Tear gassing refugees at the U.S. border. Ripping kids out of the arms of their parents. Stripping food aid from the nation’s poor and most vulnerable. “Will we tolerate the insatiable greed and cruelty of the billionaire class, whose control over our political system lets them take food out of the mouths of hungry school kids? Or […]
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 […]