Knight
Well-known Member
This headline about loss soon to be felt by native born Americans bothers me.
Expanded pandemic-era food benefit will soon expire, leaving seniors vulnerable
Fri, 30 July 2021, 1:09 pm
The drop for many [households] will be quite steep,” AARP Foundation President Lisa Marsh Ryerson told Yahoo Money. “Any change will have a direct impact on older adults’ financial situation and budgeting and their ability to secure essentials, and certainly food is an essential.”
The rollback in benefits means that some individuals will see their financial aid dramatically drop from as much as $234 each month down to $16, the minimum payment for a single-person household pre-pandemic, according to the AARP, with the reduction increasing for larger low-income households.
https://www.yahoo.com/money/food-benefit-will-soon-expire-leaving-seniors-vulnerable-200956411.html
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This headline not easy for me. I'm of the mindset of taking care of Americans 1st.
Administration spending $60 million per week to shelter unaccompanied minors
With a record number of unaccompanied minors arriving at the border in the past several weeks, HHS quickly filled the 7,700 available beds in its network of permanent shelters, where the cost of caring for a child is about $290 daily and capacity has been reduced by covid protocols.
The administration has raced to set up at least 10 large emergency facilities, creating 16,000 temporary beds for migrant children in convention centers, converted oil worker camps and on military bases. About 8,500 children are living at these pop-up sites, and 4,000 more are waiting to be transferred from cramped border facilities.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...4eec3a-97bd-11eb-8e42-3906c09073f9_story.html
Expanded pandemic-era food benefit will soon expire, leaving seniors vulnerable
Fri, 30 July 2021, 1:09 pm
The drop for many [households] will be quite steep,” AARP Foundation President Lisa Marsh Ryerson told Yahoo Money. “Any change will have a direct impact on older adults’ financial situation and budgeting and their ability to secure essentials, and certainly food is an essential.”
The rollback in benefits means that some individuals will see their financial aid dramatically drop from as much as $234 each month down to $16, the minimum payment for a single-person household pre-pandemic, according to the AARP, with the reduction increasing for larger low-income households.
https://www.yahoo.com/money/food-benefit-will-soon-expire-leaving-seniors-vulnerable-200956411.html
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This headline not easy for me. I'm of the mindset of taking care of Americans 1st.
Administration spending $60 million per week to shelter unaccompanied minors
With a record number of unaccompanied minors arriving at the border in the past several weeks, HHS quickly filled the 7,700 available beds in its network of permanent shelters, where the cost of caring for a child is about $290 daily and capacity has been reduced by covid protocols.
The administration has raced to set up at least 10 large emergency facilities, creating 16,000 temporary beds for migrant children in convention centers, converted oil worker camps and on military bases. About 8,500 children are living at these pop-up sites, and 4,000 more are waiting to be transferred from cramped border facilities.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...4eec3a-97bd-11eb-8e42-3906c09073f9_story.html
