There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —Soren Kierkegaard. "…truth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it. That is why truth does not yield to opinion, fashion, numbers, office, or sincerity–it is simply true and that is the end of it" – Os Guinness, Time for Truth, pg.39. “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” – Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" – George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. We live in a “post-truth” world. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting – this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." – George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
After 140 days of chaos, disorder, and lawlessness outside Portland’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility, police finally moved in and cleared Antifa’s encampment on Saturday morning.
More than 30 officers braved heavy rain to dismantle the site, ordering demonstrators to remove tents, supplies, and gear that had clogged the area for nearly five months.
The encampment, long a symbol of Democrat weakness and radical left-wing extremism, collapsed in hours.
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For conservatives and law-abiding residents of Portland, it was a long-overdue victory for public order.
Since June, Antifa activists had effectively taken control of the street outside ICE’s South Portland facility.
They set up tents, stockpiled medical supplies, hauled in refrigerators, BBQ grills, and even party gear, transforming the public space into an illegal outpost.
What Democrats and their allies in the media called a “protest” was, in reality, an anarchist encampment that endangered residents, disrupted the neighborhood, and undermined the rule of law.
Complaints poured in from local families about noise, trash, and safety hazards, but Democratic city leaders turned a blind eye for months.
On Saturday, that came to an end. Police swept the site in an organized raid that resulted in three misdemeanor arrests for disorderly conduct.
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There was no large-scale resistance because Antifa activists, once emboldened by Portland’s permissive leadership, finally realized the public tide had turned against them.
For the first time in 140 days, not a single Antifa agitator remained outside the ICE facility.
The encampment had become a stain on the city, yet it was tolerated by Portland’s Democrat leadership, who consistently refuse to confront Antifa violence.
Instead of protecting residents, Democrat officials allowed extremists to set up camp and harass federal officers, proving once again that Democrats cannot be trusted to maintain public safety.
Only when the situation became a national embarrassment did police step in.
Conservatives are right to celebrate the clearance, but the fight is not over.
Portland’s radical left will try to reestablish their encampment, and weak Democrat officials may once again stand down.
Residents know the pattern: Antifa moves in, the city ignores the problem, and communities suffer.
It takes Republican pressure, public outrage, and national attention to force even minimal enforcement.
Antifa’s 140-day occupation of a public street outside a federal building should never have been allowed in the first place.
But thanks to Saturday’s raid, Portlanders finally saw what happens when law enforcement acts decisively: order is restored, streets are cleared, and the radical left is put back in check.
When Democrats fail to protect American communities, Republicans will stand for law, order, and accountability.
The CIA’s latest on Russia-collusion hoax: CIA Director John Ratcliffe is working to declassify a section of former Special Counsel John Durham’s 2023 report that heavily criticized the Crossfire Hurricane investigation into Donald Trump’s supposed collusion with Russia to win the 2016 election. Ratcliffe told Fox News yesterday that the information due to be released in the Durham report annex shows that the false Russia-collusion hoax was partly a Hillary Clinton plan and partly an FBI plan working in concert to inflame a false story into a national scandal. Ratcliffe has been beating this drum for years. In 2020, he testified to Congress that Clinton had been referred to the FBI for investigations after a Russian intelligence analysis alleged that she had approved a plan to link Trump to Russia as a distraction from her email scandal.
Black mob beats white couple: A viral video captured an incident in Cincinnati, Ohio, over the weekend, wherein a mob of mostly black individuals severely beat a white couple. Cincinnati Police Chief Teresa Theetge said she was “in complete disgust” after seeing the video, calling the behavior “nothing short of cruel and absolutely unacceptable.” The incident is being thoroughly investigated, she said, adding, “It’s also important to clarify: this was a sudden dispute between individuals following a verbal altercation.” It’s possible that one of the white guys threw the first slap, but he was curb-stomped by a mob for it. Regardless, Cincinnati Fraternal Order of Police President Ken Kober also expressed his indignation not only over the violent incident but also over “those who chose to watch and record instead of calling 911, attempting to defuse the situation or render aid.” Apparently, several arrests have been made.
