Solid economic and political profile of Janesville...but in The Washington Post, not
(again) in a Wisconsin paper.
Yet it is clear
that some of Ryan’s votes and policy ideas collide with what Janesville
has been going through. When he opposed the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act, the economic stimulus package
enacted in February 2009 — less than two months after the GM plant
closed — Ryan famously derided the legislation as a “wasteful spending
spree.” He also opposed a bill in early March of that year to help
Americans avoid home foreclosures, as foreclosures back home were on the
verge of shooting up. That same winter, he voted against an expansion
of a state-federal insurance program for children, CHIP, even as
Janesville families were losing their health coverage along with their
jobs. And near the end of 2010, he voted against a child nutrition bill
that continued subsidies for school lunches, even though the share of
Janesville schoolchildren qualifying for such subsidies has doubled in
the past few years to about 50 percent.
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