He’s author of the new book, Poverty, by America. Well, today, we the spend the rest of the hour looking at how there can be so much poverty in the richest country in the world. That’s an average 500 deaths from poverty every day. The study linked 183,000 deaths in the United States in 2019 directly to poverty. This comes as a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA, published on Monday, found that poverty is the fourth leading cause of death in the United States, just behind heart disease, cancer and smoking.
Our proposal will examine wasteful Washington spending and executive overreach in all forms.ĪMY GOODMAN: The White House slammed Speaker McCarthy’s proposal, warning it would impose devastating cuts on families and take healthcare and food assistance away from millions of people. SPEAKER KEVIN McCARTHY: Before we borrow another dime, we owe it to our children to save money everywhere. McCarthy outlined his plan in a speech at the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street. McCarthy also pushed for tougher work requirements for recipients of SNAP - that’s the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program - and to expand domestic mining and fossil fuel production. Republican House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has proposed increasing the debt ceiling for a year in exchange for sweeping budget cuts that would likely result in less federal money for housing, education, healthcare and the environment. I’m Amy Goodman in New York, with Juan González in Chicago. AMY GOODMAN: This is Democracy Now!,, The War and Peace Report.
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