“Palestine” allies make fools of themselves: French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron recognized the faux state of Palestine on Thursday, hours after U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff reported that Hamas is not working in good faith toward a hostage deal. Macron’s priorities in the announcement included ending the war and securing the release of hostages in Gaza — someone should have sent him Witkoff’s announcement. Back in the U.S., Rashida Tlaib added her protest to the cacophony of phony Hamas supporters by … banging on a pot with a spoon. In a video release, Tlaib announces: “The Palestinian people, this is all for you!” Such bravery. Unconfirmed reports say Ilhan Omar may stick a fork in a blender in support of Palestine.
DOE releases frozen money: On Friday, the Department of Education announced that $5 billion in funding for schools across the country, which the department had frozen earlier this month, will now be released. Much of this funding was designated for various after-school and summer programs. The Trump administration’s rationale for pausing the funding was to conduct a review to ensure that American tax dollars were not supporting a “radical leftwing agenda” and to establish “guardrails” to prevent that. Many Republican lawmakers celebrated the news of the funding release, including West Virginia Senator Jim Justice, who posted on X, “The release of these funds will undoubtedly have a positive impact on the kids of West Virginia.”
Trump tells EU leaders to stop building windmills: Over the weekend, Donald Trump was in Scotland, where he played a round of golf on his Turnberry course, while he also spent time negotiating and signing a new trade deal with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. Having just played “the best course in the world,” he complained to reporters, “I look over the horizon and I see nine windmills. I said, isn’t that a shame? What a shame you have the same thing all over Europe, in particular, you have windmills all over the place.” He made these remarks a day after calling on EU nations to “stop the windmills,” which are “ruining your countries.” He further noted, “I will not allow a windmill to be built in the United States. They’re killing us. They’re killing the beauty of our scenery, our valleys, our beautiful plains.”
Good guy with a gun ends Walmart rampage: On Sunday, a man with a knife began attacking people at a Walmart in Traverse City, Michigan. The man’s stabbing spree was ended after a private citizen pulled a gun on him and ordered him to stop and drop the knife. Two other men then surrounded the perpetrator, and minutes later, law enforcement arrived. Sheriff Michael Shea commended the individuals who intervened, stating, “It’s not very often that we have citizens who are willing to step up and take action.” Eleven individuals were injured in the attack, and authorities are considering raising terrorism charges in addition to assault charges. Had the perpetrator used a firearm rather than a knife to commit his crime, there would be the predictable calls by leftist politicians and other anti-Second Amendment groups for more “gun control” measures — never mind how the rampage was stopped.
Young men are Republicans: Polling numbers continue to show disaster for the Democrat Party, but that’s been said a fewtimes. One interesting aspect of these numbers is the widening gap between young men and young women. According to Pew Research, young men lean toward Republicans by 18 points, while women break for Democrats by 21 points. The Democrat Party has largely built its current coalition by targeting every interest group possible except young men, so it’s no surprise that they aren’t interested. But the battle between the sexes was never meant to be a real battle. Bridging the gap between young men and women is not just an urgent issue politically; it is essential to the survival of any people or nation.
Gallup finds Gen Z least likely to favor remote work: No one wants to work an in-office 9-5 job. Gallup found that just 4% of Millennials and only 10% of Baby Boomers prefer an entirely on-site job, with the other generations falling in between. Most workers across all generations prefer a mix of at-home and on-site work. Here’s where it gets interesting. While 35% of older generations would choose remote work exclusively if possible, only 23% of Gen Z prefer that option. Data analysts suggest that this is because Gen Z is the loneliest generation. Few Gen Zers are parents or guardians, so social interaction at work fills a need for community.
Headlines
Trump reduces Putin’s deadline after massive Russian attack (Fox News)
FBI Deputy Director Bongino vows to reveal “truth” in cryptic social media post (Fox News)
AOC broke House rules to attend Met Gala with beau Riley Roberts (NY Post)
Epstein birthday book also included Bill Clinton letter commending predator’s “childlike curiosity” (Daily Wire)
Trump’s tariffs are being picked up by corporate America (WSJ)
There’s another big beautiful bill in the works: What might be in it? (RedState)
French president to recognize “State of Palestine” in September at UN General Assembly (Fox News)
Islamic State-backed militant group attacks Catholic church in Congo, over three dozen dead (Breitbart)
Humor: An exclusive excerpt from Joe Biden’s memoir (The Babylon Bee)
What’s a great winning political strategy? Picking issues on which the majority of your constituents agree. For example, ameliorating homelessness isn’t all that controversial. According to the National Alliance to End Homelessness, 76% of Americans believe homelessness is a solvable problem, and 72% think it can be fixed locally with federal intervention.
