While this is not the first time the American government has told its poor to work and starve, it is quintessentially Trumpian to do so less than three weeks before Christmas. onesarahjones writes
Photo: Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty Images Donald Trump’s sins are so plentiful that they battle constantly for condemnation. Each week brings some fresh outrage: a new crime, or new information about an old crime, or another example of his hostility for anyone who does not resemble his mostly white, mostly male, relatively well-off base. Inevitably the news drowns out whatever came before it so we are reduced to ticking off a list to remember the truth.
Significant restrictions on food-stamp eligibility predate the Trump presidency. The related ideas that the poor are poor because they are lazy, and that they deserve to go hungry, are written into existing work requirements for the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program.
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