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Kids & the low income families will go hungry, & farmers will suffer, as the USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools.

The #USAD has axed 2 programs that gave schools & food banks💰to buy food from local farms & ranchers ~$660M that schools & child care FACs were counting on to purchase food from nearby farms through the Local Food for Schools Coop AGT Program in 2025 has been canceled.

Please continue to call your Senators & Reps.
#Austerity #Hunger #USPol
politico.com/news/2025/03/10/u

“House Republicans just unveiled their 99-pg budget, & the numbers don’t lie, it’s packed with cuts that hurt everyday Americans.

$15B cut from veterans’ HC
$8B slashed from Medicaid hospitals
$1.5B less for mothers & kids’ nutrition
No new BP hiring
No increase for cybersecurity

Rural America, working families, vets—they’re all getting hit. Ask Congress: Which of these cuts are they proud of?”
-R Saddler

Please call your GOP Senators & Reps.

#Budget #USPol #Austerity
docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/2

"Washington has become Nero’s court, with🚨an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, & a jester high on ketamine.”

French Senator Claude Malhuret this week delivered a blistering rebuke of Trump & Musk, & he compared their reign to that of an infamously debauched Roman emperor.

Dems should invite Malhuret to Congress to show them how to push back against #TrumpMusk.

#Stagflation #Austerity #Recession #Tariffs #DOGE #Firings #Resist #USPol

youtube.com/watch?v=XcwOPNo8qr

msn.com/en-us/news/politics/a-

DOGE significant budget cuts: sets limit for BLM firefighters' credit cards & travel credit cards at $1, making it impossible for them to buy supplies or travel to wildfire sites.

The Trump admin froze the disbursement of ~$3B in wildfire mitigation-related funds -includes things like clearing dead branches & undergrowth that can help wildfires spread quickly if not removed ahead of time.

#Musk finds diabolical ways to sicken & kill ppl.
#DOGE #USPol #Austerity #USPol alternet.org/doge-firefighters

Alternet.org · 'Really stupid': Musk’s DOGE cuts federal government firefighters' credit card limit to $1By Carl Gibson

The National Audit Office thinks around half of England's councils may plunge into bankruptcy in the next couple of years unless there is concerted political action to avoid the crisis.

This has been a slow-burning, Tory engineered crisis & its quite possible that it will now blow up in Labour's face; it isn't inevitable but given Labour's continued austerity-based policy logic I've little confidence their new funding package will solve the problem!

#austerity #politics
theguardian.com/society/2025/f

The Guardian · Almost half of England’s councils ‘could face bankruptcy over £4.6bn deficit’By Richard Partington

At #Trump's behest, top LTs on his campaign threatened NH GOP officials that they could kiss the primary goodbye, *&* they could expect the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard to lose its funding.

Bc: of a subsequently scrapped debate b/w DeSantis & Haley -set to air on CNN +the reg. scheduled one on WMUR, the only local news station in NH.

Shipyard: in ME, but a major employer in NH. Now: under a hiring freeze.

Mobster rule is harmful, destructive, & deadly.

#USPol #Austerity straightfromthehut.substack.co

StraightFromThe Hut · Trump and the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard: How an NH Primary Debate Led to a ThreatBy Jake Lahut

"600 layoffs at Tinker AFB are reportedly set to occur in the morning with no warning & no plan. This isn’t “efficiency” it’s dismantling livelihoods and endangering our state’s & country’s future. Unacceptable"
-OK ST Rep Dollens

Weakening the US military is another gift to Putin. Dismantling the federal govt, esp. the miliary & law enforcement imperils #NationalSecurity #PublicSafety & the #Economy.

#Firings #DOGE #Military #Austerity #Resist #USPol

thisistopeka.com/2025/02/break

This is Topeka · Breaking: 600 Civilian Employees at Tinker Air Force Base Set for Termination Amid Workforce Shakeup - This is TopekaBy Jeffery W. Fogg IIFebruary 23, 2025
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"The demise of the German economy has exposed the underlying issue of a ‘dual labour’ market with a whole layer of part-time temporary employees for German businesses on very low wages. About one-quarter of the German workforce now receive a ‘low income’ wage, using a common definition of one that is less than two-thirds of the median."
thenextrecession.wordpress.com 🧵

Guilherme Klein Martins (to few people's surprise, surely) argues that austerity has a longer shadow than economists predicted:

Austerity is not a precursor to long-term prosperity - its costs outweigh any proposed benefits;

Its shock/sudden fiscal adjustments are damaging in themselves;

Long-term growth is a lot more important than short-term deficit reduction for future prosperity.

None of this is necessarily news, but its worth reiterating!

#austerity #economics

theconversation.com/in-the-str

The ConversationIn the struggle to get Britain working, the long shadow of austerity could be part of the problem
More from The Conversation UK

“Kid-starver Starmer doesn’t bother to tell suspended MPs he’s stabbed them in the back”

by Maryam Jameela in The Canary @thecanaryuk

@UKLabour

“[..] Starmer is adding insult to injury by punishing those who criticise his government. As usual, it’s two women of colour on the line for defending Palestine, & hungry children.

The nasty party’s back.”

thecanary.co/uk/analysis/2025/

Canary · Kid-starver Starmer doesn't bother to tell suspended MPs he's stabbed them in the backAs usual, it's two women of colour on the line in Labour: Zarah Sultana and Apsana Begum - and they only found out by reading the Mirror