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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Will Jarvis |Ian Stewart |Jessica Metzger |Jason DeParle
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
democrats.org | Jason DeParle |Adrianna Tomasello
Key Point: “Republicans are mulling deep cuts in safety net spending, partly to offset big tax cuts aimed mostly at the wealthy. But some programs they propose to cut reach not just the poorest Americans but also struggling working class voters, many of whom helped elect Mr. Trump in November.”New York Times: Trump Drive to Cut Safety Net Could Hit His VotersBy Jason DeParleRepublicans are mulling deep cuts in safety net spending, partly to offset big tax cuts aimed mostly at the wealthy.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Jason DeParle
Homelessness soared to the highest level on record this year, driven by forces that included a surge in migrants seeking asylum, a national housing crisis and the end of pandemic-era measures to protect the needy, the federal government reported on Friday. The number of people experiencing homelessness topped 770,000, an increase of more than 18 percent over last year and the largest annual increase since the count began in 2007.
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Dec 8, 2024 | 
phillytrib.com | Jason DeParle
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
miamiherald.com | Jason DeParle
FAIRFAX, Va. — Six mornings a week, a call for quiet stills a day center for homeless people in Northern Virginia, and those so inclined gather to thank God, read scripture and ponder its message for their tribulations. They come from shelters and tents under bridges. They come hungry and sick. They seek meals, showers, clothes, jobs and connections to health care and housing — all of which the Lamb Center provides with no religious message or test. Some also come to talk about God.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Jason DeParle
But if the two candidates’ responses to that extraordinary period had elements in common, the lessons they took from it were very different. In the pandemic-era programs, now mostly expired or reduced, Harris and other Democrats found reinforcement of their faith in the government’s power to ameliorate hardship.
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
nytimes.com | Jason DeParle
Follow the latest updates on the Harris and Trump campaigns. The presidential race between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald J. Trump presents the sharpest clash in antipoverty policy in at least a generation, and its outcome could shape the economic security of millions of low-income Americans. As the onset of the pandemic in early 2020 threatened to decimate the economy, Mr. Trump signed a large stimulus package that included substantial aid for the poor.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
bostonglobe.com | Jason DeParle
LOS ANGELES — After two years in the Air Force and decades on Skid Row, Steve Allen was spending his senior years living in his car. John Sullivan, who joined the Army after seeing the film “Patton,” slept on his son’s couch. Home for Babs Ludikhuize, an Air Force veteran recovering from domestic violence, was in psychiatric care.
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Aug 6, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Jason DeParle
LOS ANGELES — After two years in the Air Force and decades on Skid Row, Steve Allen was spending his senior years living in his car. John Sullivan, who joined the Army after seeing the film “Patton,” slept on his son’s couch. Home for Babs Ludikhuize, an Air Force veteran recovering from domestic violence, was in psychiatric care.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
yahoo.com | Jason DeParle
WASHINGTON — The governor was firm: Nebraska would reject the new federal money for summer meals. The state already fed a small number of children when schools closed. He would not sign on to a program to provide all families that received free or cut-rate school meals with cards to buy groceries during the summer. “I don’t believe in welfare,” the governor, Jim Pillen, a Republican, said in December. A group of low-income youths, in a face-to-face meeting, urged him to reconsider.
