Congress is moving to avoid another lapse in funding, but a freeze in welfare support to blue states shows what’s missing in the debate.
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Posted inEconomic Policy
A Happy 2025 By-Product: Revulsion at the Rich
With Trump, Musk, Bezos et al. running amok, progressive economic populism is on the rise. Polling shows a broad public turn toward policy that seeks to reverse the upward redistribution of income and wealth to our billionaires and make life’s necessities affordable.
Posted inTAP
A Talent for Comedy and Liberal Politics
Rob Reiner was a mainstream liberal, devoted to expanding social rights and benefits to people arbitrarily denied them.
Posted inLaw and Justice
For-Profit School Opening in For-Profit ICE Family Prison
Stride, Inc., is hiring multiple teachers to run a new school at the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley. But the establishment of a school is really an effort to sanitize the extended detention of hundreds of children.
Posted inWorking in America
To Be Black, Female, and Unemployed
How unemployment in the Trump era shapes Black women’s lives when maternal care and food choices are in the mix
Posted inTAP
To Win Radical Success, Mamdani Understands, Is to Know When and Where to Compromise
Pragmatism is required to build a social democratic New York.
Posted inPolitics
Zohran Mamdani’s Next Big Battle Is in Albany
Mamdani convinced New York City voters to back his agenda—now he needs to convince Albany politicians. The money his administration needs to fund his priorities will not be won without a fight.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
When Federal Funding Doesn’t Show Up
The Trump administration has denied legally obligated funds to thousands of organizations dependent on federal grants, causing layoffs, service cuts, and mass anxiety.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Congress Funded Head Start. The Trump Administration Is Holding Up the Money.
Delays in funding and new procedures to justify budgets have led to temporary closures and massive uncertainty for programs, workers, and families who rely on child care.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Trump Attacks Child Care for the Most Vulnerable
It turns out that you can’t just turn the government off and then back on again.