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Stephanie Hingtgen

@smhingtgen.bsky.social

Tax policy, poverty, and inequality research @centeronbudget.bsky.social. Iowa native and dog lover (especially Obi).

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Gideon Lukens@gidlukens.bsky.social · last wk.

Millions of people are losing health coverage due to Republican policy changes, and the numbers will continue to grow. See our new interactive state tracker featuring 8 different series of downloadable Medicaid and ACA marketplace data. www.cbpp.org/research/hea...

Health Coverage Tracker: Millions of People Are Losing Coverage Following 2025 Republican Policy Changes

Some 2.2 million fewer people are enrolled in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces as of February 2026 compared to December 2025, after Republicans chose to not extend premium tax credit...

cbpp.org

Wesley Tharpe@wesleytharpe.bsky.social · last wk.

Yesterday, Missourians had the final say on one of the most important state policy debates this year: whether to eliminate their personal income tax, which funds two-thirds of their budget, while raising taxes on many working people. They voted it down. missouriindependent.com/2026/08/04/m...

Missouri voters reject income tax phaseout, initiative petition changes • Missouri Independent

Missouri voters resoundingly rejected major Republican priorities on Tuesday as proposals to eliminate the income tax and change the way majorities are counted lost by large margins across the state.

missouriindependent.com

vhgibney.bsky.social@vhgibney.bsky.social · last wk.

The EEOC voted to end required reporting of demographic data that help identify patterns of discrimination individual complaints alone can’t surface. Ending this requirement removes the baseline that future admins, courts, & researchers need to monitor & enforce equal opportunity in the workplace.

US civil rights agency moves to end demographic data collection after 60 years

The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment ...

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Katie Bergh@katiebergh.bsky.social · last wk.

These are some of the people who have been "moved" off of food assistance in the wake of the Republican reconciliation law's unprecedented SNAP cuts. The immense hardship these families are now facing is not, in fact, "a pretty big win." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/u...

In November, no aid arrived. In December, a caseworker said to “hang in there” because renewals were months behind. In January, Ms. McDonald made 100 calls without reaching anyone, she said. In February, she discovered her case had been closed. She had submitted the wrong income statement, she later learned, and the state’s delays left her no time to fix it. Four months into an appeal, Ms. McDonald, a cancer survivor who weighs 69 pounds, bustles to food banks, stretches ground turkey with oatmeal, and skips meals to feed three teenage boys. But grocery bills have left her behind on the rent, and she describes her worries as a mental tax, paid nightly on her pillow.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

Rollins: "For those who love work and celebrate work and want people to work and not be on food stamps, it's a pretty big win when we've moved 5 million people off food stamps, y'all."

Stephanie Hingtgen@smhingtgen.bsky.social · 2w ago

New paper from @krisycox.bsky.social and me on the 19M kids in lower-inc fams left out of the full $2,200 #ChildTaxCredit under the 2025 Repub reconciliation law. That’s more than 1 in 4 kids <17, most of whom are in working families. www.cbpp.org/research/fed...

To Strengthen Economic Security, Policymakers Should Expand the Child Tax Credit to the 19 Million Children Who Receive Less Than the Full Credit Amount

The Child Tax Credit helps make raising children more affordable, and its full value should be available to families with lower incomes.

cbpp.org