cover image: Project 2025’s Plan To Gut Checks and Balances Harms Rural America - Increasing taxes on Americans in rural communities

Project 2025’s Plan To Gut Checks and Balances Harms Rural America - Increasing taxes on Americans in rural communities

13 Sep 2024

Project 2025 is a plan to gut America’s system of checks and balances in order Use the QR code to to enact an extreme, far-right agenda that would hurt all Americans. [...] The plan proposes to divert these funds from public schools in order to support a private school voucher model, a centerpiece of the proposal’s “universal school choice” initiative. [...] Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy: “Children in rural communities are especially vulnerable to food insecurity … Of the counties with the highest rates of child food insecurity, 86% are rural.” Hence, Project 2025’s proposal to end the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP)—which provides free school meals to those attending schools serving a student body wherein at least 25 percent of stud. [...] Prior to the law’s passage, rural communities were nearly 15 times more likely to lack access to reliable broadband than those in urban areas, according to the Federal Communications Commission. [...] The plan blames EAS for “distorting the commercial market” and calls for “finally ending the program.” Specifically, Project 2025 proposes allowing the market to dictate commercial service in all regions, including rural communities that would otherwise not be served in the absence of EAS.
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