Ever wonder what like was like for kids in Victorian-era UK and US? Under Trump’s HHS, our kids may just find out. Cuts to vaccines, Medicaid, school meals, and child labor protections could take us back to a time when children were sick, hungry, and exploited. time.com/7283126/trum... - ThreadSky

altcdc.altgov.info • 25 days ago

Ever wonder what like was like for kids in Victorian-era UK and US? Under Trump’s HHS, our kids may just find out. Cuts to vaccines, Medicaid, school meals, and child labor protections could take us back to a time when children were sick, hungry, and exploited.

https://time.com/7283126/trump-white-house-childrens-health/

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altcdc.altgov.info•25 days ago

The Trump regime‘s agenda includes:
-Slashing Medicaid (used by nearly half of U.S. kids)
-Gutting vaccines for children
-Weakening the CDC and HHS
-Cutting SNAP and school lunches
-Loosening child labor laws

altcdc.altgov.info•25 days ago

These aren’t just budget decisions—they’re a blueprint for neglect. The kind we saw in the 19th-century: disease outbreaks, child hunger, toxic air, and kids in dangerous jobs.

altcdc.altgov.info•25 days ago

We’ve seen what happens when we abandon public health and child protections. We don’t need to imagine a dystopia—it already happened once. It was called the Victorian era. Let’s not go back.
https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/50139/explore_and_discover/1609/life_for_children_in_victorian_britain

daughterofwitches.bsky.social•25 days ago

Add they want us to have babies in this environment.

Well they want white women to have babies.

Not going to happen.

thomasafranz.bsky.social•25 days ago

As an Old Gods of Appalachia fan, I know full well the horrors we put kids through barely two generations ago in the mines. I think The Boy should be paying some of these lawmakers a visit.

polittlecat.bsky.social•25 days ago

the Gilded Age when corruption and abuse of power was rampant and unchecked. Exactly why the laws and regulations they are gutting were passed.

firehawk46064.bsky.social•25 days ago

Trump's family made a lot of money exploiting mine workers back in the old days.

No unions is key to exploiting child and common labor.

The massive anti-union push will be ramped up next.

#rejectrepublicans

soniachawla.bsky.social•25 days ago

And these policies and their disastrous effects will disproportionally affect children from less-resourced households and communities.

brelknight.bsky.social•25 days ago

That’s the problem with kids today they don’t spend enough time in the mines smoking pipes getting black lung. And looking like 90 year old men at 12…..

firehawk46064.bsky.social•25 days ago

peregrinamom-sandy.bsky.social•25 days ago

Maddening and cruel.

adoboblue.bsky.social•25 days ago

His policies are basically a death sentence for our citizens. 😢😢

tiffany-greeneyes.bsky.social•25 days ago

They’re also rolling back child labor laws. The attack on the department of education is bad enough, now I’m waiting for “SunKissed Vocational Boarding Elementary” and “Monsanto Agricultural Immersion High School” where parents can pay $1,000 more than their vouchers for their kids to work for free

missfrijole.bsky.social•25 days ago

Yes, but their fingers are just the right size to screw in those tiny screws on mobile devices! And who else can crawl into small holes to dig up some coal?! We NEED all that "clean" coal to power all the AI server centers!