Explain how expanding the child tax credit to lift children out of poverty is a “handout”, but passing an $858,000,000,000 budget for the military-industrial complex is a “stimulus”.
Facts. Corporations, insurance companies, and banks pretending these overdraft fees and credit scores have always existed and claim they have no other ways of assessing risk or doing any banking are not being truthful.
A story that's not getting enough national attention: Here in the Myrtle Beach, S.C. area for the past 13 years, the FBI and local law enforcement officials left the impression that a white girl on vacation was abducted by a 16-year-old black dude who did evil things to her. 1/
The conversations against canceling student loan debt too often reveal a remarkable stinginess when it comes to helping our fellow Americans, but also a lack of understanding that most people cld/wld pay the actual debt but are buried by having to pay many times the original debt
If there’s one thing we learned from the months-long chamber of commerce meltdown over too much UI/stimulus it’s that poverty and destitution isn’t an unfortunate byproduct of our economy—but essential to it; a constant, looming threat fundamental to worker discipline & low wages
I’m the dad friend which is like the mom friend but instead of taking care of people I don’t answer texts and I know a thousand extremely specific facts that are in no way useful ever