Trump may redefine poverty, cutting Americans from welfare rolls
Source: Bloomberg
The Trump administration may alter the way it determines the national poverty threshold, putting Americans living on the margins at risk of losing access to welfare programs.
The possible move would involve changing how inflation is calculated in the official poverty measure, the White House Office of Management and Budget said in a regulatory filing on Monday. The formula has been used for decades to determine whether people qualify for certain federal programs and benefits.
The measure, first set in the 1960s, is calculated at three times the cost of a minimum food diet and adjusted every year as prices rise. In 2018, a family of four making no more than $25,900 was considered impoverished. The figure determines eligibility for a wide swath of federal, state, and non-profit programs, including Medicaid and food stamps.
By changing the index the government uses to calculate how much the cost of living rises or falls, the poverty level could rise at a slower rate.
Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-may-redefine-poverty-cutting-americans-from-welfare-rolls/ar-AAAYIiJ?li=BBnbfcN
Yavin4
(35,432 posts)Let alone a family of four.
cstanleytech
(26,280 posts)on where you live. $27,000+ is the average income in this area & many can survive & even live a little on that amount.
I'm in a rural LCOL area though, not an urban area.
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,167 posts)Imagine living on THAT!
louis-t
(23,288 posts)in taxpayer money to fly to his resort to play golf.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)area51
(11,905 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)are also cutting Medicare,Medicaid,Social security, and all Heath care from trying to destroy the ACA, yet claim they aren't. they also want to cut the wealthy.s taxes more, and making us pay for them , again.
C Moon
(12,212 posts)raccoon
(31,110 posts)Jedi Guy
(3,185 posts)Those seven words could sum up this trainwreck of an administration.
marble falls
(57,067 posts)"Qrange Shitgibbon".
Liberalhammer
(576 posts)But my guess the redneck rightwing welfare queens will still vote for him while they starve.
infullview
(978 posts)anyone that voted for tRump in a low income bracket has already qualified themselves as dumber than a bag of rocks.
Yavin4
(35,432 posts)Immigrants, African Americans, Liberals, Feminists, Muslims, etc.
That's the beauty of Republican strategy.
infullview
(978 posts)Perseus
(4,341 posts)so they will buy it.
underpants
(182,743 posts)Bayard
(22,048 posts)Just more thinning of the herd?
Skittles
(153,142 posts)it's Magat "winning"
lark
(23,090 posts)??? Please tell me they can, this will cause deaths if it goes through.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)marble falls
(57,067 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)Between this and all of the other measures he's trying to foist upon people living on the margins, does he truly NOT see what this kind of action will result in, in the cost of human lives ?
I truly hate this man.