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Jeremy Barofsky

@jbarofsky.bsky.social

Associate Research Professor, Better Government Lab, Georgetown University, Interested in the economics of health and poverty; formerly @ideas42 @Brookings and @USCPrice Schaeffer Center, alum of @HarvardChanSPH & @BU

1,390 Followers  |  283 Following  |  54 Posts  |  Joined: 21.09.2023  |  2.2011

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During a government shutdown, the Trump administration is bailing out Argentina, whose president is fond of saying, “The state isn’t the solution, it’s the problem.”

09.10.2025 19:07 — 👍 1178    🔁 430    💬 42    📌 16
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“.. NDFIs now account for some 33% of all commercial and industrial loans originated by large banks, according to J.P. Morgan Securities ..” 👀

$JEF
www.barrons.com/articles/fir...

08.10.2025 18:30 — 👍 180    🔁 46    💬 11    📌 11
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ICE fears put pregnant immigrants and their babies at risk Fear of deportation is deterring people without permanent legal status from critical care. Doctors are worried for their health — and the health of their pregnancies.

“My biggest fear is going to the hospital."

Pregnant immigrants are terrified ICE will show up outside the doctors' office or at the hospital. So they're skipping the care necessary to ensure a healthy birth.

Some experience dangerous complications as a result.

19thnews.org/2025/10/preg...

07.10.2025 13:04 — 👍 93    🔁 58    💬 3    📌 8
graph of per-FTE student funding, 1980-2024. cycles around $10,500 until a big dip in 2008 and then a gradual recovery back to previous levels starting in 2012

graph of per-FTE student funding, 1980-2024. cycles around $10,500 until a big dip in 2008 and then a gradual recovery back to previous levels starting in 2012

OK let me do a little thread.

Contrary to popular belief, state funding for public colleges did NOT go down overall during the neoliberal era. That widely repeated result seems mostly be be an artifact of unusually low post-2008 levels.

But...

rooseveltinstitute.org/publications...

02.10.2025 13:38 — 👍 40    🔁 14    💬 6    📌 7
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WIC funding could run out in weeks, as government shuts down More than 6 million Americans rely on WIC for food assistance, breastfeeding support and nutrition education.

If you liked price increases of 75% on the ACA health exchanges (where 24 million people get health insurance), you'll love the fact that there's only about 2 weeks of funding left for WIC, a program which provides more than 6 million women and their kids baby formula and food.

wapo.st/4pTcl9r

05.10.2025 01:54 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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4.8 Million People Will Lose Coverage in 2026 If Enhanced Premium Tax Credits Expire In this brief, we estimate the impact on coverage of the expiration of enhanced PTCs that would occur in 2026 without action by Congress. Our estimates inclu…

If premium tax credit enhancements expire, uninsurance will increase 21% overall, with the biggest increases in southern states that haven’t enacted ACA Medicaid expansions. (1/3)
tinyurl.com/yhv9jxm3

03.10.2025 15:59 — 👍 21    🔁 18    💬 1    📌 4
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Remembering Atul Butte This Medical News article is in remembrance of Atul Butte, MD, PhD, a pioneer in using data science to improve health.

Atul Butte, MD, PhD, helped define the field of translational bioinformatics and inspired countless colleagues and trainees.

He will be remembered for his brilliant mind, infectious optimism, generous mentorship.

03.10.2025 15:06 — 👍 67    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 2
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The Right and the Far-Right Control the Major Social Media Platforms: What Can You Do? Section 230 needs to be restructured

The Trump Crazy is getting worse by the hour, a great time to talk about restructuring Section 230 deanbaker22.substack.com/p/the-right-...

30.09.2025 17:53 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

This is sort of a big deal because this is Trump endorsing, and explicitly extending, Vought's hostage taking strategy. Not just about firing people, but also cutting safety net benefits.

30.09.2025 17:13 — 👍 161    🔁 67    💬 5    📌 0

Well done summary of the potentially enormous financial impact losing Fed independence (and what would happen if Humphrey's executor isn't maintained as the Supreme Court reviews it in Dec).

25.09.2025 16:17 — 👍 8    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Federal watchdog report on Georgia's Medicaid program raises concerns about administrative costs A government watchdog has raised concerns about high administrative costs in Georgia's Medicaid program. The U.S.

As states around the country are mandated by HR1 to rush to implement Medicaid work requirements by HR 1 the risk for waste of taxpayer $$ to corporate vendors is huge.

Federal watchdog report on Georgia's Medicaid program raises concerns about administrative costs apnews.com/article/geor...

19.09.2025 01:57 — 👍 28    🔁 14    💬 0    📌 0
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Kidnapped and Disappeared: Trump’s Assault Destroys U.S. Families and Communities YouTube video by Representative Pramila Jayapal

Starting at 8:30 EST, @immcouncil.org’s own @naynagupta.bsky.social will be testifying at a shadow hearing held by Congressional Democrats on the impact of Trump’s mass deportation policies. Check it out! www.youtube.com/live/m47GZMk...

18.09.2025 12:18 — 👍 607    🔁 288    💬 8    📌 19
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Opinion | Make Vaccination Make Sense to Patients Here's how to help people consistently choose protection

"As we know, vaccines don't save lives; vaccinations do. Vaccines sitting on shelves don't protect anyone."

