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Work Requirements Don't Create Jobs. They Create Paperwork.
Read more . . . →Nebraska just became the first state to tell poor people they need to file monthly paperwork proving they work 80 hours to keep their health insurance. Miss the form or confuse DHHS’s bureaucracy — coverage gone. Not because you stopped working. Because you failed a government quiz while sick and broke. This is what “work requirements” actually are. Not a ladder, not a job program — a filter. The Urban Institute says Nebraska alone will kick 25,000 people off Medicaid from this. The CBO found that work requirements will strip coverage from over 5 million Americans by 2034 and produce...
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The $1.8 Billion Thank-You Note
Read more . . . →While the government cuts Medicaid for 12 million people, it’s apparently flush with cash for the important stuff: $1.8 billion in taxpayer money to compensate Trump’s MAGA allies who claim Biden’s DOJ wrongfully targeted them. Mike Lindell gets a check. Enrique Tarrio, former Proud Boys leader, gets a check. Pardoned January 6 rioters, a check. The kid who needs their insulin stays screwed. There’s also a White House ballroom in there — $220 million buried in the same reconciliation bill that stripped SNAP to the bones. A room for parties, a room for dancing. The Senate parliamentarian blocked that piece,...
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The Big Beautiful Bill Is Working — If You're Already Rich
Read more . . . →They called it the One Big Beautiful Bill. Cut nearly a trillion dollars from Medicaid — the healthcare program covering the poorest Americans — and handed it back to billionaires as tax cuts. Signed on July 4th. Nothing says freedom like stripping healthcare from 16 million people so the top 10% can pocket an extra $13,600 a year. Now the enforcement is live. Nebraska started Medicaid work requirements on May 1st. The paperwork is complicated by design — miss a form, lose your coverage. People who ARE working are getting cut because the bureaucracy is built to fail them. And...
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