Instead of enacting policies that would reduce poverty & hardship, this President and the Republican majority in congress have pushed the megabill and other policies that weaken programs Census data show lifted millions out of poverty in 2024.
www.cbpp.org/blog/analyzi...

The #ChildTaxCredit lifted 2.4 million children out of poverty in 2024, but making a $2,200 credit fully refundable could have lifted 1.4 million more children, an opportunity Congress and President Trump missed. www.cbpp.org/blog/analyzi...

New Census data show that child poverty remained much higher in 2024 than in 2021, when the #ChildTaxCredit expansion & other pandemic relief sharply lowered poverty & reduced racial inequities.

Biggest Takeaway: policies matter & poverty is a policy choice!
www.cbpp.org/blog/analyzi...

In our analysis of the House bill, we showed how people in families with income above $500,000 have average annual incomes of $1.5 million. This bill will make our debt soar & increase inequality in every state. There's nothing beautiful about that. www.georgetownpoverty.org/issues/food-...

The big winners of the #BigUglyBill will be the small percentage of people who make over $500,000 per year, while millions will lose health care & food assistance. It's striking that this is particularly true even for some groups that disproportionately voted for Trump:

The numbers don’t lie. The Senate just passed a bill that takes health care & food away from the many to pay for tax cuts for the few.

These unfair trade-offs in the Senate bill are just as bad as they were in the House bill. (And it makes our debt soar!!)
www.georgetownpoverty.org/issues/food-...

The House bill will exacerbate already extreme levels of income inequality.

In Wyoming, Nevada, and Florida, the average annual income of families above $500,000 is more than 70 times the average income of families participating in SNAP or Medicaid.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Some of the figures by state show even larger disparities.

In West Virginia, 38% of people live in families participating in SNAP or Medicaid while less than 1% of people live in families with incomes above $500,000.

Go here for data for all states: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

In a new @GtownLawPovCntr analysis, we ran the numbers to reveal the unfair tradeoffs in the "big, beautiful bill" which takes health care & food away from the many to pay for tax cuts for the few.

We also ran numbers by state. The results are staggering.
www.georgetownpoverty.org/issues/food-...