On Tuesday, we learned that the economy's modest improvements last year didn't help the poverty rate any or prevent income inequality from being as bad as ever. Thursday the House zeroed in on these social ills and did its damnedest to make them worse, passing massive cuts to the food stamps program that does so much to keep Americans above the poverty line.
Then this morning House Republicans moved forward on their "Defund Obamacare or the whole government gets it!" plan. Quite a week.