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The child poverty rate more than doubled in 2022 as Covid-era aid programs expired, erasing major economic gains for the poorest Americans.

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[–] thallamabond 139 points 1 year ago (19 children)

"Biden officials pushed hard to make that program permanent but couldn’t overcome opposition from centrist Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.), who argued the government’s spending was stoking inflation."

F@#& Joe Manchin!

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Centrist my hairy ass. If it walks and talks like an obstructionist republican ballsack...

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[–] jeffw 25 points 1 year ago

Next time you see some loser with FJB written somewhere, cross out the B and put an M

[–] CharlesDarwin 20 points 1 year ago

LOL, "centrist".

[–] Phegan 3 points 1 year ago

That man is not a centrist.

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[–] scrawny_clown_snatch 83 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Capitalists will always view the uplift of their captive labor market as a bad thing. Covid era expansion of government aid was always intended to be life support for a monetarily ensnared working class in order to maintain the exploitation on the other side of the pandemic. Why do you think they are so adamant about the "return to work"? It isnt just the corporate property developers suffering directly from unused realty, but the middle managers suffering from irrelevance of not being able to physically wield power over employees. Keeping workers stuck in a cycle of poverty is how late-stage capitalism operates most efficiently for the ruling class.

[–] Gradually_Adjusting 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They are pretty open about that. The wealthy feel that they need to cause pain in the economy globally in order to diminish workers' ability to make demands. They have the means and the motive to make 2008 happen again.

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[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (13 children)

It really is crazy that under the COVID relief bills we saw direct payments to citizens, the child tax credits, and no cost healthcare at point of service for ONE disease. And then poof it was gone.

Especially on that last one, I’m surprised I don’t see it wrapped into the Medicare for All movement more often as an example of a dramatic expansion of the government’s role in healthcare for all Americans, however temporary and limited.

[–] Astroturfed 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not saying I wish covid was worse, but maybe if it's been like a little worse we could of got single payer healthcare?... I dunno I really thought that was going to make it obvious how much better that'd be.

[–] weedazz 6 points 1 year ago

I know what you are saying. These folks were actively asking for the 2% of Grandma's and immunocompromised to be sacrificed for the greater good. Maybe if they saw their ERs shut down in the suburbs and country line they did in the city, they would take it more seriously

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

title sounds like clickbait. it's so weird to use collapsing, when the real story is the covid era programs are expiring (as OP thankfully points out, thanks OP).

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The programs in question were incredibly effective at ending child poverty in the US. Their ending will increase child poverty.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Sure, but my point is that the article title is burying the lede by not pointing that out in the title. There's also like 4 articles posted that specific detail already.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

US will always be US...years after we received the meager covid relief funds, a certain group was still complaining about too much free money...

[–] Dick_Justice 6 points 1 year ago

Not collapsing. Being torn right the fuck back down, by conservatives and Republicans who hate Americans and don't care about the well-being and safety of our most vulnerable.

[–] hark 3 points 1 year ago

Yet another democrat "we'd love to but..." When will people learn that Manchin switching sides is all part of the play? Lieberman did the same to nerf the ACA. When democrats get a majority, it's always by a small enough margin that you can pay a couple of people off to switch sides. Then with the tiniest of temporary victories, democrats can still claim "this is the greatest mostest bestest amazingest progressivest president in US history" which sounds impressive until you see the reality. It's a baby rattle that distracts the dumbest diehard democrat fans who think democrats actually intend to make progress. Meanwhile the rest just vote democrat because they're not republicans, but we're not stupid enough to think it'll make a difference in this crooked system.

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