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October 26:
Donald Trump says it ‘hasn’t been easy’ for him. But he omits a
few things.
"I started off in Brooklyn," he explained. "My father gave me a small loan. … I
came into Manhattan and I had to pay him back, and I had to pay him back with
interest."
The small loan? We took the number out of that quote for effect. It was a small
loan of $1 million.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/10/26/donald-trump-says-it-hasnt-been-easy-for-him-financially-but-he-omits-a-few-things/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f60d8717233d
-- 2017 --
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March 30: A resolution eliminating an Obama-era regulation that allows states to
create retirement accounts for low-income workers is headed to President Trump's
desk after a Senate vote on Wednesday.
Senators by a 50-49 margin approved the House-passed resolution, which rolls
back a rule that allows states to create retirement plans for private-sector
workers whose employers do not offer their own retirement plans.
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/326484-senate-votes-to-eliminate-obama-era-retirement-rule
May 1: On
Monday newly minted Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced a rollback of
school lunch standards championed by the former first lady, declaring at a
Virginia school that the administration would "Make
School Meals Great Again."
The school nutrition standards have long been a source of controversy, making
them a more likely target of the current administration.
http://www.npr.org/2017/05/01/526451207/trump-administration-rolls-back-2-of-michelle-obamas-signature-initiatives
May 23: Trump Budget Deals 'Devastating
Blow' To Low-Income Americans, Advocates Say
https://www.npr.org/2017/05/23/529711392/trump-budget-deals-devastating-blow-to-low-income-americans-advocates-say
October 17: President Trump's Tax Relief
Will Ease The Tax Burden On Low-Income Americans
https://gop.com/president-trumps-tax-relief-will-ease-the-tax-burden-on-low-income-americans-rsr
Undated:
Trump's Tax Plan and How It Affects You
Find Out When the Changes Roll Out
https://www.thebalance.com/trump-s-tax-plan-how-it-affects-you-4113968
-- 2018 --
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February 6: Trump may push work requirements for federal housing
assistance
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-may-push-work-requirements-federal-housing-assistance-n845171
February 13: Trump's 2019 budget: What the
president wants to eliminate, in plain English
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/02/13/trumps-budget-what-he-wants-eliminate-plain-english/331147002/
February 14: Trump Budget Deeply Cuts
Health, Housing, Other Assistance for Low- and Moderate-Income Families
https://www.cbpp.org/research/federal-budget/trump-budget-deeply-cuts-health-housing-other-assistance-for-low-and
February 16: How Trump Plans to Evict Poor
Families From Public Housing
The president’s budget proposal is a shocking assault on millions of people who
rely on rental assistance.
https://www.thenation.com/article/how-trump-plans-to-evict-poor-families-from-public-housing/
February 18: Trump administration is calling
for elimination of program that heats homes of low-income families
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-heating-program-20180218-story.html
February 21: The Issues with Trump’s Plan to
Ship Food to Low-Income Households
Sending people boxes of shelf-stable food will save the government money, but it
might not help people improve their health in the long term.
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/the-issues-with-trumps-plan-to-ship-food-to-low-income-households
March 13: With U.S. affordable housing in
crisis, Trump admin wants to cut aid
The Gap, a new report by the National Low-Income Housing Coalition,
illustrates depth of affordable housing crisis
https://www.curbed.com/2018/3/13/17116956/affordable-housing-trump-hud-cuts
April 25: A New Trump Administration
Proposal Could Triple Low-Income Families’ Rent
The Department of Housing and Urban Development aims to cut rules protecting
poor tenants.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/04/a-new-trump-administration-proposal-could-triple-low-income-families-rent/
July 27: Most Americans [61%] are against
Trump’s proposed food-stamp cutbacks
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/most-americans-are-against-trumps-cutbacks-in-food-stamps-for-low-income-families-2018-07-26
August 24: Trump Team’s Rewrite of
Low-Income Lending Rules Falters
Impatient with other banking regulators, Comptroller of the Currency Joseph
Otting to move forward alone
https://www.wsj.com/articles/rewrite-of-low-income-lending-rules-faces-headwinds-1535112211
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August 30: Jimmy Carter says the Trump
administration is ignoring the affordable-housing shortage crisis
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/30/jimmy-carter-trump-is-ignoring-affordable-housing-shortage-crisis.html
September 6:
About 2 Million Low-Income Americans Would Lose Benefits Under House Farm Bill,
Study Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/us/politics/trump-farm-bill-congress.html
September 25: CBC [Congressional Black
Caucus] Criticizes Latest Trump Administration Attack on Low-Income, Immigrants
of Color
In a Letter to DHS, CBC Urges Secretary Nielsen to Rescind a Proposed Regulation
to Restrict Green Cards for Immigrants Likely to Use Public Assistance
https://cbc.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=956
October 2: Proposed Trump rules could make
it harder for low-income women to get contraceptives
https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/Proposed-Trump-rules-could-make-it-harder-for-low-income-women-to-get-contraceptives_172284709
October 18: Kamala Harris’s Trump-Size Tax
Plan
The California senator is the latest Democrat to propose giving billions of
dollars in cash to lower-income families.
Harris is offering a kind of fun-house-mirror inversion of the sweeping
Republican tax initiative, one that would, instead of slashing rates on
high-income households and corporations, push huge credits out to middle-income
and poor families. The LIFT the Middle Class Act
would provide monthly cash payments of up to $500 to lower-income families, on
top of the tax credits and public benefits they already receive. “Last year,
Congress gave a trillion dollars in tax breaks to corporations,” Harris told me.
