A Trump administration proposal aims to tighten income and asset requirements for federal food assistance, potentially causing more than 6 million Americans to lose SNAP benefits and threatening access to free school meals.
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As I’ve become more disabled over the years, I’ve learned that there is something that a lot of people with disabilities think: “Am I disabled enough?”
I’m a wheelchair user. I can just manage to put my wheelchair in the trunk and get to and from the driver’s seat. I didn’t have a placard for a good while because it just felt weird parking in handicapped parking. I often queestion myself: Do I need this accommodation?
It’s apparently a common question.
The reason I bring that up is that the fucking backwards austerity religious bullshit in this country has led to a “Can Do” attitude that in and of itself is fine and sometimes helpful, but leads to people feeling guilty for needing help to feed their kids and bullshit like that.
Everyone deserves to eat. And, like, not gruel. Sure, maybe not steak and lobster or whatever, but people deserve to eat good food and not work 100 hours and get help with healthcare and other things.
Life being bearable is the barest minimum standard above “being kept alive at the pleasure of others on their whims”.