Writer, editor, and queer about town. Director of writing @UrbanInstitute, formerly @TalkPoverty and @AmProg. Views my own.
Washington, DC
Joined August 2012
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Mara Pellittieri retweeted
Homophobes in a nutshell:
"Their entire case, after all, is built around the idea of gay people doing something that they have not yet done, nor ever will do."
By @melissagira: newrepublic.com/article/1739…
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The Trans Health Equity Act just passed in Maryland 31-15!
It mandates coverage for modern trans procedures! If medically necessary, things like hair removal, Facial surgery, voice therapy will be covered by Medicaid!
Maryland is now one of the TOP states for trans healthcare!
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This Sunday marks what would have been #RoeVWade's 50th anniversary. However, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark decision last summer.
In a brand-new video, our @LipstickEcon walks through five ways abortion access is an economic issue.📽️
youtube.com/watch?v=-BJlaeL0…
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It seems as if every new fact I learn about the child welfare system is worse than the last, and this most recent one is a doozy: poor parents in at least 12 states can permanently lose their kids if they don't pay the government back for foster care. npr.org/2023/01/19/114882997…
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With Nebraska and Nevada last night, state referendums on raising the minimum wage are 26-0 in the last 26 years.
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The fundamental problem with child care is it's irreconcilable as a capitalistic business model. Providers can't charge any less, families can't pay any more, and the workers are given starvation wages for stressful skilled labor. Public child care now. nytimes.com/2022/10/13/us/ch…
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New CBO report: The poorest *half* of America -- ~150 million people -- hold only *2 percent* of the country's total wealth
Wealth of top 10 percent has grown markedly since 1989
That tiny little line at the bottom of this chart is half the country
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big woof:
nonfinancial corporate profit margins rose to 15.5% in 2022 Q2--the highest in 72 years
while the labor share of income fell to 58.6%--the lowest since 2016 and several points below the historical average
Mara Pellittieri retweeted
10k-20k in debt cancellation isn't enough. But it is the beginning — and sharing stories of how it is dramatically changing people's lives helps garner the support to push the movement further.
Here are just some of those stories:
annehelen.substack.com/p/the…
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This!!
Regression analysis can tell us a bit about "why" and maybe "what now," but sometimes researchers forget that just a general measure of what folks are going through is the most fundamental thing to policy debates and seeing lives reflected in analysis.
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If you know a squeegee worker between ages of 12-18 who likes writing and wants to get out of town for a week in August, please send them to us a @WritersinBMore. We have a free, residential camp at Washington College Aug. 8 - 13. Meals, lodging, & transport provided. DMs open.
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Today, we’re thrilled to announce the Baltimore Pipeline of Working and Emerging Reporters (P.O.W.E.R.), a partnership with @TheRealNews, a Baltimore-based nonprofit news organization. Can you support us as we empower the next generation of writers?
therealnews.com/announcing-a…
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🧵 D.C. added funding for only 20 new vouchers managed by the D.C. Housing Authority this year. But there are 40,000 people on DCHA's waiting list, which has been frozen since 2013. (via @streetsensedc + @dclinenews)
Story: dcist.com/story/22/06/24/dc-…
ALT Photo of a sign that says "District of Columbia Housing Authority and the building's address on North Capitol Street.
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Black people making over $100K are more likely to be denied credit or approved for less than requested than white people making $50K-$99,999
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A dark day for trans people.
Alabama passes SB184 which forcibly medically detransitions all trans teens. It will withdraw youth from gender affirming care. It will force trans teens through the wrong puberty in front of all their peers.
Terrible... I cry for these kids.
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A parent of a trans kid who works for the Texas state agency in charge of evaluating child abuse cases was reported for child abuse last week and is now under investigation and has been placed on a leave of absence from work.
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I need folks to stop saying "well just move". Ya can't. Family court jurisdiction is often permanent, absent extraordinary circumstances and/or consent of all parties. It's not a matter of money, it's a matter of criminal charges for parental kidnapping/custodial interference +
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The history of the last fifty years of economics is repeatedly discovering that what poor people need is money and the best way to get it to them is to give it to them
Aid to Poor Mothers Improved Brain Function in Babies politicalwire.com/2022/01/24… via @politicalwire
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There's another covid outbreak on my prison unit. DOC has plenty of N95 masks now, but prisoners will get a disciplinary infraction if they're caught with one. Why? Because N95s also protect us from their tear gas, which they still freely use during a respiratory pandemic.
