Since 2021, all indicators of financial stress have increased. These include having to ask for financial help from family, friends or welfare organisations; being unable to heat one’s home; skipping meals; pawning property, and falling behind on rent, mortgage, or utility payments.
The government aims to push thousands of unemployed 18- and 19-year-olds into low-paid, casualised jobs and into the armed forces.
WIC, a nutrition program serving nearly 7 million pregnant women, new mothers, infants and young children, is threatened with running out of funds due to the government shutdown, and is targeted for $300 million in cuts in Trump’s 2026 budget.
Hundreds are now living in open fields under tarpaulins or borrowed tents. In San Remigio, nearly 1,000 people are staying in two tent cities.
This is the report delivered by Nick Beams to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Beams is a longstanding leader of the International Committee of the Fourth International and an expert on Marxist economics.
Her carefully cultivated public persona has allowed Elizabeth II to be deployed at times of heightened national crisis as an illusory but politically necessary embodiment of stability and permanence.
The scale of the horror and the depth of the public reaction suggest that something of a “tipping point” has been reached.
In the wealthiest country in the world, store shelves are empty and millions of families are now facing a desperate struggle to find essential nutrition products for their babies and toddlers.
