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Stephen Pimpare
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Poverty and US social welfare policy, hovering awkwardly between the fields of political science and social work. Host, New Books in Public Policy: newbooksnetwork.com/hosts/profile/aba1b96c-5ec5-4ab6-940e-08f426f74a37
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MHmichaelhobbes.bsky.social

well that's an awfully succinct way to put it www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Today I am doing my small part to redeem the reputation of Reviewer 2:

shows a manuscript reviewer submission screen with "accept as is" as the recommendation from me, identified in red a Reviewer 2
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As part of my work, I have resolved to draw attention to the millions of people living with disabilities who have been left behind by America's safety net. This piece on the Roosevelt Forward blog is on SSI, a forgotten program in dire need of reform. www.firesidestacks.com/p/50-years-i...

50 Years In, Most SSI Recipients Live in Poverty. That’s a Policy Choice.
50 Years In, Most SSI Recipients Live in Poverty. That’s a Policy Choice.

Fifty years ago, the Social Security Administration’s Supplemental Security Income launched with the goal of offering aid to adults and children with disabilities, and to older adults with little to n...

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A good rule of thumb: for the most part, people (even you! even me!) are incapable of identifying the actual causes of their opinions. Asking them will yield many interesting stories, but rarely the actual cause.

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"Former President Donald Trump has proposed a wide variety of tax policy changes. Taken together, these proposals would, on average, lead to a tax cut for the richest 5 percent of Americans and a tax increase for all other income groups." itep.org/a-distributi...

If these proposals were in effect in 2026, the richest 1 percent would receive an average tax cut of about $36,300 and the next richest 4 percent would receive an average tax cut of about $7,200. All other groups would see a tax increase with the hike on the middle 20 percent at about $1,500 and the increase on the lowest-income 20 percent of Americans at about $800.
As illustrated in Figure 2, some of Trump’s proposals cut taxes dramatically, particularly his proposal to extend the temporary 2017 tax provisions. But his proposed tariffs, which would be largely passed onto consumers as increased prices, would more than offset those tax cuts for all income groups outside the richest 5 percent.
As illustrated in Figure 3, the middle 20 percent of Americans would face a tax increase equal to 2.1 percent of their income, while the poorest 20 percent of Americans would face a tax increase equal to 4.8 percent of their income – all while the top 5 percent get a tax cut.
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If you don't know what to do with yourself right now, one thing that will definitely be necessary to all future liberation and mutual aid efforts in this catastrophic era is the strengthening of our solidarity networks. Map out your webwork of survival, care, and resistance.

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Judges up for re-election increase incarceration rates, but only for black felons. 😠 jhr.uwpress.org/content/52/4...

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Both of these positions are in line with anti-democratic traditions in conservatism. The key question on the Right has never simply been democracy or autocracy – but rather: How much authoritarianism is necessary to prevent too much democracy for too many people?

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Stephen Pimpare
@stephenpimpare.bsky.social
Poverty and US social welfare policy, hovering awkwardly between the fields of political science and social work. Host, New Books in Public Policy: newbooksnetwork.com/hosts/profile/aba1b96c-5ec5-4ab6-940e-08f426f74a37
571 followers2k following114 posts