A new Trump administration rule cloaks an attack on the social safety net in the racist fervor against immigration. Read JamilSmith's latest
.” Tempted as I was to mail Cuccinelli a book on African caste systems, I chose not to waste the postage.
In a report published in February of last year, HuffPost found most Trump supporters were more likely than Hillary Clinton supporters to overestimate the share of welfare and public housing benefits that go to black recipients. In fact, research has shown thaton the safety net — and a 2017 study found that white people in the working class were, by far, the biggest beneficiaries of federal poverty-reduction programs.
Addressing this underhanded move against the president’s own voters is not an altruistic effort on my part. Those folks not only consistently vote against their own interests, but against the interests of communities filled with people who look like me, and many do it because of how we look. I hardly expect them to read or to heed the warning that I am issuing here. There are cracks in the stern, certainly; the president is polling far underwater in many states that he won in 2016.
Ironically, the same analysis, using census data, found that “low-income immigrants who are not yet citizens use Medicaid, food aid, cash assistance and Supplemental Security Income at a lower rate than comparable low-income native-born adults. In fact, many immigrants are ineligible for public benefits because of their immigration status.”
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