Randy Rosso
@fooddatanerd.com
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Randy Rosso (he/him). NO DMs unless I know u. No indiv donations. Food data nerd. Women’s soccer, Wash Spirit/USWNT fan. Food=human right. Trans rights are human rights.
https://open.substack.com/pub/makethemathwork
Randy Rosso (he/him). NO DMs unless I know u. No indiv donations. Food data nerd. Women’s soccer, Wash Spirit/USWNT fan. Food=human right. Trans rights are human rights.
https://open.substack.com/pub/makethemathwork
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Randy Rosso
@fooddatanerd.com
· Dec 19
dataverse.harvard.edu
🥗 monthly SNAP data (benefits, and persons and households participating) by state (including DC @dchunger.bsky.social) @fracposts.bsky.social
October 1988 through September 2025, published by FNS on December 12, 2025 (accessed today 12-19-2025)
dataverse.harvard.edu/file.xhtml?f...
October 1988 through September 2025, published by FNS on December 12, 2025 (accessed today 12-19-2025)
dataverse.harvard.edu/file.xhtml?f...
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🥗 I probably mentioned this, but I'm writing a book on hunger and poverty. It's currently sketched out to be about 600 pages! I have no idea how much time I have left on this earth, so I'm not going to post here as much as I have, focusing on the book. 600 page won't write themselves!
February 9, 2026 at 11:44 PM
🥗 I probably mentioned this, but I'm writing a book on hunger and poverty. It's currently sketched out to be about 600 pages! I have no idea how much time I have left on this earth, so I'm not going to post here as much as I have, focusing on the book. 600 page won't write themselves!
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Not at all invested in this sport, but so pleased to see Seattle beating the NE Magas in the Superb Owl!
Goooo, NOT-MAGAs!!
Goooo, NOT-MAGAs!!
February 9, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Not at all invested in this sport, but so pleased to see Seattle beating the NE Magas in the Superb Owl!
Goooo, NOT-MAGAs!!
Goooo, NOT-MAGAs!!
🥗 I just submitted my first ever application to speak at a Ted conference! It's about how to improve policy to remove barriers to escaping poverty and hunger, and why current policy remove the pathways out of poverty and instead erects new barriers (why we build the wall...)
February 7, 2026 at 4:52 PM
🥗 I just submitted my first ever application to speak at a Ted conference! It's about how to improve policy to remove barriers to escaping poverty and hunger, and why current policy remove the pathways out of poverty and instead erects new barriers (why we build the wall...)
🥗 50 years after its launch, most SSI recipients live at or below the federal poverty line.
rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/how-to-...
rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/how-to-...
How to Reduce Poverty Among SSI Recipients: Modeling the Impact of the SSI Restoration Act
Over the last year my colleague Jack Landry and I have been working to quantify the impacts and costs of a family of policy proposals meant to reform the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, a ...
rooseveltinstitute.org
February 6, 2026 at 12:38 AM
🥗 50 years after its launch, most SSI recipients live at or below the federal poverty line.
rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/how-to-...
rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/how-to-...
🥗 Participant quote from the article:
“I didn’t have to jump on some random other job that I didn’t want… [I could] pursue real career
“I didn’t have to jump on some random other job that I didn’t want… [I could] pursue real career
🥗 To the surprise of no one, giving money to people in poverty is effective and actually improves employment outcomes. Cash gave people the space to find a job that fit them. #UBI #GBI
– Young adult in Alameda County’s NET Growth Movement pilot
economicsecurityproject.org/resource/gua...
– Young adult in Alameda County’s NET Growth Movement pilot
economicsecurityproject.org/resource/gua...
Guaranteed Income and Employment in California - Economic Security Project
Guaranteed Income and the Affordability Crisis Guaranteed income (GI) provides regular, unconditional cash payments to individuals and families, offering them more resources and agency to make decisio...
economicsecurityproject.org
February 5, 2026 at 9:18 PM
🥗 Participant quote from the article:
“I didn’t have to jump on some random other job that I didn’t want… [I could] pursue real career
“I didn’t have to jump on some random other job that I didn’t want… [I could] pursue real career
🥗 To the surprise of no one, giving money to people in poverty is effective and actually improves employment outcomes. Cash gave people the space to find a job that fit them. #UBI #GBI
– Young adult in Alameda County’s NET Growth Movement pilot
economicsecurityproject.org/resource/gua...
– Young adult in Alameda County’s NET Growth Movement pilot
economicsecurityproject.org/resource/gua...
Guaranteed Income and Employment in California - Economic Security Project
Guaranteed Income and the Affordability Crisis Guaranteed income (GI) provides regular, unconditional cash payments to individuals and families, offering them more resources and agency to make decisio...
economicsecurityproject.org
February 5, 2026 at 9:15 PM
🥗 To the surprise of no one, giving money to people in poverty is effective and actually improves employment outcomes. Cash gave people the space to find a job that fit them. #UBI #GBI
– Young adult in Alameda County’s NET Growth Movement pilot
economicsecurityproject.org/resource/gua...
