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Liz Ananat

@lizananat.bsky.social

Mallya Professor of Women & Economics at Barnard College, Columbia University. Co-convener for Policies & Inequalities, Columbia Population Center. Obama CEA alum. Views=own. She/her.

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Liz Ananat@lizananat.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New with @agpines.bsky.social: on Can We Still Govern, we show how OBBBA's new work requirements will deny benefits to families due to volatile hours and employment in the service industry--which is caused by bosses, not workers

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New at Can We Still Govern: @agpines.bsky.social & @lizananat.bsky.social explain how the work volatility of low income service employees will make it hard for them to satisfy new SNAP/Medicaid work requirements, even when they work lots of hours. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-volat...

🗽LOLGOP🗽@lolgop.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Going to die on the hill (sorry, @bcdreyer.social) that we should call this BS red tape a “Job Loss Penalty,” as @matthewcort.land suggests.

How ‘Job Loss Penalty’ Reframes the Fight for Medicaid

Republicans are using deceptive framing to push massive Medicaid cuts—but the right frame could help turn the tide and protect millions.

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Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New at Can We Still Govern: @agpines.bsky.social & @lizananat.bsky.social explain how the work volatility of low income service employees will make it hard for them to satisfy new SNAP/Medicaid work requirements, even when they work lots of hours. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-volat...

Pam Herd@pamherd.bsky.social · 9mo ago

This is also why states will struggle to reduce their SNAP error rates (no, washington post, it's not fraud). Eligibility and benefit determination is already *really* complicated. States will lose ~$160 billion in SNAP funding b/c of the complexity--not because of fraud.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New at Can We Still Govern: @agpines.bsky.social & @lizananat.bsky.social explain how the work volatility of low income service employees will make it hard for them to satisfy new SNAP/Medicaid work requirements, even when they work lots of hours. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/when-volat...

Tatyana Deryugina@tderyugina.bsky.social · last yr.

Update: we are at 379 signatures in support of Lisa Cook and Fed independence! The letter be open for signatures through Sun. (Link to sign at the top). If you are on X or listservs, please spread the word there! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Open letter

Click here to add your signature. An Open Letter from Economists in Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence To the President, Members of Congress, and the American public: We wr...

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Jay Shambaugh@jaycshambaugh.bsky.social · last yr.

Seems like if we want to increase a culture of work etc etc, this might be more promising than taking food benefits away from 60 year olds or parents of 9 year olds. Of course funding things like this wouldn’t open up budgetary space for tax cuts for rich people.

Jacob Bastian@jacobbastian.bsky.social · last yr.

New research w/ @kirabojackson.bsky.social & @julia-turner.bsky.social on NBER homepage “Universal Pre-K across 9 states & cities increased LFP by 0.8 pp, employment by 0.9 pp, & weekly hours worked by 0.42, with strongest effects for moms. Each $1 spent on UPK generated >$3 in additional earnings”

Jacob Wallace@jacobwswallace.bsky.social · last yr.

Ok folks, we know work requirements reduce benefits without increasing work (cc: @chloeneast.bsky.social) But who loses benefits and what happens if work requirements are reversed? New evidence from linked SNAP-Medicaid data and a natural experiment in CT tell a concerning story... Thread below 👇

SNAP work requirements have biggest effect on those least able to work

Most people pushed out of SNAP in Connecticut didn’t find their way back in, even when work requirements were later reversed.

tobin.yale.edu

Chloe N East (she/her)@chloeneast.bsky.social · last yr.

I respond to AEI’s mischaracterization of three of my papers AND discuss the clear evidence that work requirements don’t increase work, but do reduce food assistance for households that need it.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last yr.

New from @chloeneast.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern: AEI cited her work to make the case for SNAP work requirements. Chloe explains that her and other research show that work requirements reduce SNAP access while doing nothing for employment outcomes. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-aei-g...

Trevon Logan@trevondlogan.bsky.social · last yr.

As @lizananat.bsky.social shows here, work requirements are unrelated to the jobs poor families depend on to survive. The result: one third of eligible service workers would get kicked off of programs with work requirements because of high volatility in the number of hours worked in service jobs.

