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US residents: What big domestic policy improvements have the american people won from congress in the last 30 years? (kbin.social)

submitted 11 months ago by Hegar@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Interpret improvements as you like. For me it's any large scale reforms or legislative packages designed to improve the country for all or see to the material interests of the majority without overly benefiting the elite.

Any big consumer protection, environmental, infrastructure, or other legislation from Clinton onwards that materially improved the lives of all?

Obamacare and the medicaid expansion comes to my mind. It has obviously improved people's lives but considering how broken the healthcare system remains, and that it was written by the insurance industry to undermine single-payer, it seems to me a mitigated win at best.

Gay marriage and marijuana legalisation but that was the courts and the states although i'm sure the federal government could've stood in the way had they chosen to.

I've only live here since the 2010s so that's all I can think of.

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[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago

Requiring nutritional information on food

[-] themurphy@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

That was an EU thing.

It was also cheaper for manufacturers to use the same design in both USA and Europe, which made it an easy implementation for the States.

[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Food companies actually fought the law

[-] themurphy@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

Yeah, companies always fight for themselves, and never the customers!

With that change they had to measure what they actually put into the products. That cost money, which is a great reason to discard people's health.

[-] TheGalacticVoid@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

In terms of visual design, the US labels are so much easier to understand than the EU labels. The EU/international way of labeling food seems like they just copied an Excel spreadsheet.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago

?? Nutrition labels have been on food my entire life, and I'm almost 50. Has something about them changed in the last 30 years?

[-] Hikermick@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

It wasn't law until the mid 90's. Ingredients have been around as long as I can remember but not nutritional information

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