When the economy gets trashed, because of the Great Recession, because Wall Street looted the economy, because of unbelievable tax favoritism in the Tax Code, and as a result of those very painful countrywide phenomena that we saw, families have to go on to food stamps in order to continue to eat and feed their children, to take a look at that and say that the problem is the food stamps to me is very much at odds with reality.
Whitehouse criticizes blaming food stamps for economic issues caused by the Great Recession.
Share
More from Sheldon Whitehouse
The fossil fuel industry and their allies bought their way into the Trump White House with hundreds of millions of dollars in political donations.
And when we have more clarity on that they’ll be back-and-forth to try to resolve those issues.
The fossil fuel-captured EPA’s decision to end its regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from power plants is a tragic and expensive mistake.
Those are the things we can do if you send Josh Turek to the Senate.
Other voices in this conversation
