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Rebecca Vallas
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Grade-A inspiration porn👇

Homeless kid “overcoming life’s basic truth” b/c of “scrappy diligence” & chess skills!

Zero discussion of affordable housing crisis, low wages, immigration policies that have a 2-income family at a shelter, facing deportation.
nytimes.com/2019/03/16/opi…
Which makes it a good time to reup @sesmith’s evergreen screed on the damage these kinds of stories do: talkpoverty.org/2018/11/30/fee…
To be clear: this kid is unquestionably a badass and should be celebrated. But “aw how heartwarming” is a dangerously limited takeaway. His story illustrates some of America’s most urgent policy failures & we do a real disservice whitewashing those & RT’ing with a heart emoji.
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Rebecca Vallas
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BREAKING: A federal judge has (again!) struck down Trump's cruel policy allowing states to take Medicaid away from unemployed & underemployed workers. wapo.st/2FGcEjP
Make no mistake -- "work reporting requirements" were always a backdoor to dismantling Medicaid.

*Case in point: Some 18,000 struggling workers in Arkansas have already lost Medicaid under the state's policy.
Reupping a previous thread on:

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and

- why “work reporting requirements” are the thru-line on Trump’s agenda to make poor folks’ lives even harder (spoiler: they’re classic divide and conquer)
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Rebecca Vallas
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*HUGELY* important new study by Starr & Prescott of @UMich finds:

People who get a criminal record expunged see their wages go up >20% within a year.

BUT:

Just 6.5% of eligible folks get their records expunged within 5 years -- because of all the hoops and red tape involved.
@UMich "The policy upshot of our research is clear:

Obtaining an expungement should be made as simple as possible.

States should follow the #CleanSlate approach of Pennsylvania and the new California and Utah bills, to make expungement automatic once the legal requirements are met."
NYT op-ed: nytimes.com/2019/03/20/opi…

Full study: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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Rebecca Vallas
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Trump's cruel proposed cuts to food assistance wouldn't just massively increase hunger in the U.S...

If enacted, his SNAP cuts would kill ***2.8 million jobs.***

Great by @helaineolen (feat. @rwest817's last analysis for @amprog!) washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/…
@helaineolen @rwest817 @amprog While his budget may be DOA because Dems took back the House, his proposed cuts to food assistance pose an immediate threat since he's trying to sidestep Congress to enact them.
Just one of those proposed cuts would take food assistance away from 755,000 struggling workers...

and as new @amprog analysis finds, also kill 178,000 jobs over the next decade, and 18,900 jobs next year alone, if it takes effect.

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