I do not know about Nationwide considering I only saw it in the states I traveled to this past summer that had immigrants deported to their states/cities from the South such as Texas...in line with prior messages talking about Texas even though I did see a line of cars at food banks in South Dakota...another state trying to do the Tubervillism dance. Oddly, I didn't see any increase in immigrants to South Dakota considering it should have welcome more immigrants with its low taxes, lower cost of living than the average Nationwide, a strong economy, and beautiful natural environment...why the increase in Food Banks in South Dakota ??? One should wonder about the politics of the South sending (busing) immigrants to dense cities with higher taxes and higher cost of living...cities typically a Democratic stronghold...Democrats slowly moving immigrants into nearby suburban/rural communities because everybody knows there is an abundant of opportunities in the manufacturing, construction, agriculture, and meatpacking industries have all attracted immigrants to rural areas.... Both sides using immigrants as a political pawn !!! Reminder, the increasing demand of Americans on Food Banks started under the Trump Administration... Rising need for Food Banks continues with the battled Republicans in charge of the House. It will continue increasing if that idiot returns to the Oval Office...spending most of his energy destroying democracy and getting revenge as he promised to do. All Biden did was promise to fix it if he can get the co-operation of the Republicans...so far they are accepting help but only after accepting the federal funds while dismissing Biden. Tony, we get it...that's politics. South Dakota Regardless, Texas is at fault of its own due to the policies of Governor Abbott's administration's reluctance to fix the SNAP program while knowing Texas (its people) was under severe pressure from Natural Disasters...climate issues that are only going to get worse because Republicans don't see a climate issue...mainly because Trump truly believes its faked news... Anyways, he decided to get off his lazy ass back this summer to start fixing the problem with the SNAP program even though he didn't want to do it because it would imply...he needed to accept the federal funding... federal funding from the Biden administration. Look at it another way, Governor Abbott can now do the Tubervillism dance after so many in his state suffered when they did not need to. Last of all, as stated multiple times...I'm not interested in a Biden/Trump repeat. I'm voting for a suitable Independent. If someone suitable doesn't show up...I will be very comfortable as in sitting out (no vote) in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Elections... While knowing that Americans that are ethnic minorities, women, disable, veterans will see more chaos under a Trump administration that aligns itself with White Nationalism, revenge and the occult belief he's comparable to Jesus Christ. wrbtrader
Tony Stark reports the news before other media https://www.huffpost.com/entry/consumer-sentiment-safety-net_n_656e053be4b07b937ff58143 WASHINGTON ― There’s a raging political debate about why voters hate the economy despite low unemployment, rising wages, slowing inflation and strong consumer spending. Are people brainwashed by TikTok? Is it partisan misinformation, or maybe too much gloomy journalism? Did no one notice the plummeting cost of a dozen eggs? These are the questions vexing the White House as President Joe Biden’s poll numbers slump ahead of the 2024 election. There’s another possible reason for the bitter views of the economy, a policy explanation hiding in plain sight: Some people’s lives are harder now than they were three years ago because the government is doing less. Starting in 2020, the federal government vastly expanded social programs, paused student loan payments and put a moratorium on evictions. But these initiatives were temporary, and as the COVID-19 pandemic subsided, the government pulled those benefits back. Median household income saw a substantial decline last year, the Census Bureau reported in September ― partly because of inflation, but also “due in part to the expiration of policies introduced in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.” One example: Congress created a monthly child benefit that paid parents as much as $300 per kid in the second half of 2021, dramatically reducing material hardship for millions of families. When the benefit expired at the beginning of 2022 ― primarily due to opposition from Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) ― the child poverty rate shot from 5.2% to 12.4%, the fastest year-over-year increase in modern American history. It’s possible the several million families who went through that dramatic change of economic circumstances did not enjoy the experience. In one survey last year, a third of parents said they reduced their spending on food as a result of the lapse in benefits. This year, the government pared back a pandemic increase to food assistance, cutting monthly Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits to 16 million households by $82 per person. More than 11 million Americans have been disenrolled from Medicaid, student borrowers were required to resume paying off their loans, and extra federal funding for child care programs has just lapsed. Most of these pandemic policies expired automatically, without much partisan conflict, which might have reduced the amount of attention they received. “Classically, we understand the idea that people don’t like it when programs get cut back, but people are somewhat blind to that right now, perhaps because they don’t think of these as programs that were cut back but rather as temporary programs that ran their course,” said Matt Bruenig, director of the People’s Policy Project, a left-wing think tank. Bruenig’s research suggests that inflation-adjusted incomes declined for 58% of Americans last year, after having risen for a similar percentage in 2020. The White House has touted the success of “Bidenomics,” pointing to overall economic growth, low unemployment and wage increases outpacing inflation. Asked to respond to a viral TikTok video from Mackenzie Moan, a working mom who tearfully explained that she and her husband have good jobs but are still living paycheck to paycheck, White House economic adviser Jared Bernstein suggested Moan might not know about some of the administration’s policy accomplishments. “If you actually asked somebody like that... what do they think of the fact that we’ve kept insulin prices at $35 a month?” Bernstein said on Fox News Sunday last month. “What about giving Medicare the power to negotiate lower drug prices? What about tax incentives for manufacturing jobs? What