[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] Company Is Very Sorry It Made Teachers Scramble for $1 Bills at Ice Rink

Read: 14/12/2021 www.vice.com

CU Mortgage Direct donated the pile of money that educators had to scoop up in a “Dash for Cash'' competition on center ice during a Sioux Falls Stampede game Saturday—which has since been immortalized in a viral video that stoked outrage across the internet.

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[Link] New York City’s Billionaires’ Row Just Got Its Very Own Homeless Shelter

Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com

Residents of Manhattan’s so-called Billionaires’ Row—a smattering of ultra-posh, super-expensive skyscrapers abutting Central Park—just might have to encounter poor people after all.

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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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