Don’t let the revolving door hit you on the way out.
It was an historic upset when Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost Tuesday to his Tea Party challenger. Howie Klein from Down With Tyranny tells us what the fallout will be.
Greg Kaufmann covers poverty for The Nation and Bill Moyers And Company.
Greg Kaufmann’s brilliant column for The Nation on how the new farm bill punishes children by gutting our food stamps program. This is an absolutely essential article to read.
Food stamp spending is projected by the Congressional Budget Office to amount to just 1.7 percent of federal spending over the next ten years—and people with access to food stamps when they are young have better health outcomes and less dependence on welfare assistance over the long-term. In fact, what the Republicans were attempting to do was toss 2 million people off of SNAP and prevent 210,000 low-income children from receiving free school meals. The bill failed because many Republicans wanted even deeper cuts.Finally, on Thursday, House Republicans took these hunger games to a new level of violence: they passed a farm bill stripped of any food stamp provision.
Via:
This Week in Poverty: Confronting Congressional Hunger Games | The Nation.
My conversation with Greg Kaufmann below:
Originally Broadcast June 5, 2012. Howie Klein is the founder and treasurer of Act Blue the Political Action Committee that supports progressive causes. He also writes daily for Down With Tyranny and is a frequent contributor to Crooks And Liars. Howie is perhaps best known for his role as President of Reprise Records from 1989 to 2001. He is also an adjunct professor of music at McGill University in Montreal, where he sometimes lectures. Along with Kevin Rooney and Rick Overton. Portions of today’s program were written by Ben Zelevansky.