Strangely, diapers show us why America needs a basic income.
Incredibly, America’s welfare programs do not pay for diapers. For example, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP); popularly known as food stamps, only pays for food.
In fact, U.S. Representatives Barbara Lee (D-California) and Rosa DeLauro (D-Connecticut) introduced an End Diaper Need Act to Congress in March 2019. They designed the Act to pay for diapers for poor families.The diaper dilemma shows everything wrong with our welfare state. Congress just noticed that babies need to diapers last year. Yet people have been putting diapers on babies for centuries. The Diaper Dilemma […]
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