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As Congress debates increasing work requirements fo stanley cup r safety-net programs, new research from the Brookings Institution shows just how many Americans are dependent on that safety net.A stagnation of incomes across the board, coupled with an expansion of Medicaid and othe stanley puodelis r health-insurance payments, has helped the middle class benefit from so-called wealth redistribution just as much as the poorest Americans. In 2014, the middle 60 percent of Americans accounted for 46.8 percent of federal aid offered to people who qualify for such help, Brookings found. The poorest 20 percent accounted for 47.9 percent of these transfers. They include programs like SNAP formerly called food stamps , Medicaid and cost-sharing elements of the Affordable Care Act. America is nearing peak income inequality 01:15 That s the most recent year for which comprehensive data is available, but the trend has been visible since about 1990, the analysis shows. The culprit In a term: health care. As costs of medical care have continued to march upward, the safety net has gotten bigger, modestly, to subsidize some of them. stanley cup Medicaid expanded in the 1990s and again under the Affordable Care Act, which also created subsidies for middle-income people to buy health insurance. Medicare Part D, a pro Ezzh Dems Push Back On Rangel
Ratcheting up a growing controversy over how the Obama Administration enforces civil rights and voting rights laws, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights said today it has evidence of possible unequal administration of justice within the Justice Department, citing testimony that revealed widespread, pervasive hostility against discriminati kubki stanley on and voter intimidation claims by whites.In a sharply worded letter to senior Justice Department official Thomas Perez, who heads the Civil Rights Division, the commission said it had evidence raising serious concerns about whether the department s policies are being pursued in a race-neutral fashion. The controversy erupted after the Obama Administration dropped most of a federal lawsuit against members of the New Black Panther Party, who were videotaped allegedly intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place on Election Day in November 2008. The B stanley termosy ush Administration in January 2009 filed suit against three of the members and the New Black Panther Party, but the Obama Administration changed course four months later and dropped the complaint against all but one member, who was wielding a nightstick at the polli stanley quencher ng place. And it only sought a narrow injunction against him, banning him from Philadelphia polling places until 2012. A Justice Department spokeswoman said the top career attorney in the Civil Rights Division conducted a thorough review and determined the facts only supported c
As Congress debates increasing work requirements fo stanley cup r safety-net programs, new research from the Brookings Institution shows just how many Americans are dependent on that safety net.A stagnation of incomes across the board, coupled with an expansion of Medicaid and othe stanley puodelis r health-insurance payments, has helped the middle class benefit from so-called wealth redistribution just as much as the poorest Americans. In 2014, the middle 60 percent of Americans accounted for 46.8 percent of federal aid offered to people who qualify for such help, Brookings found. The poorest 20 percent accounted for 47.9 percent of these transfers. They include programs like SNAP formerly called food stamps , Medicaid and cost-sharing elements of the Affordable Care Act. America is nearing peak income inequality 01:15 That s the most recent year for which comprehensive data is available, but the trend has been visible since about 1990, the analysis shows. The culprit In a term: health care. As costs of medical care have continued to march upward, the safety net has gotten bigger, modestly, to subsidize some of them. stanley cup Medicaid expanded in the 1990s and again under the Affordable Care Act, which also created subsidies for middle-income people to buy health insurance. Medicare Part D, a pro Ezzh Dems Push Back On Rangel
Ratcheting up a growing controversy over how the Obama Administration enforces civil rights and voting rights laws, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights said today it has evidence of possible unequal administration of justice within the Justice Department, citing testimony that revealed widespread, pervasive hostility against discriminati kubki stanley on and voter intimidation claims by whites.In a sharply worded letter to senior Justice Department official Thomas Perez, who heads the Civil Rights Division, the commission said it had evidence raising serious concerns about whether the department s policies are being pursued in a race-neutral fashion. The controversy erupted after the Obama Administration dropped most of a federal lawsuit against members of the New Black Panther Party, who were videotaped allegedly intimidating voters at a Philadelphia polling place on Election Day in November 2008. The B stanley termosy ush Administration in January 2009 filed suit against three of the members and the New Black Panther Party, but the Obama Administration changed course four months later and dropped the complaint against all but one member, who was wielding a nightstick at the polli stanley quencher ng place. And it only sought a narrow injunction against him, banning him from Philadelphia polling places until 2012. A Justice Department spokeswoman said the top career attorney in the Civil Rights Division conducted a thorough review and determined the facts only supported c