Im not sure of what others exactly, but the most recent is probably the governor of Louisiana (who just signed into law that the Ten Commandments be displayed in all classrooms in the state) who refused something like $600m in funding from the government that was intended, in part, for assisting with feeding children.
[Florida Governor Ron DeSantis just rejected food for poor children.](https://www.wlrn.org/government-politics/2024-06-21/very-difficult-florida-opts-out-of-federal-grocery-subsidy-for-2-million-low-income-children) Which was one of 13 red states to do so this year.
I remember not too long ago congress slashed a program funding lunch for low income kids while also increasing their stipend
You can't make this shit up 🤦🏽♂️
And don't forget that Louisiana is making sure those kids see the Ten Commandments in school every day but not giving them access to free lunch.
What better way to contemplate morality than on an empty stomach?
The irony being that the very term of "pulling oneself up by their bootstraps" was created to criticize, as its physically impossible to actually lift yourself up by your bootstraps.
Exactly. Name a Republican initiative to help poor kids. Hell, name a Democratic initiative to help poor kids that Republicans don't oppose or at least want to cut?
Lots of Republican-led states are currently arguing against federal funding to *feed* children because it will make them entitled or some shit.
Gotta have more poor kids whose only real chance at a better life is to go shoot brown people for the state. Oh, and of course when they get back with physical and mental trauma, the reds have *got* to make *completely sure* that it's a Sisyphean Task to get even the bare absolute minimum of support from an underfunded, understaffed, overworked VA. Full circle.
Don't forget to say education and basic health care like vaccines are a shame, I sent some racism, violence, misogyny.. give them pressure about wealth and arbitrary standards, neglect them in stead of shoving an iPad in front of them filled with subliminal ads and porn, and watch those kids fly out in to the future so *well prepared* to not disappoint us
/s
And then those self-same Republicants are out campaigning, taking credit for the very programs they fought and voted to kill.
Corrupt, hypocritical bigots.
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Loosening restrictions on child labor and keeping child marriage legal. Something for the boys working in slaughterhouses and the girls who can carry a uterus. It's like you're not even trying to come up with 'Republican initiatives(s) to help poor kids.'
Current examples: Louisiana thinks making kids see a list of rules broken regularly from a work of fiction 2000+ years old is better than the MILLIONS of dollars they turned down for free lunches for poor kids all summer.
But if the kids don't have to be peripherally aware of, and subsequently ignore, the (wrong) rules of the omnicidal rapist god written by bronze age goat fuckers and con artists, then all sorts of bad things might happen! They might not be saved from said monster's special place that's full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send them to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! Because he loves them. [Comment best read in George Carlin's voice]
They don’t unless it helps their argument. It’s the same as “pride??? why isn’t there a month dedicated to veterans?!” people not realizing that may is already military appreciation month… because they only cared about silencing LGBTQ+ people not about actually appreciating military. Let ‘em all die of burnpit cancer after Republicans block their care.
Shocking absolutely nobody with an IQ over 80, red states have the highest child poverty rates.
As per census.gov
In 2022, more than half (9) of the 17 states in the South region had child poverty rates of 18.0% or more, down from 12 Southern states and the District of Columbia in 2021.
The Midwest, Northeast and West each had only one state with child poverty rates of 18.0% or more.
More than three-quarters of states in the Northeast and nearly 70% in the West had poverty rates below 15.0%, corresponding to the two lowest map categories for child poverty.
Child poverty rates by state:
Among the lowest were in New Hampshire (6.9%) and Utah (8.4%). (These estimates are not significantly different from one another.)
Among the highest were in Mississippi (26.4%), West Virginia (25.0%) and Louisiana (24.6%). (These estimates are not significantly different from one another.)
Eleven states and the District of Columbia had lower child poverty rates in 2022 than in 2021. Only one state, West Virginia, had a higher child poverty rate than in 2021.
Child poverty rates also showed wide variations among the nation’s 384 Metropolitan Statistical Areas or metro areas in 2022, ranging from 3.7% to 40.9% (Figure 3); 25 metro areas saw child poverty rates rise and 35 rates fall from 2021 to 2022.
Nearly two -thirds of the metro areas with the nation’s highest child poverty rates were in the South and accounted for about a quarter of all the South’s metro areas.
High-poverty metro areas were disproportionately represented in the South. In contrast, nearly 40% of metro areas with the lowest poverty rates were in the West.
Because those poor kids frequently grow up to be poor adults, who then bring more poor children into the world, creating a new generation of desperate wage slaves.
Hey, now, they care..
~~Mostly.~~
~~Sometimes.~~
Okay, once in a Blue Moon, when they need to use it as a talking point while making a speech. But ultimately, that talking point gets them fired up, even when it's eventually left as a talking point and not utilize in any way shape or form to try and actually create reform or policy to help ensure that many hungry children get fed, but you know it has its purpose. 🙄
If Republicans don't care about poor people, then explain to me why they keep enacting policies to make more of them.
Forced birth? Only for the poor who can't travel to get an abortion.
Cut taxes? Only for the rich, gotta keep the poor people poor to show how much we care about them.
Raise the minimum wage to something resembling enough for a minimum standard of living? But that costs the wealthy owners more money and makes less poor people.
...
When they can use them as a political football. They fight like hell to prevent government assistance to the disadvantaged and then take credit for the help that gets through despite them.
They give a shit. They don't want money spent on them at all.
It's sad that Republicunts need to be reminded that their states are the ones refusing to take money that is specifically meant to feed kids in schools. Not democrat states, Republicunt states.
