Food Stamps, Joe Bidden, Kamala Harris: 3 Stories You Should Read 1/21/2019
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In the category of: It’s getting real.
Shutdown: What comes next
Final food stamps payment for now
Food stamps will be paid through February, but in order to get funds, states will have to pay February payments early, by or before January 20, which could create confusion for recipients who receive an abnormally large payment that is intended to last an extra month.
- BY THE NUMBERS
- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit recipients in 2018: 40.3 million
- Total benefits paid through SNAP in 2018: 60.6 billion
- Monthly benefits paid (as of September 2018): About $4.8 billion
- Average monthly benefit per person: $125.25
In the category of: Truth.
Joe Biden: White America Has To Admit There Is Systemic Racism
At National Action’s Martin Luther King Jr. Day breakfast, the former vice president addressed the racism that goes “almost unnoticed by so many of us.”
Former Vice President Joe Biden said at a breakfast Monday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. that “white America has to admit there is systemic racism.”
Biden, a potential 2020 presidential candidate, said at the event hosted by Al Sharpton’s National Action Network that “we have a lot to root out, but most of all the systematic racism that most of us whites don’t like to acknowledge even exists.” He gave the example of if there are two men with the same qualifications, one named Jamal and one named Jim, and “Jim gets the job,” then “there is something we have to admit ― not you, we, white America has to admit: There is still systematic racism.”
“It goes almost unnoticed by so many of us. When all that is surrounding us, is it any wonder that there is still a spirit of restlessness out there? How do we ensure that every American can live a life of dignity?” he asked the mostly black audience.
In the category of: The field is forming.
The California senator and longtime prosecutor is officially running.
Kamala Harris, a California lawmaker and longtime prosecutor, just announced that she’s running for the Democratic nomination for president, becoming the third sitting senator to make her 2020 ambitions official.
“I’m running for president of the United States and I’m very excited about it,” she said during an appearance on ABC’s Good Morning America, timing her announcement with Martin Luther King Jr. Day in a nod to the civil rights movement. “I’m honored to be able to make my announcement on the day that we commemorate [Dr.King,]”
Harris would be the first African American woman to be a major party nominee for the presidency if she ultimately secures the Democratic nomination. With her announcement, she joins trailblazers including Shirley Chisholm and Carol Moseley Braun, two African American women who have previously vied for the Democratic ticket.
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