Billionaire's Row and Welfare Lines.
The essay calls attention to the horrifying facts about Child poverty in the US and the efforts of our Congress to cut food assistance to poor families:
"The number of Americans now enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is near record highs, and yet both houses of Congress have passed bills to cut funding to the program. The Senate measure would cut about $4 billion, while the House measure would cut roughly ten times as much, dropping millions of Americans from the program."
Author Charles Blow concludes what we all must conclude: "There is an inherent tension — and obscenity — in the wildly divergent fortunes of the rich and the poor in this country, especially among our children. The growing imbalance of both wealth and opportunity cannot be sustained. Something has to give."
Indeed. Something has to give. Let it not be the children on whom our future depends.
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