Julia Raifman, ScD
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Julia Raifman, ScD
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Evidence-based posts about public health & equity. All views are my own.
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Thank you for your leadership & important points!
November 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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From Mamdani’s victory speech,

Supporting economic security &

Supporting minority/human rights

Go hand in hand

In a compelling set of values

(& campaign message)
This will be an age where New Yorkers expect from their leaders a bold vision of what we will achieve, rather than a list of excuses for what we are too timid to attempt. Central to that vision will be the most ambitious agenda to tackle the cost-of-living crisis that this city has seen since the days of Fiorello La Guardia: an agenda that will freeze the rents for more than two million rent-stabilized tenants, make buses fast and free, and deliver universal child care across our city. Years from now, may our only regret be that this day took so long to come. This new age will be one of relentless improvement. We will hire thousands more teachers. We will cut waste from a bloated bureaucracy. We will work tirelessly to make lights shine again in the hallways of NYCHA developments where they have long flickered. In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light. Here, we believe in standing up for those we love, whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job, a single mom still waiting for the cost of groceries to go down, or anyone else with their back against the wall. Your struggle is ours, too. And we will build a City Hall that stands steadfast alongside Jewish New Yorkers and does not waver in the fight against the scourge of antisemitism. Where the more than one million Muslims know that they belong — not just in the five boroughs of this city, but in the halls of power.
November 5, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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May New York & Mamdani lead all of us in better directions
November 5, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Why should you 🫵🏿 care about SNAP? SNAP recipients saw:

- Improved life expectancy
- Lower chance of incarceration
- Lowers chance of poverty
- Lived in better neighborhoods
- Higher human capital

SNAP keeps our neighbors fed, communities safer, and kids educated. Also people are HUNGRY. DUH!
Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment? Large-Scale Evidence from the Food Stamps Program Martha J. Bailey, Hilary W. Hoynes, Maya Rossin-Slater & Reed Walker X LinkedIn Facebook Bluesky Threads Email Link Working Paper 26942 DOI 10.3386/w26942 Issue Date April 2020 We use novel, large-scale data on 43 million Americans from the 2000 Census and the 2001 to 2013 American Communities Survey linked to the Social Security Administration’s NUMIDENT to study how a policy-driven increase in economic resources for families affects children’s long-term outcomes. Using variation from the county-level roll-out of the Food Stamps program between 1961 and 1975, we find that children with access to greater economic resources before age five experience an increase of 6 percent of a standard deviation in their adult human capital, 3 percent of a standard deviation in their adult economic self-sufficiency, 8 percent of a standard deviation in the quality of their adult neighborhoods, 0.4 percentage-point increase in longevity, and a 0.5 percentage-point decrease in likelihood of being incarcerated. Based on these estimates, we conclude that Food Stamps’ transfer of resources to families is a highly cost-effective investment into young children, yielding a marginal value of public funds of approximately 56.
October 31, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Here is the link to donate:
give.feedingamerica.org

The picture reads,

“Feeding America

Help End Hunger Today

Thank you for helping feed your neighbors”
U.S. Hunger Relief Organization | Feeding America
Feeding America is a nonprofit network of 200 food banks leading the fight against hunger in the United States. Learn how you can help end hunger in America.
give.feedingamerica.org
November 1, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Food is essential to survival.

People of all ages deserve to have enough food to eat.

Grateful for SNAP & hope we may find ways to continue providing it.

www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/p...
“In its shutdown contingency plan, which has been since taken offline, the agency noted that “Congressional intent is evident that SNAP’s operations should continue” and referenced that the contingency plan can be used to fund participant benefits if a lapse occurs in the middle of the fiscal year.”
October 27, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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Wish for humility vs decisive headlines when rapid data viz finds correlations inconsistent w years of rigorous research generated by experts

Also much appreciate this point alluding to the moral question as significant as the statistical question

“The question is what those candidates stand for”
October 24, 2025 at 2:45 PM