In the wake of another horrific shooting death in MN by federal immigration officers -on top of wrongful detentions, violence, & fear there & across the country- it is appropriate for the Senate to use the budget process to push for critical protections for people & communities.
For years, states have been pushing PJM – the Mid-Atlantic power grid operator – to fix rising electricity costs. On Friday, the Trump Administration released new principles on cost fairness, signed by the governors of the 13 affected states. www.energy.gov/documents/st...
The House passed a measure today to extend the Premium Tax Credit enhancements for three years. The bipartisan vote shows there’s strong support for immediate action to make millions of people’s health care more affordable. All eyes are now on the Senate. x.com/JakeSherman/...
"Stripping money from the Blueprint means taking resources out of public schools, classrooms, and communities. It’s not abstract. It’s kids who pay."
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Flier for an event series called A Roadmap for Thriving Communities, December 10 in Bowie and January 6 in Baltimore. It has black and white images of an older man using a walker at the doctor, a young mother working with a child on her lap, and a grandmother and child at dinner. The URL for more information is mdeconomy.org/events
Join our next community conversation in Bowie Dec. 10 to discuss the ways our state leaders can advance a stronger future for our state. We're creating a roadmap for thriving communities in every part of the state and we want to hear from you! www.eventbrite.com/e/a-roadmap-...
Representative Lydia Glaize Legislator, educator, and community advocate championing education funding, improving student support services, and strengthening workforce development. Jasmine Bowles, Executive State Director of 9to5 Georgia Spearheading statewide efforts to secure comprehensive paid leave, child care, and safe workplaces with fair wages for all working Georgians.
Delegate Emily Shetty Fighting for health care, survivors, and economic supports for families across Maryland. Kali Schumitz, Vice President for External Relations at Maryland Center on Economic Policy Pushing to make workplaces more equitable, including increasing the minimum wage, access to paid leave, and equal pay protections
Our fellows representing Georgia: Representative Lydia Glaize and Jasmine Bowles of @9to5georgia.bsky.social
Our fellows representing Maryland: Delegate Emily Shetty and Kali Schumitz of @mdeconomy.bsky.social
The Trump administration's failure to fund SNAP benefits will have devastating impacts on families' budgets and local economies. SNAP supports households getting food on tables, generates 100,000s of jobs, and every dollar returns $1.50 to the local economy.
www.americanprogress.org/article/snap...
For over 680,000 Marylanders, SNAP benefits make the difference between feeding their families and going to bed hungry. They don’t have time for this Administration’s political games: they needed answers last week.
New data: CBPP analyzed USDA’s contingency fund spending plan & found it is only going to release 2/3 of the funding they committed to in court filings, cutting families’ SNAP benefits far more than necessary, violating USDA’s own regulations & shortchanging millions of families.
More than 690,000 Marylanders could go without the essential assistance that helps them afford groceries next month if the Trump administration does not act to use available funds. State leaders should step in to ensure kids and families don't go hungry. mdeconomy.org/policymakers...
Punchbowl reports “White House officials determined they do not have the authority” to use contingency reserves —billions of $ that Congress provided for use when SNAP funding is inadequate— to fund Nov. SNAP benefits. But, that’s not what USDA’s now-deleted shutdown plan says:
Maryland will provide state subsidies for many enrollees if enhancements expire. Even so, premium increases will be large, and not all enrollees are eligible for the state support: a typical 60-year-old MD couple making $85,000 will face a $13,700 increase in annual premiums. (2/4)
Minnesota and Maryland also opened window shopping for 2026 ACA marketplace plans, and people are seeing their premiums spike due to expiring tax credit enhancements. A typical 60-year-old Minnesotan couple making $85,000 will face a $15,500 increase in annual premiums. (1/4)
1/ Starting Nov.1, 24 million people who receive their healthcare insurance through the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces will see their premiums DOUBLE because of cuts to ACA subsidies and Medicaid passed by Congressional Republicans.
Young adults will be hit the hardest.
NEW from @centeronbudget.bsky.social: Without Congressional action, premium tax credit enhancements will expire, raising costs for nearly all marketplace enrollees and putting millions of those with the lowest incomes at risk of becoming uninsured when they lose $0 premium plans.
NEW: Despite White House statements implying that #WIC benefits for low-income families would be immediately disrupted if the government partially shuts down this week, the Trump Administration & state officials have several steps they could & should take to keep WIC running.
Marylanders will be dealing with the fallout of the federal budget bill for years to com, including thousands of people losing health coverage and struggling to afford food. Read more about the impact this legislation will have on Maryland in our latest blog post. mdeconomy.org/recent-feder...
Trump’s tax bill threatens Medicaid coverage for rural Marylanders
Read MDCEP's full statement on the bill's passage at mdeconomy.org/statement-se...
The budget bill Congressional Republicans just passed rips away healthcare and food assistance from families while rewarding the ultra-wealthy. In Maryland, that means an estimated 210,000 will lose health coverage and 57,000 are at risk of losing some or all of their food assistance.
Congress is poised to pass one of the most destructive economic bills in generations. It will gut Medicaid, slash food aid for families, shutter rural hospitals—just to give tax breaks that will go overwhelmingly to the wealthy. It is a staggering upward redistribution of income. 1/
More than 5 million people, including 800,000 children and over half a million older adults or adults with disabilities, could lose food assistance due to new work requirements in the Senate reconciliation bill. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
Senate Republicans betrayed working people and passed a budget bill that will add $4 TRILLION to the national debt.
With that money, you could write a $12,000 check to every. single. person. in. America. (adults AND kids!)
Instead, all that money is going to millionaires and corporations.
This cruel legislation would take basic health and food supports away from 1000s of Maryland kids, parents, seniors, veterans, and people with disabilities - all to further enrich the already wealthy. There's still time to take a different path. Read our full statement: mdeconomy.org/statement-se...
This agenda directs harm on the very people the President and many Republicans say they are trying to help.
You have rights – and starting TODAY (July 1st), your landlord will be required by the state to inform you of them! New leases will come with an 8pg document, called the 'Tenants Bill of Rights'. This is a huge step forward for making sure tenants know their rights while we fight to expand them!
A little something I chipped in at @itep.org ... The predominant feature of the tax and spending bill working its way through Congress is a massive tax cut for the richest 1 percent — a $114 billion benefit to the wealthiest people in the country in 2026 alone. itep.org/trump-megabi...
16 million people would lose health coverage and become uninsured under the Republican health agenda the Senate is debating today, including 210,000 people in here Maryland. Policymakers should protect and improve people’s health care, not cut it.
New Congressional Budget Office (CBO) numbers confirm what we already knew – the reconciliation bill is getting worse, not better. The Senate bill will cut health care more deeply than the House bill and leave more people uninsured. www.cbo.gov/publication/...
