Pearl River Jason DeParle, who covers the poverty beat for the New York Times, says the Harris-Trump contest “presents the sharpest clash in antipoverty policy in at least a generation, and its outcome could shape the economic security of millions of low-income Americans.” In noting the differences, he reports that Harris “…would seek to sustain …
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Barefoot and Pregnant over a Hot Stove
New Orleans Of all the surprises of this election season, one of the biggest to me has been the conservative effort to overtly subjugate women. In general, I’m not surprised to find that the right wants to put women in the kitchen-cage and the maternity ward, but to move this from a constant undercurrent …
Jail for Trump — No Way
Marble Falls The guilty conviction of former president, Donald Trump, on all thirty-four counts is huge. No former president has ever been convicted of a felony. The conviction’s impact is unclear, but early indications are that it is moving some voters away from him. Now there is seemingly endless speculation over whether Trump should …