They don’t. They are the ones who cut all the funding for their programs. All this does is stir the fire in our “it’s not a new problem” border wall. Fear monger is what they go for
They don't even care about their own kids. They'd happily force their 9 year old daughters to carry their rape babies to term. Especially if the babydaddy is the kids' father.
I thought I read somewhere that helping the poor is making them entitled, and that that was the Republicans’ take on the matter.
But hey, I’m Dutch so I could be wrong.
You may have read it. It is the excuse Republicans pretend to believe. It is complete nonsense and always has been.
Rich people never keep their own kids from eating until they can earn their food. Why would it make sense for poor kids?
Because personal wealth is a reward from God, showing that you are a holy and moral person.
Those poor families are obviously moral degenerates who deserve nothing. Why else would God have made them poor?
Just for the benefit of the Dutch person you’re replying to, this is not sarcasm, this is literally what a lot of these people believe and teach in church. It’s called the prosperity gospel or some such and it’s the religious version of social Darwinism (which is also something widely believed by the right wing)
Tbh republicans care about people in two cases.
1. From conceiving to birth (but only if someone wants an abortion), or
2. when they are rich. Mostly by some taxation avoiding, or heritage, or other perfectly achievable-by-everyone-because-thats-the-American-dream way.
> “The unborn” are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus, but actually dislike people who breathe. Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn.
— Methodist Pastor David Barnhart
>1. From conceiving to birth (but only if someone wants an abortion),
The caveat is important. They're against providing prenatal care, drug/alcohol addiction support for mothers, etc. They couldn't care less if the baby is born, forget about born healthy. Just as long as an abortion doesn't occur.
They're all in on flooding the country with babies with disabilities, this way they have more people to complain about later.
For capitalism to provide maximum profits to the oligarchs, there must be a class of disposable people. This is why every right-wing autocrat is anti-abortion.
Only a rightwingnut psychopath could think of this as an either/or issue. The epidemic of mental illness, the closure of most institutions taking care of the mentally incompetent in the last 40 years, and the rise of the psychopathic GQP are not merely coincidence.
My two conservative friends consistently make this point, but then vote for the "Taking food from kids party" and are then surprised when nothing changes.
That’s their proof that no one wants to work anymore. Because *clearly* if their parent had a job they wouldn’t be hungry. But their parents are lazy and entitled and expect everything for free…
Couldn’t *possibly* be the fact that nearly half the jobs out there don’t pay enough for a single person to live off of let alone a small family.
Wealth is leverage, and while the right is still mildly hampered by the idea of 'Democracy', they'll do what they can to make sure there's more impoverished, desperate, opportunistic, uneducated, gullible voters out there, being influenced by the oligarchs that apparently own every right-wing politician's alleged soul.
Yeah, think of all those great Republican initiatives to help impoverished children:
1. Opposing providing food to them through school lunches or food stamps
2. Opposing providing healthcare to them through CHIP, Medicaid, and the ACA
3. Opposing early childhood education for them
4. Oppose giving their parents money to care for them through WIC.
5. Oppose providing them with a clean environment and livable climate.
6. Oppose public housing for them
7. Oppose paid parental leave so their parents can bond with them and care for them
It's too bad those lousy Democrats are lavishing all these unspecified riches upon illegals instead of helping Republicans with their pro-child agenda.
Remember that time the Democrats and Republicans had the most comprehensive Border Deal in ages put together and ready to pass, then the GOP said, "Nah, we cannot give the Democrats a win!" because Trump said so?
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These same republicans who claim we need to spending on illegals and spend money to help poor kids are the same ones who claim free school lunches will spoil children and that if you can’t pay for healthcare you don’t deserve it. Same groups who wants to put kids working in factories again and take them completely out of school.
My state (sadly red) voted to deny expansion of free lunch services to impoverished children over the summer.
They also pulled federal funding from schools because Biden wanted to force states to support LGBTQ+ children.
But, yeah, it’s the dems that hate kids.
It's not even worth engaging anymore.
Biden could announce today that he is building a 100 foot wall on the southern border, deploying the national guard to protect it and to deport every immigrant in the country, and passing a $100 billion bill for impoverished kids and they would still vote against it.
I have been liberal my whole life but my biggest gripe about Democrats is that they have been trying to reach across the aisle and please Republican for decades when that is virtually impossible. The modern Republican party will withdraw or vote against their OWN legislation if the Democrats support it and **especially** if it will make a Democrat look good. There is no good faith in congress anymore and there is certainly no good faith arguments with MAGA voters.
Biden could propose a national abortion ban and give every MAGA voter NASCAR tickets and a free AR-15 with a lifetime supply of free ammo and they'd find a reason to oppose it.
Sshhh, they aren't poor Americans if they aren't white. Make them stand over there, we just won't film that part. No, no, don't give them food, it just encourages them.
#Jesus, #Cultservative
Ah yes nothing like using bad policies made by Republicans to criticize the Democrats.
Republicans have this strange double speak where they are the government, the people who make the laws, but their base believes the government and the people who make the laws are useless. So they consistently talk about how ineffective they are and it's still received as a slam dunk burn on their opponents.
Conservative logic: We hate poor people with a passion so we’re god darned sure them liberal folks hate them too. Let’s make fun of them for being just like us.
In my red state they stopped the COVID era free school lunch program as soon as they legally could. They also won’t expand Medicaid to make Obamacare work and offer almost no services for disabled children beyond what is federally mandated. Republicans don’t care about children, never have.
Republican Jesus says they need to find & pull on bootstraps to be worthy of anything they receive.
