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(38,893 posts) Fri Mar 1, 2013, 01:57 PM Mar 2013

12 Ways the Sequester Will Screw the Poor

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12 Ways the Sequester Will Screw the Poor. Will it screw you as well? http://bit.ly/13tFcnL

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/02/budget-cuts-sequester-low-income-poor

Public housing subsidies: $1.9 billion in cuts would affect 125,000 low-income people who would lose access to vouchers to help them with their rent.

Foreclosure prevention: 75,000 fewer people would receive foreclosure prevention, rental, and homeless counseling services.

Emergency housing: 100,000 formerly homeless people could be removed from their current emergency shelters.

Educational programs: Learning programs for poor kids would see a total of $2.7 billion in cuts. The $400 million slashed from Head Start, the preschool program for poor children, would result in reduced services for some 70,000 kids.

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12 Ways the Sequester Will Screw the Poor (Original Post) Fire Walk With Me Mar 2013 OP

The nasty part is that many have no clue what this will do to their "neighbors". Lady Freedom Returns Mar 2013 #1

"You will see more break-ins, more prostitutions, more muggings." Fire Walk With Me Mar 2013 #2

How true! Lady Freedom Returns Mar 2013 #3

Lady Freedom Returns

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1. The nasty part is that many have no clue what this will do to their "neighbors".

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Original post)

Fri Mar 1, 2013, 07:47 PM

Mar 2013

So many have no clue what is going to happen to shelters, food pantries, section-8, even to the unemployment insurance that many will need after they loss their jobs over this!

Sorry to tell people this, but the government does make jobs. This is going to be a slow rolling snowball and we the US citizens are the target!

Oh, and watch your local crime rates. Watch what kind of crimes start going up. You will see more break-ins, more prostitutions, more muggings.

Fire Walk With Me

(38,893 posts)

2. "You will see more break-ins, more prostitutions, more muggings."

Reply to Lady Freedom Returns (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 2, 2013, 12:45 AM

Mar 2013

And more for-profit prisons funded by taxpayer dollars!

Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)

3. How true!

Reply to Fire Walk With Me (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 2, 2013, 12:52 AM

Mar 2013

Someone, somewhere will find a silver lining in this.

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