Social Security at 90: Three Truths and A Terrible Trumpy Lie About One of America’s Greatest Economic Programs
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Puerto Rico: A recovery in reverse?
David Elliot,
March 13, 2019
For the Puerto Rican coastal community of Loiza, the hits just keep coming. First there was Hurricane Irma, which sideswiped the eastern part of the island, where Loiza is located, late at night on Sept. 4, 2017. Not even two weeks later, Hurricane Maria came ashore, scoring an even more direct hit than Irma, and once again, Loiza absorbed the worst of the storm’s fury. Now the community faces a new threat as residents face cuts to their Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
CHN on President Trump’s “Bully’s Budget”
Deborah Weinstein,
March 11, 2019
President Trump’s budget for FY 2020 is consistent with his presidency so far. It is all about denying help to those who lack power or wealth and lavishing advantage to those who have both.
‘Money for a wall…no food for the people’
Bridget Rittman-Tune,
March 11, 2019
Waldemiro Velez Soto of San Juan, Puerto Rico didn’t know his family’s food rations were being cut. Velez Soto and his family survive off of their NAP benefits. (NAP is Puerto Rico’s version of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, formerly known as food stamps.) With few jobs available in Puerto Rico, Velez Soto cannot earn enough for him and his family to survive. And based on our conversation, he is not the only Puerto Rican forced to live like this.
Victory against harmful citizenship question
Leo Nguyen,
March 7, 2019
A second federal judge blocked the Trump Administration from including a question about citizenship status on the decennial Census, saying, "The inclusion of the citizenship question on the 2020 Census threatens the very foundation of our democratic system."
For Puerto Rico, the disasters keep coming
David Elliot,
March 7, 2019
A new crisis is sweeping across Puerto Rico. Unlike Hurricanes Maria and Irma, however, this one is entirely man-made. More than one out of every three Puerto Ricans receives benefits from the island’s Nutrition Assistance Program (NAP), the island’s version of SNAP (once known as food stamps). Earlier this month, however, recipients began receiving sharp cuts in benefits because Congress has failed to extend assistance that was first approved as part of post-hurricane recovery.
