@economicsecurity.us
👇 Our statement on the Senate's disappointing deal to end the shutdown without a solution to skyrocketing healthcare costs.
#HealthcareHeist
#HealthcareHeist
November 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
👇 Our statement on the Senate's disappointing deal to end the shutdown without a solution to skyrocketing healthcare costs.
#HealthcareHeist
#HealthcareHeist
💸Philippa is a writer, artist, and breast cancer survivor who buys her own health insurance.
Right now, she pays about $724 a month for insurance. But thanks to Trump and Republicans in Congress, her bill will soon skyrocket to $1267 a month - almost DOUBLE.
#HealthcareHeist
Right now, she pays about $724 a month for insurance. But thanks to Trump and Republicans in Congress, her bill will soon skyrocket to $1267 a month - almost DOUBLE.
#HealthcareHeist
November 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM
💸Philippa is a writer, artist, and breast cancer survivor who buys her own health insurance.
Right now, she pays about $724 a month for insurance. But thanks to Trump and Republicans in Congress, her bill will soon skyrocket to $1267 a month - almost DOUBLE.
#HealthcareHeist
Right now, she pays about $724 a month for insurance. But thanks to Trump and Republicans in Congress, her bill will soon skyrocket to $1267 a month - almost DOUBLE.
#HealthcareHeist
📣 Lauren Lareau, a Bucks county resident, has a message for Republicans: go back to Washington and do your jobs. That means fixing the healthcare and food crisis for people like Lauren and her brother.
#HealthcareHeist
#HealthcareHeist
November 7, 2025 at 4:15 PM
📣 Lauren Lareau, a Bucks county resident, has a message for Republicans: go back to Washington and do your jobs. That means fixing the healthcare and food crisis for people like Lauren and her brother.
#HealthcareHeist
#HealthcareHeist
These credits help Americans getting squeezed by the affordability crisis see a doctor when they’re sick, get screened for life-threatening illnesses, and care for their mental health.
Without them, Americans will have to make impossible choices between housing, food, utilities, and healthcare.
Without them, Americans will have to make impossible choices between housing, food, utilities, and healthcare.
November 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
These credits help Americans getting squeezed by the affordability crisis see a doctor when they’re sick, get screened for life-threatening illnesses, and care for their mental health.
Without them, Americans will have to make impossible choices between housing, food, utilities, and healthcare.
Without them, Americans will have to make impossible choices between housing, food, utilities, and healthcare.
Republicans failed to extend Affordable Care Act credits that help over 22 million people get coverage.
Now, those folks are going to (literally) pay the price for the GOP’s choice to prioritize tax cuts for billionaires over public health.
Here's just a few of their stories.
#healthcareheist
Now, those folks are going to (literally) pay the price for the GOP’s choice to prioritize tax cuts for billionaires over public health.
Here's just a few of their stories.
#healthcareheist
November 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Republicans failed to extend Affordable Care Act credits that help over 22 million people get coverage.
Now, those folks are going to (literally) pay the price for the GOP’s choice to prioritize tax cuts for billionaires over public health.
Here's just a few of their stories.
#healthcareheist
Now, those folks are going to (literally) pay the price for the GOP’s choice to prioritize tax cuts for billionaires over public health.
Here's just a few of their stories.
#healthcareheist
💵 Tiffany is doing her best to make sure her family of four can get the care they need. She’s already paying too much money for her family’s health insurance: $12,000 a year! And that’s BEFORE all her out-of-pocket medical costs.
#HealthcareHeist
#HealthcareHeist
November 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
💵 Tiffany is doing her best to make sure her family of four can get the care they need. She’s already paying too much money for her family’s health insurance: $12,000 a year! And that’s BEFORE all her out-of-pocket medical costs.
#HealthcareHeist
#HealthcareHeist
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"Republicans in Washington are trying to create a false choice: either keep the government running and get your SNAP benefits OR no healthcare... you can have both. We SHOULD have both."
