Liv Garahan

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[Center on Budget @CenterOnBudget]

Kathleen Romig explains via @nytimes that immigrant workers contribute significantly to Social Security's finances. Those contributions are increasingly important as the program faces a funding shortfall by 2032. https://t.co/L8PzhggC0o

[Whitney Jemison @WhitneyJemison]

Heading into Juneteenth, I've been thinking about what delayed justice costs, figuratively but also literally. @BrakeyshiaSamms can clearly read my mind! Check out her new piece outlining why tax justice is racial justice. https://t.co/N5jlxwyE6A

[Katie Bergh @Katie_Bergh]

Here's just one example of a family with two young kids who lost their SNAP benefits — or as Secretary Rollins would apparently describe it, "chose not to reapply."

https://t.co/wZlsoFKBFx

[Katie Bergh @Katie_Bergh]

There's no evidence that SNAP participation is cratering because more people are working. (Much less volunteering, which by definition doesn't pay the bills!)

But we do know that eligible people—including families with kids—are losing SNAP because of new bureaucratic obstacles.

[Dustin Pugel 🇺🇦 @dpugel]

The share of laid-off Kentuckians who have run out of benefits before they found a new job has returned to Great Recession levels.

This isn’t because things are bad right now, it’s because KY cut the number of weeks people could use benefits a few years ago.

[Liv Garahan @LivGarahan]

https://t.co/cUUrwGa6sa

[James Medlock @jdcmedlock]

In the normal tax code, you can transfer $19k within families annually with zero paperwork. And on a lifetime level, $30 million with zero tax. In the SNAP tax code, recipients have to document irregular transfers greater than $30 per quarter.
https://t.co/zFWzhvttTT

[James Medlock @jdcmedlock]

Requiring the parent of a SNAP recipient to provide a written statement clarifying that a birthday money transfer was not recurring support is so dystopian.

[Liv Garahan @LivGarahan]

3.5 million people have lost SNAP food assistance. https://t.co/CUR25dXMw2

[Katie Bergh @Katie_Bergh]

More & more eligible low-income people are losing SNAP because of H.R. 1’s bureaucratic hurdles, including this mom who has tried for months to get her family’s benefits back while working & caring for 2 young kids. Keep in mind: SNAP benefits average about $6 per person per day.

[First To Hear It @firsttohearit]

REPORTER: You mentioned that, staying on as Fed governor, you intend to keep a low profile. Could you give us a little more detail on what that looks like?

JEROME POWELL: *ducks down*

[ITEP @iteptweets]

It's no surprise that taxing the rich is a popular policy.

Americans largely agree that wealthy people and corporations don’t pay their fair share, according to @pewresearch.

[Katie Bergh @Katie_Bergh]

The President's Fiscal Year 2027 budget proposal eliminates funding for this program.

[WillPFischer @WillPFischer]

New CBPP analysis: Nearly 3.7 M people, including 1.9 M kids, would be at risk of losing rental assistance under the time limits and work requirements the Trump Administration has proposed to allow. Many could face eviction and homelessness. https://t.co/tdL6kUAzZW

[Liv Garahan @LivGarahan]

@BBKogan Was that your actual title

[Gideon Lukens @GidLukens]

Meanwhile, CBO projects that the number of people who are uninsured will rise by roughly 11 million.

[Katie Bergh @Katie_Bergh]

These new data show that 196,000 fewer kids in Arizona received SNAP in March compared to last July, when H.R. 1 became law. That's a 52% drop in 8 months.

The Arizona Cardinals' stadium has 63,400 seats. The kids who have lost SNAP in just one state would fill it 3 times over.

[ProPublica @propublica]

The DOGE team was acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time,” former SSA Commissioner Leland Dudek said.
https://t.co/TUMsqot1Do

[Brendan Duke @Brendan_Duke]

Another example of the kind of tipped worker who would be a net loser from One Big Beautiful Bill.

[Liv Garahan @LivGarahan]

@albrgr if you liked that, you'll love Gay New York by George Chauncey. Also good is Odd Girls and Twilight Lovers by Lillian Faderman - these are all sitting together on my bookshelf at this moment