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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostUnder Obama:
ACA helped poor people the most by reducing their put of pocket expenditures and premiums. https://consumer.healthday.com/publi...st-730401.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapot.../#56cd92c5507a
The 2009 Recovery Act helped keep nearly 9 million out of poverty, a poverty made worse by the Bush administration's recession Obama inherited https://www.cbpp.org/blog/obamas-and...ty-achievement
Obama tried to raise the minimum wage but was cockblocked by the GOP Congress https://www.theguardian.com/business...cans-tom-perez
Meanwhile under Trump
The US has been blasted for its levels of poverty but the Trump administration was trying to mislead the public on the data https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/08/02...ic-on-poverty/
Trump wants to get ride of subsidies that help poorer Americans afford health insurance:https://www.npr.org/2017/10/13/55753...w-to-obamacare
Trump and the GOP Congress want to lower and eliminate safety net programs like SNAP CHIP and others, declaring the war on poverty is over (it's not, not even close) https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/...6XJ/story.html
When he was running he said he wanted to raise the MW to $10.10/hour but has yet to propose any such legislation. Instead claims that companies are "voluntarily" raising it. And yes some are. But many are not. Real wage growth has remained flat under Trump, even after the tax cut (which makes sense since it was for the wealthy). Just today:
"Friday’s jobs report showed unemployment at 3.9 percent, an 18-year low. But even with historic lows, worker’s pay has only increased by 2.7 percent since last year. With inflation hovering around 2 percent, that’s an adjusted 0.7 percent growth in earnings. An income earner would have to bring in more than $570,000 to see that promised $4,000 increase in wages. Instead, the average worker is seeing a weekly pay raise of just $16.42. https://www.newsweek.com/trump-tax-p...growth-1056660
In your first link, reading the ACA, it says: "The poorest families experienced a 21 percent decrease in their out-of-pocket expenses, about $83 annually, on average, while the highest-income experienced just a 5 percent decrease, around $39."
You really think $89 annually is a windfall for the poorest? What happened to Obama's promised of $2500 savings per family?
The best way to lift the poor out of poverty is to give them opportunities, not handouts, not safety nets. Trump's historic low unemployment rates for ethnic minorities is doing it the right way.
Regarding wages, it will take some time. Taxes breaks have only been in effect for 6+ months.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostCome on Snowflake. This is a very poor MSM filled analysis:
In your first link, reading the ACA, it says: "The poorest families experienced a 21 percent decrease in their out-of-pocket expenses, about $83 annually, on average, while the highest-income experienced just a 5 percent decrease, around $39."
You really think $89 annually is a windfall for the poorest? What happened to Obama's promised of $2500 savings per family?
The best way to lift the poor out of poverty is to give them opportunities, not handouts, not safety nets. Trump's historic low unemployment rates for ethnic minorities is doing it the right way.
Regarding wages, it will take some time. Taxes breaks have only been in effect for 6+ months.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostInfuriated by a scathing United Nations report estimating that over 18 million Americans are living in “extreme poverty” and accusing the Trump administration of “deliberately” making such destitution worse with its tax cuts for the rich, the White House insisted in its June response to the U.N. analysis that the United States is overflowing with “prosperity” and that claims of widespread poverty are “exaggerated.”
But internal State Department emails and documents obtained by Foreign Policy and the non-profit journalism website Coda Story show that the Trump administration ignored advice of White House economic analysts and knowingly lied to the public about the severity of American poverty, which the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights Philip Alston described as “shocking.”
Foreign Policy reported on Thursday that officials who were consulted last-minute on a draft of the White House’s rebuttal of the U.N. findings “questioned the accuracy of the data the administration was citing.”
Despite the fact that the U.N. analysis cited government statistics to bolster its claims about poverty in America, the Trump administration opted to draw from a report by the right-wing Heritage Foundation, which concluded that 250,000 Americans are living in extreme poverty—a stark contrast to the U.N.’s conclusion that the correct number is 18.25 million.
whats extreme- did they qualify that?because poor in America would be considered pretty well off in some other countries
we also have many social programs to catch the really bad off-
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostCome on Snowflake. This is a very poor MSM filled analysis:
In your first link, reading the ACA, it says: "The poorest families experienced a 21 percent decrease in their out-of-pocket expenses, about $83 annually, on average, while the highest-income experienced just a 5 percent decrease, around $39."
You really think $89 annually is a windfall for the poorest? What happened to Obama's promised of $2500 savings per family?
The best way to lift the poor out of poverty is to give them opportunities, not handouts, not safety nets. Trump's historic low unemployment rates for ethnic minorities is doing it the right way.
Regarding wages, it will take some time. Taxes breaks have only been in effect for 6+ months.
https://www.newsweek.com/republican-...creases-879800
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostCome on Snowflake. Like a typical democrat you don't know why you're liberal do you. You just like to mindlessly follow the crowd because it feels right.
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Originally posted by Unregistered View Postso about 5% of the us lives in extreme poverty according to the UN-OK
whats extreme- did they qualify that?because poor in America would be considered pretty well off in some other countries
we also have many social programs to catch the really bad off-
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Originally posted by Unregistered View PostExcept he ain't tapping that anymore.
Just more fake stuff, in a fake life.
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