Advocating for solutions to problems that most Americans want solved is a great strategy, and President Donald Trump’s latest executive order, “Ending Crime and Disorder on American Streets,” attempts to do just that. Even though it’s been labeled a homelessness EO, it’s really about ending vagrancy and its associated criminality.
The president has instructed Attorney General Pam Bondi to seek the “reversal of Federal or State judicial precedents and the termination of consent decrees that impede the United States’ policy of encouraging civil commitment of individuals with mental illness who pose risks to themselves or the public or are living on the streets and cannot care for themselves in appropriate facilities for appropriate periods of time.”
Furthermore, he is calling for interagency cooperation between the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Housing and Urban Development to award grants to states that back away from “‘housing first’ policies that deprioritize accountability and fail to promote treatment, recovery, and self-sufficiency.” Under President Joe Biden, one such egregious example of this pedagogy was his attempt to enforce “harm reduction” policies, whereby people who were homeless due to addiction were given crack pipes and safe consumption spaces. The idea was that if people are going to do drugs, let’s help them do it “safely” and not in a public place. But if you genuinely care about the homeless, why would you bolster a policy that encourages them to continue the habits and choices that led, partially or completely, to their sorry state in the first place?
Another big push in Trump’s EO is getting dangerous vagrants off the streets of our cities. Here’s where the Democrats are making a big fuss. The Washington Post makes the counterargument that forcing people to go into homeless shelters or mental facilities is a good way for abuse to happen. What if someone who is not a vagrant or mentally ill gets put in a mental hospital, as people were in England? What if we run out of room in our homeless shelters and jails?
In other words, the WaPo dislikes this EO because of hypothetical outlier situations or because cities fail to provide for the homeless within their borders. As this author has written before, homelessness, particularly in big cities, is exacerbated by poor left-wing governance at the local level.
Finally, Trump’s EO provides grant money for states to build women’s and children’s-only homeless shelters, which protects these particularly vulnerable demographics, and gives the federal government oversight into how the state is spending the funds to ensure they’re going where they need to go. The central government cannot be the boots on the ground. Federal officials lack the necessary expertise and aren’t part of the community. Enforcing laws, discouraging abuse, and protecting the American people is exactly the role the federal government should play in addressing homelessness.
“Ending Crime and Disorder on American Streets” presents a range of commonsense, carrot-and-stick ideas to encourage states to work more effectively in addressing the issue of criminal vagrancy. The fact that Democrats had to spin it as kicking out homeless people from public life or being abusive toward the innocent shows there isn’t an issue on which leftists will even try to agree with most Americans.
Nate Jackson: Trump’s Trade Wins Are Blowing — His weekend agreement with the European Union, collectively America’s biggest trading partner, is yet another achievement for his strategy of using tariffs to negotiate better deals.
Douglas Andrews: How Bad Is the Dems’ Polling? — A new Wall Street Journal poll shows the Democrat Party to be at its lowest low in 35 years, and party prospects for recovery aren’t any better.
Mark Alexander: Leno vs. Late-Night Leftists — Late-night TV comedy show hosts, like so many other celebrities buoyed by their sycophantic echo-chamber audiences, believe they are both omnipotent and omniscient. Thus, whatever they opine must be received as divine inspiration.
Thomas Gallatin: Should We Be Concerned About America’s Declining Birthrate? — Like much of the developed world, the U.S. is experiencing declining birth rates. This is a genuine problem, comparable to the growing national debt that many want to overlook.
Gary Bauer: Second-Class Christians — Jessica Bates’s religious liberty rights were clearly violated by the state of Oregon, which treats Christians like second-class citizens, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals granted her request for an injunction.
Brent Ramsey: The Status of the Navy: Part I — The world has changed immensely since the American Navy’s heyday during World War II, but given today’s environment, what is the importance of naval power?
Roger Helle: ‘This Is Not My Home’: Part II — We shouldn’t just hunker down and hold on until Jesus comes or we die, whichever comes first. Someone once said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Mamdani: Private Property and Free Markets Are the Enemy — Socialist Zohran Mamdani, poised to become New York City’s next mayor, has promised to miraculously solve many of NYC’s problems and redistribute dignity, whatever that means.
