Today, Student Defense released a new guide on the Dos and Don’ts of AI in College Recruitment & Enrollment”
Indivar (Indi) Dutta-Gupta
@indivar.bsky.social
Father of Sathvik & Sarasu | Doris Duke Distinguished Visiting Fellow @ McCourt School of Public Policy, Fellow @ Roosevelt Institute, Distinguished Visiting Fellow @ NASI, Senior Advisor @ The Policy Academies | Founder/CEO @ Blue Lotus Strategies
Good Wednesday morning! Coming up with @zerlinamaxwell.bsky.social: Community Change advisor @indivar.bsky.social, TN. State Rep. Justin Pearson and Director of the Lawyers' Committee's Voting Rights Project Rob Weiner! ☎️ 866-997-4748 📻 @siriusxmprog.bsky.social Ch. 127 siriusxm.us/Zerlina
The House passed problematic legislation yesterday that could delay or block vital federal assistance to individuals and funding to nonprofit organizations, communities, and states. www.cbpp.org/blog/house-b...
House Bill to Make Blocking Federal Funds Easier Would Take Away Help People Need to Afford Rising Cost of Basics
Ensuring that federal funding reaches eligible recipients, while preventing and addressing factual instances of fraud, is a critical part of good governance that has typically garnered bipartisan...
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1/ Today, ESP released Building Affordability, our new policy agenda on housing, which tackles the 2 causes of unaffordability: broken markets + broken incomes. ✍️ by Becky Chao, @mtkonczal.bsky.social, & @resnikoff.bsky.social, it shows how policy can expand supply while also protecting tenants.
Debbie has been an extraordinary force for economic security--and I know that Chris Kang will build on that legacy and ensure CHN's impact for years to come.
Coalition on Human Needs@voice4humanneed.bsky.social · 3mo agoChristopher Kang will be the new executive director of @Voice4HumanNeed! We’re excited to welcome Kang and thank Deborah Weinstein for leading the human needs coalition for more than two decades. Read more from CHN: chn.org/voices/chris...
A few initial thoughts on the President’s FY27 budget. Big picture: Today’s budget isn’t a serious plan to address real issues facing families and the nation and isn’t worthy of the American people.
I'm starting to think the cabinet is not the problem.
it’s simply too vulnerable to nacho theft from the fans sitting behind/above you. at $1 a nacho, i’m not risking it
Sickos Committee@sickoscommittee.org · 4mo agoTHE NACHO HAT IS REAL AND $40 www.dallasnews.com/food/restaur...
A new proposal from the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) would create caps on the maximum Social Security benefit, raising serious issues. In this short piece I examine the proposal. www.urban.org/urban-wire/s...
Social Security Needs Reform, but Capping Benefits and Indexing to Inflation Could Do More Harm Than Good
Combining dollar cutoffs with indexing changes fundamentally alters the structure and philosophy that have guided the Social Security program for the past 90…
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There’s an unprecedented power grab unfolding in the US. An authoritarian coalition led by Trump & a network of oligarchs. Far from chaotic, each move is part of a wider strategy. Here’s how to understand & fight back. 🧵 🖋️ @rmabud.bsky.social @brusselermel.bsky.social shorturl.at/H0f6v
The Power Grab: The Authoritarian Coalition’s Strategy of Power Consolidation
The authoritarian coaltion is using three interlocking levers of power to consolidate control: political and institutional control, cultural and narrative power, and economic power.
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The richest country on earth, with among the highest per capita incomes and GDPs...
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 4mo agoTrump: We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things.
House lawmakers are considering an anti-immigrant bill (H. R. 1958) that would put people with lawful immigration statuses at risk of deportation - potentially resulting in separation from their loved ones—due to a mistake and/or confusion related to public benefit processes.
Sen. Booker’s centerpiece proposal is a very costly expansion of the standard deduction that flows high up the income scale, but also includes critical provisions for supporting low-income families w/ kids and people working for very low pay, as well as sound offsets. x.com/DavidABergst...
David Bergstein on X: "NEW from NBC: Booker wants to make first $75,00 tax free @SenBooker: “Americans are working harder and harder, and they’re making less and less relative to their parents and grandparents...So we need big ideas that could redeem the dream of America.” https://t.co/3pKLM9JvON" / X
NEW from NBC: Booker wants to make first $75,00 tax free @SenBooker: “Americans are working harder and harder, and they’re making less and less relative to their parents and grandparents...So we need big ideas that could redeem the dream of America.” https://t.co/3pKLM9JvON
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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. 🧵
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.
United States-Japan Foundation (USJF)@usjf.bsky.social · 6mo agoIndivar 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...
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...
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.
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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.
After Donations, Trump Administration Revoked Rule Requiring More Nursing Home Staff
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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.
Sharon Parrott@sharonparrott.bsky.social · 6mo agoIn the wake of another horrific shooting death in MN by federal immigration officers -on top of wrongful detentions, violence, & fear there & across the country- it is appropriate for the Senate to use the budget process to push for critical protections for people & communities.
The headline says it all: www.propublica.org/article/keny...
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.
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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 👇👇👇
Student Defense@studentdefense.bsky.social · 8mo agoNEWS: The 2025 Student Defense Impact Report is here. Our work is more important than ever. Learn about our mission, our victories and our continued efforts to protect students’ rights: defendstudents.org/impact-report
Feds bring woman to U.S. to face charges, then say she’s here illegally - The Washington Post share.google/4WFVab0IQwYT...
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.
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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. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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...
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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.
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.
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...
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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/
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...
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