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âJust give people moneyâ: Study finds Covid survival checks reduced food insecurity, alleviated anxiety
âIt turns out, relieving a lot of everyday hardship can be done very simply and directly by giving poor people money and support. Who knew?â
A new study by researchers at the University of Michigan found that the direct payments Congress approved last December and this past Marchâtotaling $2,000 per eligible individualâhelped significantly reduce food shortages in households with children, lessen financial instability, and alleviate symptoms of anxiety and depression.
The results of the analysis (pdf), which draws upon household surveys conducted in recent months by the U.S. Census Bureau, were touted as further evidence that direct cash transfers are a highly effective way to combat material and emotional hardshipâan argument progressives have been vocally pushing since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
To some, the events of Jan. 6 — when thousands of Pro-Trump, “stop the steal” protestors stormed the United States Capitol building as Congress convened.
The Atlantic
Democrats Need to Choose a Path on Voting Rights
The people who need to mend their ways are not the supposedly complacent Democrats of the center but the overambitious faction of the activist left.
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Where Republicans control local power, they are building a new infrastructure of minority rule. They are gerrymandering districts, raising barriers to voting, biasing election administration, and politicizing election certification. There is nothing secret about this effort; everybody can see it happening.
Yet the members of the threatened, narrow Democratic majorities in Congress the people who might seem to have the strongest motives to act seem too paralyzed to respond. The 118th Congress has expended nearly a quarter of its term. It has enacted one huge spending bill already and seems poised to enact another. The Democratic majorities have flexed muscle and are attempting to jam through a commission to investigate the January 6 attack
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