- @senatorhughes.com
#HealthcareHeist #SNAP #AffordableCareAct
Credit: Commonwealth Media Services
"Republicans in Washington are trying to create a false choice: either keep the government running and get your SNAP benefits OR no healthcare... you can have both. We SHOULD have both."
- @senatorhughes.com
#HealthcareHeist #SNAP #AffordableCareAct
Credit: Commonwealth Media Services
November 3, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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"Republicans in Washington are trying to create a false choice: either keep the government running and get your SNAP benefits OR no healthcare... you can have both. We SHOULD have both."
- @senatorhughes.com
#HealthcareHeist #SNAP #AffordableCareAct
Credit: Commonwealth Media Services
"Republicans in Washington are trying to create a false choice: either keep the government running and get your SNAP benefits OR no healthcare... you can have both. We SHOULD have both."
- @senatorhughes.com
#HealthcareHeist #SNAP #AffordableCareAct
Credit: Commonwealth Media Services
🩺 Janet from IL has a medical implant that costs her $580 a month - in addition her $900/mo insurance premiums and $350/mo supplemental insurance for her husband.
Without ACA tax credits, she can't afford that implant, but she definitely can't afford a $36,000 surgery to take it out either.
Without ACA tax credits, she can't afford that implant, but she definitely can't afford a $36,000 surgery to take it out either.
October 31, 2025 at 8:22 PM
🩺 Janet from IL has a medical implant that costs her $580 a month - in addition her $900/mo insurance premiums and $350/mo supplemental insurance for her husband.
Without ACA tax credits, she can't afford that implant, but she definitely can't afford a $36,000 surgery to take it out either.
Without ACA tax credits, she can't afford that implant, but she definitely can't afford a $36,000 surgery to take it out either.
1/ “When the union nurses say it’s an emergency, we mean it. On Nov 1, while the government shuts down, 42M people — our patients, families, and friends — will lose food assistance…
Kids will go hungry. Seniors will choose between medicine and meals… That’s not politics — that’s cruelty.” 🧵
Kids will go hungry. Seniors will choose between medicine and meals… That’s not politics — that’s cruelty.” 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:24 PM
1/ “When the union nurses say it’s an emergency, we mean it. On Nov 1, while the government shuts down, 42M people — our patients, families, and friends — will lose food assistance…
Kids will go hungry. Seniors will choose between medicine and meals… That’s not politics — that’s cruelty.” 🧵
Kids will go hungry. Seniors will choose between medicine and meals… That’s not politics — that’s cruelty.” 🧵
1/ 💬 In a New York Times op-ed, ESPA President Natalie Foster called out the GOP’s healthcare plan for what it is: a raw deal for Gen Z and working Americans.🧵
October 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
1/ 💬 In a New York Times op-ed, ESPA President Natalie Foster called out the GOP’s healthcare plan for what it is: a raw deal for Gen Z and working Americans.🧵
1/ Huge win! Gavin Newsom signed AB 325 into law. This means companies can no longer collude to drive up prices on basic goods by using fancy pricing algorithms. The last thing Californians need is more of their hard earned cash going to pad the pockets of greedy corporate executives.
October 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
1/ Huge win! Gavin Newsom signed AB 325 into law. This means companies can no longer collude to drive up prices on basic goods by using fancy pricing algorithms. The last thing Californians need is more of their hard earned cash going to pad the pockets of greedy corporate executives.
4/4 "The Cook County Promise—the nation's largest publicly-funded guaranteed income demonstration—has shown us exactly what cash can do for families in crisis."
- ESIL Action Director Sarah Saheb
- ESIL Action Director Sarah Saheb
July 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
4/4 "The Cook County Promise—the nation's largest publicly-funded guaranteed income demonstration—has shown us exactly what cash can do for families in crisis."
- ESIL Action Director Sarah Saheb
- ESIL Action Director Sarah Saheb
3/ It helped her heal from near-homelessness and domestic violence, find stability, and become a small business owner, and she hopes it can help other women and children heal from similar trauma.
