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Josh Hawley on X: "It should be a basic foundational principle that it’s wrong to cut health care for the working poor. Trump has said it time and again. Over 20% of Missourians are on Medicaid, including hundreds of thousands of children. Time for Congress to get the message https://t.co/kiBsjEQHkr" / X It should be a basic foundational principle that it’s wrong to cut health care for the working poor. Trump has said it time and again. Over 20% of Missourians are on Medicaid, including hundreds of thousands of children. Time for Congress to get the message https://t.co/kiBsjEQHkr

In another NYT op-ed & elsewhere,
Sen. Hawley
drew a line against "cutting health care for the working poor" x.com/HawleyMO/sta...

Work requirements unequivocally fail that test, threatening health care for many workers b/c of the instability of real-world low-wage jobs 6/6

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Trump Adm officials' op-ed argues ppl who work “inconsistently” aren’t “truly needy,” presumably on the theory they could work more hours

But on top of health, caregiving, & other barriers, new analysis finds most low-income service workers want more hours than they get 5/

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Many Working People Could Lose Health Coverage Due to Medicaid Work Requirements | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Medicaid work requirements will almost certainly cause many low-income adults to lose health coverage.  Less understood, many working people also will likely lose coverage due to work requirements.

How important is this? Almost 40% of low-income workers are service workers. And work I did with @centeronbudget.bsky.social‬ colleagues (in older data) found comparable levels of volatility for low-income workers across sectors (www.cbpp.org/research/hea...) 4/

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Why? B/c service sector jobs are volatile. Ppl working in retail or restaurants or home care end up w/spells of unemployment & low hours.

And these are nos. from a good labor market; in a recession, even more pple w/strong labor force attachment would be unemployed 3/

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Key finding: among low-income service workers in 2022, 64% would have failed an 80-hour/month work requirement in at least 1 month, including > 1/3 of those who worked >= 80 hours/month ON AVERAGE over the course of the year 2/

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A striking admission in Trump officials’ work requirements NYT op-ed: many working ppl who “work inconsistently throughout the year” will lose Medicaid & SNAP

New @hamiltonproject.org‬ ‬‬ brief by @lizananat.bsky.social‬, @agpines.bsky.social‬, Olivia Howard shows this is true - and why 1/

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