– Young adult in Alameda County’s NET Growth Movement pilot
economicsecurityproject.org/resource/gua...
Just cancelled my Washington Post subscription. It's a pity, because there are still some good reporters there.
www.npr.org/2026/02/04/n...
www.npr.org/2026/02/04/n...
Bezos orders deep job cuts at 'Washington Post'
The Washington Post embarked on severe cuts despite appeals by the newsroom to owner Jeff Bezos. The paper is to narrow its focus largely to politics and national security.
www.npr.org
February 5, 2026 at 3:04 AM
Just cancelled my Washington Post subscription. It's a pity, because there are still some good reporters there.
www.npr.org/2026/02/04/n...
www.npr.org/2026/02/04/n...
Phew, made it through this month's chemo (do it 5 days a month). The morning after feels like a bad hangover. Now I have 3 weeks off... just in time to start chemo infusion with an experimental drug! My life is so exciting.
No side effects last night! What a relief to sleep through the night and feel fine in the morning. Tonight's the last dose until next month. Phew, I think I'm going to pull through. :)
Last fall, the Zofran anti-nausea med kept nausea from the chemo pills a bay. Not so much with the higher dose I'm taking now. Threw up during the night and I feel awful. Two more nights of this before I get a 3-week break. Uggghhh. Cancer sucks.
February 3, 2026 at 2:43 PM
Phew, made it through this month's chemo (do it 5 days a month). The morning after feels like a bad hangover. Now I have 3 weeks off... just in time to start chemo infusion with an experimental drug! My life is so exciting.
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BATS ARE BACK, BABY!
To celebrate the reigning NWSL and North American champions, I'm proud to add Gotham FC's 2025-26 away kits to the Etsy shop. Available in two skin tones and a variety of hair styles.
Get yours now! […]
[Original post on graphics.social]
To celebrate the reigning NWSL and North American champions, I'm proud to add Gotham FC's 2025-26 away kits to the Etsy shop. Available in two skin tones and a variety of hair styles.
Get yours now! […]
[Original post on graphics.social]
February 2, 2026 at 11:15 PM
BATS ARE BACK, BABY!
To celebrate the reigning NWSL and North American champions, I'm proud to add Gotham FC's 2025-26 away kits to the Etsy shop. Available in two skin tones and a variety of hair styles.
Get yours now! […]
[Original post on graphics.social]
To celebrate the reigning NWSL and North American champions, I'm proud to add Gotham FC's 2025-26 away kits to the Etsy shop. Available in two skin tones and a variety of hair styles.
Get yours now! […]
[Original post on graphics.social]
No side effects last night! What a relief to sleep through the night and feel fine in the morning. Tonight's the last dose until next month. Phew, I think I'm going to pull through. :)
Last fall, the Zofran anti-nausea med kept nausea from the chemo pills a bay. Not so much with the higher dose I'm taking now. Threw up during the night and I feel awful. Two more nights of this before I get a 3-week break. Uggghhh. Cancer sucks.
February 2, 2026 at 2:15 PM
No side effects last night! What a relief to sleep through the night and feel fine in the morning. Tonight's the last dose until next month. Phew, I think I'm going to pull through. :)
🥗 If you want to have all these things, and have people in these jobs, but don't want them to be paid a living wage, there's a word for that: exploitation.
Because otherwise why on earth would anyone take those jobs and provide those services?
M3? I want to have musicians, coffee shops, retail stores, restaurants, nurses, teachers, and firefighters. I want them to be paid a living wage so they can live near where they work!
M3? I want to have musicians, coffee shops, retail stores, restaurants, nurses, teachers, and firefighters. I want them to be paid a living wage so they can live near where they work!
February 1, 2026 at 9:04 PM
🥗 If you want to have all these things, and have people in these jobs, but don't want them to be paid a living wage, there's a word for that: exploitation.
🥗 Axiom 1: No profession or occupation should leave you in poverty.
Axiom 2: Poverty should not exist.
Axiom 3: Every job/service we value/want to exist in our society should pay well, with good benefits and job security.
Axiom 2: Poverty should not exist.
Axiom 3: Every job/service we value/want to exist in our society should pay well, with good benefits and job security.
🥗 Related. Making Music for a Living Should Not Mean Poverty
🎶
newsletter.peoplepowerunited.org/p/making-mus...
🎶
newsletter.peoplepowerunited.org/p/making-mus...
February 1, 2026 at 9:00 PM
🥗 Axiom 1: No profession or occupation should leave you in poverty.
Axiom 2: Poverty should not exist.
