The U.S. House of “Representatives” has passed the largest healthcare cuts in American history, including Medicaid cuts totaling $700 billion and $500 billion in Medicare cuts. These programs make the difference between good health and sickness or even death for those in the United States who have limited social class advantage.
Cruel cuts were also made, $300 billion, in food assistance. The budget, additionally, savages the transition to clean energy and will lead to unemployment for those workers with less class advantage.
Many economists say these budget cuts will hinder U.S. competitiveness in the clean energy sector for generations to come and wipe out a class of good-paying jobs.* HR1 also repeals student loan assistance, a program that had been a boon to those with less class advantage.
As a whole, the proposed legislation, pushed through with lightening speed by the party in power, will take hard-earned benefits from low-income people, the working poor and working class – and even those in the middle and upper-middle class – to give huge, permanent tax breaks to millionaires and billionaires, the most class privileged. A cross-class coalition is needed to resist legislation that exacerbates already unjust class policies.
What are you going to do about it?
What are others doing about it, including your UU congregation or organization?
What would you like to see UUCC do next?
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