Republican revival of failed Reaganomics pushes Milwaukee seniors toward hunger and despair again
The last time the American public watched their elderly parents eat dog food to survive, Ronald Reagan had just swept into office, and a Republican-led economic crisis was gutting the middle class. Four decades later, the same party, driven by Trump’s nationalist delusions and billionaire deregulation schemes, has resurrected that nightmare with chilling speed. In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the U.S. economy reeled from stagnation, inflation, and mass layoffs. While Republicans now blame that crisis on the oil embargo or Jimmy Carter, the record tells a different truth. The foundation of the economic collapse had already been...
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