As devastating as the food stamp cuts that took effect may be, they are just a preview of increased hunger 48 million Americans are going to face when Republicans led by Paul Ryan decimate SNAP.
A collection of forty economists have weighed in and concluded that Republicans have abandoned economic reality, and it includes the House, Senate, and Willard Romney.
There’s a funny thing about austerity measures. When adopted alone without a balanced approach to short-term and long-term economic stimuli, they don’t work.
The lessons from England should cause Americans to shudder at the Republican attempts to impose austerity while the country is recovering from the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.