Post AyV0JFYWLUSNeSN8jo by Nonilex@masto.ai
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(DIR) Post #AyV0JFYWLUSNeSN8jo by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-23T13:28:19Z
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This is crazy.#Trump Admin to Stop Measuring #FoodInsecurityThe move strips the government of its main gauge of #hunger in America, & will impede efforts to track the impact of #aid cuts [that’s the plan].#PublicHealth #Health #law #Trump #SocialCleansing #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/us/politics/trump-hunger-report-data.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
(DIR) Post #AyV0WTcRN0p124Vqgy by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-23T13:30:41Z
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Two months after pushing through #Congress the largest #FoodStamp cuts in the program’s history, the #Trump admin has canceled the government’s annual report measuring household #FoodInsecurity.The move by the #Agriculture Dept strips the #government of its main gauge of Americans’ ability to access adequate meals, & will impede researchers’ efforts to track the coming #cuts in #nutritional #aid.#Health #law #Trump #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
(DIR) Post #AyV0m21xi81q6NrqJE by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-23T13:33:08Z
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The department’s report has been published every year for 3 decades, & grew in part out of battles in the 1980s over President Ronald Reagan’s statements disputing that the #US had a #hunger problem.The most recent report found that in 2023, 13.5% of households, w/ 47M people, were #FoodInsecure, meaning that during some portion of the year, not every member of household had access to enough #food for a healthy lifestyle.#law #Trump #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
(DIR) Post #AyV0sulP7zV3agP9Hc by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-23T13:34:43Z
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The #Agriculture Department said in a statement that the report had become “overly politicized, & upon subsequent review, is unnecessary to carry out the work of the department.”🤯The department will issue a final report next month covering 2024, based on a survey from last year, but will cease fielding future surveys, according to the statement.#PublicHealth #hunger #FoodInsecurity #law #Trump #SocialCleansing #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
(DIR) Post #AyV0zOAmhJ4KXWMa12 by timo21@mastodon.sdf.org
2025-09-23T13:35:47Z
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@Nonilex It's the bizzaro world version of the project management consultant mantra: 'If something can't be measured, it can't be managed'. Except this is in reverse. Purposely not measuring so there can be no management. It's the same as in his first term when they quit tracking COVID, to keep the numbers down.
(DIR) Post #AyV1C9B9kwMfnjcXui by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-23T13:38:10Z
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In a sharp break with precedent, #Trump has aggressively contested sources of government #data that he thinks casts his policies in a negative light. Last month, after a weak #jobs report, he fired the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor #Statistics, claiming with no evidence that the data was “rigged.”#PublicHealth #Health #hunger #FoodInsecurity #law #SocialCleansing #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
(DIR) Post #AyV1EodYaS7exbB3aa by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-23T13:38:43Z
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The #Agriculture Dept report, Household #FoodSecurity in the #UnitedStates, quantifies the share of households considered “#FoodInsecure” & “very low food secure,” a subset with a more severe designation of need that applied to 5.1% of households in 2023. It analyzes those categories by #state, #race & #ethnicity. Rates are much higher among #Black & #Latino households than among #white households.#PublicHealth #Health #hunger #law #Trump #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy
(DIR) Post #AyV1WLc3ElnK9hphei by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-23T13:41:47Z
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The report also includes… #data on #children & the #elderly.The #Agriculture Dept’s statement attacked the #FoodInsecurity report as “rife with inaccuracies, wrong metrics, zero accountability, & a massive drive for bigger & larger” government programs.Elaine Waxman, an expert on methods of measuring food insecurity at the Urban Institute, a Washington research group, said in an interview that “none of that [statement] is accurate.”#law #Trump #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination
(DIR) Post #AyV1mG49cy8daOZ4Lo by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-23T13:44:39Z
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She added: “It is highly respected. It has well-validated questions. In no way does that reflect the view of anybody who works with the #data. That is completely a pretext for eliminating data that can point out problems.”The report was especially useful during the #coronavirus #pandemic, Waxman said, when it found that #FoodInsecurity stayed flat in 2020 despite a huge loss of jobs. Researchers credited the outpouring of government #aid….#law #Trump #SocialCleansing #EconomicDiscrimination
(DIR) Post #AyV1wMMv376g1s9tVg by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-23T13:46:35Z
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The signature domestic #policy bill that #Trump signed into #law in July cut $187 billion from #FoodStamps over the next decade, & the Congressional Budget Office estimated that about 4 million people would lose some or all of their assistance. That is about 10% of those currently enrolled. #PublicHealth #Health #hunger #FoodInsecurity #SocialCleansing #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
(DIR) Post #AyV29kE5etDRmqPYyu by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-09-23T13:49:00Z
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The #law greatly expanded work requirements for people receiving #FoodStamps & shifted significant costs to #states, giving them new incentives to reduce #aid. Throughout the debate, #nutrition advocates warned that those changes could increase #FoodInsecurity. But without the report, it will be much harder to know.“Not publishing the numbers is going to hide the impact of the bill,” said Crystal FitzSimons, president of the #Food Research & Action Center.#Health #Trump #EconomicDiscrimination
(DIR) Post #AyWSfIqTmrRo6F2JIu by TomDB@mastodon-belgium.be
2025-09-24T06:20:40Z
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@Nonilex Yeah this admin has been acting crazy this whole presidency, I’m not expecting anything to change suddenly until people rally the streets in opposition. There are too few.