@ericawilli.bsky.social
Working for racial, gender, and economic justice thru fiscal policy @DCFPI. Posts are my own.
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Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Truly astounded by @mayorbowser.bsky.social. The social safety net is designed to meet basic human needs in a city with extreme racial and economic inequity, not attract residents or tourists. 🧵https://www.washingtonian.com/2025/07/08/interview-dc-mayor-muriel-bowser-her-blm-plaza-decision/
July 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Truly astounded by @mayorbowser.bsky.social. The social safety net is designed to meet basic human needs in a city with extreme racial and economic inequity, not attract residents or tourists. 🧵https://www.washingtonian.com/2025/07/08/interview-dc-mayor-muriel-bowser-her-blm-plaza-decision/
DCFPI joined other anti-poverty organizations to raise the alarm: The proposed budget will set back DC’s progress towards alleviating poverty and hurt our ability to support residents in the future. 🧵
Leaders from 20 local anti-poverty organizations, including DCFPI, sent a letter to Council to raise alarm about the proposed DC budget and the long-lasting harm it will cause to the poorest residents. www.dcfpi.org/nonprofitlea...
Anti-Poverty Leaders' Letter to the DC Council: "We are Deeply Alarmed"
We, the undersigned, write to you as leaders of long-standing organizations that work to meet the needs of DC residents with low incomes.
www.dcfpi.org
July 2, 2025 at 4:09 PM
DCFPI joined other anti-poverty organizations to raise the alarm: The proposed budget will set back DC’s progress towards alleviating poverty and hurt our ability to support residents in the future. 🧵
17 million people will lose their health coverage. For tax cuts for the wealthiest. And that’s to say nothing of the ripple effects across communities and lots of local economies. Truly mind blowing.
New Congressional Budget Office (CBO) numbers confirm what we already knew – the reconciliation bill is getting worse, not better. The Senate bill will cut health care more deeply than the House bill and leave more people uninsured. www.cbo.gov/publication/...
Estimated Budgetary Effects of an Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute to H.R. 1, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Relative to the Budget Enforcement Baseline for Consideration in the Senate
As posted on the website of the Senate Committee on the Budget on June 27, 2025
www.cbo.gov
June 30, 2025 at 12:37 AM
17 million people will lose their health coverage. For tax cuts for the wealthiest. And that’s to say nothing of the ripple effects across communities and lots of local economies. Truly mind blowing.
ICYMI: researchers out of UPenn and Yale say that the reconciliation bill's assault on health care through slashing of Medicaid and ACA coverage would cost 51,000 people their lives annually ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...
Potential Mortality Impact of the Reconciliation Bill
Colleagues from Penn LDI & Yale School of Public Health compiled research detailing the potential mortality impacts of the GOP’s Budget Reconciliation Bill
ldi.upenn.edu
June 24, 2025 at 4:48 PM
ICYMI: researchers out of UPenn and Yale say that the reconciliation bill's assault on health care through slashing of Medicaid and ACA coverage would cost 51,000 people their lives annually ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...
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"If football stadiums drove economic activity, Landover would be at least an above-average suburban destination for shopping and entertainment. Instead, the old Landover Mall site decays behind chain-link fencing roughly a mile from Northwest Stadium, the Commanders’ current home."
Another economist eschewing the idea that stadiiums yoeld growth: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The RFK megaproject promises just empty gloom. Let’s try this instead.
Rather than an expensive megaproject, D.C. should focus on an organic approach to city-building.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:44 PM
"If football stadiums drove economic activity, Landover would be at least an above-average suburban destination for shopping and entertainment. Instead, the old Landover Mall site decays behind chain-link fencing roughly a mile from Northwest Stadium, the Commanders’ current home."
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This suggests that Republicans may add yet another deeply harmful health care cut to the Senate bill – a cut that would take health coverage away from even more people, shift massive, unaffordable costs to states, & could even lead some states to end their #Medicaid expansion.
Scoop: Senate Republicans are considering a new provision that would further cut Medicaid funding in the OBBB
www.statnews.com/2025/06/23/g...
www.statnews.com/2025/06/23/g...
Senate Republicans discuss new way to cut Medicaid in Trump’s tax bill
The proposal would sharply limit federal spending on the Affordable Care Act's Medicaid expansion.
www.statnews.com
June 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This suggests that Republicans may add yet another deeply harmful health care cut to the Senate bill – a cut that would take health coverage away from even more people, shift massive, unaffordable costs to states, & could even lead some states to end their #Medicaid expansion.
Another economist eschewing the idea that stadiiums yoeld growth: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The RFK megaproject promises just empty gloom. Let’s try this instead.
