@MavlutovRenat@Mylovanov Two projects: pluralism vs authoritarianism. It seems confusing because US currently is torn between the two projects under Trump administration.
This is shaping up as the most consistent finding in housing studies: Building lots of luxury housing can reduce rents at the top of the market—but the people it helps most are renters struggling to afford even the least desirable units
Writing forces your brain to coordinate memory, reasoning, and meaning-making simultaneously.
Every time you write, you rewire toward clearer thinking. Every time you let an LLM do it, you rewire toward consumption.
@DCNuge@PoPville I lived on the 16th street end. The Tivoli was still a burned out husk, guys would sell drugs on the corner, and I could afford the rent on an entry-level wage.
A reduction in the federal workforce could lead to less state revenue from income & sales taxes, says Lucy Dadayan, who studies tax policy at the federal, state & local levels for the Urban Institute, a Washington, DC-based nonprofit research organization.
https://t.co/FNm2UNSgKE
Of the 22.6 million #families who would end up with less resources under the reconciliation bill, more than half are at or below the #poverty level. New #research shows losses will far outweigh gains for the lowest-income families. https://t.co/eCzIRlAhCw
Something I’ve been watching this week is the appropriations process, especially given concerns with rescissions and other funding issues. One thing that has jumped out is funding cuts for Census. (1/7)
More facts coming out of @urbaninstitute: "How the Senate Budget Reconciliation SNAP Proposals Will Affect Families in Every US State "
- 22.3 million families will lose some or all SNAP benefits.
- 62% of the families experiencing these very large SNAP losses include children
CBO just released a dynamic estimate and the cost of OBBBA goes from $2.4 trillion to $2.8 trillion. But by convention they don’t include the costs of interest on new debt. If they do that - cost goes to $3.4 trillion. @The_Budget_Lab's comparable estimate was $3.5 trillion. 1/
Important new analysis shows the House budget bill would drive 400K children into poverty. 13 million families already in poverty would lose an average of $2,500 annually.
https://t.co/kYeuc9xTts
My new piece @Health_Affairs Forefront finds that if the House bill becomes law and enhanced premium tax credits expire on schedule, the US will see an unprecedented increase in the uninsured rate, wiping out about ~3/4 of the post-2013 decline.