Another ‘Racist’ Police Encounter Debunked — A phone video of an unarmed Jacksonville black man getting punched and forcibly removed from his car by police went viral. But once again, the bodycam footage paints a completely different picture.
French President Sues Candace Owens — The 219-page complaint accuses Owens of a sustained smear campaign, including repeated public claims that Brigitte Macron is a transgender man and has committed identity theft.
“Who tried to overthrow the government on January 6? Who was that again? That was not Obama.” —”The View” co-host Joy Behar
Dezinformatsiya
“The Trump administration is doing the work of our adversary, Russia.” —CNN’s Beth Sanner
Suspicious Denial
“What attacks on ICE agents?” —Rep. Jerry Nadler
Delusions of Grandeur
“[Joe Biden] was a great president. He accomplished remarkable things in a two-year period where we had the majority. He had accomplishments that were seen in the same light as LBJ and Franklin Roosevelt. … History will treat him well.” —Rep. Nancy Pelosi
Projection
“If there’s one thing [Republicans are] good at, they’re good at cheating, and they’re good at bulls****ing people. … They have decided that they are losers.” —Rep. Jasmine Crockett
“We’ve lost decency. We’ve lost civility. We’ve lost respect for the rule of law. … We’re supposed to elect the best of us, not the worst of us. [Trump’s] everything that’s wrong with not just America but with being a human being.” —actor Jeff Daniels
Belly Laugh of the Day
“Republicans care about power more than they care about anything else. … Democrats care more about being right than they care about being in power.” —former Rep. Beto O’Rourke
Shot/Chaser
“There is likely no trade deal with Japan.” —Sen. Chris Murphy, July 23
“If France is really so determined to see a Palestinian state, I’ve got a suggestion for them: Carve out a piece of the French Riviera and create a Palestinian state.” —Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee
“How clever! If Macron can just ‘declare’ the existence of a state perhaps the UK can ‘declare’ France a British colony!” —Mike Huckabee
Yellow Journalism
“We all know what’s going to happen. They’re going to dribble little details out for days or weeks in an effort to assassinate the president’s character. They won’t show us this book or allow us to refute it until they’ve wrung every bit of fake news out of the story. And everyone will just move on from the fact that the WSJ is acting like a Democrat SuperPAC. It’s disgraceful” —JD Vance
Rule of Law
“We’re not going to do amnesty in this country. We’re actually not going to tell people who have come into the country illegally that they are allowed to break our laws and be rewarded for it.” —JD Vance
And Last…
“What I have learned in the course of our properly predicated and necessary investigations … has shocked me down to my core. We cannot run a Republic like this. I’ll never be the same after learning what I’ve learned.” —FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, teeing up the next shoe to drop
ON THIS DAY in 1868, the 14th Amendment was ratified as part of the effort to secure the Liberty of freed slaves. It has since been used both to extend the Bill of Rights to the states and, incomprehensibly, to justify birthright citizenship for children born to illegal aliens.
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Critics say inadequate recording methods may be understating the scale of the crisis
The number of homeless people in the United States has reached a record level since the federal government began tracking teh figures in 2007. According to data released this week, almost three quarters of a million people, 771,000 are homeless in America, an increase of 18% compared to 2023, marking the sharpest annual rise in decades.
The figure published by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Friday translates to approximately 23 out of every 10,000 people in the US. The increase follows a 12% rise in 2023, which the department attributed to skyrocketing rents and to the conclusion of pandemic assistance.
A severe lack of affordable housing nationwide is being compounded by “rising inflation, stagnating wages among middle- and lower-income households, and the persisting effects of systemic racism,” natural disasters, and an influx of migrants without access to stable housing, according to the HUD statement.
Median rent was up 20% in January 2024 from rent costs for the same month three years earlier, the National Low Income Housing Coalition wrote in March.
According to the HUD, there has been a 39% increase this year in the number of individuals in families with children who depended on shelters or slept outside. This amounts to approximately 259,000 people, the highest figure recorded since data collection began.
The report also shows that nearly 150,000 children were homeless on the targeted January night, a 33% increase from the previous year’s count. Meanwhile, the number of veterans experiencing homelessness declined by 8% from 2023.
The new homelessness figures come amid the Biden administration’s pledge to increase funding for affordable housing and expand services aimed at preventing homelessness. However, advocacy groups argue that more systemic reforms are needed, such as stronger tenant protections, rent controls, and a focus on mental health and addiction services.
