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President Donald Trump departs after delivering remarks at the David S. Mack Center for Training and Intelligence on Aug. 14, 2026, in Garden City, New York. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)

Trump's weird war against the states

Heather Digby Parton
US comedian Michael Che (ALEX EDELMAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Che rails at SNAP freeze: "F**ked up"

Alex Galbraith
A grocery store with sign in the window accepting Electronic Benefit Transfer cards and food stamps in St. Paul, Minnessotta. (Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Stop asking who’s “winning” the shutdown

Chauncey DeVega
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)

MAGA salivates at cutting food stamps

Sophia Tesfaye
Volunteers hand out food during an aid distribution event. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Welfare reform's cruel Southwest failure

Eli Hager - ProPublica
Joe Manchin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty images)

"Welfare" is not a dirty word

Thom Hartmann - Independent Media Institute
Joe Manchin (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty images)

Manchin spouts billionaire propaganda

Thom Hartmann - Independent Media Institute
Brett Favre (Nick Cammett/Diamond Images/Getty Images)

Favre caught up in welfare fraud case

Jon Skolnik
Police Officer figurine (Getty Images)

The real history of "defund the police"

Paul Rosenberg
Poorly Understood: What America Gets Wrong About Poverty (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/Oxford University Press)

Welfare fraud is actually rare

Mark Robert Rank, Lawrence M. Eppard, Heather E. Bullock
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)

How AI algorithms punish the poor

Michele Gilman - The Conversation
Donald Trump (Getty Images)

Judge blocks Trump's immigration policy

Matthew Rozsa
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How corporate welfare hurts you

Robert Reich - RobertReich.org
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
(AP/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

How social insurance became "welfare"

Theodore R. Marmor - Niskanen Center
(Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How Blue States help Red States

Robert Reich
Mitch McConnell (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

Now Mitch wants massive budget cuts

Heather Digby Parton
(AP/Robert F. Bukaty)

Do immigrants scam public benefits?

Kristie De Peña
A soybean farmer in southern Minnesota. (AP/Photo Montage by Salon)

Whites support welfare — for themselves

Chauncey DeVega
(Getty/mihailomilovanovic)

Trump ramps up war on the poor

Chauncey DeVega
(AP/Erik Schelzig)

Beyond the "work requirements" sham

Amanda Marcotte
Grover Cleveland; Ronald Reagan (AP/Getty/Michael Evans)

Grover Cleveland's big breakthrough

Matthew Rozsa
(Getty/LightFieldStudios)

An empty defense of Harvest Boxes

Jeremy Binckes
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