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“It’s our taxpayer money that is going into those public assistance programs that these companies are using to make this model workable.”
Why do news media label companies “successful” when that success stems from cheating and grifting and, crucially, shafting their workers?
“The problem isn’t that we have 42 million people on SNAP. The problem is that we have 42 million people who live in poverty.”
What if SNAP weren’t a story about major political party back-and-forthing, and were instead a story about people who need food?
“The pitting against each other of people who lack housing and people who have housing is so insidious and counterproductive.”
The Wall Street Journal’s unspoken premise is rather than having food as a basic human right, people should be threatened with starvation.
“The idea of putting resources of any kind in the hands of low-income people, in particular low-income minority people, low-income women…was going to be a threat to local power structures.”
While a federal minimum wage increase would affect millions of workers and the social fabric, it would have particular impact on one “essential” yet somehow expendable group: Black women.
“Today, my friends, we’re going to do everything the media accuses us of doing, that we never have done, but we’re going to do it,” Rush Limbaugh announced on his March 10 radio show. “Yes, ladies and gentlemen, today we’re going to give you marching orders, and today we will ask you to follow us […]
