It’s been a tough few months politically, and the past few weeks especially. So I think tonight we could all do with a hug or two. Here are some models to emulate:
What’s coming up on Sunday Kos …
- A free press: Part two—The politics of the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798, by Susan Grigsby
- Sorry, Zombie Trumpcare, but that’s not freedom, by Ian Reifowitz
- Chicago betting on Obama center to bring hope to South Side, by Sher Watts Spooner
- Trumpcare is the past insurance orthodoxy that bankrupted and killed many, by Egberto Willies
- How Trumpcare ends health insurance as we know it, by Jon Perr
- You are not one of us, by Mark E Andersen
- Seven questions for Michelle Dillingham, Cincinnati’s neighborhood candidate for city council, by David Akadjian
- The recession is long over. Are the jobs following for you, by DarkSyde
- White allies: thoughts and conversations for today’s movement, by Denise Oliver Velez
- International Elections Digest: Coverage of Sunday's French presidential election between Macron and Le Pen, by Elections
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“I am only a mouthpiece through which to tell the story of lynching and I have told it so often that I know it by heart. I do not have to embellish; it makes its own way.”
~Ida B. Wells, Conversation with Frederick Douglass, 1893
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BLAST FROM THE PAST
At Daily Kos on this date in 2010—Nearly 40 Million Now on Food Stamps:
The actual paper stamps were phased out more than a decade ago and replaced with a debit-card system, and the name of the 46-year-old program was changed 18 months ago to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). But most people still call them food stamps. And as of February, the latest data available, a record 39.7 million Americans were using them to put meals on the table, 13% of the population. Just a year ago, 33.8 million people were using food stamps.
Though not without its problems, the program remains one of the government's greatest successes, a key remaining part of a shredded social safety net. Even with the soaring use of food stamps because of the recession, most recipients are not jobless but rather low-wage workers. Without that backstop, many more of them and their children would be going hungry in America. A peer-reviewed study in 2009 ("Estimating the Risk of Food Stamp Use and Impoverishment During Childhood") calculated that 49% of children will receive food-stamp benefits sometime before they are 20 years old. […]