![]() In most cases, however, understanding how the proposed changes will actually affect the poor requires more than a cursory look at each program and each proposed change.īear with me. Head Start, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), the school lunch and school breakfast programs, Medicaid, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF), successful housing programs, child care, and other programs are all lined up for changes. The number of well-functioning programs with bipartisan support that the Administration proposes tinkering with is breathtaking … a little sand in the gears here, some water in the gas tank there. Place the many pieces on the table together, however, and the breadth and the depth of the attack become startling. Indeed, the attack on the poor is camouflaged in “minor” regulatory changes, routine reauthorizations, “voluntary” block grants, budgetary complexities and other arcana, almost as if our eyes were supposed to glaze over before we really understood. There has been no “shock and awe,” no massing of the troops, no nightly commentaries. In contrast, the Bush Administration’s stealth attack on the poor has gone almost unnoticed. ![]() The preparation for the United States‘ attack on Iraq must have been the most public in history. ![]()
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