Hear her powerful story👇
Hear her powerful story👇
July 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
3/ It helped her heal from near-homelessness and domestic violence, find stability, and become a small business owner, and she hopes it can help other women and children heal from similar trauma.
Hear her powerful story👇
Hear her powerful story👇
🚨The future of AI is being decided TODAY in the CA Assembly Privacy Committee. Our CA Director Teri Olle is testifying in support of #SB53 to create CalCompute, a public cloud that democratizes access to AI development. Let’s build an AI future that works for everyone. #CalCompute
July 16, 2025 at 6:00 PM
🚨The future of AI is being decided TODAY in the CA Assembly Privacy Committee. Our CA Director Teri Olle is testifying in support of #SB53 to create CalCompute, a public cloud that democratizes access to AI development. Let’s build an AI future that works for everyone. #CalCompute
Corporations are using digital tools to collude and raise prices, so we're taking action.
Last week, former DOJ antitrust official @dohamekki.bsky.social testified in support of AB 325, our bill to ban algorithmic price fixing in California.
Last week, former DOJ antitrust official @dohamekki.bsky.social testified in support of AB 325, our bill to ban algorithmic price fixing in California.
July 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Corporations are using digital tools to collude and raise prices, so we're taking action.
Last week, former DOJ antitrust official @dohamekki.bsky.social testified in support of AB 325, our bill to ban algorithmic price fixing in California.
Last week, former DOJ antitrust official @dohamekki.bsky.social testified in support of AB 325, our bill to ban algorithmic price fixing in California.
In a NEW op-ed, Economic Security Illinois Action Director Sarah Saheb makes the case for bold, public solutions to the affordability crisis — including public-option grocery stores.
July 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
In a NEW op-ed, Economic Security Illinois Action Director Sarah Saheb makes the case for bold, public solutions to the affordability crisis — including public-option grocery stores.
“Our country is being governed by a ruling class of elites who don’t care about everyday people.”
-CA Assemblymember Isaac Bryan
-CA Assemblymember Isaac Bryan
June 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
“Our country is being governed by a ruling class of elites who don’t care about everyday people.”
-CA Assemblymember Isaac Bryan
-CA Assemblymember Isaac Bryan
ICYMI: We gathered with community members, advocates, and lawmakers in Anaheim to sound the alarm on the Big, Ugly Tax Bill, which guts $4.5T in healthcare, food aid, and housing that working families rely on to fund tax breaks for the wealthy.
WATCH a few highlights 👇 cc: @chu.house.gov
WATCH a few highlights 👇 cc: @chu.house.gov
June 3, 2025 at 9:03 PM
ICYMI: We gathered with community members, advocates, and lawmakers in Anaheim to sound the alarm on the Big, Ugly Tax Bill, which guts $4.5T in healthcare, food aid, and housing that working families rely on to fund tax breaks for the wealthy.
WATCH a few highlights 👇 cc: @chu.house.gov
WATCH a few highlights 👇 cc: @chu.house.gov
The GOP bill benefits billionaires and pushes millions of kids into, or deeper into, poverty.
American families can’t afford for the Senate to rubber stamp it. Last night, ESPA sent a letter to Senate leadership with 330+ national, state, and local leaders urging them to oppose the bill. 1/
American families can’t afford for the Senate to rubber stamp it. Last night, ESPA sent a letter to Senate leadership with 330+ national, state, and local leaders urging them to oppose the bill. 1/
June 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The GOP bill benefits billionaires and pushes millions of kids into, or deeper into, poverty.