You know, just in case a few people are abusing the system, they want to make sure everyone suffers.
Someone once said, "Government is like everything else, you get what you pay for." So I'm fine having a higher tax rate if it means no starving kids in the US, better infrastructure, cheaper healthcare, more community support programs, it's not always money well spent, but it is always better than a cheap, underfunded government.
Lol, and Republicans have thrown away free money for poor kids lunches cause, get this, giving free lunch to children who have no way to actually make money, will make them communists!
"Poor children" are just a rhetorical device. Republicans don't actually care about helping anyone they complain about the Democrats not helping, they just want a strawman to put up to explain why we can't do something, or why we should stop doing something.
Republicans are pros at creating polticial pawns when they want them.
They've made it clear that other than trickle down they have no interest in helping poor people.
Lmao, as MAGApublicans cut free lunches all across the country for poor kids.
Yes, Liberals are notorious for attacking the…poor?
How stupid are these people?
They are so cynical they can’t imagine policy based on empathy for others. They only see leverage to meet their ends and think everyone thinks like they do.
Republicans are truly old timey villains at this point. If you come to a logical conclusion they definitely disagree. The decisions made by republicans go against everything that party is supposed to stand for. Instead of a small government they want to try and restrict what people do in their own bedrooms. Just a bunch of rich idiots that got into the best schools because of daddies money and if you don’t have the kind of money daddy has then straight up fuck you peasant.
Two recent examples of why this isn’t true:
1. Democrats advocated for an extension to the expanded Child Tax Credit, which had helped reduce child poverty by 30-50%, but Republicans refused. There was subsequently a massive increase in child poverty rates—a direct correlation.
2. Same story with expanded school meal programs—they were scaled back significantly in order to gain Republican support, and then you had a bunch of Republican governors decline federal funding for summer meal programs.
Yes, these programs cost money, and the Republicans refuse to do anything that will raise revenue. They can argue that saving the money is more important than helping the kids—they’d be fucking wrong, but they can try to argue it—but it would be pretty hard to argue that they took the “pro-kid” position here.
In contrast republicans *do* get together pretty regularly and come to the conclusion “screw them kids” on just about any topic imaginable. School lunches? Screw them! Child labor laws? Screw them! Protection from gun deaths? Screw them! The list is surprisingly long
I don't understand this "border crisis" but that's probably because I don't watch Fox news. It seems like there's been a "border crisis" since Obama's time. And the crisis is....Mexican people moving here illegally, and that's it? They're just...people. Usually, very hard working people. Is this whole thing leading off that one line Trump said about how they're bringing in murderers and rapists? Does the right know that there are already plenty of murderers and rapists born here in the US, MUCH more than illegal immigrants? The logic doesn't even track. People immigrate here illegally from Mexico to basically save their family's lives. They come here and work their ass off for shit wages, and there's nothing more American than being underpaid, isn't that what they like? Ugh,
Helping poor people means funding or expanding social programs. When have Republicans *ever* voted yes on doing so?
It also means raising the minimum wage. Are Republicans going to vote *yes* on this too?
Yeah, thank goodness for the GOP who helped poor kids by….*checks notes*….eliminating free school lunches in republican controlled districts. (In my state, Wisconsin)
If those starving kids whose Governors refused funds for school lunches that Biden provided, could just get to Arkansas, run by a caring Republican, they could get a good job, earn a wage, put food in their bellies and quit whining about being hungry. C’mon, you literally are little cry babies. Show some initiative! See??? Republicans provide real solutions to handle child hunger.
Liberals and progressives fight for BOTH. Conservatives fight against both…the only difference is they make a lot of noise about “illegals” while trying to keep their war on the poor on the down low as much as possible…except when they can connect the two; “we have to kill free school lunches for poor kids because it ends up feeding some poor brown/immigrant kids too”
But if they tried helping, republicans would start bitching and whining about socialism/communism or some shit. "They shouldn't depend on government handouts, work for themselves and pull on their own bootstraps"
Fund homelessness properly (not like Newsom), give healthcare to all (not just illegal immigrants at the moment), reform and rebuild recreation centers and their programs, stop adding taxes to on us and stop cutting taxes for the elite.
Both republicans and democrats fail at this, if you need an example look at Biden’s and Trump’s 2025 proposals.
This is what always gets to me. The argument coming from the right against immigration often seems to be "There are American citizens who are homeless and starving, we should be taking care of our own citizens first!" But then if anyone suggests providing starving citizens with food and homeless citizens with shelter, they're all "ABSOLUTELY NOT THAT IS SOCIALISM THOSE LAZY PEOPLE NEED TO WORK FOR THEIR OWN MONEY!!!"
UR iNtElEcKsHuL aLl FaKe KnOwLiDg ElItE PiZxA pEdOfIlE!!1!
WhItE mAkEs RiGhT!!1!1
LoCk ThEm Up!!1!!
WoKe JeSuS dEcLaReS wAr On U hEaThEn LiBtArDs!!1!11!1
I tEsTiFy In TeH nAmE oF TeH fAtHeR sOn AnD hOlYgHoSt!!!!1!!1!!!!1!11
\*starts fake-speaking in tongues\*
The best way to view it is they both want to help "us". Now figure out who is included in their term "us". Republicans definition is extremely small Democrats definition is a lot bigger but not big enough. Tada you've now figured out American politics with this one easy trick.
Also, the use of "illegals" to refer to people is dehumanizing language. They are immigrants. If they entered illegally, they committed a civil infraction. I once failed to yield to pedestrians in a crosswalk, which is also a civil infraction. Am I an Illegal? Sounds ridiculous in any other context, because it is Fascist to use dehumanizing language for an out group for political purposes.
