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Share Your Voting Story The Center for American Progress (CAP) is seeking to understand disabled people's voting experiences. Rarely are disabled voters highlighted when talking about their right to vote. CAP's Disability Ju...

The Disability Justice Initiative @americanprogress.bsky.social is gathering stories from disabled voters about voting accessibility (particularly looking for folks from IN, MO, RI, TX, UT, & WY).

Please complete this Google form if you're interested in sharing your story:

Today's Jobs Report reveals blue-collar industries are struggling in Trump's economy. Additionally, working-class people made up less than a quarter of total job growth in Trump's first year. Check out the latest analysis from @saraestep.bsky.social and me ⇣
www.americanprogress.org/article/work...

I’M GONNA BE SICK CROIX?????!!!!!

I AM NOT OKAY CROIX BETHUNE TO KANSAS CITY NOOOOOO MY SHAYLAAAAAAA

The U.S. lost over $100 million last year due to 2,200 cases of measles, according to my estimate for @usnews.com
based on published cost analyses: www.usnews.com/opinion/arti...

New from CAP: How the Trump administration has rigged the system in favor of corporate polluters while cutting health care, health research, public health and child welfare services, undermining healthy environments and threatening children’s futures. ⬇️ www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...

The people of Minnesota did that. Not Schumer and Jeffries, not Walz and Frey, not the standard-bearers of decorum. The People.

The 2026 financial outlook for American families is not looking good—despite what Trump claims.
Are you better off than you were a year ago?

Every woman deserves the right to decide if, when, and how to have a family.

Every woman deserves access to lifesaving health care.

Today and every day, we’re fighting with @reprocaucus.bsky.social to protect reproductive health care across the country.

Trump's first year in office was anything but optimistic for Americans' pocketbooks. With higher costs due to tariffs, rising unemployment, and more expensive everyday essentials such as groceries, health care, and utilities, Americans are feeling the strain of Trump's economy.

How States Can Combat Health Care Consolidation and Corporate Conflicts of Interest States have several policy levers they can use to curb consolidation and corporate conflicts of interest, protecting competition and lowering costs.

States don’t have to wait for Washington to act on health care consolidation. My new issue brief for @americanprogress.bsky.social highlights state laws targeting private equity, corporate control, and excessive hospital prices: www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...

Too many women and families are starting this year without affordable health coverage, and that’s unacceptable. Thanks Ms. for bringing this conversation to a wider audience. 🔗

But a better world is possible. Here's what policymakers and industry leaders can do to protect our health data:

1. Embrace a data minimization approach to sensitive health information;.
2. Ban the sale of sensitive health data; &
3. Update our health privacy standards to meet the moment.

Beyond HIPAA: Reimagining How Privacy Laws Apply to Health Data to Maximize Equity in the Digital Age We face a health data privacy crisis. Unregulated digital technologies, mass surveillance, and weak privacy laws have created a health privacy crisis in which our health data is collected and used to…

NEW: Today, EPIC published a report detailing the health privacy crisis in which our data is collected and used to profile us, manipulate our behavior, and charge us more for care.

Read “Beyond HIPAA: Reimagining How Privacy Laws Apply to Health Data to Maximize Equity in the Digital Age” here:

Women Are Being Priced Out of Health Coverage—and Congress Knows It Rising costs and congressional inaction mean countless women are entering 2026 without health coverage they can afford.

"When health insurance becomes unaffordable, women don’t just absorb the cost. They make sacrifices—often at the expense of their health.” More from @kierrajones.bsky.social @msmagazine.com: tinyurl.com/44t9u3b2

Women Are Being Priced Out of Health Coverage—and Congress Knows It Rising costs and congressional inaction mean countless women are entering 2026 without health coverage they can afford.

When health insurance becomes unaffordable, women don’t just absorb the cost. They make sacrifices—often at the expense of their health.” More from @kierrajones.bsky.social in @msmagazine.com: msmagazine.com/2026/01/21/w...

Women Are Being Priced Out of Health Coverage—and Congress Knows It Rising costs and congressional inaction mean countless women are entering 2026 without health coverage they can afford.

