Hiring a postdoc Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy to work w/me to engage w/communities & policy processes. This is a great position for anyone (1) still looking for a position for next year (2) who cares about making research relevant to real people & communities. Apply! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27543

My latest blog shows how far along states were w/ Medicaid unwinding at the end of 2023. Based on this data, I am very worried about kids in Georgia -- as there was a 300k net decline in Medicaid/CHIP enrollment and the state was only half way done. ccf.georgetown.edu/2024/05/14/whi…

PERMANENT DIRECT FILE BITCHES home.treasury.gov/news/press-rel…

If a politician proposed taxing disabled people $8000 for getting married, people would dismiss it as absurd and mean spirited — but this is what we've done with poorly designed means-testing

Just 4,318 people are enrolled in Georgia's Medicaid expansion with a work requirement . Regular Medicaid expansion would cover 482,000 people. apnews.com/article/medica…

A MUST READ by the LPE Project’s own brilliant K. Sabeel Rahman on reclaiming a vision of administrative state capable of getting us to an equitable, inclusive, and sustainable economy in the wake of the Supreme Court’s unprecedented power grab! lpeproject.org/blog/after-che…

People who lose work due to a natural disaster but are ineligible for regular UI need to know about Disaster Unemployment Assistance - help spread the word: disasterassistance.gov/get-assistance…

New from Center on Budget & @VickiTuretsky. Receiving child support payments increases family income & is assoc. w/ positive benefits for children. But, current & former #TANF families don't always receive their payments. States have options to change this: cbpp.org/research/incom…

For my first reported piece for The 51st I wrote an eviction defense guide for D.C. residents. Share with a friend or a neighbor who might be facing an eviction.

USDA says its making progress in moving SNAP to more secure cards — which could help tamp down yearslong problems with scammers stealing millions in benefits — but it doesn’t have a timeline for a full transition to new cards nationwide.🚨 nextgov.com/digital-govern…

A quarter million people have lost Medicaid since the unwinding began in April 2023. This is the story of two of them, a brother and sister who both qualified and yet both lost their coverage, and how it upended their lives. thebaffler.com/salvos/the-unw…

Georgia's Medicaid program that has a strict work requirement has enrolled less than 5,200 people and cost $58 million thenation.com/article/societ…

If you live in Ohio or know someone who does, pls consider submitting a public comment on a proposed Medicaid waiver to require work reporting requirements A terrible policy which only adds costly red tape/takes away health care from people who need it policymattersohio.org/blog/2024/12/2…

AI has crept into nearly all government benefit systems, determining whether and how much people will get fastcompany.com/91265363/state…

In just the week before Trump took power, CFPB: - ordered Equifax to pay $15M - ordered a major auto lender to return $10M to customers - ordered CashApp to refund $120M to customers - sued Capital One for cheating people out of interest payments This week it's closed.

Happy Congressional recess week! In honor of it, I put together a tracker of every vote the US House has taken so far this year. Which Democrats are standing up to Trump's agenda and which are being willful accomplices? docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

the sound you hear is every Republican on the ballot in Virginia in November collectively wincing

HHS's decision to cancel pilot projects for 5 states under the #TANF program is a major setback for low- income families. In his recent blog, my colleague Nick Gwyn explains why this is a big deal: cbpp.org/blog/hhs-halts…