Indivar (Indi) Dutta-Gupta

This morning, @warren.senate.gov, Rep. Adelita Grijalva, and Rep. Jame Moylan introduced the Supplemental Security Income Restoration Act alongside experts and advocates.

If passed, it would reduce poverty among SSI recipients by 60 percent.

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trump is calling for banning congressional stock trading, but he leaves out the key detail: the reason there's a standstill right now is democrats want it to apply to trump and the white house, but trump issued a veto threat over that.

CBPP's Samantha Waxman on today's Senate vote to overturn parts of D.C.'s tax law (via X): x.com/waxmansd/sta...

(1/2) New Census data confirms: U.S. renters are now paying a median of $1,413/month— a $100 inflation-adjusted increase from five years ago—while homeowner costs stayed flat. This rental housing crisis demands multi-pronged approaches that consider both supply and demand.

USJF Publishes New Paper by Indivar Dutta-Gupta (USJLP 2024, 2025) on Leveraging Japanese Housing Policy to Improve US Outcomes USJF publishes a paper by Indivar Dutta-Gupta on leveraging Japanese housing policies to address U.S. affordability and homelessness issues.

Indivar Dutta-Gupta (@indivar.bsky.social)’s paper, published as part of the USJF Research series, explores what the U.S. can learn from Japan’s housing system—highlighting affordability, low homelessness, and policy lessons on zoning, housing supply, and income supports. us-jf.org/en/news/usjf...

After Donations, Trump Administration Revoked Rule Requiring More Nursing Home Staff

SCOOP: Nursing home companies donated $4.8M to Trump's super PAC in Aug-Sept.

Their executives landed a lunch in Aug. with Trump at his NoVa golf club where they asked him to revoke a rule to increase staffing to prevent patient neglect.

His administration revoked the rule a few months later.

Not just appropriate, but *essential* that the Senate not continue funding the deadly status quo allowing killing with impunity and that it stops surrendering its power of the purse.

After Trump Officials Cut Food Aid to Kenya, Children Starved to Death “Brutal and traumatizing”: Interviews and a trove of internal documents show government officials and aid workers desperately tried to warn Trump advisers about impending disaster and death.

The headline says it all: www.propublica.org/article/keny...

I'm proud to work with the @studentdefense.bsky.social team and support its high-impact work protecting and supporting college students. Learn more about their recent work and successes, even in a truly challenging environment 👇👇👇

“The government needs to decide what its priorities are: ginning up deportation stats or prosecuting alleged criminals.”

Feds bring woman to U.S. to face charges, then say she’s here illegally A federal magistrate judge called the situation “Kafkaesque” at a hearing in U.S. District Court in Washington.

Feds bring woman to U.S. to face charges, then say she’s here illegally - The Washington Post share.google/4WFVab0IQwYT...

Not Serious Enough To Turn on the Siren, Toddler’s 39-Mile Ambulance Ride Still Cost Over $9,000 - KFF Health News After her son contracted a serious bacterial infection, an Ohio mother took the toddler to a nearby ER, and staffers there sent him to a children’s hospital in an ambulance. With no insurance, the fam...

Ambulance companies often negotiate with patients over large bills. “But you shouldn’t have to work so hard for it,” says an Ohio mom who was billed $9,250 for her toddler’s transport between hospitals.

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EPA to abandon air pollution rule that would prevent thousands of U.S. deaths The Environmental Protection Agency will no longer defend Biden-era limits on fine-particle pollution, which causes heart and lung disease.

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We’re investigating to expose potential government-funded payments to former senior Trump officials Michael Flynn and Stefan Passantino.

The American people deserve to know if public power is being used to financially benefit people with ties to the president.

Advocates Warn Public Charge Rule Will “Deny Immigrants Fair Chance at American Dream” This week, the Trump administration announced its intention to reinstate their highly controversial “public charge” rule, which would use lawful immigrants’ participation in “means-tested public benef...

