Professor Shelley Inglis|John Nichols

[image: image.png] opening thoughts:Scott Williams <www.facebook.com/scott.williams.291485?__cft__[0]=AZX_NVpVHFFd8OboAZgb-9PCOvV4a-TJifwzmS0xmuf9M1vhV6L20eVcaiD-UiTNqdd7MPjLJf9bo-s6g6gZ23pp_UNzmC-8K7kwCCfy1U04BCix6GWOK4ytY2Efdfokc7UT9p-o2SOS5zB856GmGaQ9-0XPWVLNjiICs19my6owtt0fOkGWV_S756V0OCOpbvk&__tn__=-UC%2CP-y-R> on SNAP For those cheering the spectacle of a government shutdown and the calculated strangulation of SNAP benefits, a small dose of reality may be in order. One in five American children (citizens of the richest empire in human history) subsist below the poverty line. Two and a half million have no home at all. Not because they failed, but because their “betters” did. Over eighty percent of food stamps distributed through SNAP go to households containing children, the elderly, or the disabled. More than half of all recipients are children. In any given month, nearly forty percent of the nation’s youth and one in eight senior citizens rely on welfare to eat. The beneficiaries, then, are not the indolent and undeserving of conservative mythology, but the defenseless at either end of life’s ledger: the very young and the very old…. part one: 10 effective things citizens can do to make change in addition to attending a protest *bio: Shelley Inglis is a Senior Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights (CGHR) at Rutgers University.* Until July 1, 2025, she was a Senior Policy Advisor with the Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance Bureau of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). *part two: on the shut down, on Zoran, the election in Ireland* John Nichols is the executive editor of *The Nation* Listen anytime to the podcast at www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238 <www.podomatic.com/podcasts/staff74238> podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/attitude-with-arnie-arnesen/id1634055179 tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie- <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Arnesen-p1711842/ <tunein.com/podcasts/News–Politics-Podcasts/Attitude-with-Arnie-Arnesen-p1711842/> Attitude with Arnie Arnesen, snap benefits, Shelley Inglis, Rutgers, protest, making change, John Nichols, The Nation, Zohran, Ireland, elections, Trump *KEEPING THE POT STIRRED SO SCUM DOESN’T RISE TO THE TOP* – Anonymous
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