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@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
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“.. 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...
“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...
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...
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
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
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.
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 📌 1This 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 📌 0Well 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 📌 0As 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...
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"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
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?
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
"...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 📌 0Lessons 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...
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.
Good question! @justinsydnor.bsky.social
05.09.2025 18:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0Ben 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!
@johnquattrochi.bsky.social
04.09.2025 14:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0DRC 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....
🚨🚨🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Full-price 2026 #ACA premium rate hikes to average 23.4% nationally (semi-final):
acasignups.net/25/09/02/exc...
@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..
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
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...
"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...
(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.
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 📌 0For 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