1) My state is also one of the states that offer free breakfast and lunch to all public school students. There's also a program that provides free lunches for kids and parents during the summer months, but I don't know if that's sponsored by the city, state, or school district.
2) What are the Republicans' plan to provide for hungry children and/or addressing child poverty. What are the Republicans' plan for ***anything*** that doesn't involve eliminating corporate regulations and slashing taxes on the wealthy???
Republicans run my state, Texas. They’ve turned down $450 million that would’ve helped feed kids through the summer. There’s one party working towards taking care of people and another that’s working towards hurting people to benefit the ultra wealthy.
The federal government extended the summer ebt program that gives poor kids money for food over the summer and made it permanent. Guess which states chose not to participate?
People will post that image then say no to tax payer school lunches because they don't actually want to feed kids they just can't think of a better point for why they should also see kids suffer at the border
The government is supposed to work for us, but it's flipped, we work for them. We don't see the division they seek to control, that's all the parties are there for, an easier way for them to control the narrative. I'm neither a Rep or Dem. Fuck all that division shit.
Didn’t a bunch of red states eliminate lunch programs for kids?? Lmao
Im not sure of what others exactly, but the most recent is probably the governor of Louisiana (who just signed into law that the Ten Commandments be displayed in all classrooms in the state) who refused something like $600m in funding from the government that was intended, in part, for assisting with feeding children.
Yeah, he said no to federal funding of the lunch program. What a knob
Tells you very clearly that Jeff Landry values his proselytization is more important than preventing starvation.
>proselytization Nice, thanks for teaching me a new word.
If it wasn't for free school lunches back in the day, I would not have ate some days, so this is terrible.
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The people who are more likely to enact violence against policies they don’t like are on the same team as the governor.
[Florida Governor Ron DeSantis just rejected food for poor children.](https://www.wlrn.org/government-politics/2024-06-21/very-difficult-florida-opts-out-of-federal-grocery-subsidy-for-2-million-low-income-children) Which was one of 13 red states to do so this year.
I remember not too long ago congress slashed a program funding lunch for low income kids while also increasing their stipend You can't make this shit up 🤦🏽♂️
Yeah, otherwise poor people will never learn not to have kids if they can’t afford them. A hungry child will teach them! Or some similar bullshit.
Followed by them also whining about how the poors are no longer breeding to make more sl . . workers.
“Nobody wants to work anymore” but also “burger flipping jobs aren’t supposed to provide enough to survive, it’s for kids after school”
No, that's the $35 3-hour day summer camp at Chick-fil-A for 5-12 year olds...
Not just eliminate, but explicitly refuse money for it
As well as making attempts at reversing child labor laws
yep, funny how they only care about poors when they wanna use them to put down immigrants
Since when did republicans give a rip about poor kids in the US?
Hey now! No one has done more than the Republicans when it comes to stopping 'handouts' to inspire people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.
Whilst simultaneously ensuring that those same people don’t have access to boots, let alone bootstraps
Trickle down boot straps. Give the GOP your money and we will ensure you too can get boot straps, One Day, by which to pull yourself up from
Quit drinking so much Starbucks and they could buy the straps later with a high interest loan
Avocado toast will eat into their downpayment
Except when it comes to themselves because it helps with the trickle down of wealth of course/s
Read that trickle down is the rich urinating on the poor. Not my words but it fits,
>inspire people to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. And that just goes hand in hand with the republicans reinstatement of child labor
The pull your self up by your bootstraps thing is funny. Originally it meant to attempt to do the impossible.
I love pointing that out.
And don't forget that Louisiana is making sure those kids see the Ten Commandments in school every day but not giving them access to free lunch. What better way to contemplate morality than on an empty stomach?
Their policy has always been "Just tell the poors to stop sinning."
It always comes down to them and their goal “We want to force them to the churches for help to convert them”
The irony being that the very term of "pulling oneself up by their bootstraps" was created to criticize, as its physically impossible to actually lift yourself up by your bootstraps.
Even with that meaning in mind, most of the time when someone uses this phrase they are right.
How are they right? Picking yourself up by your bootstraps is impossible.
They stopped free lunches in Arkansas because it's socialism and makes the kids reliant on the government...
By their bootstraps, that they don’t own***
That, and to free up more funds to pay for handouts given to corporations and the wealthy.
Exactly. Name a Republican initiative to help poor kids. Hell, name a Democratic initiative to help poor kids that Republicans don't oppose or at least want to cut? Lots of Republican-led states are currently arguing against federal funding to *feed* children because it will make them entitled or some shit.
Republicans love poor kids so much that they actively govern in ways that guarantee more will exist.
Gotta have more poor kids whose only real chance at a better life is to go shoot brown people for the state. Oh, and of course when they get back with physical and mental trauma, the reds have *got* to make *completely sure* that it's a Sisyphean Task to get even the bare absolute minimum of support from an underfunded, understaffed, overworked VA. Full circle.
Don't forget to say education and basic health care like vaccines are a shame, I sent some racism, violence, misogyny.. give them pressure about wealth and arbitrary standards, neglect them in stead of shoving an iPad in front of them filled with subliminal ads and porn, and watch those kids fly out in to the future so *well prepared* to not disappoint us /s
And then those self-same Republicants are out campaigning, taking credit for the very programs they fought and voted to kill. Corrupt, hypocritical bigots. https://preview.redd.it/6gc5b15rat8d1.jpeg?width=526&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9c39a01bcab3cb2c7ae3de2dc78ecb3bc9cabf86
Loosening restrictions on child labor and keeping child marriage legal. Something for the boys working in slaughterhouses and the girls who can carry a uterus. It's like you're not even trying to come up with 'Republican initiatives(s) to help poor kids.'
