Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez details ‘Just society’ with full welfare for illegals, rent control, lowering poverty levels
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has published new economic policies as part of her “just society,” including allowing illegal immigrants the same welfare benefits as U.S. citizens. The New York rep has published More...
Barbara Lee attacks Trump’s cuts to SNAP, WIC, CHIP for illegals as ‘another blatant attack on poor people’
Congresswoman Lee released the following statement after Trump Administration announcement of proposed changes to the Public Charge rule: “This proposed rule is yet another blatant attack from the Trump Administration More...
Tax Payer Billions Spent On Victimless Crimes: DOJ, FBI, Prisons, Welfare, Trump
White collar crime is not a new idea. The term was first coined in the late 1930s when Edwin Sutherland addressed the American Sociological Society. The definition of white collar crime is not strict or fixed, but More...
Why Does Poverty Still Exist in the US?
The United States is one of the most powerful and influential countries in the world. It prides itself on being the land of opportunity. However, 15 percent of the population is living in poverty. This is shocking. More...
Healthy Kids: The Impact of the WIC Program
Life can be hard, and sometimes, there doesn’t seem to be a way out. Whether your bills are piling up or you are feeling the pressure of family life and work, it can be difficult to ask for help. However, with More...
A Very Depressing Look at America’s Growing Dependency Crisis
Based on a new report from the Congressional Budget Office, I wrote two weeks ago about America’s dismal long-run fiscal outlook. Simply stated, we face a Greek-style fiscal future because of changing demographics More...
Paul Ryan remark proclaims 30 percent ‘want their welfare state’ VIDEO
In the wake of Mitt Romney’s “47%” comment,” a Paul Ryan soundbite portrays a similar message – some Americans “want the welfare state.” Ryan was delivering the keynote More...
Pat Buchanan calls President Obama a ‘drug dealer’ of welfare
Pat Buchanan on “On The Record” with Greta Van Susteren was defending Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” comment, arguing that the number of people currently freeloading off of the government More...
US Agriculture Department rolls out plan to battle food stamp fraud
The Agriculture Department says it is going to impose tougher penalties on stores that violate food stamp rules and give states new tools to root out applicants who are ineligible for the benefit program that now More...
Romney attacks President Obama on removing requirement for welfare recipients to work
Mitt Romney is accusing President Obama of turning the clock back on welfare reform. The Republican challenger Tuesday launched a new ad charging Obama with gutting the landmark 1996 welfare reform law that requires More...
Collapsing the System on Purpose: The Cloward Piven Strategy
First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and his wife Frances Fox Piven (both longtime members of the Democratic Socialists of America, where Piven today is More...
Government Shutdown? That Thought Makes me Giddy!
Washington, DC—The Socialists in our Congress forgot the will of the American people was to stop the bankrupting of America. Rather than cooperate they want to let the government shut down. That of course would More...
US poverty rate highest since 1994
The U.S. poverty rate rose to 14.3 percent in 2009 from 13.2 percent the year before, bringing the percentage of the population living in poverty to the highest level since 1994, as the economic downturn took its More...
Gloria Steinem Quotes
“50 Years of Speaking Out” – On Oct. 21, 2009, Smith College celebrated the life, words and work of alumna Gloria Steinem 56, in commemoration of her 75th birthday. For more than 50 years, Steinem More...
