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"Trump’s Budget
Jeopardizes Gains Expected in New Census Data
Next week, the U.S. Census
Bureau will release its annual estimates of income, poverty, and
health insurance coverage for 2016. Experts expect that these data,
which reflect the final year of Barack Obama’s presidency, will
likely show that middle- and working-class families continued to make
modest economic gains during 2016, with moderate reductions in
poverty rates, increases in wages—particularly for low-wage
workers—and health insurance coverage rates that remain
historically high. The new data, which follow a year of historically
strong improvements on all three measures during 2015, will
demonstrate the critical importance of policy choices in improving
economic security as well as underscore how much is at risk under
President Donald Trump’s and congressional Republicans’ budgets.
As he has done in the past,
President Trump may try to claim credit for progress that entirely
preceded his presidency. But whether he does this or chooses to
ignore the most important yearly benchmark of Americans’ economic
well-being, one thing is clear: Under policies Trump has
proposed—which he has largely failed to enact—struggling working
families would have far fewer resources to make ends meet. Put
simply, in the America President Trump wants, poverty would be much
worse.
New analysis by the Center
for American Progress offers a glimpse into how much more severe
poverty could be in Trump’s vision for America. If only three of
Trump’s draconian budget cuts had been in effect in 2015—the
latest year for which data are available—2.3 million more Americans
would have been in poverty that year.
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65,853,516 Americans gave Hillary a decisive popular vote victory over Trump...#StillWithHer reflects a mindset & a mission: to fight for a future where love trumps hate, dignity overcomes division, equality & justice defeat extremism & bigotry...With the essence of American democracy at stake, 65.8 million people saw through lies and and made a wise choice. But they continue to be marginalized & harassed. Verrit’s purpose is to become their trusted source of political information & analysis; to provide them (& anyone like-minded) sanctuary in a chaotic media environment; to center their shared principles; & to do so with an unwavering commitment to truth & facts. (Paraphrased) ~ Peter Daou
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