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Trump Regime Makes Large-Scale Cuts in Food Stamps

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Trump Regime Makes Large-Scale Cuts in Food Stamps

by Stephen Lendman

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is the largest federal nutrition assistance program — providing benefits to eligible low-income households.

According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities last March:

“Each of the past two Trump budgets has targeted benefits and services for individuals and families of modest means for deep cuts, even as it has supported tax cuts conferring large new benefits on those at the top of the income scale,” adding:

“If (his proposed FY 2020 budget is) enacted, these cuts (will increase) poverty and hardship, leaving more people struggling to afford basics like food and rent.”

New Trump regime announced rules last week eliminate food stamps for around 700,000 needy individuals.

Beginning in April 2020, “able-bodied” adults without dependents, aged-18 to 49, now receiving food stamps will lose them.

A new Trump regime regulation makes it harder for states to grant waivers from a requirement that beneficiaries work or enroll in a vocational training program.

According to corporatist Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, serving agribusiness interests and his own private enterprises, the new regulation moves hundreds of thousands of food stamp recipients “toward self-sufficiency and into employment (sic).”

The move comes at a time of increasing economic weakness, real unemployment at around 21%, most working Americans way underemployed, needing two or more jobs to survive if able to find them.

Further Trump regime food stamp cuts are planned. According to the Urban Institute, around 3.7 million recipients will lose benefits.

Dem Rep. Marcia Fudge called the new regulation “the Grinch (that) stole Christmas,” adding:

It’s “an unacceptable escalation of the (Trump regime’s) war on working families.”

Dems were largely silent on the new regulation. The Clinton co-presidency’s Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) ended Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC).

Time limit harshness replaced it. Five years and out became policy. Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) mandates it.

States get diminishing amounts of federal fixed block grants funding.

To qualify for benefits, recipients must work or train for jobs, including single mothers with small children. Millions lost benefits.

During his time in office, Obama in cahoots with Congress slashed Medicare and Medicaid benefits, Pell Grants for college tuition, low-income energy assistance, Head Start, housing block grants, and other social programs.

In 2014, he, congressional Dems, and Republicans agreed on cutting nearly $9 billion in food stamp aid over a 10-year period, around 850,000 needy households losing around $90 a month.

The vast majority of food stamp recipients are impoverished. They’re either unemployed or way underemployed.

Millions of US households struggle to pay rent, service mortgages, cover medical bills, heat homes, feed families, and manage other daily expenses.

Greater social benefits are needed. Cutting them increases hunger, hopelessness and despair.

Hunger in the US is a silent crisis. A mother in distress spoke for countless others, saying she “can’t remember the last time she went to bed without worrying about how she was going to feed her three children.”

“She can’t remember the last time she woke up and wasn’t worried about how she and her husband would make enough in their part-time jobs to buy groceries and pay utilities on their apartment in a working-class” neighborhood.

“She can’t remember the last time she went to bed without worrying about how she was going to feed her three children.”

“She can’t remember the last time she woke up and wasn’t worried about how she and her husband would make enough in their part-time jobs to buy groceries and pay utilities on their apartment.”

Depriving millions more US households of vitally needed food stamps assures the hidden US hunger crisis will increase.

Around 36 million Americans receive food stamps. Both right wings of the one-party state want food security increasingly based on the ability to pay — millions receiving food stamps to lose benefits.
 

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It's the "real unemployment" which means whatever the fuck you want it to mean.
BY KIMBERLY AMADEO Updated December 06, 2019
The real unemployment rate (U-6) is a broader definition of unemployment than the official unemployment rate (U-3). In Nov. 2019, it was 6.9%.


The U-3 is the rate most often reported in the media. In the U-3 rate, the Bureau of Labor Statistics only counts people without jobs who are in the labor force. To remain in the labor force, they must have looked for a job in the last four weeks.


The U-6, or real unemployment rate, includes the underemployed, the marginally attached, and discouraged workers. For that reason, it is around double the U-3 report.



The following chart illustrates the discrepancy between the unemployment rate (U-3) and the real unemployment rate (U-6), covering data from 1994 to 2019.


Underemployed people are part-time workers who would prefer full-time jobs. The BLS counts them as employed and in the labor force.

The marginally attached are those who have looked for work in the last year but not the previous four weeks. They are not included in the labor force participation rate.

Among the marginally attached are the discouraged workers. They have given up looking for work altogether. They could have gone back to school, gotten pregnant, or become disabled. They may or may not return to the labor force, depending on their circumstances. Once they haven't looked for a job in 12 months, they're no longer counted as marginally attached.


The BLS issues both the U-3 and the U-6 in each month's jobs report. Surprisingly, there isn't as much media attention paid to the real unemployment rate. But even former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said it paints a clearer picture of actual U.S. unemployment.


How to Calculate the Real Unemployment Rate Formula
In Nov. 2019, the real unemployment rate (U-6) was 6.9%. It's almost double the widely reported unemployment rate (U-3) of 3.5%. Here's the formula for calculating both.


