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3 days agoYoung people receive social security benefits too, like SSDI and survivor payments. I’ve been on SSDI myself since before I was 30 years old.
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Okay, but consider the memes we will feast on if Obama is Speaker while Trump is still president
/joking
My state has this policy, too. I wonder if it is something we can change
111·18 days agoI am not for the death penalty in any capacity. However, this woman kept trying to murder people while in prison, although in far less horrific and dramatic ways than she murdered Colleen. I imagine the isolation she experienced on death row had an effect on the murder attempt? She needed to be in a psychiatric hospital
(I thought I had read elsewhere that she had two murder attempts on fellow inmates, one involving a romantic partner, but Wikipedia only has one attempt so I’ll leave it at that)
This happens even in states that have enshrined abortion in their constitution, like Montana. Where I lived in Montana we had to drive 2.5 hours one way for the nearest maternity center. It may absolutely be the case that abortion bans are causing these maternity centers to close in many areas, but where I lived it was happening because the rising costs of Healthcare, and the costs to entice doctors to “the frontier”, were too high for keeping the local (and quite poor) population safe and healthy
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/mt-supreme-court/1489482.html
This is the law that protected access to abortion
Honestly $200 extra a month might help ease the burden on our loved ones, that’s only two weeks of groceries for a lot of households right now. Just a personal example, the entirety of my grandmother’s benefits goes to her housing (high cola). My uncle pays her medical bills, and he’s the only one who has any money to spare. My sibling buys her groceries. I buy her clothing and other necessities as I can, but I’m essentially in the same financial situation she is. The rest of her family is dead, and in 3-5 years she may only have my sibling left to help her.
So, yes, Bernie might be slapping a bandaid on this elderly poverty problem with a possibly easy win, but it’s a starting point for further taxing the billionaires. And if we’re lucky the momentum from that will also fix education, medical access, housing, and the rest of what we know we need as a healthy society