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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRight now, a U.S. toddler is starving because of Pat Toomey, Joe Manchin and 49 other Senators
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Lisa Haver *Goals & Guardrails & Grit Oh My*
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The contempt that is rightfully thrown toward Manchin should also be held for every rank-and-file Republican like straight-outta-Wall Street Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania: @Will_Bunch on 🔥🔥🔥https://inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/us-child-poverty-tax-credits-20220220.html?utm_source=t.co&utm_campaign=edit_social_share_twitter_traffic&utm_medium=social&utm_content=&utm_term=&int_promo= via @phillyinquirer
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Right now, a U.S. toddler is starving because of Pat Toomey, Joe Manchin and 49 other Senate...
The biggest scandal in America is that 3.7 million Americans were tossed back into poverty last month by the inaction of 51 feckless senators.
12:51 PM · Feb 20, 2022
Lisa Haver *Goals & Guardrails & Grit Oh My*
@Haver_Lisa
The contempt that is rightfully thrown toward Manchin should also be held for every rank-and-file Republican like straight-outta-Wall Street Sen. Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania: @Will_Bunch on 🔥🔥🔥https://inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/us-child-poverty-tax-credits-20220220.html?utm_source=t.co&utm_campaign=edit_social_share_twitter_traffic&utm_medium=social&utm_content=&utm_term=&int_promo= via @phillyinquirer
inquirer.com
Right now, a U.S. toddler is starving because of Pat Toomey, Joe Manchin and 49 other Senate...
The biggest scandal in America is that 3.7 million Americans were tossed back into poverty last month by the inaction of 51 feckless senators.
12:51 PM · Feb 20, 2022
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/us-child-poverty-tax-credits-20220220.html
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It was exactly two years ago this month that a working single mom turned antipoverty activist from Wheeling, W.V., named Amy Jo Hutchison sat before a U.S. House committee on Capitol Hill and tried to educate members of Congress about the relentless hard work of being poor in America in the 21st century.
Hutchison told them about some of the other single mothers that shed met while organizing in Appalachia, including one who lost food stamps and insurance because of the red tape when her kids took low-paying fast-food jobs and thus stopped taking her blood pressure meds until her daughters finally quit their part-time gigs. She explained what it had been like for her when despite working two jobs she cashed in a jar of change for her own daughter to enter a music competition, while describing the nights she went to bed hungry so her kids could eat a second helping. She contrasted life for the working poor with the $40,000 a year allotment that lawmakers get to buy furniture for their district offices.
The antipoverty activist told Congress that millions of Americans are working while theyre rationing insulin and skipping meds because they cant afford food and health care. Shame on you. Shame on you and shame on me. And shame on every one of us for not rattling the windows with cries of outrage at a government that thinks its offices are worthy of $40,000 a year but families and children arent!
For once, Hutchisons plea to political leaders wasnt just a cry in the dark. Just 11 months later, Democrats retook control of Congress and without a single Republican vote of support struck the biggest win on behalf of struggling, working families since Lyndon Johnsons War on Poverty in 1964-65. Spurred on by the economic hardships of the COVID-19 pandemic, congressional Democrats used their thin majority to convert a complex year-end Child Tax Credit for working parents into a monthly check and made the plan more generous, up to $300 per month per child. Reaching at least 26 million households, experts said that overnight the plan was helping America cut child poverty in half.
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Right now, a U.S. toddler is starving because of Pat Toomey, Joe Manchin and 49 other Senators (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Feb 2022
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Chainfire
(17,611 posts)1. Yet, while that toddler was in the womb
It was God's wonderful creation that had to be protected by the might of the Republican Army. It is not so much that they are against abortions, I bet the leadership doesn't care one way or the other, it is a matter of stealing a march on liberals.
Republicans believe that the poor, even poor babies, are solely responsible for their condition, that it is a weakness of character to be poor. They are hateful bastards, all of them.
Tommymac
(7,263 posts)3. Pat Toomey is history in 11 months. I support Lt. Gov. John Fetterman to replace him.
https://johnfetterman.com/
No way John let's that baby starve.
#GOTV2022
No way John let's that baby starve.
A different kind of Democrat.
John doesnt look like a typical politician, and more importantly, he doesnt act like one. He supported legalizing marijuana before it was popular, officiated a same-sex marriage before it was legal, and pushed for single payer healthcare long before it was mainstream. The issues John is running on now are the same issues hes been working on for the last two decades.
John doesnt look like a typical politician, and more importantly, he doesnt act like one. He supported legalizing marijuana before it was popular, officiated a same-sex marriage before it was legal, and pushed for single payer healthcare long before it was mainstream. The issues John is running on now are the same issues hes been working on for the last two decades.
#GOTV2022