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World Socialist Website
01-19-2016, 07:40 AM
An attorney representing 1,500 disability recipients warns that “the suicide chatter is way up” as the state threatens additional budget cuts.

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Dhalgren
01-19-2016, 09:39 AM
Stealth austerity. Keeping it as far below the radar as possible. Of course people will kill themselves if they lose what little support they have - why not? Fat-assed senators "investigating" whether some extremely poor folks in the most economically depressed areas of the country don't deserve their paltry $400 a month dole. These despicable political whores couldn't survive on $400 a week. Fuck...