Conservative senators choose large increase in child poverty
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In 2021 Congress passed a program to decrease child poverty. It worked exceptionally well. The Senate chose to let it expire anyway:
changes in child poverty by race/ethnicity. To be clear this is the supplemental poverty measure (SPM), which takes into account taxes/govt benefits. pic.twitter.com/aT7jSjGvrS— Catherine Rampell (@crampell) September 12, 2023
Needless to say, the primary villains here are the conference of the Republican Party (time for another article about their Totally Real Commitment to Economic Populism!) But let’s not forget this asshole either:
In recent months, Manchin has told several of his fellow Democrats that he thought parents would waste monthly child tax credit payments on drugs instead of providing for their children, according to two sources familiar with the senator’s comments.
“I own a mansion and a yacht, and my daughter made a killing by ensuring more people would die of anaphylactic shock” Manchin added.