Greg Kaufmann
@gregkauf.bsky.social
Former poverty correspondent for The Nation and Bill Moyers, and founder of TalkPoverty. Now fighting for solutions to the things I used to write about.
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“If enacted, this would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in U.S. history.”
Read more from @bbkogan.bsky.social on the house Republican budget bill: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
Read more from @bbkogan.bsky.social on the house Republican budget bill: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
The House Republicans' Budget Bill Guts Basic Needs Programs for the Most Vulnerable Americans to Give Tax Breaks to the Rich
The House Republican budget plan would eviscerate Medicaid and food assistance and shift resources toward the wealthiest Americans.
www.americanprogress.org
May 13, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“If enacted, this would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in U.S. history.”
Read more from @bbkogan.bsky.social on the house Republican budget bill: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
Read more from @bbkogan.bsky.social on the house Republican budget bill: www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
History repeating itself--and it's a history I'd imagine most folks are not aware of....
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Contributor: Deportation raids terrorized my family for decades — and we had papers
A 1950s federal campaign wasn't the first or the last racist campaign to hound an entire community of Mexican Americans. The scars last through generations.
www.latimes.com
March 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
History repeating itself--and it's a history I'd imagine most folks are not aware of....
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
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A few more words about this story:
We spent a lot of time rereading the NIH document rolling out this policy.
The numbers in it do not add up. The language is vague. NIH would not answer our questions about it.
These are recurring features of memos proposing sweeping change under the new admin.
We spent a lot of time rereading the NIH document rolling out this policy.
The numbers in it do not add up. The language is vague. NIH would not answer our questions about it.
These are recurring features of memos proposing sweeping change under the new admin.
NIH's proposal to cut the grants it pays for medical research will not just hurt elite coastal universities.
Who else has a lot at stake? The states of Missouri and North Carolina. The University of Texas Cancer Center. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Who else has a lot at stake? The states of Missouri and North Carolina. The University of Texas Cancer Center. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Trump’s Medical Research Cuts Would Hit Colleges and Hospitals in Every State (Gift Article)
Changes to a key funding formula will reduce research grants at hospitals and universities by billions — and may discourage future research.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2025 at 3:58 PM
A few more words about this story:
We spent a lot of time rereading the NIH document rolling out this policy.
The numbers in it do not add up. The language is vague. NIH would not answer our questions about it.
These are recurring features of memos proposing sweeping change under the new admin.
We spent a lot of time rereading the NIH document rolling out this policy.
The numbers in it do not add up. The language is vague. NIH would not answer our questions about it.
These are recurring features of memos proposing sweeping change under the new admin.
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📌BREAKING: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been wiped off the Web.
📌MISSION: To protect consumers from unfair, deceptive, or abusive practices and take action against companies that break the law. We arm people with the information.
📌The working class of the U.S. are under attack.
📌MISSION: To protect consumers from unfair, deceptive, or abusive practices and take action against companies that break the law. We arm people with the information.
📌The working class of the U.S. are under attack.
www.consumerfinance.gov
February 9, 2025 at 12:14 AM
📌BREAKING: The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has been wiped off the Web.
📌MISSION: To protect consumers from unfair, deceptive, or abusive practices and take action against companies that break the law. We arm people with the information.
📌The working class of the U.S. are under attack.
📌MISSION: To protect consumers from unfair, deceptive, or abusive practices and take action against companies that break the law. We arm people with the information.
📌The working class of the U.S. are under attack.
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I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze.
I worked at an organization that
-helped veterans who have lost a limb
-Assisted elderly and disabled people
-Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs
I worked at an organization that
-helped veterans who have lost a limb
-Assisted elderly and disabled people
-Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs
February 7, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I just lost my job, along with most of my coworkers, due to the illegal grant freeze.
I worked at an organization that
-helped veterans who have lost a limb
-Assisted elderly and disabled people
-Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs
I worked at an organization that
-helped veterans who have lost a limb
-Assisted elderly and disabled people
-Helped hospitals better treat people who have lost limbs
Hasn't gotten much attention, but CA has quietly created the largest #BabyBonds program in the country--for foster youth & kids who lost a parent to COVID. This writer--a former foster youth herself--has been involved in creating the program and has a hell of a story. www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...
An inspiring new California program establishes trust accounts for certain foster youth | Opinion
Former foster youth: “In California a new program helping foster youth reminds me we can still do great things in the Golden State.”
www.sacbee.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Hasn't gotten much attention, but CA has quietly created the largest #BabyBonds program in the country--for foster youth & kids who lost a parent to COVID. This writer--a former foster youth herself--has been involved in creating the program and has a hell of a story. www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-e...