My latest op-ed with @msmagazine.com is live! The healthcare affordability crisis is already pushing women out of care who are having to make difficult sacrifices at the expense of their health and wellbeing. More here: msmagazine.com/2026/01/21/w...

A Year in Review: How the Trump Administration’s Economic Policies Made Life Less Affordable for Americans The first year of the Trump administration has left Americans struggling with increased costs of living due to its unprecedented tariffs, fewer job opportunities, and more expensive health care and ut...

Are you better off than you were a year ago? After a year of Trump's economy, Americans' attitudes and latest economic data answer that question with a resounding "NO." Check out how Trump's first year made life less affordable ⇣
www.americanprogress.org/article/a-ye...

Last chance to register for EPIC's health privacy panel taking place tomorrow, January 21 at 2 p.m. EST! Register now: lnkd.in/etvyHtik

Looking forward to this conversation! RSVP below.

Third and final witness is Dr. Nisha Verma, an OB-GYN who provides care in Georgia & Massachusetts and is a fellow with @prh.org.

"Holding space for complexity is important -- but discomfort with abortion care should not be used as an excuse to distort facts."

Preventing Premiums From Spiking in 2026 Now Depends on the Senate Without Senate action, families will see Affordable Care Act marketplace premiums spike by thousands of dollars.

ICYMI: A House vote on the extension of the enhanced premium tax credits is coming in January—but preventing 2026 premium spikes will ultimately depend on Senate action. Learn more: www.americanprogressaction.org/article/prev...

Healthcare Isn't a Luxury! Natasha Murphy on Looming ACA Deadline "The reality is, people just won’t be able to afford coverage and will have to drop coverage altogether."

What does a country without affordable healthcare look like?

@nzmurphy.bsky.social paints a clear—and alarming—picture. Watch her full interview: https://contrarian.substack.com/p/healthcare-isnt-a-luxury-natasha

Senate Republicans’ HSA Plan Can’t Replace the Enhanced Premium Tax Credits The Senate Republican response to the looming expiration of the ACA’s enhanced tax credits is a patchwork of policies that will shift costs onto patients and weaken insurance markets.

Don't be fooled: Health Savings Accounts aren't insurance and can't replace enhanced premium tax credits. CAP Health explains @nzmurphy.bsky.social @americanprogress.bsky.social

On Deadline D.C. with @bradbannon.bsky.social, CAP's @nzmurphy.bsky.social explains the urgent need to extend the ACA's enhanced tax credits: "We right now are staring down the cliff of pretty much a premium affordability crisis."

This new series is such an important read. Misinformation only fuels more stigma and violence. 🏳️‍⚧️🤍

I was laid off from Teen Vogue this week, alongside multiple other phenomenal team members.

At our Summit, I was asked how it felt to be 1 of 2 Black women left and what that meant for representation. Now, there are no Black women at Teen Vogue and that is incredibly painful to think about.

Disability Reproductive Equity Agenda: Protecting the Reproductive Rights of Disabled People in 2025 and Beyond The Center for American Progress recently hosted a summit with more than 50 advocates from the reproductive and disability rights communities to identify the most pressing policy priorities they face.

"It is essential to fight back against ableism and other discriminatory structures that continue to degrade reproductive freedom and bodily autonomy for all people, including disabled people." Piece by @caseydoherty.bsky.social and I. www.americanprogress.org/article/disa...

A hunger cliff is days away. Women, children and food banks will feel it first. Food banks will face logistical and financial challenges in providing the resources currently offered by the SNAP and WIC programs that are set to lose funding.

A hunger cliff is days away. Women, children and food banks will feel it first. 19thnews.org/2025/10/food...

5 Consequences of Private Equity’s Expansion in Health Care Services The rapid rise of private equity’s influence over health care providers such as hospitals, nursing homes, and physicians’ practices threatens competition, affordability, patient safety, and worker wel...

🔊🔊🔊 New report from @fellowwhopoints.bsky.social reveals how private-equity’s short-term focus on profit is reshaping U.S. health care, contributing to less competition, higher costs, and compromised care.