Red State RoundupPhiladelphia Inquirer national columnist Will Bunch gaslit the American public in an outrageous full-throated defense of “Bidenomics.”
Bunch’s Sept. 14 column headline speaks for itself: “The problem with ‘Bidenomics’? It didn’t go far enough.” The columnist doubled down on his absurd logic in the sub-headline: “New census data shows how ‘Bidenomics’ was helping America’s working class and poor — until a key anti-poverty program was killed.” Economists interviewed by MRC Business showed why the argument was nonsense.
The columnist attempted to bend the recent jaw-dropping Sept. 12 U.S. Census Bureau report that showed the overall U.S. poverty rate spiked 4.6 percentage points in 2022 to 12.4 percent, with the child poverty rate also more than doubling as the nation grappled with a 40-year high inflation crisis spurred on by government spending. Bunch actually tried to spin that the “main reason” for America’s poverty turmoil was Senate Republicans …