A direct link to the 2024 early voting tracker for those who don't want to click through to it election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/202…

A well-deserved congratulations to the The Lawrence Times!

.Dept. of Agriculture moves to ban school lunch payment processing fees for low-income families after a @CFPB report showed families were paying $100 million annually in fees to deposit money for their children's meals online. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024/1…

I hadn't quite realized that federal employment as a share of the population is around a multi-decade low

The number of deaths caused by alcohol-related diseases more than doubled among Americans between 1999 and 2020, according to new research. Alcohol was involved in nearly 50,000 deaths among adults ages 25 to 85 in 2020, up from just under 20,000 in 1999. nyti.ms/410Xhg6

Provisional 2024 CDC data show a promising decline in drug overdose deaths. Jan Hoffman and Noah Weiland report on the changing trend: nytimes.com/2024/11/21/hea…

Can you guess what happens when you provide homeless people with housing? ... ... ... ... Well.... can you? ... ... ... ... Oh all right, I'll tell you. You reduce crime, increase employment, and do not increasing reliance on social benefits. by: Elior Cohen in:

🚨 NEW PAPER: When low-income Americans get $1,000/month for 3 years, what happens to their political views & behavior? The OpenResearch Unconditional income Study reveals surprising findings about the effects of income on politics... 🧵

I have an op-ed in the The New York Times today about how to reduce crime. The key idea, based on decades of strong research evidence: focus on increasing the probability of getting caught, not the punishment. nytimes.com/2024/12/07/opi…

Very glad to see this trend finally reversing

Today HUD released data showing homelessness has reached a record high in 2024, jumping roughly 120k compared to last year The jump was especially pronounced in New York, which saw a 55k increase compared to last year, and Illinois, which saw a 14k increase.

BREAKING: CBS reports that medical debt is required to be removed from credit reports of Americans

Childhood cancer death rates in the United States have declined six-fold over the last seventy years. 🧵

New article on measuring recidivism by Shawn Bushway and Megan Denver:

Medicaid saves lives. And it's a cost-effective investment too.

There were 30,000 fewer U.S. drug overdose deaths in 2024 than the year before — the largest one-year decline ever recorded. apnews.com/article/us-ove…

Crime has declined significantly since its peak in the early ’90s. Yet today, 63% of Americans say crime in the U.S. is 'extremely' or 'very serious,' a 7-point increase from 1996, when actual crime rates were nearly twice as high.

Can you guess what happens when young men are kicked off Medicaid? ... ... ... They are more likely to commit a crime. Why? In part, because they lose mental health services. "Expanding Medicaid...is a cost-effective policy for reducing crime"

Giving kids access to Medicaid... ■ decreases mortality, ■ increases employment, ■ decreases receipt of disability transfers... ...up to 50 years later. "Medicaid has saved the government **more than its original cost** and saved more than 10M quality adjusted life-years."

For the few years I've been covering jobs reports, and one sector typically rises above the rest, quietly hiring by the thousands: Health care. How taking care of humans became the biggest employer in America, and what it means for the rest of us. nytimes.com/interactive/20…