Why the Poor Stay Poor in America - A Mishmash of Mid-Week (ish) Readings
Welcome to Crime and Punishment: Why the Poor Stay Poor in America. I’m thrilled that you signed up to read my newsletter, and I hope that together, we can make a difference. A Mishmash of Mid-Week (ish) ReadingsLearning from the Pandemic, Punishing the Poor, and Changing the Ohio Constitution...First order of business: Please join me on Substack Notes, where I’ll post short updates on previous posts, what’s coming up on Crime and Punishment plus the research I’m doing for these future posts, along with other news that helps explain “why the poor stay poor” in America and what we can do to break the cycle. Of course, I’ll also alert you to some of my favorite writing on Substack. I’ve published my first Note here. Stay tuned for more! I’ve put together a few, recent interviews and articles that help at least partly explain the thinking of our government and those we elect and appoint to run its business. How, in one of the richest countries on Earth, did we lose well over one million people to Covid? Why do we continue to impose increasingly higher barriers to the poor receiving government help? And will we allow states to subvert the will of the people? Read on. — First up, an interview in this week’s New York Times Magazine with Dr. Anthony Fauci, discussing what went right and wrong in the government’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. Clearly, that is an oversimplification of this extensive interview, but each of us, along with scientists and public health experts must examine the minutia now, so we don’t make the same mistakes and do better the next time. Spoiler alert: Dr Anthony Fauci is alive and well and NOT locked up at Guantanamo Bay.
— This is a piece from a February 2023 issue of The New Republic that takes on Representative Matt Gaetz’s insistence on work requirements for Medicaid, and to expand existing work requirements for food stamps and other government help. See my previous post on this issue here.
— The great state of Ohio is not exempt from doing an “end around” the will of the voters. This analysis by the Washington Post explains exactly what the Republican controlled legislature and Republican governor, Mike DeWine have planned to thwart a proposed ballot measure for this November’s election that would guarantee women’s rights to reproductive health care, including abortion. The legislature is proposing a bill that would amend Ohio’s constitution to require that all ballot measures pass by 60% or more of the popular vote. Currently, the requirement is, and has been for 111 years, a simple majority of 50% of the vote plus 1. Governor Dewine has agreed to approve a special election for this August to amend the state’s constitution…and if amended, the 60% majority would apply to the reproductive rights ballot measure proposed for just a few months later in November.
AndThis recent article from the Columbus Dispatch focuses on what Ohio’s former governors are saying about the Ohio legislature’s move to change the state’s constitution: Republican and Democrat alike are against the change.
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Work Requirements For Food & Medicaid Benefits
Saturday, April 22, 2023
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Wednesday, April 19, 2023
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Monday, April 3, 2023
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Thursday, March 30, 2023
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Wednesday, March 22, 2023
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