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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSPLC: 17,000 people in Arkansas lose Medicaid coverage due to work requirements
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To read more:
https://www.splcenter.org/news/2018/12/17/splc-17000-people-arkansas-lose-medicaid-coverage-due-work-requirements
Interesting how Trump supporting states are engaged in a race to the bottom in so many ways.
akraven
(1,975 posts)They speak truth. Morris Dees was awesome. Got to meet him once.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Sad that so many Trump supporters act and vote against themselves. GOP controlled states are obsessed with attacking the poor and many poor white GOP voters go along with the attacks.
akraven
(1,975 posts)guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And writing textbooks to convey the conservative view.
akraven
(1,975 posts)They got tired of mom saying "look it up"!
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)The library was a huge resource for us.
In secondary school, we used Zinn's A Peoples History of the US.
akraven
(1,975 posts)I grew up on Encyclopedia Brittanica - dad got me the whole set when I was 9!
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Weight lifting, and other things.
akraven
(1,975 posts)It got drowned in a hurricane. Long ago and far. far away. I still miss it!
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And I was being a bit funny. It is an excellent resource, but internet access is far easier.
akraven
(1,975 posts)Longtime lurker reporting for duty finally!
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)what with the slow motion implosion of Trump and the GOP.
akraven
(1,975 posts)Dems WILL save this great nation. Hanging in there works.
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Great for a curriculum I bet
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)akraven
(1,975 posts)She ALWAYS challenged her teachers on various points!
hatrack
(59,574 posts)Merry Christmas, everybody!
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And low wage non-union jobs.
standingtall
(2,785 posts)because they don't fear losing elections. In Kentucky Matt Bevin is deeply unpopular over this sort of thing. One poll had him with just a 29% approval rating, but watch when he is up against a Democrat in 2019 he will get reelected, because red state Trump supporters are idiots. There I said it.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And, much as I would like to argue, I cannot.