His insistence on work requirements is a body blow to millions of Americans who’ve been raised out of poverty.
“There go all the grandparents raising children,” Joan McCarter writes at Daily Kos, “the disabled people who can’t work, those who can’t make enough in the low-wage jobs available to them to be able to afford child care, the people who earn too little to file taxes and who make up the bulk of families lifted out of poverty last year by the expanded Child Tax Credit payments.”
Why doesn’t Manchin insist that the military contractors on whom he has lavished trillions of dollars prove that their patronage by the U.S. government is enhancing the safety of Americans?