The pain is acute because price increases are outpacing wage gains for most American households, especially those with lower incomes. The gap between wage growth for the most affluent & least affluent households has been larger this year than at any time in the past decade, according to Bank of America Institute, which uses proprietary data from the bank’s enormous customer base.

#Trump #economy #inflation #affordability #CostOfLiving #recession #trumpcession #WealthGap #idiocracy #kakistocracy

#Trump admin renews #SCOTUS appeal to keep full #SNAP payments frozen

The request is the latest in a flurry of legal activity over how a program that helps buy groceries for 42 million Americans should proceed during the historic US govt #shutdown. Lower courts have ruled that the govt must keep FULL payments flowing, & SCOTUS asked the admin to respond after an appeals court ruled against it again late Sunday.

#law #Plutocracy #hunger #poverty #WealthGap #FoodStamps
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How the #Trump Administration Is Giving Even More #TaxBreaks to the #Wealthy

The #Treasury Department & #IRS are issuing rules that provide hundreds of billions of dollars in tax relief to big #corporations & the #ultrarich.

#law #SeparationOfPowers #aristocracy #plutocracy #WealthGap #USpol
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Heartless #billionaire assholes

#Trump admin seeks to halt #SNAP #food #aid payments after a #CourtOrder

Trump’s admin asked a federal appeals court Friday to block a judge’s order that it distribute November’s full monthly SNAP benefits amid a #US govt #shutdown, even as at least some states said they were moving quickly to get the money to people.

#law #judiciary #FoodStamps #hunger #poverty #WealthGap #SocialCleansing #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #EconomicDiscrimination
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