Axiom 3: Every job/service we value/want to exist in our society should pay well, with good benefits and job security.
Axiom 2: Poverty should not exist.
Axiom 3: Every job/service we value/want to exist in our society should pay well, with good benefits and job security.
🥗 Related. Making Music for a Living Should Not Mean Poverty
🎶
newsletter.peoplepowerunited.org/p/making-mus...
🎶
newsletter.peoplepowerunited.org/p/making-mus...
February 1, 2026 at 8:52 PM
🥗 Related. Making Music for a Living Should Not Mean Poverty
🎶
newsletter.peoplepowerunited.org/p/making-mus...
🎶
newsletter.peoplepowerunited.org/p/making-mus...
🥗 Thank you @civileats.com! This is a very userul service.
February 1, 2026 at 7:55 PM
🥗 Thank you @civileats.com! This is a very userul service.
🥗 More thoughts on Why We Build the Wall (HadesTown)
makethemathwork.substack.com/p/work-incre...
#HadesTown
makethemathwork.substack.com/p/work-incre...
#HadesTown
Work Increasingly Doesn't Protect Against Poverty
Time for Work to Pay
makethemathwork.substack.com
February 1, 2026 at 6:06 PM
🥗 More thoughts on Why We Build the Wall (HadesTown)
makethemathwork.substack.com/p/work-incre...
#HadesTown
makethemathwork.substack.com/p/work-incre...
#HadesTown
February 1, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Also see @salaambhattiva.bsky.social’s S Paycheck Away, and support his campaign for Congress in VA’s 1st district! He’s on our side!
www.secure.actblue.com/donate/salaam
www.secure.actblue.com/donate/salaam
February 1, 2026 at 4:23 PM
Also see @salaambhattiva.bsky.social’s S Paycheck Away, and support his campaign for Congress in VA’s 1st district! He’s on our side!
www.secure.actblue.com/donate/salaam
www.secure.actblue.com/donate/salaam
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Again I say to you,
The GOP doesn't want you to do the math.
The GOP doesn't want you to do the math.
Conservatives: I don’t want Medicare for all, I’m fiscally conservative.
Me: my brother in America, the head of Medicare makes $200k. The heads of of health insurance companies are making over $16 million each. Medicare for all IS fiscally conservative.
Me: my brother in America, the head of Medicare makes $200k. The heads of of health insurance companies are making over $16 million each. Medicare for all IS fiscally conservative.
January 31, 2026 at 11:02 AM
Again I say to you,
The GOP doesn't want you to do the math.
The GOP doesn't want you to do the math.
🥗 “millions of people are just one medical bill, one missed paycheck, one rent hike away from becoming homeless.” (Author Brian Goldstone on LinkedIn)
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645871...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645871...
There Is No Place for Us by Brian Goldstone: 9780593237168 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching”...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
February 1, 2026 at 4:17 PM
🥗 “millions of people are just one medical bill, one missed paycheck, one rent hike away from becoming homeless.” (Author Brian Goldstone on LinkedIn)
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645871...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/645871...
Last fall, the Zofran anti-nausea med kept nausea from the chemo pills a bay. Not so much with the higher dose I'm taking now. Threw up during the night and I feel awful. Two more nights of this before I get a 3-week break. Uggghhh. Cancer sucks.
February 1, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Last fall, the Zofran anti-nausea med kept nausea from the chemo pills a bay. Not so much with the higher dose I'm taking now. Threw up during the night and I feel awful. Two more nights of this before I get a 3-week break. Uggghhh. Cancer sucks.
🥗 Ya I agree with that! Of course, ditto for every other profession.
open.substack.com/pub/peoplepo...
open.substack.com/pub/peoplepo...
Making Music for a Living Should Not Mean Poverty
We’re powered by people, not corporations.
open.substack.com
January 31, 2026 at 9:10 PM
🥗 Ya I agree with that! Of course, ditto for every other profession.
open.substack.com/pub/peoplepo...
open.substack.com/pub/peoplepo...
Ahem.
"1,211 people were arrested on charges of drug sales or manufacturing in Maine in 2014. Of those, 170 - 14.1% - were black, and almost all the rest were white."
www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
"1,211 people were arrested on charges of drug sales or manufacturing in Maine in 2014. Of those, 170 - 14.1% - were black, and almost all the rest were white."
www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
January 31, 2026 at 7:06 PM
Ahem.
"1,211 people were arrested on charges of drug sales or manufacturing in Maine in 2014. Of those, 170 - 14.1% - were black, and almost all the rest were white."
www.bbc.com/news/world-u...
"1,211 people were arrested on charges of drug sales or manufacturing in Maine in 2014. Of those, 170 - 14.1% - were black, and almost all the rest were white."
www.bbc.com/news/world-u...