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The Hartmann Report

Daily Take: Why Do America’s Workers Need Welfare? The Scandal Nobody Talks About

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

Congress, Economics, Climate Change, The Hartmann Report, Debate, Democracy, America, Thom Hartmann, News

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 June 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Exploring the GOP’s strategy to keep wages low and the poor desperate...

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nobody talks about. Bob Kennedy, Mehmet Oz, and two Trump administration colleagues recently published an op-ed in the New York Times

0:43.1

justifying the Republican Party's attempt to cut Medicaid and SNAP benefits by imposing draconian,

0:50.4

prove-your-working paperwork, and hoop- hoop jumping requirements on recipients.

0:54.9

In their article titled Trump Leadership, if you want welfare and can work, you must,

1:00.0

they noted, quote, our agencies are united in a very straightforward policy approach.

1:05.3

Able-bodied adults receiving benefits must work.

1:09.0

Which raises the question.

1:15.3

Why? Why is it that anybody working full-time in the richest country in the history of the world should need any sort of government assistance just to

1:19.3

eat and stay healthy? Shouldn't a full-time paycheck, any paycheck for any sort of work,

1:25.6

pay enough that people can live a decent life?

1:28.7

As Senate Majority Leader John Thune said yesterday, the best health care is a job.

1:34.1

What he failed to note is that that's true of Denmark, but not America.

1:41.8

What, after all, is the point of a minimum wage, if not to make sure that people who are working don't have to steal just to stay alive?

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