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Without much fanfare (totally apropos, given what’s been happening in the world of the White House in the last 72 hours), President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that will force recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, Medicaid and low-income housing subsidies to find work or lose their assistance.
Trump quietly signed the long-anticipated order, oddly named “Reducing Poverty in America by Promoting Opportunity and Economic Mobility.” Given that many government agencies, including the Department of Health and Human Services, have already begun issuing waivers to Republican governors who want to impose stricter work requirements on Medicaid recipients to cut costs, it will not make much of an impact, according to the New York Times.
The fact remains that most able-bodied adults who receive federal aid in the form of subsidized health care or housing already work—but are still unable to make ends meet; others receive exemptions for legitimate reasons.
From the Times:
The order gave all cabinet departments 90 days to produce plans that impose work requirements on able-bodied aid recipients and block ineligible immigrants from receiving aid, while drafting “a list of recommended regulatory and policy changes” to push recipients off the rolls and into jobs.
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The aim, Trump aides said … is to prod federal and state officials to take a tougher stance with aid recipients — millions of whom currently receive exemptions from existing work requirements because they are in training programs, provide care for relatives or volunteer their labor.
The Agriculture Department is already pressuring states to impose work requirements in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, the program formerly known as food stamps. Earlier this year, the Department of Health and Human Services granted a waiver to Arkansas so it could require Medicaid recipients to get jobs, participate in job training or engage in job searches at least 80 hours a month.
According to the Kaiser Foundation, most able-bodied adults who do not already have jobs face obstacles in working, including mental problems, criminal records and certain family situations.
Yet the narrative from the Trump administration says differently.
“Our country suffers from nearly record high welfare enrollments,” said Andrew Bremberg, the president’s domestic policy chief, according to the Times, which notes that Temporary Assistance for Needy Families payments to poor people are approaching record lows.
Trump also reportedly wants to change the word “welfare” to include not only cash payments but also food and medical benefits (SNAP and Medicaid).
Or he just doesn’t give AF. And I quote: “Mr. Trump, several aides said, is unconcerned—or perhaps even unaware—of the distinction between cash assistance and other safety-net programs … he calls them all welfare.”
And we know what connotations go along with that.
FFFUUUCCCKKK
Goddammit.
To all the people this bullshit is going to harm and make life even more awful/difficult for: remember that the Republicans are the ones responsible for this shit during the midterm elections this year
AND VOTE THESE HATEFUL SACKS OF SHIT OUT
This is how they kill poor people, slowly and legally
My dad will lose both his home and food stamps from this.
This is murder.
By any other name.
MURDER.
This is going to really fuck over my students.
They have mental disabilities that make it hard to get/hold a job but they are Physically able to, technically do a job.
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okay so beyonce had a whole HBCU theme, a black as fuck band and dancers, brought out solange, destiny’s child and jay, had FLAWLESS transitions, looked snatched as fuck after having twins, performed for an hour and a half with NO breaks other than costume changes and had FLAWLESS performances.
bey knew that her real true BLACK fans were at home so she made sure to make the performance optimized for video. we got the best seats in the house hands down.
she was unapologetically black. she made it known that she’s black, and all for black women and black liberation.
she let her dancers shine on stage. she gave black dancers a platform to showcase their craft.
you don’t have to like her, but you’re straight hating at this point if you can’t admit that she’s right up there for the BEST modern performer. watching this performance inspired me as a black woman to keep going for my creative dreams. i’m so inspired by Beyoncé.
(Source: alternativeblkgal, via eveningoutwithyourgirlfr13nd)
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The effect that A Quiet Place had on the theater was so unreal. People were afraid to eat. Half the people, myself and the guy beside me included, spent tense movie moments covering their mouths as to not make a sound, one time somebody stepped on a nacho container during a VERY tense moment and the entire theater lost their shit. People were gasping, one woman screamed, everyone chatised the individual quickly and hushedly before returning to the movie. When the lights came up everyone was still whispering. People were tiptoeing out like everyone was fucking silent and to have THAT effect on your audience shows something.
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