New benefits crackdown as disabled people may be offered vouchers instead of cash payments The crackdown may include receipts being required to claim money back from the state, according to The Telegrap h, while vouchers or treatment may be given instead of monthly cash payments. Mel Stride ... 04/28/2024 - 11:35 am | View Link
Doing This Can Cause You to Lose Your Social Security Benefits Getting a job could potentially cause your SSI benefits to end, according to the Social Security Administration. However, it depends on how much money you're making. Generally, SSI eligibility is for ... 04/27/2024 - 10:00 pm | View Link
Immigrant advocates tout new report showing benefits of state-funded health plans Immigrant rights advocates on Friday continued to push for one of their top budget priorities: full funding for state-run health care programs that benefit noncitizens, regardless of ... 04/26/2024 - 11:27 am | View Link
Texas HHS warns of scam targeting Lone Star card holders The Texas Department of Health and Human Services is warning Texans of a new phone scam that targets those Lone Star cards who receive SNAP and TANF benefits. Feeding Texas CEO Celia Cole speaks to ... 04/26/2024 - 7:07 am | View Link
The government can help people in need —and the Social Security Administration just proved it Rather than letting language get in the way, conservatives should begin to see programs such as SSI as sensible responses by the government to mitigate hardship, generally, and in particular as a way ... 04/26/2024 - 7:00 am | View Link
President Biden talked about the lows and highs of his life in an appearance designed to reintroduce him to an audience of millions. Via the NYTimes:
In a surprise interview on “The Howard Stern Show” that lasted for more than an hour, Mr. Stern, a skilled interviewer versed in the art of oversharing, repeatedly asked Mr.
Trump lickspittle Sen. Lindsey Graham blew off any concerns that The National Enquirer's David Pecker paid for catch-and-kill stories in order to help Trump's presidential campaign. I still want to know what Trump has got on Graham since he did his 180 back when Trump was running the first time.
Here's Graham's lame response when CNN's Dana Bash asked him about Pecker's testimony this week:
GRAHAM: Apparently, a lot of people do this, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Tiger Woods.
Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley refused to pull over for speeding and went home and called the police chief to quash the incident instead. That's a no-no.
Unfortunately for her (or fortunately for the rule of law), the entire incident was recorded on the officer's bodycam and now DA Doorley has to explain why she has such reckless disregard for the law, police officers, and common sense.
And although a Republican now (of course), Doorley has been a Democrat in the past.
Civil Rights icon Ruby Bridges is an integral part of U. S. history lessons in classrooms nationwide, given her status as the first Black child to integrate an elementary school in the South. But to the right-wing culture warriors behind efforts to ban books about American history—including systemic racism and discrimination against LGBTQ people—Bridges has become something else: a threat.
He is also pushing back against the fact that, through administrative actions and executive orders, Biden has made himself one of the most powerful presidents ever.