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$24,000 is a literal rounding error for the federal government but it’s being withdrawn from a service that is a “crucial part” of helping people exit homelessness
NEW: For years, the Phoenix nonprofit Keys to Change has run a mail room for thousands of homeless people.
Now the U.S. Postal Service is cutting its $24,000 investment, leaving the organization to raise the extra money to keep it open.
Now the U.S. Postal Service is cutting its $24,000 investment, leaving the organization to raise the extra money to keep it open.
U.S. Postal Service Cuts Funding for a Phoenix Mail Room Assisting Homeless People
The loss of support comes at a time of uncertainty for one of Arizona’s largest homeless services providers as the Trump administration calls for reducing and restructuring homelessness assistance grants.
www.propublica.org
October 28, 2025 at 9:33 PM
$24,000 is a literal rounding error for the federal government but it’s being withdrawn from a service that is a “crucial part” of helping people exit homelessness
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"Full-day kindergarten expansions were responsible for as much as 24 percent of the growth in employment of mothers with kindergartenaged children"
🙌 🙌 So happy to see this project come to fruition and this paper officially forthcoming at AEJ: Policy -- in part because I care so much about the question and am proud of how we answered it, and in part because I got to work with superstar coauthors Jocelyn Wikle and Riley Wilson, who are the best.
Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families" by Chloe R. Gibbs, Jocelyn Wikle, and Riley Wilson. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
October 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
"Full-day kindergarten expansions were responsible for as much as 24 percent of the growth in employment of mothers with kindergartenaged children"
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“Black women lost 319,000 jobs between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period… Ms. Roy said that with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment”
In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit
www.nytimes.com
August 31, 2025 at 4:01 PM
“Black women lost 319,000 jobs between February and July of this year, the only major female demographic to experience significant job losses during this five-month period… Ms. Roy said that with the exception of the pandemic, Black women have never seen such staggering losses in employment”
The best part of this though:
On survivor benefits: “it’s not waste, it’s the best of us”
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On survivor benefits: “it’s not waste, it’s the best of us”
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AOC: I saw on Fox, Jeanine Pirro says that they found so many babies and two year olds and four year olds receiving social security. I got a notice for you Jeanine Pirro: those babies receive social security because their parents died. That’s not a waste. That’s humanity. That’s America.
April 16, 2025 at 3:49 AM
The best part of this though:
On survivor benefits: “it’s not waste, it’s the best of us”
❤️
On survivor benefits: “it’s not waste, it’s the best of us”
❤️
Social Security provides more benefits to children than any other federal program www.cbpp.org/research/soc...
April 11, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Social Security provides more benefits to children than any other federal program www.cbpp.org/research/soc...
It’s like I can feel Mercury trying to turn direct tonight
April 2, 2025 at 4:12 AM
It’s like I can feel Mercury trying to turn direct tonight
Have you ever been Boomer-splained a rap beef? Thrilling
February 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Have you ever been Boomer-splained a rap beef? Thrilling
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In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.
How D.C. tackled a child care crunch through a tax hike on the rich
In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.
www.npr.org
December 13, 2024 at 8:16 PM
In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.