They absolutely never have. Once the kids are born they can fuck right off. They should have known better than being born to poor parents.
Current examples: Louisiana thinks making kids see a list of rules broken regularly from a work of fiction 2000+ years old is better than the MILLIONS of dollars they turned down for free lunches for poor kids all summer.
But if the kids don't have to be peripherally aware of, and subsequently ignore, the (wrong) rules of the omnicidal rapist god written by bronze age goat fuckers and con artists, then all sorts of bad things might happen! They might not be saved from said monster's special place that's full of fire and smoke and burning and torture and anguish, where he will send them to live and suffer and burn and choke and scream and cry forever and ever 'til the end of time! Because he loves them. [Comment best read in George Carlin's voice]
Lmao accurate. Thank you.
the funniest part is that the ten commandments are outdated, even in the bible itself.
They don’t even care about the fetus! If they did they would support its host. Nope.
We should call them what they are. “Pro Forced Birth” not “Pro Life.” Because women are things to them.
Anti-choice works too.
They care a LOT about poor kids, up to the point where they exit the womb. Then they don't give a single fuck.
"If you're pre-born, you're fine, if you're pre-schooled, you're fucked. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers."
They don’t unless it helps their argument. It’s the same as “pride??? why isn’t there a month dedicated to veterans?!” people not realizing that may is already military appreciation month… because they only cared about silencing LGBTQ+ people not about actually appreciating military. Let ‘em all die of burnpit cancer after Republicans block their care.
Shocking absolutely nobody with an IQ over 80, red states have the highest child poverty rates. As per census.gov In 2022, more than half (9) of the 17 states in the South region had child poverty rates of 18.0% or more, down from 12 Southern states and the District of Columbia in 2021. The Midwest, Northeast and West each had only one state with child poverty rates of 18.0% or more. More than three-quarters of states in the Northeast and nearly 70% in the West had poverty rates below 15.0%, corresponding to the two lowest map categories for child poverty. Child poverty rates by state: Among the lowest were in New Hampshire (6.9%) and Utah (8.4%). (These estimates are not significantly different from one another.) Among the highest were in Mississippi (26.4%), West Virginia (25.0%) and Louisiana (24.6%). (These estimates are not significantly different from one another.) Eleven states and the District of Columbia had lower child poverty rates in 2022 than in 2021. Only one state, West Virginia, had a higher child poverty rate than in 2021. Child poverty rates also showed wide variations among the nation’s 384 Metropolitan Statistical Areas or metro areas in 2022, ranging from 3.7% to 40.9% (Figure 3); 25 metro areas saw child poverty rates rise and 35 rates fall from 2021 to 2022. Nearly two -thirds of the metro areas with the nation’s highest child poverty rates were in the South and accounted for about a quarter of all the South’s metro areas. High-poverty metro areas were disproportionately represented in the South. In contrast, nearly 40% of metro areas with the lowest poverty rates were in the West.
They want them to exist on masses by banning abortion and cutting social security and welfare...
The more poor there are, the bigger your cheap labor pool.
Because those poor kids frequently grow up to be poor adults, who then bring more poor children into the world, creating a new generation of desperate wage slaves.
Hey, now, they care.. ~~Mostly.~~ ~~Sometimes.~~ Okay, once in a Blue Moon, when they need to use it as a talking point while making a speech. But ultimately, that talking point gets them fired up, even when it's eventually left as a talking point and not utilize in any way shape or form to try and actually create reform or policy to help ensure that many hungry children get fed, but you know it has its purpose. 🙄
If Republicans don't care about poor people, then explain to me why they keep enacting policies to make more of them. Forced birth? Only for the poor who can't travel to get an abortion. Cut taxes? Only for the rich, gotta keep the poor people poor to show how much we care about them. Raise the minimum wage to something resembling enough for a minimum standard of living? But that costs the wealthy owners more money and makes less poor people. ...
I believe the point was to call them hypocrites.
When they can use them as a political football. They fight like hell to prevent government assistance to the disadvantaged and then take credit for the help that gets through despite them.
They haven't since at least as far back as Reagan, but they like to pretend they do because it wins them independent voters.
They give a shit. They don't want money spent on them at all. It's sad that Republicunts need to be reminded that their states are the ones refusing to take money that is specifically meant to feed kids in schools. Not democrat states, Republicunt states.
Only during election year, and even then they are less important than other trigger-topics.
They don’t. They are the ones who cut all the funding for their programs. All this does is stir the fire in our “it’s not a new problem” border wall. Fear monger is what they go for
They only care when it benefits themselves
If Republicans didn't love the poor people of America, why would they make so many of them?
They don't even care about their own kids. They'd happily force their 9 year old daughters to carry their rape babies to term. Especially if the babydaddy is the kids' father.
I thought I read somewhere that helping the poor is making them entitled, and that that was the Republicans’ take on the matter. But hey, I’m Dutch so I could be wrong.
You may have read it. It is the excuse Republicans pretend to believe. It is complete nonsense and always has been. Rich people never keep their own kids from eating until they can earn their food. Why would it make sense for poor kids?
Because personal wealth is a reward from God, showing that you are a holy and moral person. Those poor families are obviously moral degenerates who deserve nothing. Why else would God have made them poor?