about capping out-of-pocket prescription drug costs?” Bernstein noted that the recently enacted insulin price cap polls very well, as do the limits on prescription drug costs poll. Those policies, however, targeted older Americans enrolled in Medicare. They were part of the Inflation Reduction Act, the law Democrats passed last year that included green energy subsidies and funding for the IRS, but not an extension of the child tax credit payments that benefited families in 2021. That policy would have greatly expanded the $100 or $200 in disposable income that Moan said she and her husband have left over after bills each month. The University of Michigan’s index of consumer sentiment has been stuck at levels not seen since the Great Recession and its aftermath, when unemployment was almost three times higher than it is now. It’s possible that collectively speaking, any good feelings from expanded social welfare programs are offset by bad feelings from consumers who dislike government spending and debt. (Just like good feelings from slowing inflation have been partially offset by bad feelings about high interest rates.) “The expansion of fiscal policy probably doesn’t have a huge impact on sentiment,” Joanne Hsu, director of the surveys of consumers at the University of Michigan, told HuffPost. Stimulus checks were probably the most popular fiscal policy Congress enacted in response to the pandemic. Lawmakers sent almost everyone in America three rounds of checks in 2020 and 2021, totaling $800 billion, seemingly prompting consumers to give the government higher marks for economic policy in the University of Michigan’s surveys. Congress also boosted unemployment insurance, temporarily remaking a rickety federal-state scheme into the wage-replacement program of Democrats’ dreams, at a cost of nearly $700 billion. And Democrats had hoped to make their child benefit permanent, in what was supposed to be a new compact between families and the government on the scale of Social Security retirement insurance. But they fell short of that goal by one Senate vote, the program expired after six months, and voters could be poised to put Republicans back in charge of the upper chamber next year. It’s possible the pandemic policy experiments disappointed voters, since they saw how easy it is for Washington to make structural changes to the economy, improving life for Americans, only for lawmakers to abandon the project and revert to the status quo. But maybe voters don’t think like that. The way Hsu sees it, people are more nostalgic for the pre-pandemic economy than they are for the government benefits of the pandemic era. “We’re all in this collective sense of grief that we’re not going back to 2019,” Hsu said.
Do you want more of that (increasing need of Americans on Food Banks) when the Republicans have a good chance to take the Oval Office after knowing the Food Bank crisis began under the Trump Administration ??? Seriously, this is like listening to the Covidiots who still refuse to acknowledge the Pandemic began under the Trump administration with government shutdowns, school closures, mask mandates, and mile-long car lines at Food Banks. The Food Bank issue will not go away under the Republicans...it will only increase especially with a very religious House speaker who will not lift a finger to improve the infrastructure needed to get food to the Food Banks. U.S. food banks warn of strain as Republicans seek food aid cuts April 21 (Reuters) - Food banks across the United States are straining to meet spiking demand as high food costs and shrinking federal benefits drive scores of Americans to depend on free groceries, just as Republicans seek to narrow access to food assistance. President Joe Biden, who this week criticized Republicans' proposals to further cut benefits in order to shrink the country's deficit, pledged last year to end hunger in the U.S. by 2030. Food banks in Atlanta, New Jersey, Ohio, California, and Washington State and national anti-hunger groups told Reuters that demand is rising because of inflation and the end of a temporary expansion of federal food assistance benefits that kept millions out of poverty during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Four food banks told Reuters that demand is up between 46 and 125% since last spring, and that visits to their pantries are as high or higher than they were at the height of the pandemic. More than 11.4 million households collected free groceries in early April, up 15% from a year ago, according to data from the Census Bureau. "It feels like we've moved on from the pandemic," said Leslie Bacho, CEO of Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, which served 480,000 people in March – up 92% over last year. "But for food banks, we're still deep in a crisis." Republicans in Congress are considering cuts to food assistance as one way to shrink federal spending as lawmakers debate whether to raise the country's borrowing limit... Currently, adults aged 18 to 50 without dependents must work or participate in a job training program at least 20 hours per week to receive SNAP benefits, also known as food stamps, for more than three months. McCarthy's plan would raise that age to 56. Republicans have often proposed stiffer work requirements for SNAP to lower program costs. Biden, a Democrat, slammed McCarthy's proposal on Wednesday and warned it would harm low-income Americans. Anti-hunger advocates told Reuters that policies that make it more difficult for people to access SNAP could put further strain on food banks and other emergency food providers. "Making [work] requirements harder only worsens hunger," said Heather Taylor, managing director of Bread for the World, a Christian anti-hunger group. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us...in-republicans-seek-food-aid-cuts-2023-04-21/ ------- The new religious speaker shares the same proposals as McCarthy does...this agenda the Republicans will push aggressively when they're back in control from the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election...the agenda of cutting back on the resources & costs of the Food Bank along with making it much harder for Americans to get food bank social assistance. You Reap what you Sow...do not bitch about what you wanted in comparison to what you have today. Simply, the long car lines today will get much longer in 2025 under the Republicans control in the Oval Office that's actually controlled by a few on the far right side of politics. wrbtrader
Biden will have the lowest black voter turnout in 50 years. The GOP nominee will have the highest % of the black vote for a republican in 50 years. My black circle is huge.With the exception of Seniors not a single one of them is voting for Biden in 2024.They all voted for Biden in 2020.