SNAP cuts are ‘going to have a massive shock wave across the country, and everybody will feel it.’
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How the Settlers Blocking Aid to Gaza Were Blocked
A Jewish-Palestinian group mobilized at the checkpoints where far-right settlers were stopping trucks carrying food—and enabled the trucks to go through.
Posted inBooks, Arts and Culture
A Feel-Good Movie That Almost Makes You Feel Bad
‘The Greatest Night in Pop’ is uplifting and happy-sad. It was a more innocent time.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Food Businesses Step Up to Curb Food Waste
Restaurants, bakeries, and other food purveyors move to cut down on throwing out perfectly good eats.
Posted inEconomic Policy
CBO’s Claim on SNAP Work Requirements Is Highly Suspect
Advocates question whether new enrollees will pour into the food assistance program, given bureaucratic barriers and no additional resources for caseworkers and agencies.
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Exit Yemen Now to Assist a Fragile Peace
It’s time for a war powers resolution to end U.S. support for Saudi’s war of aggression.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Slash Child Abuse With One Simple Trick: Cash
Child protective services is far less effective than the welfare state.
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War, Climate Change, and Other Disasters Haunt Afghanistan
Almost half a century of fighting brought the country to its nadir, and there is no clear way out of the misery.
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Joe Biden’s Senseless Economic Strangulation of Afghanistan
Stealing its central bank reserves is not going to do anything except starve innocent civilians.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Why the War FOR Poverty Has Made Gains
Discontinuing the expanded Child Tax Credit has plunged millions of families back into poverty and its anxieties.