Not just #Maine -- all of #NewEngland is being targeted! And don't get me started about #ProBirth types! They don't give a SHIT about feeding children after they are born!!!

New England schools and food programs take ‘devastating’ hit after #USDAFundingCuts

The more than $1 billion in federal funding helped #schools, #ChildCare programs, and #FoodPantries in 40 states to buy produce and other items from local farmers.

By Amanda Gokee and John Hilliard Globe Staff, Updated March 12, 2025, 3:03 p.m.

"In October, the USDA announced $1.7 billion for states and #tribal governments to purchase #locally and #regionally produced foods for #EmergencyFoodAssistance, including free meals for schools and child-care programs.

"That funding included $1.2 billion to support local food purchases with schools, child-care facilities, food banks, and other institutions, according to the USDA. School meal programs would get $500 million to make food purchases, and states, territories, and #TribalNations would receive another $500 million. Child-care facilities were supposed to get $200 million, the USDA said.

"The money earmarked for food banks, schools, and child-care facilities was meant to help them meet the needs of their recipients and help ensure they had access to healthy foods, according to the USDA at the time."

Original article:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/12/metro/new-england-food-program-usda-federal-funding-cut-ri-nh-ma-vt-me-ct/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/AvN3n#selection-2481.0-2499.213
#USPol #FundingCuts #BadDOGE #Hunger #HungerGames #KillThePoor

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“Those most enthralled with Donald Trump were not at the very bottom
— the illiterate, the hungry,” sociologist Arlie Russell Hochschild writes in her forthcoming book "Stolen Pride"

Rather, Trump’s biggest fans could be found among
️“the elite of the left-behind,”
meaning people “who were doing well within a region that was not.”

It’s an observation that cuts against the prevailing theory of Trumpism: that he is the tribune of the left-behind and impoverished white people suffering due to globalization.
It is also one that is backed by hard data.

In 2020, three political scientists studied how location and income affected white voters’ voting decisions.

They found that, on a national level, poorer white people were indeed more likely to vote for Trump than richer ones.

But when you factored in local conditions
— the fact that your dollar can buy more in Biloxi than Boston
— the relationship reverses.

“#Locally #rich” white people, those who had higher incomes than others in their zip codes,
were much more likely to support Trump than those who were locally poor.

These people might make less money than a wealthy person in a big city, but were doing relatively well when compared to their neighbors.
https://www.vox.com/politics/369797/trump-support-class-local-rich-arlie-hochschild

I have a major issue with #idiots who think someone by the last name #anderson from a #dystopian #movie called #thematrix is going to save them from all things #fascist.... in #reality it doesn't #work like that. Your #delusions are pretty #funny.

#Organising with comrade #antifascists #locally is the only way out of this #fascism.

You don't need a degree in #physics to #understand this.