It is illegal to not follow a court order and it is just wrong to delay food assistance to children, seniors, veterans, working parents, and people with disabilities.

Perhaps you've seen the news. State officials this month released new projections showing a continued — and worrying — drop in revenue. So many numbers, so much spin. How to make sense of it all? We're here to help. us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Teaching a class this morning and pointed out that one reason work requirements for Medicaid is unnecessary is that people have incredibly strong incentives to work. Even to the point where we as a society might agree that they should not have to keep working.

The Trump Administration’s assertion that it can't use SNAP’s contingency reserves for SNAP benefits is contrary to: ▪️The plain language of the law ▪️Their own (now deleted) shutdown plan ▪️Guidance from prior Administrations We have the receipts:

The reason that people are poor is that they do not have money. That's it, that's the skeet.

In Central Iowa, DMARC network of pantries will be a lifeline: dmarcunited.org/donate/

This week, I presented at a church forum in Cedar Rapids on coming SNAP and Medicaid cuts. A women in the audience literally teared up thinking about families in her community and how they would cope without SNAP next month. But, hey, sure, use it as a political weapon.

The Administration is legally required to use contingency reserves to fund November benefits for the 1 in 8 Americans who need #SNAP to afford groceries, despite USDA Sec. Rollins’ claim that the Administration is unable to do so. My statement: www.cbpp.org/press/statem...

#NoKings in Des Moines

If there’s one thing everybody agrees on, it’s that the tax cuts the Legislature has passed over the last handful of years were definitely going to reduce state revenue. That was the line yesterday from REC members, who met to sign off on new revenue projections.

We estimate that ACA marketplace enrollees will see their out-of-pocket premiums increase by 114% if enhanced tax credits are not extended. That translates to an average premium increase of $1,016 per enrollee. www.kff.org/affordable-c...

Popular superintendent of Iowa’s largest school district abducted by ICE

I truly have no words.

LOOK AT THIS CHART. TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH DIDN'T DROP THE CHILD POVERTY RATE IN 2021. GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS DID. SNAP. THE CHILD TAX CREDIT. MEDICAID. CHILD POVERTY RATES ARE GETTING WORSE AND THE PEOPLE IN CHARGE ARE NOW CUTTING SNAP AND MEDICAID TO GIVE THE RICH TAX BREAKS.

My funniest friend nails it.

happy labor day

The Republican tax and spending law cuts federal Medicaid spending in rural areas by $137 billion over a decade, much more than the temporary $50 billion rural health relief fund.

So we will cut food assistance that helps families obtain healthy food? [blinks in confusion]

Said some stuff. Pretty mad and sad.

AOC: "On this point of tax on tips, as one of the only people in this body who has lived off of tips, I want to tell you a little bit about the scam ... the cap on that is $25,000 while you're jacking up taxes on people who make less than $50,000 across the US ... while kicking them off the ACA."

The U.S. is debating the federal budget bill, which will cut thousands of Iowans off #Medicaid and SNAP, right now. How many people are at risk of losing health care and food assistance in your county? Explore our interactive data tool here: www.commongoodiowa.org/data/medicai...

Senate Republicans made a horrible House bill even worse. House Republicans should step back & find the courage to say no to any bill that would raise costs & take health coverage & food assistance away from people struggling to afford the basics.

Senate Republicans saw the impacts of the House bill and chose to double down. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Iowa is home to two of those House Rs who could make all the difference.

States' ability to fully pay this amount determines whether low-income families can still get SNAP. But how is any state supposed to plan & budget for a huge unfunded mandate that can also vary by *hundreds of millions of dollars* year-to-year based on miniscule fluctuations in one program metric?

The Senate bill would make the bottom 40% of America, on avg, poorer It would take from the poor while giving to the rich This isn’t shared sacrifice where everyone tightens their belts. The poor have to tighten their belts while the rich loosen theirs Stunning graph from @budgetlab.bsky.social

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The truth is clear — the Senate Republican reconciliation bill will hurt people in every state if enacted. Senators who vote for it are responsible for its impact ⬇️

Lots of false claims that the bill will somehow strengthen Medicaid for the most vulnerable including seniors/people with disabilities. Not only do the cuts directly harm those groups but virtually none of the spending cuts in House bill are reinvested in #Medicaid & instead go to offset tax cuts.

NEW: @kff.org estimates show that federal #Medicaid spending in rural areas could decrease by 15% ($119 billion) based on the House reconciliation language, which is far more than the $15 billion that has been suggested for a rural health fund. www.kff.org/policy-watch...

We used monthly survey data to take a closer look at the potential implications of #Medicaid work requirements for adults without dependent children. Adults ages 50-64 are at greater risk of losing Medicaid coverage for not meeting the new requirements. www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...

Funny how people who are about to lose their Medicaid coverage should "get over it"—but god forbid we tell the billionaires they can't have their tax breaks.

Absolutely shameful.

The utter contempt

One strategy offered by pronatalists is to increase the child tax credit. But what's already on the books or being considered leaves poor families behind. The pronatalist movement is really about social engineering - who should have children & which children are worthy of support. wapo.st/4leLmC2

“Seventy percent of our state’s land is in corn or soybean production. We’ve known for decades, probably close to 50 years now, that we lose a lot of nutrients from that production system,” insideclimatenews.org/news/1906202...

Senate Republicans just released their version of the GOP Tax Scam, making even deeper cuts to Medicaid than the House to fund tax breaks for billionaires. 🚨🚨🚨 www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

The bill extends and expands tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy. Meanwhile, rural families lose their health care, their food assistance — and get no meaningful tax relief in return. Read more from ESB's @gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social: www.cbpp.org/research/fed...

The GOP health plan

You have to add up all the red bars and stack them on top of each other to pay for the green bar.

GOP tax bill would cost poor Americans $1,600 a year and boost highest earners by $12,000, CBO says buff.ly/Oiza1hn

This Gen-Xer — immunized as a kid —co-signs this. Did an MMR titer at my last physical, and guess what. No immunity to measles.

Um …

Not surprisingly, Iowa is not among those states.

Well, knock me over with a feather.

“…study from the London School of Economics says 50 years of such tax cuts have only helped one group — the rich.” www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tax...

This is what "anti-DEI" means to the Trump administration. It's not "some corporate DEI measures are pointless or counterproductive," it's "women and people of color are presumptively unqualified for important government jobs"

REMINDER: Up to ~320,000 Iowans are at risk of either losing their healthcare coverage completely *or* seeing their premiums, deductibles & co-pays SKYROCKET starting in January if the House GOP budget bill is implemented That's nearly 10% of the total population of the state.

New working paper on Medicaid, based on Medicaid expansions, finds: *Medicaid reduced mortality hazard for new enrollees by 21% *expansions were cost-effective *lack of health insurance explains about 5-20% of the mortality disparity between high- & low-income Americans www.nber.org/papers/w33719