Rather than an expensive megaproject, D.C. should focus on an organic approach to city-building.
www.washingtonpost.com
June 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Another economist eschewing the idea that stadiiums yoeld growth: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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While there are a few tiny improvements, overall take of Senate bill is its #Medicaid cuts are harsher than the House bill’s draconian cuts driven by new restrictions of existing provider tax cuts in expansion states and elimination of eligibility for lawfully present immigrants like refugees (19/x)
June 17, 2025 at 12:52 AM
While there are a few tiny improvements, overall take of Senate bill is its #Medicaid cuts are harsher than the House bill’s draconian cuts driven by new restrictions of existing provider tax cuts in expansion states and elimination of eligibility for lawfully present immigrants like refugees (19/x)
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Thread: Senate Republicans released initial bill language for their #Medicaid cuts. I am reading the bill now and will highlight key changes from House-passed bill. Topline is provider tax restrictions are worse, will devastate expansion state finances (1/x) www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
www.finance.senate.gov
June 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Thread: Senate Republicans released initial bill language for their #Medicaid cuts. I am reading the bill now and will highlight key changes from House-passed bill. Topline is provider tax restrictions are worse, will devastate expansion state finances (1/x) www.finance.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
New details on federal SNAP cuts: the Senate has released its own cruel proposal for massively cutting food assistance for economically struggling Americans to give tax cuts to the wealthiest, incl in DC🧵
June 12, 2025 at 5:50 PM
New details on federal SNAP cuts: the Senate has released its own cruel proposal for massively cutting food assistance for economically struggling Americans to give tax cuts to the wealthiest, incl in DC🧵
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Today, the US House is voting to strip away DC's sanctuary law. The vote violates DC residents' right to self-governance and since we don't have Congressional voting representation, we need folks outside of DC to stop them.
June 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Today, the US House is voting to strip away DC's sanctuary law. The vote violates DC residents' right to self-governance and since we don't have Congressional voting representation, we need folks outside of DC to stop them.
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A Business Activity Tax (BAT) is a simple reform that would make our tax system more equitable by ensuring that businesses operating within DC pay their fair share. We estimate that a 2 percent BAT rate could generate approximately $500 million a year.
Read more: loom.ly/zSd-OPA from @itep.org
Read more: loom.ly/zSd-OPA from @itep.org
D.C.’s Budget Crisis Demands Fairer Business Tax System
As the Washington, D.C. region heads toward a likely recession, local policymakers will need to look to new revenue sources to help lessen the pain. In D.C., lawmakers ought to adopt a simple reform t...
loom.ly
June 9, 2025 at 4:21 PM
A Business Activity Tax (BAT) is a simple reform that would make our tax system more equitable by ensuring that businesses operating within DC pay their fair share. We estimate that a 2 percent BAT rate could generate approximately $500 million a year.
Read more: loom.ly/zSd-OPA from @itep.org
Read more: loom.ly/zSd-OPA from @itep.org
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You don’t want to miss this week’s podcast episode. 👀🔥 Catch The Ward 5 Wave wherever you listen to podcasts or head to ward5.us/podcast 🎙️ Thank you to Kimberly Perry (DC Action) and Erica Williams (@dcfpi.bsky.social) for joining the conversation!
May 31, 2025 at 12:10 AM
You don’t want to miss this week’s podcast episode. 👀🔥 Catch The Ward 5 Wave wherever you listen to podcasts or head to ward5.us/podcast 🎙️ Thank you to Kimberly Perry (DC Action) and Erica Williams (@dcfpi.bsky.social) for joining the conversation!
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If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade
May 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
If this is even remotely accurate, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have killed more people in several months than the Iraq war killed in a decade
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People will lose vital healthcare coverage if Trump's budget bill passes. One estimate found that this would lead to over 20,000 avoidable deaths per year.
Oh, and a reminder that Joni Ernst is up for re-election in 2026.
Oh, and a reminder that Joni Ernst is up for re-election in 2026.
Republicans have a new talking point for gutting Medicaid and SNAP to give billionaires even more tax cuts: “We are all going to die.”
If your senator is a GOP ghoul like Joni Ernst, they need to hear from the constituents they’re betraying with Trump’s Tax Scam: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
If your senator is a GOP ghoul like Joni Ernst, they need to hear from the constituents they’re betraying with Trump’s Tax Scam: indivisible.org/resource/cal...
May 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
People will lose vital healthcare coverage if Trump's budget bill passes. One estimate found that this would lead to over 20,000 avoidable deaths per year.
Oh, and a reminder that Joni Ernst is up for re-election in 2026.
Oh, and a reminder that Joni Ernst is up for re-election in 2026.
