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It was a smashing success at stamping out poverty and should have been continued. The right went on a campaign with all the typical tropes: “people need the dig
by femiagbabiaka 3y ago
It was a smashing success at stamping out poverty and should have been continued. The right went on a campaign with all the typical tropes: “people need the dignity of work”, “this is why nobody wants to work now” etc.
So again: letting the program lapse put kids back under the poverty line. And it was done to win political points.
- refurb 3y agoI'd rather not have a temporary programs that was supposed to address the impact of a pandemic suddenly become a new social program.
- femiagbabiaka 3y agoSounds common sense until you look at history and remember the New Deal exists.