Foster, Casten Say Cuts to Social Programs Will Prove 'Devastating' - Chronicle Media

Foster, Casten say cuts to social programs will prove 'devastating' - Chronicle Media

Two suburban U.S. representatives say a new law containing severe cuts to food assistance and other social programs will prove to be “devastating” to more than a million of Illinois’ most at-risk citizens and damage the state economy.  U.S. Reps. Bill Foster, D-Naperville, and Sean Casten, D-Dowers Grove decried the recently enacted budget passed by a... The post Foster, Casten say cuts to social programs will prove ‘devastating’ appeared first …

Republican reconciliation bill’s cuts to social programs will damage some congressional districts’ local economies

In a recent working paper, Equitable Growth grantee Robert Manduca of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor demonstrates that government transfers make sizable contributions to local economies in much of the United States—and, in many places, comprise a larger part of the local economic base than the largest local private industry. This finding is relevant following the passage of the Republican budget reconciliation bill, which makes extensive …