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Musk’s time running the Department of Government Efficiency ended this week. A short tenure with long consequences.
He didn’t save trillions. Instead, he slashed science, hollowed out public services, and helped the ultra-wealthy dodge accountability. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/what-mu...
He didn’t save trillions. Instead, he slashed science, hollowed out public services, and helped the ultra-wealthy dodge accountability. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/what-mu...
What Musk's DOGE Really Cut: Trust, Safety, and Democracy - Roosevelt Institute
The American public deserves a government that is fit for purpose and delivers on its promises. But Elon Musk never intended to create that. DOGE was built on the fiction of Musk’s mastery of all thin...
rooseveltinstitute.org
May 30, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Musk’s time running the Department of Government Efficiency ended this week. A short tenure with long consequences.
He didn’t save trillions. Instead, he slashed science, hollowed out public services, and helped the ultra-wealthy dodge accountability. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/what-mu...
He didn’t save trillions. Instead, he slashed science, hollowed out public services, and helped the ultra-wealthy dodge accountability. rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/what-mu...
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Wow, here's a big change to D.C.'s sanctuary-city status: It looks like @mayorbowser.bsky.social wants to repeal the 2020 D.C. law that prohibits city agencies from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement (unless a judicial warrant is presented).
May 27, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Wow, here's a big change to D.C.'s sanctuary-city status: It looks like @mayorbowser.bsky.social wants to repeal the 2020 D.C. law that prohibits city agencies from cooperating with federal immigration enforcement (unless a judicial warrant is presented).
A budget is a moral document that shows what and who we value (and what and who we don't). It couldn't be more clear in this proposal that instead of ensuring the folks with the least get sheltered from the storm, they get left out in the cold www.dcfpi.org/press-releas...
Mayor’s Budget Leaves Residents with Fewest Resources Out in the Cold
This is not a ‘growth agenda.’ It's an inequality agenda.
www.dcfpi.org
May 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
A budget is a moral document that shows what and who we value (and what and who we don't). It couldn't be more clear in this proposal that instead of ensuring the folks with the least get sheltered from the storm, they get left out in the cold www.dcfpi.org/press-releas...
In DC an average of $44k will go to the top 1% (those w/inc over ~$1.3m) while the bottom 20% (inc under $26k) get $90 (until the tax cuts for lower inc folks expire). Paid for in part by the biggest ever cuts to health coverage and food assistance. Some serious reverse Robin Hood 💩.
The House of Reps just passed major tax legislation that would make the rich richer, & they're paying for it by slashing programs for the working-class. @itep.org's analysis shows how much will go to the wealthy while so many Americans are struggling. itep.org/analysis-of-...
Analysis of Tax Provisions in the House Reconciliation Bill: National and State Level Estimates
The poorest fifth of Americans would receive 1 percent of the House reconciliation bill's net tax cuts in 2026 while the richest fifth of Americans would receive two-thirds of the tax cuts. The riches...
itep.org
May 24, 2025 at 12:53 AM
In DC an average of $44k will go to the top 1% (those w/inc over ~$1.3m) while the bottom 20% (inc under $26k) get $90 (until the tax cuts for lower inc folks expire). Paid for in part by the biggest ever cuts to health coverage and food assistance. Some serious reverse Robin Hood 💩.
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when i was a child, my family took CHIP and food stamps. this shaped my entire orientation toward government programs (positive) in a way most pundits don't have access to. and also, not to brag, but i think my siblings and i are proof that the ROI on feeding children is very high
There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to SNAP, the federal program that provides food assistance to millions of low-income Americans.
May 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
when i was a child, my family took CHIP and food stamps. this shaped my entire orientation toward government programs (positive) in a way most pundits don't have access to. and also, not to brag, but i think my siblings and i are proof that the ROI on feeding children is very high
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There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to SNAP, the federal program that provides food assistance to millions of low-income Americans.
May 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to SNAP, the federal program that provides food assistance to millions of low-income Americans.
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Today, the House approved a budget bill that included devastating cuts to programs like SNAP and Medicare, programs that tens of thousands of people in DC rely on every day. These plans would create new cuts and barriers that would have sustained effects on the District.
May 22, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Today, the House approved a budget bill that included devastating cuts to programs like SNAP and Medicare, programs that tens of thousands of people in DC rely on every day. These plans would create new cuts and barriers that would have sustained effects on the District.
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It would also be by far the largest SNAP cuts in history, ripping food assistance away from millions, including households with children as young as seven years old.
May 22, 2025 at 12:26 PM
It would also be by far the largest SNAP cuts in history, ripping food assistance away from millions, including households with children as young as seven years old.