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Topic: social safety net

People gather in Miami to protest social safety net cuts by the Trump administration. (Jesus Olarte/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Privatizing Social Security is back

Heather Digby Parton
President Donald Trump arrives at the "One, Big, Beautiful Event" in the East Room of the White House on June 26, 2025. (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP via Getty Images)

Trump's "big, beautiful bill" is poison

Chauncey DeVega
Former President Donald Trump visits the Versailles restaurant in Little Havana after being arraigned at the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. United States Federal Courthouse on June 13, 2023 in Miami, Florida. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

GOP cuts make Trump touch the third rail

Heather Digby Parton
Donald Trump on a Twenty Dollar Bill (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Beware the new "Trump bucks" distraction

Chauncey DeVega
U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA), flanked by Rep. Jeff Hurd (R-CO), Rep. Lisa McClain (R-MI), Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) and Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill on January 22, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Kent Nishimura/Getty Images)

GOP budget "just the first set of cuts"

Chauncey DeVega
People attend a rally to protest the death of Jordan Neely, a homeless man who was choked to death on the subway, May 5, 2023, in Washington Square Park, New York City, New York. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

The politics of disposability

Chauncey DeVega
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) speaks to supporters of former U.S. President Donald Trump at the Banks County Dragway on March 26, 2022 in Commerce, Georgia. (Megan Varner/Getty Images)

How to weaponize Republicans' propaganda

Chauncey DeVega
California Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during a press conference at The Unity Council on May 10, 2021 in Oakland, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Calif.'s new safety net for the homeless

Angela Hart - KFF Health News
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Why Americans can't keep nice things

Chauncey DeVega
In this April 7, 2020 photo, voters observe social distancing guidelines as they wait in line to cast ballots in the presidential primary election in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

COVID exposes gaps in social safety net

Paul Shafer - The Conversation
President Bush signs the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 in the Oval Office after the House passed the $700 billion financial bailout bill at the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 3, 2008. | US President Donald Trump addresses the nation from the Oval Office about the widening coronavirus crisis on March 11, 2020 in Washington, DC. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak/Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images)

Late capitalism primed us for pandemic

Bob Hennelly
A sign alerting customers about SNAP food stamps benefits is displayed at a Brooklyn grocery store on December 5, 2019 in New York City, United States. (Photo by Scott Heins/Getty Images)

New SNAP rule will punish the hungry

Jim Pugh - In These Times
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Integrating social safety net in prison

Ebony Slaughter-Johnson - Independent Media Institute
A woman and her daughter shop for groceries using Food Stamps. (Getty/Andrew Burton)

Food stamp office cut by 95 percent

Igor Derysh
Jazmine Headley, center, joins attorney Brian Neary and her mother, Jacqueline Jenkins, outside a courthouse in Trenton, N.J. (AP/Mike Catalini)

How we punish working mothers

Amanda Marcotte
Mitch McConnell (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Now Mitch wants massive budget cuts

Heather Digby Parton
A soybean farmer in southern Minnesota. (AP/Photo Montage by Salon)

Whites support welfare — for themselves

Chauncey DeVega
(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)

Trump wants to end welfare as we know it

Ebony Slaughter-Johnson - Independent Media Institute
(AP/Erik Schelzig)

Beyond the "work requirements" sham

Amanda Marcotte
Paul Ryan; Paul Ryan (Getty Images)

Ryan's parting gift: More tax cuts

Sophia Tesfaye
A woman and her daughter shop for groceries using Food Stamps. (Getty/Andrew Burton)

Ban the box: But fix food stamps

Amanda Marcotte
Paul Ryan; Mitch McConnell; Grenfell Tower (AP/J. Scott Applewhite/Manuel Balce Ceneta/Getty/Leon Neal/Salon)

No taxes? It all burns down

Lucian K. Truscott IV

The battle of the budget

Carrie Sheffield
President Donald Trump speaks to a meeting of the National Governors Association, Monday, Feb. 27, 2017, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP)

Trump's anti-populist budget

Simon Maloy
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