Read the #OpEd from @hlanthorn.bsky.social Heather Mercer, and @aradultimmdoc.medsky.social, at: https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/117447?trw=no

15.09.2025 17:48 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security with 100% of their income.

A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security with less than 1% of their income.

Who agrees it’s time to scrap the cap?

15.09.2025 00:55 — 👍 6357    🔁 1870    💬 172    📌 81
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I was going to tweet this last year but somehow I was impeded…

“When [economic] growth does, and does not, reduce poverty”

www.bii.co.uk/en/news-insi...

— A great literature review by a team including @paddycarter.bsky.social and @paulsegal.bsky.social

11.09.2025 16:58 — 👍 33    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 0

"...Far from a pie in the sky, a proposal along those lines was approved by the lower house of Parliament this year. But the government and its allies, betraying their rigid approach to economic policy, scuttled it. The cost of that decision is the chaos to come."

11.09.2025 04:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Opinion | The Solution to France’s Woes Is Hiding in Plain Sight

Lessons in what not to do from France's recent government collapse.

"This showdown was entirely avoidable. In fact, a solution to France’s fiscal and political stalemate has been hiding in plain sight: a tax on the ultrawealthy...."

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...

11.09.2025 04:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Mass deportation under President Obama *reduced* the number of jobs available to US natives, primarily by slashing new business formation. doi.org/10.1086/721152

We can expect similar results from the current mass purge of US immigrants.

04.09.2025 15:22 — 👍 59    🔁 21    💬 1    📌 4

Good question! @justinsydnor.bsky.social

05.09.2025 18:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Ben Sommers and I have a new piece up at @jamahealthforum.com on how to think about generalizing lessons from unwinding to looming new Medicaid red tape requirements.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

We appreciate support from the @commonwealthfund.org for this work!

04.09.2025 16:39 — 👍 13    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 2

@johnquattrochi.bsky.social

04.09.2025 14:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

DRC declares an Ebola outbreak. Hopefully the country can contain it soon, even without US funds that have been so helpful in the past.
www.afro.who.int/countries/de....

04.09.2025 14:46 — 👍 50    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 0
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Exclusive: Full-price 2026 ACA premium rate hikes to average 23.4% (semi-final) IMPORTANT: See here for methodology & state-by-state analysis Every year, I spend months painstakingly tracking every insurance carrier rate filing (nearly 400 for 2025!) for the following year to det...

🚨🚨🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Full-price 2026 #ACA premium rate hikes to average 23.4% nationally (semi-final):

acasignups.net/25/09/02/exc...

03.09.2025 01:21 — 👍 346    🔁 241    💬 20    📌 29

@georgetownccf.bsky.social will be releasing a new report on Thursday assessing state readiness to implement Medicaid work reporting requirements.

We will be sharing key metrics that we will continue to monitor as the clock continues to tick down towards implementation in 2027..

03.09.2025 01:33 — 👍 14    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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How Much Tax Do US Billionaires Pay? Evidence from Administrative Data Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

Really important new study on the tax rate of billionaires from @gabrielzucman.bsky.social et al

Upshot:

The top 400 ultrabillionaires: 23.8%

Avg Americans: 30.2%

Yes, the superrich pay far less in taxes than the rest of us.

www.nber.org/papers/w34170

27.08.2025 16:41 — 👍 483    🔁 229    💬 18    📌 15
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ACA health insurance will cost the average person 75% more next year, research shows A new analysis shows that health insurance premiums for Obamacare are set to soar next year, as financial help that subsidized the cost expires. Congress is not likely to extend the subsidies.

This was the current status quo for young adults *before* the recent changes to health care, which mean prices on health insurance exchanges will go up by about 75% this fall. Article notes that 26 year olds have 15% uninsurance rate, highest of any age group.

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

27.08.2025 16:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why Young Americans Dread Turning 26: Health Insurance Chaos

"Out-of-pocket expenses have soared. Complex plans in the lightly regulated marketplaces featured rising premiums, high deductibles and requirements that patients pay a significant portion of the cost of care, often 20 percent — a charge known as coinsurance."

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/h...

27.08.2025 16:43 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

(1/3) Kudos to @gabrielzucman.bsky.social, Danny Yagan, Emmanuel Saez, and Akcan Balkir; this paper makes excellent points about taxing top incomes.

** The corporate tax is an important (if now smaller) part of taxing the top; it is a ready-to-go way to reach unrealized capital gains.

26.08.2025 21:36 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 2    📌 1
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker tells Trump: "Do not come to Chicago"
YouTube video by CBS Chicago Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker tells Trump: "Do not come to Chicago"

If you haven't heard Governor Pritzker's speech, it's worth listening to every word. We need more of this from our leaders - a clear delineation of the fascism we are facing, and a call to action for how we must all respond: youtu.be/Q04p3OJdhpU?...

26.08.2025 23:43 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

For example, we've recently learned that virtually all state-level DiD's are probably incredibly underpowered.

09.08.2025 20:40 — 👍 77    🔁 16    💬 2    📌 3

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