Dems even offered more taxcuts for corporations and magats declined. Magats declared CTC partisan and apparently don’r believe magat poor kids benefit.