What these changes look like in raw dollar terms, per CBO analysis of GOP budget bill: Typical household in bottom income decile loses ~$1,600 annually. Typical household in richest income decile gains ~$12,000 annually.

New analysis from the Congressional Budget Office on the distributional impacts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. After the tax cuts, spending cuts and other impacts, average household resources will decline for the lowest earners and rise substantially for the highest earners.

The poverty team at Columbia ran the numbers on *just* the Thrifty rollback and *just* on families with kids and found that for every $1 in cuts ("savings"), we all lose $14-20. My goodness. povertycenter.columbia.edu/sites/povert...

So thankful to get to work with and learn from Dr. Gonzalez, an expert in youth development and on why storytelling matters. So excited for this book!

Apropos of nothing I feel like one of the most important things to help your kids develop is an ability to self-regulate.

NYT: ".. Nearly a quarter of consumers using buy now, pay later loans finance groceries, up from 14 percent a year ago." @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/b...

Ok folks, we know work requirements reduce benefits without increasing work (cc: @chloeneast.bsky.social) But who loses benefits and what happens if work requirements are reversed? New evidence from linked SNAP-Medicaid data and a natural experiment in CT tell a concerning story... Thread below 👇

Volatility in employment and hours is endemic in the service sector. Under current and proposed work requirements, this means that low-income workers could lose access to basic needs programs because of factors often out of their control—even if they work enough hours across the year on average.

New macro-empirical research finds that every dollar invested in non-defense public R&D yields $1.40–$2.10 in economic output, and since World War II, government funding has driven roughly 20% of U.S. productivity.

House budget bill would lead bottom income quintile to lose ~4% of their income on average ($800), but top percentile would see their incomes rise 4% (nearly $70,000). If tariffs remain in place, the overall impact on families would be even more regressive. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/dis...

Ticket punched. 🎫 Here's the highlights from the @pwhlcharge.bsky.social’s series-ending win over first seed Montréal Victoire last night!

We cannot harm those deemed “undeserving” without also harming many who are supposedly “deserving.” These false dichotomies serve only the most wealthy/elite. MLK was on point when he said that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” We ignore that wisdom to our own peril.

A South Dakota woman planned to get prenatal care and deliver her baby 10 minutes from home, but she’s driving more than three hours round trip. More than 100 rural hospitals have stopped delivering babies since 2021, resulting in tough choices for patients. buff.ly/gtDsTaV Via @kffhealthnews.org

My how the times have changed. Tough losses for my kiddo and our favorite @thepwhl.com teams yesterday, but I loved having a hockey Mother's Day. What a game @pwhlcharge.bsky.social 🔥

Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

This study in The Lancet found that cuts to US spending on PEPFAR, the program to deliver H.I.V. and AIDS relief abroad, could cost the lives of 500,000 children by 2030. Half a million kids. Kids. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-04...

With news that the US economy is shrinking, who is most affected by recessions? The same populations that already rely on Medicaid, SNAP, & Head Start to meet basic needs Cutting these programs now would deepen poverty in a way that harms whole communities, most of all those directly affected

Phenomenal thread:

60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5

#FDA "as we know it is finished.... I believe that history will see this as a huge mistake." — @robcaliff.bsky.social, former agency director, says of the sweeping cuts leveled today at #HHS & its agencies. www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/h...

It’s hard for many people to see the importance of what CDC does because when it succeeds, there isn’t an outbreak. Your neighbor doesn’t overdose. Your cousin stops smoking or your child doesn’t start. Your grandmother doesn’t develop cancer. Cuts to this work would put us all at greater risk.

Torsten Slok: “Data from the Fed shows that households’ ability to come up with $2,000 for an emergency expense within the next month is at the lowest level since the survey started in Q4 of 2015. Taking into account that the CPI level today is 35% higher than in 2015, the situation is even worse.”