The US Supreme Court ruled in June that cities may ban homeless residents from sleeping outside; more than 100 jurisdictions around the country have since taken steps in that direction, Associated Press writes.
On the campaign trail, then-candidate Donald Trump repeatedly pointed to illegal immigration as the cause of high housing costs, vowing that his plan to carry out “the largest deportation operation in American history” would lower home prices, as quoted by the New York Post. Immigration “is driving housing costs through the roof,” Trump said at a September rally in Arizona.
The latest Annual Homelessness Assessment Report, released by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), reveals that homelessness across the United States has surged to record highs during the Biden-Harris administration. This is largely attributed to the ongoing housing affordability crisis. Additionally, Biden-Harris’ disastrous open southern border policies unleashed untold millions of illegal aliens, compounding the problem as Democrat-run cities are giving free hotel rooms to illegals while their own homeless populations suffer.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development reports that homelessness is up 18% this year.
HUD’s report found 770,000 people were ‘experiencing homelessness’ on a single night in January 2024, an 18% jump from 2023 figures. This number does not include the nation’s entire homeless population because some stay with friends or family.
The figure follows a dramatic 12% rise in homelessness in 2023, and is the highest since the country began using the yearly point-in-time survey in 2007.
🇺🇸 While American tax money goes to foreign wars in Israel and Ukraine..
This is America!
A pandemic of poverty, homelessness, mental illness, and drug abuse.
“Migration had a particularly notable impact on family homelessness, which rose 39% from 2023-2024,” HUD wrote in the report.
HUD continued, “In the 13 communities that reported being affected by migration, family homelessness more than doubled. Whereas in the remaining 373 communities, the rise in families experiencing homelessness was less than 8%.”
Massively concerning is that 150,000 children experienced homelessness, a 33% jump in 2024 when compared to the prior year. The report does not separate the number of homeless immigrants vs. US citizens.
Robert Marbut Jr., the former executive director of the US Interagency Council on Homelessness from 2019 to 2021, told AP News the latest HUD figures over the past four years are “disgraceful.”
“We need to focus on treatment of substance use and mental illness, and bring back program requirements, like job training,” Marbut said in an email response to the media outlet.
While homelessness rose 18% in 2024, Democrat-run cities were giving free hotels to illegal immigrants.
Besides Biden-Harris importing the third world to the first world and the worsening housing affordability crisis amid the government-sparked inflation storm, HUD blamed some of the homelessness on natural disasters.
HUD’s data is nearly a year old, and both the housing affordability crisis and illegal alien invasion have persisted.
Of note, more than half of people experiencing homelessness nationwide resided in just four states: California, New York, Florida, and Washington.
Hey @BernieSanders why is homelessness so much worse in blue states with the policies you advocate versus red states with policies that encourage getting a job?
It’s not just that this story was relevant before the election and they waited, it’s that they’re back to using “homeless” instead of “unhoused.” https://t.co/0V9xn1U8Oa
All over America, our core urban areas are teeming with tent cities, hordes of homeless drug addicts, and vast throngs of newly arrived migrants that don’t have anywhere to go. When I wrote about this topic one year ago, homelessness in the U.S. was at an all-time record high, and it was increasing at the fastest pace ever recorded. It was going to be hard to top that, but somehow we did. Fast forward to today, and homelessness in the U.S. has reached another all-time record high, and it is increasing at an even faster pace. We are literally in the midst of the worst homelessness crisis that our federal government has ever measured, and there is no end in sight.
When the rest of us discuss the economic pain that we are experiencing, many on the high end of the economic spectrum wonder what all the fuss is about because things still seem pretty good to them.
But for many of those on the low end of the economic spectrum, it feels like a full-blown economic collapse has already begun.
On Friday, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development revealed that the homeless population in the U.S. jumped 18 percent in just one year…
Homelessness in the United States soared to the highest level on record, according to government data released Friday.
More than 770,000 people experienced homelessness in 2024, an 18% increase from 2023, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development reported. It was the largest annual increase since HUD began collecting the data in 2007 (excluding the jump from 2021 to 2022, when the agency didn’t conduct a full count due to the Covid-19 pandemic).
If homelessness is at the highest level ever and it is rising at the fastest rate ever, your economy is not okay.
Let’s just be real for a moment.