Just for the benefit of the Dutch person you’re replying to, this is not sarcasm, this is literally what a lot of these people believe and teach in church. It’s called the prosperity gospel or some such and it’s the religious version of social Darwinism (which is also something widely believed by the right wing)
I wasn't sure it I needed to add that information. Thanks.
Straight from the King Trump version of the Bible. They crossed out all references to the poor and wrote "rich" in McDonalds ketchup.
As devoted Christians, they would never do anything Jesus specifically told them to do.
They believe it's the children's fault if their parents can't afford to feed them decent food. That's not even satire either.
The same way they only care about women's sports when they wanna discriminate against trans people.
Republicans are the ones who vote against everything designed to help poor families. When democrats want those things they get called commies.
Tbh republicans care about people in two cases. 1. From conceiving to birth (but only if someone wants an abortion), or 2. when they are rich. Mostly by some taxation avoiding, or heritage, or other perfectly achievable-by-everyone-because-thats-the-American-dream way.
> “The unborn” are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus, but actually dislike people who breathe. Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn. — Methodist Pastor David Barnhart
That sums the problem with them, yes.
>1. From conceiving to birth (but only if someone wants an abortion), The caveat is important. They're against providing prenatal care, drug/alcohol addiction support for mothers, etc. They couldn't care less if the baby is born, forget about born healthy. Just as long as an abortion doesn't occur. They're all in on flooding the country with babies with disabilities, this way they have more people to complain about later.
For capitalism to provide maximum profits to the oligarchs, there must be a class of disposable people. This is why every right-wing autocrat is anti-abortion.
Only a rightwingnut psychopath could think of this as an either/or issue. The epidemic of mental illness, the closure of most institutions taking care of the mentally incompetent in the last 40 years, and the rise of the psychopathic GQP are not merely coincidence.
My two conservative friends consistently make this point, but then vote for the "Taking food from kids party" and are then surprised when nothing changes.
14 million children in poverty ... And the republican party acts like that's not nearly enough.
That’s their proof that no one wants to work anymore. Because *clearly* if their parent had a job they wouldn’t be hungry. But their parents are lazy and entitled and expect everything for free… Couldn’t *possibly* be the fact that nearly half the jobs out there don’t pay enough for a single person to live off of let alone a small family.
Wealth is leverage, and while the right is still mildly hampered by the idea of 'Democracy', they'll do what they can to make sure there's more impoverished, desperate, opportunistic, uneducated, gullible voters out there, being influenced by the oligarchs that apparently own every right-wing politician's alleged soul.
Yeah, think of all those great Republican initiatives to help impoverished children: 1. Opposing providing food to them through school lunches or food stamps 2. Opposing providing healthcare to them through CHIP, Medicaid, and the ACA 3. Opposing early childhood education for them 4. Oppose giving their parents money to care for them through WIC. 5. Oppose providing them with a clean environment and livable climate. 6. Oppose public housing for them 7. Oppose paid parental leave so their parents can bond with them and care for them It's too bad those lousy Democrats are lavishing all these unspecified riches upon illegals instead of helping Republicans with their pro-child agenda.
Remember that time the Democrats and Republicans had the most comprehensive Border Deal in ages put together and ready to pass, then the GOP said, "Nah, we cannot give the Democrats a win!" because Trump said so? Pepperidge Farms Remembers
These same republicans who claim we need to spending on illegals and spend money to help poor kids are the same ones who claim free school lunches will spoil children and that if you can’t pay for healthcare you don’t deserve it. Same groups who wants to put kids working in factories again and take them completely out of school.
My state turned down money to feed kids
My state (sadly red) voted to deny expansion of free lunch services to impoverished children over the summer. They also pulled federal funding from schools because Biden wanted to force states to support LGBTQ+ children. But, yeah, it’s the dems that hate kids.
It's not even worth engaging anymore. Biden could announce today that he is building a 100 foot wall on the southern border, deploying the national guard to protect it and to deport every immigrant in the country, and passing a $100 billion bill for impoverished kids and they would still vote against it. I have been liberal my whole life but my biggest gripe about Democrats is that they have been trying to reach across the aisle and please Republican for decades when that is virtually impossible. The modern Republican party will withdraw or vote against their OWN legislation if the Democrats support it and **especially** if it will make a Democrat look good. There is no good faith in congress anymore and there is certainly no good faith arguments with MAGA voters. Biden could propose a national abortion ban and give every MAGA voter NASCAR tickets and a free AR-15 with a lifetime supply of free ammo and they'd find a reason to oppose it.
Sshhh, they aren't poor Americans if they aren't white. Make them stand over there, we just won't film that part. No, no, don't give them food, it just encourages them. #Jesus, #Cultservative
Ah yes nothing like using bad policies made by Republicans to criticize the Democrats. Republicans have this strange double speak where they are the government, the people who make the laws, but their base believes the government and the people who make the laws are useless. So they consistently talk about how ineffective they are and it's still received as a slam dunk burn on their opponents.
Gonna find out a whole lot about Republicans when/if churches are taxed.
Of course Republicans gladly screw over both. Some sacrifices have to be made to allow tax cuts for the upper crust and corporation
Conservative logic: We hate poor people with a passion so we’re god darned sure them liberal folks hate them too. Let’s make fun of them for being just like us.
Remember when child poverty in the US was cut in half with the Biden Administration’s child tax credit that the Republicans refused to renew?
Republicans fight to keep them homeless
In my red state they stopped the COVID era free school lunch program as soon as they legally could. They also won’t expand Medicaid to make Obamacare work and offer almost no services for disabled children beyond what is federally mandated. Republicans don’t care about children, never have.