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BREAKING: New lawsuit challenges Trump's anti-diversity executive orders, alleging Spending Clause, vagueness (Due Process), free speech (First Amendment), and separation of powers violations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 4, 2025 at 2:26 AM
BREAKING: New lawsuit challenges Trump's anti-diversity executive orders, alleging Spending Clause, vagueness (Due Process), free speech (First Amendment), and separation of powers violations. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Love this take from @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social. "Optimistic" is too strong a word, but maybe encouraging. If one of your tactics for surviving Trump is looking for hope, as it is for me, then give a listen. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Don't Believe Him
Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 02/02/2025 · 14m
podcasts.apple.com
February 3, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Love this take from @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social. "Optimistic" is too strong a word, but maybe encouraging. If one of your tactics for surviving Trump is looking for hope, as it is for me, then give a listen. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
If you grow up poor in the US, your odds of being poor in adulthood are two to four times higher than other high-income countries like Denmark, Germany and UK. #TalkPoverty @abdallahfayyad.bsky.social link.vox.com/view/67229ec...
Within Our Means is a biweekly newsletter written by Abdallah Fayyad. It interrogates how poverty manifests in the United States — how it shapes people’s lives, neighborhoods, and politics — and searches for viable solutions. Check out more of his work here.
link.vox.com
February 2, 2025 at 5:44 PM
If you grow up poor in the US, your odds of being poor in adulthood are two to four times higher than other high-income countries like Denmark, Germany and UK. #TalkPoverty @abdallahfayyad.bsky.social link.vox.com/view/67229ec...
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So, uh, what's going on here?
February 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
So, uh, what's going on here?
Appreciated this good convo between @staceyabrams.com & @booker.senate.gov --on the scale of the challenge before us & how to fight back with love, righteous anger, empathy, organizing, & fortitude. Includes practical tips for all of us. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
Cory Booker On Winning the Messaging War Against Trump with Radical Empathy
Podcast Episode · Assembly Required with Stacey Abrams · 01/30/2025 · 55m
podcasts.apple.com
February 1, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Appreciated this good convo between @staceyabrams.com & @booker.senate.gov --on the scale of the challenge before us & how to fight back with love, righteous anger, empathy, organizing, & fortitude. Includes practical tips for all of us. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
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Trump firing the head of the CFPB is his latest attack on consumers & his latest gift to his billionaire CEO friends.
The CFPB has returned billions to people who have been victims of financial schemes. We will fight like hell to ensure it can continue to protect working people.
The CFPB has returned billions to people who have been victims of financial schemes. We will fight like hell to ensure it can continue to protect working people.
February 1, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Trump firing the head of the CFPB is his latest attack on consumers & his latest gift to his billionaire CEO friends.
The CFPB has returned billions to people who have been victims of financial schemes. We will fight like hell to ensure it can continue to protect working people.
The CFPB has returned billions to people who have been victims of financial schemes. We will fight like hell to ensure it can continue to protect working people.
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Translation: We want to privatize everything.
REPORTER: With your efforts to reduce the federal workforce, are there any concerns about protecting the public?
TRUMP: Everybody is replaceable. We want them to go to into the private sector. It's our dream to have everybody almost working in the private sector.
TRUMP: Everybody is replaceable. We want them to go to into the private sector. It's our dream to have everybody almost working in the private sector.
February 1, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Translation: We want to privatize everything.
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A three-year old, his mother, and his grandmother were speaking Spanish while shopping in Milwaukee. They’re U.S. citizens from Puerto Rico but were taken by ICE. Once in detention, the mother was able to produce ID and birth certificates proving citizenship:
www.telemundopr.com/programas/di...
www.telemundopr.com/programas/di...
Familia puertorriqueña habría sido llevada a centro de detención en Milwaukee
Hermana de una de las detenidas alega que los arrestaron por hablar español.
www.telemundopr.com
January 29, 2025 at 1:52 PM
A three-year old, his mother, and his grandmother were speaking Spanish while shopping in Milwaukee. They’re U.S. citizens from Puerto Rico but were taken by ICE. Once in detention, the mother was able to produce ID and birth certificates proving citizenship:
www.telemundopr.com/programas/di...
www.telemundopr.com/programas/di...
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Just days after Trump returned to the White House, Instagram is censoring abortion content. This is what Aid Access' account looks like right now - posts about how to get abortion medication has been blurred out.
January 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Just days after Trump returned to the White House, Instagram is censoring abortion content. This is what Aid Access' account looks like right now - posts about how to get abortion medication has been blurred out.
Stealing food stamp benefits from recipients is a huge problem due largely to EBT cards lacking microchips. That’s why the federal government used to reimburse people. But the new policy ends that, in essence telling families: Tough luck. READ @devongray.bsky.social in @thenation.com bit.ly/4jo1l0v
Why Won’t the Federal Government Reimburse People Whose Food Stamps Are Stolen?
The disastrous consequences for working-class families.
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January 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Stealing food stamp benefits from recipients is a huge problem due largely to EBT cards lacking microchips. That’s why the federal government used to reimburse people. But the new policy ends that, in essence telling families: Tough luck. READ @devongray.bsky.social in @thenation.com bit.ly/4jo1l0v
Important work educating undocumented communities about their rights in preparation for Trump insanity. youtu.be/m93HsvIYDNg?...
