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Posted by OutOfHere 1 day ago

US will start revoking passports for parents who owe child support(apnews.com)
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goofy_lemur 19 hours ago|
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novia 18 hours ago|
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reenorap 1 day ago||
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tgv 1 day ago||
Idk, but it may also be a ploy to disfranchise voters (if a passport is required to vote), as this hits Democrats voter potential harder.
actionfromafar 1 day ago|||
That's really clever and may be the reason why the limit is so low.
remarkEon 1 day ago|||
Democrats tend to be deadbeat dads? What?
mschuster91 1 day ago|||
They are probably referring to a study suggesting that Black and Hispanic families are more often suffering from non- or underpayment of child support (and from lesser amounts of support being ordered) than among White families [1]. That together with voter demographics going strongly for Democrat support among Black families [2] makes this at least a correlation supported by facts.

However, I think it is not causal because under- or nonpayment of child support is linked to financial difficulties and income disparities, which non-White people are experiencing at significantly higher rates.

[1] https://www.irp.wisc.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/CSRA-...

[2] https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/04/09/partisanship...

tgv 1 day ago|||
Poverty is the underlying factor.
testfrequency 1 day ago||
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tgv 1 day ago|||
Pew Research (2024) says: About six-in-ten voters with lower family incomes (58%) associate with the Democratic Party, compared with 36% who affiliate with the Republican Party.
testfrequency 1 day ago||
You should check the exit polls from 2024 if you want to go back that far then.

Republicans won the vote for the under $100k bracket.

marcusverus 1 day ago||
Both can be true. Democrats tend to dominate the lowest income quintile, while Republicans tend to win the second and third quintiles. So if you're only looking at the bottom quintile, Democrats would win that cohort. If you combine the bottom three quintiles, Republicans would win it.
testfrequency 1 day ago||
That doesn’t make sense either. Democrats won the popular vote of the $100k+ crowd in 2024.

And of course if can be both, I said this in a separate response that this isn’t a black and white conversation, which is why I responded to begin with to the responder.

actionfromafar 1 day ago|||
What are you making an argument for or against?
testfrequency 1 day ago||
It’s not threaded here but the responder made a comment about this affecting liberals more than anyone, to which I countered by saying statistically conservative states suffer more from poverty.

Fully aware it’s not as a black and white as this, but on surface they are just wrong to tie a political party to poverty when it affects everyone.

NoMoreNicksLeft 1 day ago||
Think the original language is 1996 and Clinton. Or, more properly, I guess, Gingrich. I don't know all the details, saw that somewhere else and can't remember where.
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