MIDDAY POSTER: The Food Crisis Growing Under Manchin’s Watch

Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) has dashed his party’s hopes to pass their Build Back Better social safety net package before the end of the year, noting in a statement that “I have always said, ‘If I can’t go back home and explain it, I can’t vote for it.’ Despite my best efforts, I cannot explain the sweeping Build Back Better Act in West Virginia.”

Maybe it would help if he looked at the spiraling food crisis now taking place in his state, according to new census data reviewed by The Daily Poster.

Read all about it and much more in today’s Midday Poster below, exclusively for subscribers.