🆘 Congress’s big reconciliation bill puts vital programs like Medicaid and SNAP at risk, threatening the well-being of millions across the U.S.

@NewAmerica.org’s Family Economic Security and Well-Being programs consider the far-reaching consequences.

🔗 go.newamerica.org/family-feder...

Congrats! @katestepleton.bsky.social , @hwippick.bsky.social , Elina Morrison, Michele Abbot, Kia Heryadi, Allie Burns, and Sofia Torres on a completing this important work.

Before I came to Roosevelt I worked at MEF Associates on contracts including this one for The Washington State Department of Children, Youth, and Families assessing the feasibility of a state child allowance. My colleagues have now released the final report!

mefassociates.com/project/wash...

Heartbreaking to see announcements of major layoffs at most research organizations that have played a vital role in supporting federal statistics for education and developing high-quality evidence about what policies/practices actually work.

Below are just a few examples from my LinkedIn feed.

Anthony Douglas, 67, and Franklyn Dominguez, 35, were pronounced dead after they were found unresponsive in their respective cells at the Ossining prison. The deaths happened as corrections officers continued a wildcat strike at more than two dozen prisons across the state

this Adrienne Rich poem from the @yalereview.bsky.social archives sucker punched me this am

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

found this @jasonhickel.bsky.social screenshot on FB

💔 www.nytimes.com/2024/03/05/u...