STEP 1: CALCULATE THE OFFICIAL UNEMPLOYMENT RATE (U-3)

U-3 = 5.811 million unemployed workers / 164.404 million in the labor force = 3.5%.

STEP 2. ADD IN MARGINALLY ATTACHED WORKERS

There were 1.246 million people who were marginally attached to the labor force. Add this to both the number of unemployed and the labor force.

U-5 = (5.811 million + 1.246 million) / (164.404 million + 1.246 million) = 7.057 million / 165.650 million = 4.3%.

STEP 3. ADD IN PART-TIME WORKERS

There were 4.322 million people who were working part-time but would prefer full-time work. Add them to the unemployed with marginal workers. They're already in the labor force.

U-6 = (7.057 million + 4.422 million) / (165.650 million) = 11.379 million / 165.650 million = 6.9%. (Source: "Table A-15," Bureau of Labor Statistics.)
 

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There are reasons to be sceptical of the low unemployment numbers. One is the labor force participation rate:



 

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There are reasons to be sceptical of the low unemployment numbers. One is the labor force participation rate:



Yes, this is certainly true. There are factors, all very real and likely permanent, that are keeping the labor participation rate down. The big one is the beginning of retirement for the baby boom generation. This phenomenon has been discussed for many years and now it is here.
 

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Trump Regime Makes Large-Scale Cuts in Food Stamps

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Beginning in April 2020, “able-bodied” adults without dependents, aged-18 to 49, now receiving food stamps will lose them.
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Hunger in the US is a silent crisis. A mother in distress spoke for countless others, saying she “can’t remember the last time she went to bed without worrying about how she was going to feed her three children.”
Am I the only one who sees the incongruity in this article?
 

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Am I the only one who sees the incongruity in this article?
No, but that is because the article is badly written. It transitions form the cuts finalized and announced the other day (able bodied workers) to the other cuts proposed by Trump Admin previously but not finalized yet, which includes cuts to families.
 

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Yes, this is certainly true. There are factors, all very real and likely permanent, that are keeping the labor participation rate down. The big one is the beginning of retirement for the baby boom generation. This phenomenon has been discussed for many years and now it is here.
The labor participation has not varied that greatly since 1950.
 

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BY KIMBERLY AMADEO Updated December 06, 2019
The real unemployment rate (U-6) is a broader definition of unemployment than the official unemployment rate (U-3). In Nov. 2019, it was 6.9%.


The U-3 is the rate most often reported in the media. In the U-3 rate, the Bureau of Labor Statistics only counts people without jobs who are in the labor force. To remain in the labor force, they must have looked for a job in the last four weeks.


The U-6, or real unemployment rate, includes the underemployed, the marginally attached, and discouraged workers. For that reason, it is around double the U-3 report.



The following chart illustrates the discrepancy between the unemployment rate (U-3) and the real unemployment rate (U-6), covering data from 1994 to 2019.


Underemployed people are part-time workers who would prefer full-time jobs. The BLS counts them as employed and in the labor force.

The marginally attached are those who have looked for work in the last year but not the previous four weeks. They are not included in the labor force participation rate.

Among the marginally attached are the discouraged workers. They have given up looking for work altogether. They could have gone back to school, gotten pregnant, or become disabled. They may or may not return to the labor force, depending on their circumstances. Once they haven't looked for a job in 12 months, they're no longer counted as marginally attached.


The BLS issues both the U-3 and the U-6 in each month's jobs report. Surprisingly, there isn't as much media attention paid to the real unemployment rate. But even former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said it paints a clearer picture of actual U.S. unemployment.


How to Calculate the Real Unemployment Rate Formula
In Nov. 2019, the real unemployment rate (U-6) was 6.9%. It's almost double the widely reported unemployment rate (U-3) of 3.5%. Here's the formula for calculating both.


STEP 1: CALCULATE THE OFFICIAL UNEMPLOYMENT RATE (U-3)

U-3 = 5.811 million unemployed workers / 164.404 million in the labor force = 3.5%.

STEP 2. ADD IN MARGINALLY ATTACHED WORKERS

There were 1.246 million people who were marginally attached to the labor force. Add this to both the number of unemployed and the labor force.

U-5 = (5.811 million + 1.246 million) / (164.404 million + 1.246 million) = 7.057 million / 165.650 million = 4.3%.

STEP 3. ADD IN PART-TIME WORKERS

There were 4.322 million people who were working part-time but would prefer full-time work. Add them to the unemployed with marginal workers. They're already in the labor force.

U-6 = (7.057 million + 4.422 million) / (165.650 million) = 11.379 million / 165.650 million = 6.9%. (Source: "Table A-15," Bureau of Labor Statistics.)
Yes yes, very familiar with these measures, but when you post:

“The move comes at a time of increasing economic weakness, real unemployment at around 21%, most working Americans way underemployed, needing two or more jobs to survive if able to find them.”

You show just how unreasonably biased and unserious you are.
 

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