“That money should have gone to American taxpayers who need it instead of
handing it over to corporations and the top 1 percent.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/lefts-trump-sized-tax-plans/573328/
November 15: Here’s How You Can Speak Up
Against Trump’s Proposed “Public Charge” Rule Targeting Low-Income Immigrant
Families
https://www.dcfpi.org/all/heres-how-you-can-speak-up-against-trumps-proposed-public-charge-rule-targeting-low-income-immigrant-families/
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December 3: Assemblymember Rob Bonta
(D-Oakland) is introducing an Assembly Concurrent Resolution to formally condemn
the regulatory changes and urge the federal government to reconsider this
ill-conceived proposal.
“The proposed change to public charge by this President is another blatant
attack on immigrant communities," said Assemblymember Bonta. "It’s fueled by
racism, classism, and xenophobia. That's why I'm introducing a resolution
calling on the federal government to stop this dangerous proposal that would
cause significant harm to an untold number of immigrants trying to realize their
own American dream."
https://a18.asmdc.org/press-releases/20181203-bonta-introduces-resolution-opposing-trump-plan-harm-low-income-immigrant
December 5: Study finds tariffs to hit
middle-, lower-income families hardest
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/dec/5/trump-tariffs-hit-midde-lower-income-families-hard/
December 10: Trump’s controversial “public
charge” proposal that could change the face of legal immigration, explained
A proposed DHS regulation that could seriously restrict low-income immigrants
has received over 150,000 comments.
https://www.vox.com/2018/9/24/17892350/public-charge-immigration-food-stamps-medicaid-trump-comments
December 12:
White
House advisers Ivanka Trump and her husband Jared Kushner will not profit
from a new opportunity zone program, which encourages private sector investment
in low-income communities, according to Department of Housing and Urban
Development Secretary Ben Carson.
“The opportunity zones were chosen by the governors of the 50 states, the
District of Columbia and our five territories. They have nothing to do with
Ivanka Trump or Jared, or anybody else,” said Carson to FOX Business’
Stuart Varneyon Wednesday. “But there are going to be people
all over the country who do have properties located within the opportunity
zones.”
His comments follow an Associated Press (AP) story alleging that Kushner stands
to potentially benefit from the program. According to the AP investigation ,
Kushner owns a stake in a holding company that is part owner of
real estateinvestment firm Cadre, which recently announced
it is launching a series of opportunity zone funds under the new program.
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/ivanka-trump-husband-have-nothing-to-do-with-new-opportunity-zones-ben-carson
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December 13: Trump Directs Government
Spending to Opportunity Zones
President Donald Trump has launched a new interagency council to help funnel
federal spending into the designated low-income zones created in last year’s tax
bill.
Trump issued an executive order Wednesday creating the interagency White House
Opportunity and Revitalization Council, to be spearheaded by Housing and Urban
Development secretary Ben Carson. The council will span some dozen federal
agencies, with the goal of putting Opportunity Zones at the forefront of funding
in areas like small-business finance, water and broadband infrastructure, rural
development, or crime enforcement.
“The resources of the whole federal government will be leveraged to rebuild
low-income and impoverished neighborhoods that have been ignored by Washington
in years past,”
Trump said as he signed the order. “With Opportunity Zones, we are drawing
investment into neglected and underserved communities of America so that all
Americans, regardless of zip code, have access to the American Dream.”
Under a provision in the December 2017 tax bill, investing in these zones can
confer hefty tax benefits. If investors pour capital gains into real estate or
business equity in such an area, they reduce the tax basis on that original
capital. Any gains generated by the Opportunity Zone investment can be tax-free
if held long enough.
... in the impoverished areas the zones are meant to target, the most potent
criticism is that they could serve as a “crowbar for gentrification,” as one
business owner put it.
https://www.barrons.com/articles/trump-federal-money-qualified-opportunity-zones-51544651634
December 13: How a Tax Break Meant for
Low-Income Communities Became a Mini Tax Haven for the Rich
The Trump tax bill, signed into law last year, established the Opportunity
Zone incentive program. It’s meant to spur growth in low-income neighborhoods by
giving investors tax benefits for putting money into distressed areas and
leaving it there for a few years.
The goal of boosting development in low-income areas is certainly laudable, but
one major concern is that funds are going to be directed to places that are not
really distressed: Take, for instance, the area
where Amazon’s HQ2 will land in Long Island City, the area
around a Trump golf course, or the future home of
the Las Vegas Raiders NFL franchise, all of which qualify for benefits.
Ahead of a White House event on Wednesday about Opportunity Zones, reports
emerged regarding how
the Kushner
family business stands to take advantage of the program, after Jared Kushner
and Ivanka Trump pushed for its creation.
But high-profile, flashy examples of obvious Opportunity Zone boondoggles don’t
highlight the full extent of the problem.
https://talkpoverty.org/2018/12/13/tax-break-low-income-opportunity-rich/
December 13:
On Tuesday, Sesame Workshop, the show’s nonprofit educational arm,
announced
that one of the show’s characters, Lily (who was first introduced in 2011), will
experience homelessness. The 7-year-old Muppet’s family will be staying with
friends after having lost their home. In the past, her story had included her
family’s struggle with food insecurity.
While Lily
won’t be
on the “Sesame Street” TV show, her story will be featured in
YouTube videos,
books and
other educational materials
for families and educators to
discuss homelessness
with kids.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/sesame-street-muppet-lily-homeless_us_5c12b5a9e4b0860b8b5c876e
December 14: Fox News Host Tucker Carlson
Says Immigration Is Making America ‘Dirtier’
Carlson ranted against those who want to admit the world’s poor “even if it
makes our own country poorer, and dirtier, and more divided.”
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/tucker-carlson-immigrants-doing-to-america_us_5c136ca1e4b0f60cfa27dbaf
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