American families can’t afford for the Senate to rubber stamp it. Last night, ESPA sent a letter to Senate leadership with 330+ national, state, and local leaders urging them to oppose the bill. 1/
American families can’t afford for the Senate to rubber stamp it. Last night, ESPA sent a letter to Senate leadership with 330+ national, state, and local leaders urging them to oppose the bill. 1/
🚨 California legislators just took an important step to crack down on algorithmic price fixing, which allows big businesses to secretly raise prices on consumers, making essentials like groceries and housing more expensive for everyone. 1/
June 3, 2025 at 12:34 AM
🚨 California legislators just took an important step to crack down on algorithmic price fixing, which allows big businesses to secretly raise prices on consumers, making essentials like groceries and housing more expensive for everyone. 1/
🚨 House Republicans just passed a sweeping piece of anti-family legislation that guts healthcare and food assistance to pay for billionaire tax cuts.
Make no mistake: this bill is a gut punch to American families. 1/
Make no mistake: this bill is a gut punch to American families. 1/
May 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🚨 House Republicans just passed a sweeping piece of anti-family legislation that guts healthcare and food assistance to pay for billionaire tax cuts.
Make no mistake: this bill is a gut punch to American families. 1/
Make no mistake: this bill is a gut punch to American families. 1/
Childcare isn’t a luxury, it's essential infrastructure. But while families struggle to afford care, groceries, and save for the future—Republicans want to hand billionaires massive tax breaks.
We’re saying: Fund families, not billionaires.
➡️ daywithoutchildcare.org
#DayWithoutChildCare #DWOCC25
We’re saying: Fund families, not billionaires.
➡️ daywithoutchildcare.org
#DayWithoutChildCare #DWOCC25
May 12, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Childcare isn’t a luxury, it's essential infrastructure. But while families struggle to afford care, groceries, and save for the future—Republicans want to hand billionaires massive tax breaks.
We’re saying: Fund families, not billionaires.
➡️ daywithoutchildcare.org
#DayWithoutChildCare #DWOCC25
We’re saying: Fund families, not billionaires.
➡️ daywithoutchildcare.org
#DayWithoutChildCare #DWOCC25
Families are facing rising prices. Instead of offering relief, Republicans want to give more tax breaks to billionaires + corporations.
The consensus alternative from Democrats is clear: pass the #AmericanFamilyAct to permanently expand the monthly #CTC & put money back in the pockets of families.
The consensus alternative from Democrats is clear: pass the #AmericanFamilyAct to permanently expand the monthly #CTC & put money back in the pockets of families.
April 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Families are facing rising prices. Instead of offering relief, Republicans want to give more tax breaks to billionaires + corporations.
The consensus alternative from Democrats is clear: pass the #AmericanFamilyAct to permanently expand the monthly #CTC & put money back in the pockets of families.
The consensus alternative from Democrats is clear: pass the #AmericanFamilyAct to permanently expand the monthly #CTC & put money back in the pockets of families.
Earlier this month, 60 families joined ESPA, @vanessaforatx.bsky.social, @uptogether.bsky.social & Every Texan at the Texas Capitol to share stories of how cash is transforming lives because Texans want solutions that work.
March 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Earlier this month, 60 families joined ESPA, @vanessaforatx.bsky.social, @uptogether.bsky.social & Every Texan at the Texas Capitol to share stories of how cash is transforming lives because Texans want solutions that work.
🚨 TODAY: Texas lawmakers are holding a hearing on #HB530 – a statewide bill that would ban #guaranteedincome.
At a time when families face high costs, banning a proven tool that gives people the flexibility to afford necessities, finish school, or start businesses would set Texas behind. 🧵
At a time when families face high costs, banning a proven tool that gives people the flexibility to afford necessities, finish school, or start businesses would set Texas behind. 🧵
March 18, 2025 at 7:11 PM
🚨 TODAY: Texas lawmakers are holding a hearing on #HB530 – a statewide bill that would ban #guaranteedincome.
At a time when families face high costs, banning a proven tool that gives people the flexibility to afford necessities, finish school, or start businesses would set Texas behind. 🧵
At a time when families face high costs, banning a proven tool that gives people the flexibility to afford necessities, finish school, or start businesses would set Texas behind. 🧵