This week, the Trump administration announced plans to reinstate the “public charge” rule, which is designed to scare immigrants away from seeking public assistance, including help from SNAP.

We opposed this rule in 2019, and we will continue to fight this harmful proposal every step of the way.

Raising taxes on the ultrarich: A necessary first step to restore faith in American democracy and the public sector Summary   The public has supported raising taxes on the ultrarich and corporations for years, but policymakers have not responded. Small increases in taxes on the rich that were instituted during time...

The public has supported raising taxes on the ultrarich and corporations for years, but policymakers have failed to act.

→ Raising taxes on the rich makes good economic and political sense.

EPI’s latest report from @joshbivens-econ.bsky.social 1/

The VP could not possibly be more incorrect. The evidence is clear that immigrants REDUCE housing costs: "Cracking Down, Pricing Up: Housing Supply in the Wake of Mass Deportation" by Troup Howard, Mengqi Wang, Dayin Zhang :: SSRN share.google/xYBZFxX0zHzr...

Recent Actions by the Trump Administration Target Children with Disabilities Proposed rules, reductions in force, threaten roughly 100,000 children who rely on Supplemental Security Income, plus others in need of support and

The Trump Admin's shameful attacks on kids with disabilities are happening on every front: legislation (OBBB), regs, and RIFs. The Social Security Administration's new proposed rule to limit SSI eligibility is yet another example. 1/ firstfocus.org/update/recen...

Italian Pasta Is Poised to Disappear From American Grocery Shelves The Trump administration is set to impose duties of 107% on Italian pasta imports, among most punitive of the tariffs it has levied.

This pasta tariff madness threatens to cause a crisis in our home and beyond www.wsj.com/world/europe...

Tackling Climate Change Without the U.S.

It's hard to overstate how much the Trump Administration has done to Make China Great Again: "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than the U.S. makes from exporting fossil fuels..." citing @theeconomistnews.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/11/09/w...

Federal Judge, Warning of ‘Existential Threat’ to Democracy, Resigns

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While the President goes on a spending spree to build a ballroom in the White House and bailout his buddy in Argentina, and personally refuses to release federal funds to feed millions of hungry Americans, look who he's showering with gratuitous tax cuts...

How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy

You simply cannot make this stuff up. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/b...

Immigration Agents Arrest Man in L.A. Raid and Drive Off With His Toddler

Who voted for this? www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/u...

Leading Anti-Hunger Advocate Responds to SNAP Ruling: ‘Enough Is Enough’

It’s validating and truly powerful to see the order requiring the Trump administration to fully fund and issue SNAP benefits by tomorrow.

Now, we must keep the pressure up to make sure the Trump administration drops this unconscionable appeal and immediately releases SNAP contingency funds.

Private planes make up nearly 12% of all flights.

And yet even with major air traffic control safety concerns, the DOT is planning to exclude them from its plan to order 10% cut in flights at 40 major U.S. airports.

People who can afford to charter flights will be fine. Everyone else is screwed.

What we know, 10:20pm

—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, *and* AG
—BIG Dem gains in VA House
—Dems win NJ-Gov
—Mamdani wins
—Dems keep PA supreme court
—Larry Krasner & Bragg win
— GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices
—JD Vance’s half-brother loses Cincy
—Dems sweep Orlando council
—ME anti-mail vote measure loses

The factional grifters will hate this, but the Mamdani-Spanberger-Sherrill axis actually suggests the outlines of a broad, emerging Dem coalition organized around both anti-Trump *and* affordability politics, not a party bitterly divided against itself.

Historical perspective on Virginia election results-

Abigail Spanberger is on track to win by the largest margin of any Democratic candidate for Governor since 1961, before the integration-era party realignment.

Democrats will win their largest House of Delegates majority since 1987.

A BIG night.

i want to repeat this: mamdani and spanberger have run similar campaigns tailored to their respective electorates and it is maddening to watch political journalists attempt to create some broad contrast where none exist