Liz Ananat@lizananat.bsky.social · last yr.

Combined, these sources of volatility mean that nearly 1 in 3 service workers in households with children *who meet or exceed 80 work hours/month* over the course of the year would fall short of the work requirement in at least one month–and get kicked off basic needs programs: 8/8

Pam Herd@pamherd.bsky.social · last yr.

Critical point: The legislation is designed to kick people off Medicaid because it ignores the reality that low-wage jobs have highly variable hours--and they can't control that.

Liz Ananat@lizananat.bsky.social · last yr.

Each year, the bill would kick off 1 in 3 parents who work 80+ hours per month in the most common low-wage jobs *even if they manage to fill out the paperwork*, our new research with w/Olivia Howard @hamiltonproject.org finds: www.brookings.edu/articles/wor... 2/n

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last yr.

Work requirements will trip some people up because they struggle with paperwork, but will by design hurt other people who work a lot but have unstable hours (thread)

Liz Ananat@lizananat.bsky.social · last yr.

Each year, the bill would kick off 1 in 3 parents who work 80+ hours per month in the most common low-wage jobs *even if they manage to fill out the paperwork*, our new research with w/Olivia Howard @hamiltonproject.org finds: www.brookings.edu/articles/wor... 2/n

Lauren Bauer@laurenhlb.bsky.social · last yr.

New @hamiltonproject.org research by @lizananat.bsky.social @agpines.bsky.social & Olivia Howard finds that work requirements penalize low-income workers for something they can’t control: employer-driven volatility in employment and hours. www.brookings.edu/articles/wor...

Work requirements penalize workers in volatile occupations

Elizabeth Ananat, Anna Gassman-Pines, and Olivia Howard warn that work requirements, such as those Congress is currently considering adding or expanding in means-tested programs, penalize low-income w...

brookings.edu

Aviva Aron-Dine@avivaaron-dine.bsky.social · last yr.

A striking admission in Trump officials’ work requirements NYT op-ed: many working ppl who “work inconsistently throughout the year” will lose Medicaid & SNAP New @hamiltonproject.org‬ ‬‬ brief by @lizananat.bsky.social‬, @agpines.bsky.social‬, Olivia Howard shows this is true - and why 1/

The Hamilton Project@hamiltonproject.org · last yr.

Volatility in employment and hours is endemic in the service sector. Under current and proposed work requirements, this means that low-income workers could lose access to basic needs programs because of factors often out of their control—even if they work enough hours across the year on average.

Svasti Haricharan@svasti.bsky.social · last yr.

This can't be said enough. The narrative is quickly becoming but universities need fed funds, when it should be that the fed govt needs universities. NCI/NIGMS funding to Harvard/MIT supported research that led to the discovery of Herceptin, a cancer drug that has saved 3 million lives to date! 🧪

Pam Herd@pamherd.bsky.social · last yr.

The trope that universities are "dependent" on the federal government fundamentally misunderstands how vital this partnership has been for the US. The private sector can't replace it. If we kill it, we're all worse off. From @donmoyn.bsky.social and me: donmoynihan.substack.com/p/are-univer...

Moreover, these funds serve the public interest. Universities do things private companies with research capacities cannot: train research talent, conduct basic research with uncertain payoffs, and distribute knowledge as a public good. And the rewards have been enormous. Everything from the internet to pharmaceutical and health care innovations evolved from such investments. We are richer and healthier for the investment.
Ida Bae Wells@nhannahjones.bsky.social · last yr.

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH

The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...

latimes.com

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · last yr.

The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.

Triangle Blog Blog@triangleblogblog.bsky.social · last yr.

Hello! We are a scrappy three-year-old civics blog based in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC. We just updated thegriffinlist.com, which contains detailed instructions for 65,000 NC voters whose votes might be thrown out in the state Supreme Court race. Please share!

The Griffin List

A list of 60,273 North Carolina voters – these are registered voters who showed ID to early vote in the November 2024 election – whose votes Jefferson Griffin wants to not be counted. ...

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