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Showing posts with label Welfare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Welfare. Show all posts
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Racism, Sexism, And The 50-Year Campaign To Undermine The War On Poverty
www.thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/01/08/3122111/war-poverty-race-sexism/
A timeline of conservatives' efforts to systematically undermine the programs that shaped Johnson's War on Poverty and forever changed Americans' perception about the role of government.
A timeline of conservatives' efforts to systematically undermine the programs that shaped Johnson's War on Poverty and forever changed Americans' perception about the role of government.
Friday, January 3, 2014
Friday, April 5, 2013
Tennessee Clergy Speak Out Against Bill To Cut Welfare For Children Who Get Poor Grades
Tennessee Clergy Speak Out Against Bill To Cut Welfare For Children Who Get Poor Grades: As Tennessee prepares to consider two bills to reduce welfare assistance for needy families whose children are not doing well in school, a Change.org petition has popped up to fight the measure. The petition was started by Clergy for Justice, a Tennesse-based organization of clergy that has previously advocated for causes including immigration reform, health [...]/p
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
Republicans: Our welfare ad is a lie. And it works. So we're sticking with it
Republicans: Our welfare ad is a lie. And it works. So we're sticking with it
"The Republicans claim Obama is gutting that reform. Fact-checkers have found Team Romney's claims to be, putting it charitably, baloney."
"The Republicans claim Obama is gutting that reform. Fact-checkers have found Team Romney's claims to be, putting it charitably, baloney."
Unpopular with minorities, Romney targets 'white vote'
Mitt Romney continues to lie and use the racial "dog whistle" to target the white vote.
Friday, August 24, 2012
The Big, Racist Lie at the Center of the Romney-Ryan Campaign | Alternet
The Big, Racist Lie at the Center of the Romney-Ryan Campaign | Alternet
"The Romney team appears to have adopted a strategy of throwing so much dishonest spin around that the fact-checkers just throw their hands up in frustration. Along with his bald-faced lie that Obama “raided” Medicare , this week the campaign tripled-down on its universally debunked claim that the Obama administration had killed the welfare “reforms” passed by Bill Clinton. In fact, they defended that ad by citing a fact-free column by Mickey Kaus published on Tucker Carlson's always-wrong right-wing blog, the Daily Caller .
"The Romney team appears to have adopted a strategy of throwing so much dishonest spin around that the fact-checkers just throw their hands up in frustration. Along with his bald-faced lie that Obama “raided” Medicare , this week the campaign tripled-down on its universally debunked claim that the Obama administration had killed the welfare “reforms” passed by Bill Clinton. In fact, they defended that ad by citing a fact-free column by Mickey Kaus published on Tucker Carlson's always-wrong right-wing blog, the Daily Caller .
They hope to make inroads attacking welfare because, like the infamous "Southern strategy," it stokes racial animus. Political scientist Michael Teslerstudied voters' reactions to seeing Romney's first welfare ad, and found that, “among those who saw it, racial resentment affected whether people thought Romney will help the poor, the middle-class, and African-Americans"."
Monday, August 20, 2012
Romney’s False Welfare Attacks Ignore His Own Plans To Gut Programs For The Poor
Romney’s False Welfare Attacks Ignore His Own Plans To Gut Programs For The Poor: To distract the public from their plans to funnel additional tax cuts to the wealthiest one percent, Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan — the GOP’s presidential ticket — are engaging in one of the oldest and [...]/p
Newspaper Cited In New Romney Attack Ad On Welfare: Charges ‘Debunked By Multiple Independent Fact-Checkers’
Newspaper Cited In New Romney Attack Ad On Welfare: Charges ‘Debunked By Multiple Independent Fact-Checkers’: Undeterred by his own support for the welfare reform waivers he is now criticizing, Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney has released another ad slamming the Obama administration’s decision to give states greater latitude in how they administer the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. The ad cites a Richmond Times-Dispatch editorial to make the [...]/p
Economy? What economy? Romney again pushes debunked welfare attack
Economy? What economy? Romney again pushes debunked welfare attack
"Here's a good example of just how ridiculous Mitt Romney's new welfare attack ad is: the main third party validation for its claims is an editorial by The Richmond Times-Dispatch, but the paper's news page now says those claims have been debunked"
"Here's a good example of just how ridiculous Mitt Romney's new welfare attack ad is: the main third party validation for its claims is an editorial by The Richmond Times-Dispatch, but the paper's news page now says those claims have been debunked"
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