Danny Rose

Great, great column

Ezra defines what he means by practicing politics the right way: “He was showing up to campuses and talking with anyone who would talk to him.” He does not — nowhere in the piece — endorse Kirk’s views. The column is an effective response to MAGA’s efforts to demagogue Kirk’s murder.

They like societies built on “survival of the fittest” and figure only people they don’t care about will die from the diseases.

The National Guard Won’t End Homelessness. Housing Resources Can. Despite a nationwide trend toward criminalizing people experiencing homelessness, decades of research show that housing resources and other supports remain the best solution to helping people exit hom...

Research shows that criminalization and encampment clearing doesn’t solve #homelessness.

In a new post, Urban #research experts highlight evidence-based solutions like #housing vouchers and supportive housing to address homelessness in DC and beyond.

An incredible moment at tonight's Washington Spirit home game at Audi
Field, as the crowd erupts in a "FREE DC" chant.

Democrats keep setting money on fire instead of trying to win elections In June, the George Soros-aligned Texas Majority PAC announced that it would work with the Texas Democratic Party to spend millions to elect Democrats in that state.

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Democrats keep setting money on fire instead of trying to win elections www.oliverexplains.com/p/democrats-...

About 12 Million Households Receive Both Medicaid and SNAP. The Reconciliation Bill Puts Them At Risk. Households that rely on both Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are spread throughout the country.

According to ACS data, Urban experts find that at least 12 million households receive benefits through #SNAP and #Medicaid, and that impending cuts to these programs could have significant impacts on households’ health, nutrition, and more.

Dive into the #data in a new Urban Wire post.

New Urban research, featured in the @natlgovsassoc.bsky.social Playbook, offers states a powerful tool to assess how well high school students are prepared to contribute to thriving economies. Explore the actionable recommendations: urbn.is/SUMIBrief

#LetsGetReady #NGASummerMeeting

BREAKING: President Trump signed an executive order directing states to criminalize and institutionalize people experiencing homelessness, addiction, and mental health disabilities.

From left to right - Aravind Boddupalli, Maryland Comptroller Brooke Lierman, Governor Wes Moore, Maryland House Speaker Adrienne Jones, Governor’s Office of Children Special Secretary Carmel Martin, Luisa Godinez-Puig.

Urban’s Aravind Boddupalli and Luisa Godinez-Puig presented #research on Earned Income Tax Credit & Child Tax Credit that will inform MD #policy to combat poverty with @govwesmoore.bsky.social, Maryland Comptroller Brooke Lierman, Sec. Martin of the MD GOC, House Speaker Adrienne Jones, and others.

Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:

Spot on. This is the clearest explanation I’ve seen. It ‘s relatable, and humanizes the issue in a way everyone can understand.

Expanded SNAP Work Requirements Would Reduce Benefits for Millions of Families As of May 13, 2025, Congress is currently considering legislation that would substantially increase the number of people who must work 80 hours per month to receive benefits from the nation’s largest ...

According to recent #research, the expanded #SNAP work requirements proposed in the House reconciliation bill would result in 2.7 million #families and 5.4 million people losing some or all of their family’s SNAP benefits in a month.

Learn more in an Urban brief.

Amazing writer. An OG champion of the blogosphere.

Infographic for the Toolkit for Increasing Upward Mobility in Your Community that features a cityscape at the top of the image and a Figure that lists the Actors to Consider for Your Mobility Coalition. These include local governments, community members, nonprofits and community-based organizations, and advocacy groups on the left, and philanthropy, research organizations, anchor institutions, and private sector on the right. There is a multi-colored circle in between these two figure lists that shows two hands shaking. An Urban Institute "U" logo appears in the bottom right-hand corner.

Increasing upward mobility from #poverty in #communities requires strong collaboration.

Learn how to build an effective cross-sector coalition with Urban’s #Toolkit for Increasing Upward Mobility. urbn.is/UMIToolkit2

AOC: Tom Homan said he was going to refer me to DOJ because I’m using my free speech rights in order to advise people of their constitutional protections… to that I say: Come for me… Do I look like I care?

There’s nothing illegal about it and if they want to make it illegal, they can come take me.

For insecure men, “trans people exist” sounds like “you might be trans.”

meanwhile, prominent pundits continue to deny that there the administration adheres to a segregationist ideology

An Alternative to Extending the TCJA: A Proposal That Invests in Working Families As Congress considers extending expiring provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA), this report proposes an alternative that focuses its benefits on the working class while addressing longst...

New #research from the Tax Policy Center proposes an alternative to extending the TCJA that focuses its benefits on the working class while addressing longstanding concerns about the complexity and administrative burdens of #tax credits geared toward low- and moderate-income #families.

Trump Administration, DOGE Activities Risk SSA Operations and Security of Personal Data | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities The Trump Administration — including Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency — has taken actions that risk creating unprecedented delays, degraded customer service, and unnecessary barri...

We have a paper out this morning on the risk of significant damage to Social Security from actions taken by the Trump Administration and DOGE.

Here’s a summary 🧵

www.cbpp.org/research/soc...

It is urgent to realize that the case in front of Boasberg is a golden strategic opportunity. Legally, and I bet politically. Their legal position is terrible, the underlying facts look worse every day, and their attacks on the judge are batshit.

Don't shrink from this fight, embrace it.

Households Faced Persistent Challenges Affording Food in 2024 Congress is considering major cuts to the federal safety net in 2025, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the nation’s largest source of food assistance to low-income famil...

According to #research, households faced persistent challenges affording food in 2024.

A new Urban #analysis sheds light on the challenges US households currently face in meeting basic needs and the potential impact of cuts to #SNAP and other federal food programs.

Smart take, unfortunately.

Mass Deportations Would Worsen Our Housing Crisis Mass deportations would reduce the construction labor force, which is highly dependent on immigrant workers, exacerbating the US housing crisis—but some states are more at risk than others.

According to an Urban #analysis, immigrants made up more than 23% of the construction workforce in 2023.

Learn more about the role of #immigrant workers in housing markets and how deportation-induced labor shortages in construction could worsen the #housing shortage in a new Urban Wire post.

Black Entrepreneurship and Education, Training, and Workforce Development Black entrepreneurs face persistent systemic barriers to starting, maintaining, and growing businesses. Education, training, and workforce development organizations (including higher education institu...

Research demonstrates that Black entrepreneurs face persistent systemic barriers to starting, maintaining, and growing businesses.

How can education, training, and workforce development organizations better support Black entrepreneurs? Learn more in brief from the Urban Institute.

When Trump was sworn in, Elon Musk's corporations were under more than 32 investigations conducted by at least 11 federal agencies.

Most of the cases are now closed or likely to be closed soon, and the federal agencies are being defanged by DOGE.

Funny how that works, huh?

There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.

This is a smart article making a dumb point: that the constitution doesn’t require the DOJ to be independent, so it’s fine if presidents direct prosecutors to target their enemies and protect their friends.

Totally true. If ATC is privatized, firms owned by private equity will cut costs REGARDLESS of their risk of being sued.