“Literally every new detail about these executive orders confirms that in addition to being wildly unconstitutional, they will do absolutely nothing to help anyone who’s suffering.” On top of serious questions about the directive’s legality and workability, experts are warning that President Donald Trump’s executive action to extend the federal unemployment insurance boost at $400 […]
Nikki Haley, the United States Ambassador to the United Nations, said Thursday a U.N. report on poverty within the country was “ridiculous.” “In our country, the president, members of Congress, governors, mayors, and city council members actively engage on poverty issues every day,” Haley wrote, in a letter to U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders, an Independent […]
Although the United States is spending more on welfare than ever before, most of that money is going to better-off families rather than the very poorest. Robert A. Moffitt, the Krieger-Eisenhower professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University, found that the U.S. has gotten more generous over time in supporting low-income families, spending 74 percent […]