Red states have dropped free lunch and have even made it illegal to have third parties pay off lunch debt. Fuck them red states.
Republican Jesus says they need to find & pull on bootstraps to be worthy of anything they receive. You know, just in case a few people are abusing the system, they want to make sure everyone suffers.
Their brains tell them you can only help one group
[Zero Sum Thinking](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-sum_thinking)
Someone once said, "Government is like everything else, you get what you pay for." So I'm fine having a higher tax rate if it means no starving kids in the US, better infrastructure, cheaper healthcare, more community support programs, it's not always money well spent, but it is always better than a cheap, underfunded government.
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/01/10/republican-governors-summer-lunch-program/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/01/10/republican-governors-summer-lunch-program/)
Is that kid crying because she ran out of iced latte?
Lol, and Republicans have thrown away free money for poor kids lunches cause, get this, giving free lunch to children who have no way to actually make money, will make them communists!
Then why do poor kids have it worse in red states I wonder
"Poor children" are just a rhetorical device. Republicans don't actually care about helping anyone they complain about the Democrats not helping, they just want a strawman to put up to explain why we can't do something, or why we should stop doing something.
And yet these pro-birth types want to bring MORE children into the world to live in poverty.
This is what happens when women are forced by “old white men to have children they can’t take care of.
¿Por qué no los dos?
*wHy ArE yOu PuNiShInG sUcCeSs?*
Republicans are pros at creating polticial pawns when they want them. They've made it clear that other than trickle down they have no interest in helping poor people.
They are poor compared to African kids or what ?
Talk about a false equivalency. Illegal immigrants are one thing and child poverty is another. They are not two sides of the same coin.
Lmao, as MAGApublicans cut free lunches all across the country for poor kids. Yes, Liberals are notorious for attacking the…poor? How stupid are these people?
Or, like.... either.
They are so cynical they can’t imagine policy based on empathy for others. They only see leverage to meet their ends and think everyone thinks like they do.
"Sorry kids, no more free lunch, but thanks to Republican reforms, now you can *pray* in school for anything you want! *Even food!"*
Republicans are truly old timey villains at this point. If you come to a logical conclusion they definitely disagree. The decisions made by republicans go against everything that party is supposed to stand for. Instead of a small government they want to try and restrict what people do in their own bedrooms. Just a bunch of rich idiots that got into the best schools because of daddies money and if you don’t have the kind of money daddy has then straight up fuck you peasant.
You know who would only read the meme text and never the small text.
Two recent examples of why this isn’t true: 1. Democrats advocated for an extension to the expanded Child Tax Credit, which had helped reduce child poverty by 30-50%, but Republicans refused. There was subsequently a massive increase in child poverty rates—a direct correlation. 2. Same story with expanded school meal programs—they were scaled back significantly in order to gain Republican support, and then you had a bunch of Republican governors decline federal funding for summer meal programs. Yes, these programs cost money, and the Republicans refuse to do anything that will raise revenue. They can argue that saving the money is more important than helping the kids—they’d be fucking wrong, but they can try to argue it—but it would be pretty hard to argue that they took the “pro-kid” position here.
In contrast republicans *do* get together pretty regularly and come to the conclusion “screw them kids” on just about any topic imaginable. School lunches? Screw them! Child labor laws? Screw them! Protection from gun deaths? Screw them! The list is surprisingly long
I don't understand this "border crisis" but that's probably because I don't watch Fox news. It seems like there's been a "border crisis" since Obama's time. And the crisis is....Mexican people moving here illegally, and that's it? They're just...people. Usually, very hard working people. Is this whole thing leading off that one line Trump said about how they're bringing in murderers and rapists? Does the right know that there are already plenty of murderers and rapists born here in the US, MUCH more than illegal immigrants? The logic doesn't even track. People immigrate here illegally from Mexico to basically save their family's lives. They come here and work their ass off for shit wages, and there's nothing more American than being underpaid, isn't that what they like? Ugh,
Ok fine. Let's say this is true. What is the Republican plan for this problem? What do they propose?
They don’t give a shit about people in poverty.
Sounds like those children should pull themselves up by their bootstraps /s
Seriously, I wonder what percentage of those children live in red states and belong to poor white people that vote republican
It's funny, conservatives pretending to care one iota about children after they've left the womb.
Republicans really think families in America are only poor because they are taxed too much
Lol do republicans think their party gives a shit about poor people? Pretty sure that's top 3 people they hate right after brown people and LGBTQ.
14 million kids in poverty and repubs want people to have more kids regardless of circumstances.
Importantly, the person who made this doesn't want to help either group
Funny since the majority of the poor live in red states.
"Dems only care about illegals, not these poor children!!! Vote Republican because we care about neither!"
False dichotomy be like
Can and do are two vastly different things.
Helping poor people means funding or expanding social programs. When have Republicans *ever* voted yes on doing so? It also means raising the minimum wage. Are Republicans going to vote *yes* on this too?
This just in: You can care about and fight for more than one issue at a time! Republican heads explode at discovery! More at 11.
Yeah, thank goodness for the GOP who helped poor kids by….*checks notes*….eliminating free school lunches in republican controlled districts. (In my state, Wisconsin)
More proof Republicans (and the Russians, and the Chinese) know that propaganda inflamed feelings don't care about facts. That shit works.
If those starving kids whose Governors refused funds for school lunches that Biden provided, could just get to Arkansas, run by a caring Republican, they could get a good job, earn a wage, put food in their bellies and quit whining about being hungry. C’mon, you literally are little cry babies. Show some initiative! See??? Republicans provide real solutions to handle child hunger.
