Right now, a U.S. toddler is starving because of Pat Toomey, Joe Manchin and 49 other Senators

[Nevilledog]

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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

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 she’d 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 they’re rationing insulin and skipping meds because they can’t 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 aren’t!”

For once, Hutchison’s plea to political leaders wasn’t 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 Johnson’s “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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[Chainfire]

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.

[Nevilledog]

2. ...

[Tommymac]

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.

A different kind of Democrat.
John doesn’t look like a typical politician, and more importantly, he doesn’t 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 he’s been working on for the last two decades.

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