Central Coast Leaders Empower Migrant Families Ahead of Inauguration | SoCal Matters | PBS SoCal
YouTube video by PBS SoCal
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January 22, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Important work educating undocumented communities about their rights in preparation for Trump insanity. youtu.be/m93HsvIYDNg?...
And we will see the pressure cooker of poverty grow more intense as Trump throws people off Medicaid and food assistance, and prices likely increase with tariffs.
"10 of the 12 states with the stingiest TANF cash benefits also have the harshest abortion restrictions." www.georgetownpoverty.org/issues/state...
States with Abortion Bans Have the Stingiest TANF Cash Benefits - Georgetown Center on Poverty and Inequality
overturned nearly three years ago, ending the federal constitutional right to abortion. The consequences of lost access to this essential care have been devastating. States with abortion restrictions ...
www.georgetownpoverty.org
January 21, 2025 at 4:47 PM
And we will see the pressure cooker of poverty grow more intense as Trump throws people off Medicaid and food assistance, and prices likely increase with tariffs.
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Oh, this is problematic: “Trump issued an order short-circuiting the security clearance vetting process for his White House staffers. Anyone on a list submitted by his White House counsel is to “immediately” be granted a Top Secret/Secure Compartmented Information-level clearance good for 6 months.”
January 21, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Oh, this is problematic: “Trump issued an order short-circuiting the security clearance vetting process for his White House staffers. Anyone on a list submitted by his White House counsel is to “immediately” be granted a Top Secret/Secure Compartmented Information-level clearance good for 6 months.”
"Without major zoning changes to allow [dense] urban development, the crisis could instead accelerate displacement as middle and working-class families are forced out of uninsurable areas with nowhere affordable to go." www.vox.com/housing/3950...
It’s a make-or-break moment for housing in California
The future of the state depends on how leaders rebuild after the Los Angeles fires.
www.vox.com
January 18, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"Without major zoning changes to allow [dense] urban development, the crisis could instead accelerate displacement as middle and working-class families are forced out of uninsurable areas with nowhere affordable to go." www.vox.com/housing/3950...
Around 10,000 Latinos worked in the evacuation zones of the Palisades, making up 34 percent of the work force www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/u...
The Los Angeles Fires Burned Livelihoods, Too
For many service workers, a wealthy Los Angeles neighborhood represented an economic lifeline that the fires have now severed.
www.nytimes.com
January 16, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Around 10,000 Latinos worked in the evacuation zones of the Palisades, making up 34 percent of the work force www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/u...
Shimica Gaskins is a brilliant person, writer, & fierce advocate for children in poverty. Here she writes about growing up poor, fulfilling a dream to own a home in Altadena, and then losing it. The piece includes ways to help Altadena rebuild. #Altadena www.endchildpovertyca.org/give-to-alta...
Eaton Fire: Our Home Is Gone but Our Beautiful Altadena Will Rebuild - End Child Poverty California
When I’ve felt the most despair, it’s the children who bring me back to hope. We want to make sure all our families return.
www.endchildpovertyca.org
January 15, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Shimica Gaskins is a brilliant person, writer, & fierce advocate for children in poverty. Here she writes about growing up poor, fulfilling a dream to own a home in Altadena, and then losing it. The piece includes ways to help Altadena rebuild. #Altadena www.endchildpovertyca.org/give-to-alta...
Will Black Working- and Middle-Class People be able to Rebuild in Altadena? Zero interest loans might be a good way to start. apnews.com/article/cali...
The California wildfires could be leaving deeper inequality in their wake
The fires burned through a haven for generations of Black families avoiding discriminatory housing practices. Rebuilding may be out of reach for many.
apnews.com
January 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Will Black Working- and Middle-Class People be able to Rebuild in Altadena? Zero interest loans might be a good way to start. apnews.com/article/cali...
This is nuts: To sign up for Medi-Cal, many low-income seniors in California must meet tight income restrictions that allow them to keep only $600 of their monthly income. The rest of their income must go toward medical care. calmatters.org/health/2025/...
A Medi-Cal 'gap' hurts tens of thousands of low-income seniors. Will California finally fix it?
A Medi-Cal gap limits how much money California seniors can keep if they want health coverage. The state delayed a change that would have raised the cap.
calmatters.org
January 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
This is nuts: To sign up for Medi-Cal, many low-income seniors in California must meet tight income restrictions that allow them to keep only $600 of their monthly income. The rest of their income must go toward medical care. calmatters.org/health/2025/...
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“Either you can afford a root canal, or you can have a creatively fulfilling career.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/28/o...
Opinion | My Restaurant Was Named One of New York City’s Best. Here’s Why It Closed. (Gift Article)
My story is one small part of an ongoing struggle for restaurant workers and culinary culture.
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2024 at 12:34 PM
“Either you can afford a root canal, or you can have a creatively fulfilling career.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/28/o...