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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHey Fox News - go jump in a lake
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Yep. Those are the top 4 stories on Fox News's website
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Hey Fox News - go jump in a lake (Original Post)
underpants
Nov 2018
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Hortensis
(58,785 posts)1. Love it. Fox headlines are like political cartoons without
the drawings that nevertheless present powerful insight.
Here's another one they're hiding regarding throwing poor and sick people off Medicaid:
WAPO: The GOP is quietly crafting work requirement waivers for white people
In January, the Trump administration released new guidelines that would allow states to begin imposing work requirements on Medicaid recipients. It was a kindness, really: According to Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, meaningful work is essential to economic self-sufficiency, self-esteem, wellbeing and .?.?. health. Well, for some of us.
Since the announcement, states have raced to implement new work requirements, which will have the effect of bumping hundreds of thousands of their poorest citizens off the Medicaid rolls. But in more recent months, a number of GOP-controlled states have been quietly crafting waivers that would end up shielding rural, white residents from this new scheme for self-esteem. It seems an unusually transparent move, even for a party that tends toward the blatant in its disdain for those not seen as real Americans. But most of all, its an example of how much-touted moral policy stances such as solicitude for the dignity of work, or zero tolerance for drugs, or extreme immigration vetting often give shelter to less attractive tribal loyalties.
In Ohio, Michigan and Kentucky, work-requirement waivers would include exemptions for counties with the highest levels of unemployment, which are overwhelmingly white, rural and GOP-leaning. But most of these exemptions would do nothing to help people of color who live in high-unemployment urban areas, because they live in places where countywide unemployment numbers are skewed by the inclusion of wealthy suburbs.
In Michigan, for instance, Medicaid work requirements would exempt those living in counties with an unemployment rate of over 8.5 percent but leave out high-unemployment (and majority-black) cities such as Detroit and Flint. According to an analysis of state data done by The Post, whites would account for 85 percent of those eligible for the unemployment exemption, despite making up only 57 percent of the potentially affected population. African Americans, in contrast, would constitute a mere 1.2 percent of people eligible for an exemption, despite being 23 percent of the affected Medicaid population. ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gop-is-quietly-crafting-work-requirement-waivers--for-white-people/2018/05/16/fcef4eb8-5928-11e8-8836-a4a123c359ab_story.html?utm_term=.9794ce871f7e
In January, the Trump administration released new guidelines that would allow states to begin imposing work requirements on Medicaid recipients. It was a kindness, really: According to Seema Verma, administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, meaningful work is essential to economic self-sufficiency, self-esteem, wellbeing and .?.?. health. Well, for some of us.
Since the announcement, states have raced to implement new work requirements, which will have the effect of bumping hundreds of thousands of their poorest citizens off the Medicaid rolls. But in more recent months, a number of GOP-controlled states have been quietly crafting waivers that would end up shielding rural, white residents from this new scheme for self-esteem. It seems an unusually transparent move, even for a party that tends toward the blatant in its disdain for those not seen as real Americans. But most of all, its an example of how much-touted moral policy stances such as solicitude for the dignity of work, or zero tolerance for drugs, or extreme immigration vetting often give shelter to less attractive tribal loyalties.
In Ohio, Michigan and Kentucky, work-requirement waivers would include exemptions for counties with the highest levels of unemployment, which are overwhelmingly white, rural and GOP-leaning. But most of these exemptions would do nothing to help people of color who live in high-unemployment urban areas, because they live in places where countywide unemployment numbers are skewed by the inclusion of wealthy suburbs.
In Michigan, for instance, Medicaid work requirements would exempt those living in counties with an unemployment rate of over 8.5 percent but leave out high-unemployment (and majority-black) cities such as Detroit and Flint. According to an analysis of state data done by The Post, whites would account for 85 percent of those eligible for the unemployment exemption, despite making up only 57 percent of the potentially affected population. African Americans, in contrast, would constitute a mere 1.2 percent of people eligible for an exemption, despite being 23 percent of the affected Medicaid population. ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gop-is-quietly-crafting-work-requirement-waivers--for-white-people/2018/05/16/fcef4eb8-5928-11e8-8836-a4a123c359ab_story.html?utm_term=.9794ce871f7e
"because they live in places where countywide unemployment numbers are skewed by the inclusion of wealthy suburbs." How useful to do it that way, which of course is why Republicans always have. These days, though, any political staffer or county clerk can pull up unemployment stats by demographic neighborhood with a few keystrokes.
underpants
(182,910 posts)3. Yes they are. The white exemption has barely been reported on
Thanks
The 5th story on Fox News about an hour ago was the release of never before seen pics of Amy Winehouse. Seriously
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)2. Like a tabliod. And not one peep about Ivanka. n.t.
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)4. Fox News is the National Enquirer of television news. (nt)