Biden Administration Prompts Largest Permanent Increase in Food Stamps | Portside

The Biden administration has revised the nutrition standards of the food stamp program and prompted the largest permanent increase to benefits in the program’s history, a move that will give poor people more power to fill their grocery carts but add billions of dollars to the cost of a program that feeds one in eight Americans.

Source: Biden Administration Prompts Largest Permanent Increase in Food Stamps | Portside

The American ruling class “experiments” with eliminating unemployment benefits for millions of workers – World Socialist Web Site

The cutoff of unemployment benefits is aimed at lowering wages in the face of rising inflation and blackmailing the jobless into accepting dangerous work as the pandemic continues to claim hundreds of lives daily.

Source: The American ruling class “experiments” with eliminating unemployment benefits for millions of workers – World Socialist Web Site