Required policy reading for state governments here on the enormous income/work verification challenges facing states in OBBA implementation. Health insurance for millions is at stake. healthlaw.org/wp-content/u...
Graphic announcing a new article titled Estimating the magnitude and scope of disability-related direct costs: a systematised review, with a link to inclusive-policy.org. Below, a laptop displays the cover of The European Journal of Health Economics. Decorative icons of a globe and folder appear around the graphic.
NEW ARTICLE ALERT!
We’re pleased to contribute to this systematised review on estimating disability-related extra costs, published in The European Journal of Health Economics.
It has been a long time coming, and we’re excited for how useful it will be.
Here: link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
Graphic promoting a podcast by the Center for Inclusive Policy titled “What can governments do to address the disability squeeze?”. The design includes the CIP logo at the top and an audio wave icon. Below the title, there are photos of two speakers: on the left, Zack Morris, Associate Professor at Stony Brook University, and on the right, Dan Mont, CEO of the Center for Inclusive Policy. A light blue banner at the bottom reads “The Disability Squeeze – Episode 4.”
“Social protection should support participation. You don’t get it because you can’t work, you get it so you can.”
Daniel Mont (CIP) in The Disability Squeeze by @zacharyamorris.bsky.social explores the real costs of disability and how inclusive policies can help.
Here: bit.ly/3X52r7j
Two parallels here: one is the cancelation of food aid for USAID which was provided by US farmers. The other is the broad attack on SNAP which already means more people will need food banks that Trump is also undermining. It is an assault on our he most vulnerable.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
It shouldn’t cost more to live with a disability but it does. Watch this keynote address to learn more about the “disability squeeze” youtu.be/WpYqNCVL8Zw?...
New, from me:
They are trying to shove through the massive reconciliation bill as quickly as possible.
Stepping back, the bill is:
*an assault on the poor to benefit the richest
*an assault on freedom
*an assault on the future
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-re...
The truth is clear — the Senate Republican reconciliation bill will hurt people in every state if enacted. Senators who vote for it are responsible for its impact ⬇️
This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.
Can't help but feel we're living through an increasingly existential war between spectacle and substance with spectacle winning battle after battle after battle.
Imagine how massive the tax breaks for billionaires must be when cutting $700B from Medicaid, $500B from Medicare, and $300B in food assistance STILL leaves a $4T deficit.
Today comes the first, but almost certainly not the last, GAO opinion finding an Impoundment Control Act violation by the Trump Administration. www.gao.gov/products/b-3...
This reported SALT deal and accelerated Medicaid cuts would make the bill even more effective at transferring resources from low-income to high-income households.
The CBO finds that if the Reconciliation Bill goes through:
-7.6 million people would lose coverage because of Medicaid changes
-1 million would lose it because of changes to the ACA from E&C
-2.1 million would lose it because of changes by Ways and Means
www.cbo.gov/publication/...
This Republican budget bill is SO bad. What it would do to health care, to education, while enshrining Trump's abuses of power...
It'd legit be the worst legislation since the Patriot Act era.
PLEASE, call your Rep, whoever they are. Use the link to find out who they are. Tell them to vote no.
Republicans want to add a huge administrative hurdle to a program that keeps millions of Americans out of poverty as a "backdoor cut"
This is just not true. The majority view among researchers at this point is that work requirements do not work. There is a reason they do not cite a single study here.
👇 This is exactly why Schedule F is so destructive.
More here: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/here-is-a-...
By all available evidence work requirements don’t work—instead they basically serve to ensnare eligible recipients and prevent them from getting benefits. www.axios.com/2025/05/13/m...
Work loss penalties, which are administrative burdens, help no one except greedy tax dodgers. They especially don't help disabled people. I lost my medicaid due to administrative burdens. Many will suffer the same fate. #ProtectMedicaid www.americanprogress.org/article/how-...
explainer page of our "storytelling through juxtaposition" project
Juniors: "so now that test is over we're just doing movies and 🍿 the rest of the way, right?"
Me: 😎
This is America.
A report from the scene of a horrifying kidnapping on the streets of Worcester, MA today by @billshaner.bsky.social www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...
In one email to Veterans Affairs HQ, doctors in Pennsylvania said a hiring freeze was causing “severe and immediate impacts” and that more than 1,000 veterans would lose access to treatment for cancer, kidney disease and traumatic brain injuries.
Don’t be fooled by the claims in the “skinny budget” that Social Security is being protected.
The Trump Admin is continuing to cut the Social Security Administration and harm the older & disabled people who rely on it to access their benefits. 🧵
Good reporting on how policy affects the lives of regular people
I am very honoured to share that I will be joining the faculty at Stony Brook University’s School of Social Welfare this fall. I am so grateful to have a position where I can continue to study work and labor policies as a social determinant of health and economic security for working families. 🧵
#disability #socialsecurity #medicaid #IDEA #ADA
Takes as a point of conversation Matt's excellent piece which everyone should read:
theconversation.com/cutting-medi...
