[Link] Why Can’t You Buy Hot Meals With Food Stamps?

Read: 2/2/2022 www.vice.com

But they’re off-limits to people using food stamps. The reason is precisely that the food is warm and already prepared—a justification that’s often derided as cruel, anti-poor, and arbitrary.

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[Link] If Americans can’t have basic things like childcare, our democracy is a sham

Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

In 2014, Northwestern and Princeton researchers published a report statistically documenting how lawmakers do not listen or care about what most voters want, and instead mostly care about serving their big donors.

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[Link] Around the world, the disadvantaged have been left behind by politicians of all hues

Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Given the steep rise in economic inequality in many parts of the world since the 1980s, one might have expected to see increasing political demands for the redistribution of wealth and the return of class-based politics. This didn’t quite happen – or at least not straightforwardly.

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[Link] Telstra to make public pay phone calls around Australia free

Read: 3/8/2021 www.theguardian.com

Australians will be able to make free calls from public pay phones across the country under a new Telstra initiative.

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