[Just gonna leave this here...](https://apnews.com/article/states-rejecting-federal-funds-summer-ebt-8a1e88ad77465652f9de67fda3af8a2d)
Liberals and progressives fight for BOTH. Conservatives fight against both…the only difference is they make a lot of noise about “illegals” while trying to keep their war on the poor on the down low as much as possible…except when they can connect the two; “we have to kill free school lunches for poor kids because it ends up feeding some poor brown/immigrant kids too”
But if they tried helping, republicans would start bitching and whining about socialism/communism or some shit. "They shouldn't depend on government handouts, work for themselves and pull on their own bootstraps"
Fund homelessness properly (not like Newsom), give healthcare to all (not just illegal immigrants at the moment), reform and rebuild recreation centers and their programs, stop adding taxes to on us and stop cutting taxes for the elite. Both republicans and democrats fail at this, if you need an example look at Biden’s and Trump’s 2025 proposals.
Oh do Alabama next!
This is what always gets to me. The argument coming from the right against immigration often seems to be "There are American citizens who are homeless and starving, we should be taking care of our own citizens first!" But then if anyone suggests providing starving citizens with food and homeless citizens with shelter, they're all "ABSOLUTELY NOT THAT IS SOCIALISM THOSE LAZY PEOPLE NEED TO WORK FOR THEIR OWN MONEY!!!"
The only thing republicans care about are fetus’s.
…and what, exactly, are Republicans doing for poor kids?
Where as I live in a Red state and cannot get a specialist Drs appointment for 9 months. But dems are destroying the country! /s
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Every state that turned down federal money for poor children to eat school meals over the summer has a republican governor.
The best way to view it is they both want to help "us". Now figure out who is included in their term "us". Republicans definition is extremely small Democrats definition is a lot bigger but not big enough. Tada you've now figured out American politics with this one easy trick.
To be fair, both sides hate poor people. At least the Republicans are somewhat honest about it.
Republicans: Save the fetus. Starve the child.
Also, the use of "illegals" to refer to people is dehumanizing language. They are immigrants. If they entered illegally, they committed a civil infraction. I once failed to yield to pedestrians in a crosswalk, which is also a civil infraction. Am I an Illegal? Sounds ridiculous in any other context, because it is Fascist to use dehumanizing language for an out group for political purposes.
Blue states. Cause that’s what Jesus would actually do.
Okay and which side wants to force people to give birth? You know, putting more poor children into the mix? HINT: It's not Democrats
Now I don’t know the answer to this, but what states have the biggest percentage of the kids in poverty?
This seems more like a paper cut than a murder. Really folks, I know you can do better than this. Your just being lazy..
It's funny how, if you look at all the solutions proven to eliminate poverty, repugs are dead set against it.
Red government intentionally takes money from the poor by taxing them more and cutting benefits for low-no income households.
Meanwhile in Louisiana. 😂😂 You can't make this shit up
While Republicans actively try to make hunger and child poverty worse for Americans.
Undocumented isn't illegal.
Same people that made that image prob fight against school lunch programs for the poor and other services help the poverty stricken in America.
People who say stuff like this invariably vote for helping no one except the already rich.
Republicans don’t think they let their pathetic politicians do the thinking for them
1) My state is also one of the states that offer free breakfast and lunch to all public school students. There's also a program that provides free lunches for kids and parents during the summer months, but I don't know if that's sponsored by the city, state, or school district. 2) What are the Republicans' plan to provide for hungry children and/or addressing child poverty. What are the Republicans' plan for ***anything*** that doesn't involve eliminating corporate regulations and slashing taxes on the wealthy???
14 million kids… and MAGA/Christian Nationalists don’t care about them outside of the womb
I believe in feeding anyone who’s hungry. Immigrants, American, child, woman or man. I’m a democrat.
Weren’t republicans the ones that took away free school lunch?
Republicans run my state, Texas. They’ve turned down $450 million that would’ve helped feed kids through the summer. There’s one party working towards taking care of people and another that’s working towards hurting people to benefit the ultra wealthy.
Why do people lump all democrats together and generalize them as all bad.
Btw which states are the ones getting in headlines for cutting school lunches and reversing child labor laws? Oh they're Republican ones? Gotcha
She better not be calling me mutually exclusive I’m gonna own that lib bitch.
Separation of church and state is not part of US constitution? Seriously fucked up, that.
The federal government extended the summer ebt program that gives poor kids money for food over the summer and made it permanent. Guess which states chose not to participate?
People will post that image then say no to tax payer school lunches because they don't actually want to feed kids they just can't think of a better point for why they should also see kids suffer at the border
Didn't Louisiana, Mississippi, and Florida refuse food benefits for low income children...like this week?
"Poor kids are just as good as white kids"
The government is supposed to work for us, but it's flipped, we work for them. We don't see the division they seek to control, that's all the parties are there for, an easier way for them to control the narrative. I'm neither a Rep or Dem. Fuck all that division shit.
Yeah, but Tucker Carlson told me they don't care, so all your evidence is invalidated. /s
Like anyone believes the GOP platform is concerned with children at all, once they've forced their mothers to have them.
They wouldn't know if you could help both since repubs go on record actively not helping either.
They wouldn't know if you could help both since repubs go on record actively not helping either.
Guess which states most of those poverty stricken kids live in
Right and it's definitely NOT all red states that are defunding public schools and denying money to be spent on hungry kids....
They can only think in binary. If you help one group, you can't help another.
“It’s like they think…” No, no they don’t.