I am so sick and tired of the Biden administration and the mainstream media telling us that everything is just fine.
More than three-quarters of a million Americans are homeless, and that is just the ones that they are able to find and count.
The true number is certainly far higher.
We are being told that the spike in homelessness is happening because we don’t have enough affordable housing and because we are not able to absorb all of the migrants that have been pouring over our borders.
Migration had a particularly notable impact on family homelessness, which rose 39% from 2023 to 2024, according to the report. In the 13 communities that reported being affected by migration, family homelessness more than doubled.
When we think of the homeless, we tend to think of older men with addiction problems.
Massively concerning is that 150,000 children experienced homelessness, a 33% jump in 2024 when compared to the prior year.
What is wrong with us?
Why can’t we get this crisis under control?
Our politicians like to give speeches about affordable housing, but housing just continues to become more unaffordable…
Rents have continued climbing since briefly dipping lower during the pandemic, as well. As of 2023, nearly half of renters spend more than 30% of their income on housing, qualifying them as cost-burdened, according to the US Census Bureau.
Every day, more precious people on the low end of the economic spectrum are being evicted from their homes.
Every day, the homeless population in this country just gets even bigger.
US private sector full-time jobs have DROPPED by nearly 2 MILLION over the past year.
Such a drop has never happened outside of recessions.
The only gain in full-time jobs has been in the government sector.
We aren’t buying the propaganda any longer.
They keep trying to convince us that everything is just fine, but that clearly isn’t the truth.
When Don Lemon tried to convince a random man that he was interviewing that the economy “is actually better under Biden”, the man responded with a “hearty laugh”…
“Four years ago it was a lot better. I made a lot more money than I do now,” the man said.
Incredibly, rather than try to understand the man’s perspective, Lemon argued with him.
“I know you feel that way, but that’s not actually what the record shows,” Lemon said. “The economy is actually better under Biden.”
That prompted a hearty laugh from the interviewee.
We can see the tent cities that are popping up like mushrooms all over our major cities.
We can see the hordes of people that are sleeping in their vehicles in retail parking lots at night.
And we can see that prices at the grocery store are far, far higher than they used to be.
According to a national survey that was just released, approximately 70 percent of U.S. adults believe that the U.S. economy is in poor condition right now…
About 7 in 10 U.S. adults rate the country’s economic state as very or somewhat poor, up slightly from about 6 in 10 in October. Self-identified Democrats are primarily driving the recent negativity. About 6 in 10 Democrats described the U.S. economy as “good” in October. With Republicans on the verge of controlling the executive and legislative branches, only about half of Democrats say that now.
That same survey also discovered that about a third of all U.S. adults are either “extremely” or “very” concerned about being able to “afford groceries over the next few months”…
The new AP-NORC poll shows about one-third of Americans say they are “extremely” or “very” concerned about their ability to afford groceries over the next few months. About 3 in 10 are highly worried about being able to afford holiday gifts, gas or electricity.
There are tens of millions of Americans that are barely holding on from month to month.
But for now, those on the high end of the economic spectrum are still living the high life, but it is just a matter of time before they experience severe economic pain too.
Homelessness in the United States has hit the highest level ever recorded as billions of taxpayer dollars are repeatedly shipped to foreign nations.
Despite these problems at home, the United States has sent a total of $106 billion in aid to Ukraine and about $310 billion in total economic and military assistance to Israel since its founding.
“The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) tallied more than 770,000 people experiencing homelessness on a single night in January 2024, an 18 percent increase from 2023 that is likely an undercount,” The Hill reports.
The number of families with children experiencing homelessness also jumped 39 percent — meaning 150,000 children are out on the streets.
“Veterans were the only population where homelessness continued to decline, down 8 percent from 2023. The number of veterans experiencing homelessness has fallen 55 percent since HUD started collecting data on veteran homelessness in 2009,” the report noted.
HUD Acting Secretary Adrianne Todman released a statement about the surprising figures, saying, “No American should face homelessness, and the Biden-Harris Administration is committed to ensuring every family has access to the affordable, safe, and quality housing they deserve.”
“We at HUD deeply appreciate the work of our continuums of care and other community partners to end homelessness, especially given the challenges of 2023,” said Marion McFadden, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development. “You are critical to the success of HUD’s mission to create strong, sustainable, inclusive communities and quality affordable homes for all.”
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