The evidence clearly shows that poverty has declined dramatically as the result of the various Covid mitigation payments over the last several months. To the GOP, this is no cause for celebration. Government programs only cause dependency, they say. “Good” poverty forces people to work harder and ultimately propels them to prosperity.
In reality, minimum wage jobs are usually the gateway to more minimum wage jobs, not the middle class. That’s the point, of course. The GOP represents business owners, retirees, and investors, not workers. In a perfect right-wing world, everyone who isn’t a capitalist in one way or another would have a low-paying job with no benefits and would be completely at the mercy of employers.