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Child poverty in the United States just more than doubled. You can thank Joe Manchin. ( www.motherjones.com )

The United States’ poverty rate experienced its largest one-year jump on record last year, with the rate among children more than doubling from 2021’s historic low of 5.2 percent to 12.4 percent according to new numbers from the US Census Bureau out today. They’re the latest data to reflect the devastating effects...

ElHexo ,

Senators need 60 votes to do just about anything in the Senate but change the rules. That takes only 51 votes.

What can we do Jack, if we had to change the rules of the senate to allow majority votes then we might be able to do something

ElHexo ,

There’s literally positions in Congress for party members called a whip for enforcing party discipline

Newest "anti-woke" tantrum: Right-wingers don't think kids of different races can be friends ( www.salon.com )

Considering how rapidly the right’s “war on woke” is expanding, it was perhaps inevitable: Self-identified “mama bears” on a Texas school board are angry that a classroom had a poster showing people of different races holding hands. Last week, the school board in Conroe, Texas, a small city north of Houston, turned the...

ElHexo ,

In practice there’s still extreme racial segregation across a lot of US schools. I recall a good article on the NY school system but can’t find it.

ElHexo ,

Send in the national guard Biden
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