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Biden Cuts Social Safety Net Plan in Half

By Ken Bredemeier | VOA on Oct 29, 2021 Featured, National, National/World, Politics

WASHINGTON — U.S. President Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled a $1.85 trillion spending plan he said would provide the “most transformative” aid to American families in decades and, at the same time, set the United States on a path toward sharply cutting its greenhouse gas pollution. Biden laid out the plan — about half the amount […]

U.S. Welfare Spending Up — But Help for the Neediest Down

By Jill Rosen | Johns Hopkins University on May 7, 2014 Breaking News, Featured, General News

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 […]