Donald Trump’s unpopularity hasn’t translated into working-class people trusting Democrats to have their backs. In @thenation.com , I write about why—and what it would look like for politicians to rebuild trust by actually listening to workers. #Listen2Workers www.thenation.com/article/poli...

“If enacted, this would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in U.S. history.” Read more from @bbkogan.bsky.social on the house Republican budget bill: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...

History repeating itself--and it's a history I'd imagine most folks are not aware of.... www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

A few more words about this story: We spent a lot of time rereading the NIH document rolling out this policy. The numbers in it do not add up. The language is vague. NIH would not answer our questions about it. These are recurring features of memos proposing sweeping change under the new admin.

📌BREAKING: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been wiped off the Web. 📌MISSION: To protect consumers from unfair, deceptive, or abusive practices and take action against companies that break the law. We arm people with the information. 📌The working class of the U.S. are under attack.

I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze. I worked at an organization that -helped veterans who have lost a limb -Assisted elderly and disabled people -Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs

Hasn't gotten much attention, but CA has quietly created the largest #BabyBonds program in the country--for foster youth & kids who lost a parent to COVID. This writer--a former foster youth herself--has been involved in creating the program and has a hell of a story. www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...

BREAKING: New lawsuit challenges Trump's anti-diversity executive orders, alleging Spending Clause, vagueness (Due Process), free speech (First Amendment), and separation of powers violations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Love this take from @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social. "Optimistic" is too strong a word, but maybe encouraging. If one of your tactics for surviving Trump is looking for hope, as it is for me, then give a listen. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

If you grow up poor in the US, your odds of being poor in adulthood are two to four times higher than other high-income countries like Denmark, Germany and UK. #TalkPoverty @abdallahfayyad.bsky.social link.vox.com/view/67229ec...

So, uh, what's going on here?

Appreciated this good convo between @staceyabrams.com & @booker.senate.gov --on the scale of the challenge before us & how to fight back with love, righteous anger, empathy, organizing, & fortitude. Includes practical tips for all of us. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

Trump firing the head of the CFPB is his latest attack on consumers & his latest gift to his billionaire CEO friends. The CFPB has returned billions to people who have been victims of financial schemes. We will fight like hell to ensure it can continue to protect working people.

Translation: We want to privatize everything.

A three-year old, his mother, and his grandmother were speaking Spanish while shopping in Milwaukee. They’re U.S. citizens from Puerto Rico but were taken by ICE. Once in detention, the mother was able to produce ID and birth certificates proving citizenship: www.telemundopr.com/programas/di...

Just days after Trump returned to the White House, Instagram is censoring abortion content. This is what Aid Access' account looks like right now - posts about how to get abortion medication has been blurred out.

Stealing food stamp benefits from recipients is a huge problem due largely to EBT cards lacking microchips. That’s why the federal government used to reimburse people. But the new policy ends that, in essence telling families: Tough luck. READ @devongray.bsky.social in @thenation.com bit.ly/4jo1l0v

Important work educating undocumented communities about their rights in preparation for Trump insanity. youtu.be/m93HsvIYDNg?...

And we will see the pressure cooker of poverty grow more intense as Trump throws people off Medicaid and food assistance, and prices likely increase with tariffs.

Oh, this is problematic: “Trump issued an order short-circuiting the security clearance vetting process for his White House staffers. Anyone on a list submitted by his White House counsel is to “immediately” be granted a Top Secret/Secure Compartmented Information-level clearance good for 6 months.”

"Without major zoning changes to allow [dense] urban development, the crisis could instead accelerate displacement as middle and working-class families are forced out of uninsurable areas with nowhere affordable to go." www.vox.com/housing/3950...

Around 10,000 Latinos worked in the evacuation zones of the Palisades, making up 34 percent of the work force www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/u...

Shimica Gaskins is a brilliant person, writer, & fierce advocate for children in poverty. Here she writes about growing up poor, fulfilling a dream to own a home in Altadena, and then losing it. The piece includes ways to help Altadena rebuild. #Altadena www.endchildpovertyca.org/give-to-alta...

Will Black Working- and Middle-Class People be able to Rebuild in Altadena? Zero interest loans might be a good way to start. apnews.com/article/cali...

This is nuts: To sign up for Medi-Cal, many low-income seniors in California must meet tight income restrictions that allow them to keep only $600 of their monthly income. The rest of their income must go toward medical care. calmatters.org/health/2025/...

“Either you can afford a root canal, or you can have a creatively fulfilling career.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/28/o...

Good stuff from Dustin Guastella www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"lower-income renter households continue to bear the brunt of the affordability crisis...In 2023, lower-income renters (<$30k) dedicated a staggering 80% of their household incomes to rent and utilities, compared to 60% in 2001 and 68% in 2019." From @airbrycki.bsky.social @harvard-jchs.bsky.social.

Worth signing up for @abdallahfayyad.bsky.social newsletter Within Our Means, focused on US poverty and solutions. Latest is on public housing: link.vox.com/view/67229ec...

For too many years, no statistic, not even homeless children, has been sufficient to move the Democrats who run New York to risk real political capital to start building housing. It turns out that takes political competition. www.nytimes.com/live/2024/12...

#OnThisDay in 1967, #MLK announced creation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s Poor People’s Campaign. “It must not be just Black people, it must be all poor people. We must include American Indians, Puerto Ricans, Mexicans and even poor whites.” mississippitoday.org/2024/12/04/o...

Georgia could have just expanded Medicaid to cover most of its low-income population. Instead it instituted a strict work requirement, and the program has enrolled less than 6,000 people for a cost of $58 million. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

You hear a lot more about people stealing a stick of deodorant from a drug store than corporations stealing millions from their workers

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