NC food banks, schools and farmers take a hit after Trump administration slashes funding. Funding axed for food banks and schools to buy fresh produce & meat from local farmers and producers. (Via @chantalallam.bsky.social & @daniellebattaglia.bsky.social) #ncpol www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

STARTING SOON: Join us for a Civil Eats Salon about mutual aid with Katina Parker, founder of Feed Durham, and Yasmin Ruiz, food justice co-organizer at Chicago’s Little Village Environmental Justice Organization. ➡️ buff.ly/mb52XCK

The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from local farms and ranchers, halting more than $1 billion in federal spending. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

From Ron Valdisseri, David Holtgrave and Julie Scofield: 'we are obliged to speak out about the dangers of these policies; 'silence is not an option'.” www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

Still teary after seeing my kid interact with the amazing @pwhlcharge.bsky.social players last night at open practice. A puck from Serdachny, pics with McMahon and Clark, getting to see Maschmeyer up close, and so much love from other @thepwhl.com fans and players. Full ♥️

Celebrating three fabulous student thesis defenses today with the PWHL takeover tour tonight 🏒 some tix still available Raleigh folks!

📔Just Published: Research by PFRH's Alysse Kowalski + colleagues in the journal Pediatrics sheds light on how the COVID-19 pandemic and economic support policies (like stimulus payments & expanded child tax credit) impacted #foodsecurity across U.S. households: publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...

The average American voter thinks that the government is too big but that it should spend more money on everything it does. This explains a decent share of the political chaos of this country.

Uganda’s LGBTQ population was already struggling to cope with the fallout of a harsh anti-gay law when the disruption of U.S. aid put people at even greater risk. Vital medical supplies remain scarce, and members of LGBTQ groups increasingly report feeling depressed or suicidal.

Per senior USAID official, Trump Adm actions likely to cause * up to 18m additional cases of malaria; 166k additional deaths * 200k children paralyzed with polio * 1m children not treated for malnutrition * 28k new cases of infectious disease www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...

Even before *gestures* all of this, I was quickly confronted by the fact that faculty advisors are basically shock absorbers for the crises that universities are not able or willing to address among grad students.

JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

3500 scientists, biologists and experts in human sexual development write to the US government saying that sex isn't binary www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...

I urge people to read this article from Christianity Today, especially in light of Trump's pledge to create a task force to police "anti-Christian bias." Trump and Musk just shutdown hundreds of millions of faith-based humanitarian efforts around the world. www.christianitytoday.com/2025/02/usai...

Durham resettlement office furloughs staff after Trump’s executive order on refugees. Church World Service is furloughing 2/3 of its staff due to funding cuts & a new order that indefinitely suspends U.S. Refugee Admission Program. (Via Kristen Johnson) #ncpol www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

A panel on the Treasury this Thursday, with the incredible @epopppp.bsky.social and @abenewman.bsky.social. This is not just for academics. Everyone needs to understand what's happening right now. Spread the word!

Wake County school system is opposing elimination of the US Dept. of Education as part of its proposed federal legislative agenda. District leaders are saying it will impact families, such as magnet school funding & IDEA program. #wcpss #nced #ncpol simbli.eboardsolutions.com/Meetings/Att...

The sudden pause in humanitarian & health assistance & the rapid dismantling of critical components of the humanitarian aid system supported by USG will cause an unmitigated humanitarian disaster affecting millions of the world’s most vulnerable people. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/freez...

"Silence is not an option right now" one member of CDC's top advisory board told me shortly before the group sent a sharply worded letter just now demanding to know why agency databases and websites were being taken down. They all expect to be fired. www.statnews.com/2025/02/01/c...

They removed the HIV Surveillance System website and data from cdc.gov. Just unbelievable

Mirae Kim and I write about what a spending freeze would do to social services (it's not good). theconversation.com/nonprofits-t...

The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991. Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens. As of this morning, it’s gone.

The arguments against work reporting requirements are vast, but one worth mentioning given the current context is that the cuts inevitably stem from this policy are predictably disproportionate across racial groups. I've written abt this here: read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...

Numerous studies have found a relationship between childhood socioeconomic status (CSES) and health in adulthood. In a new paper, I find this relationship varies across states, suggesting state context plays an important role in shaping health across the life course: tinyurl.com/bdactvkz

Rep. Rich McCormick defends the potential impacts of the White House's federal aid freeze on school lunch programs by suggesting that some children should be working instead of receiving free lunch.

An explainer about how health research funding happens and why this NIH funding cycle shutdown matters: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960. Until today.

Introducing Civil Eats’ Food Policy Tracker, your go-to source for daily federal food and farm updates. ➡️ civileats.com/food-policy-...