When a mother in Georgia saw all her family’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits stolen from her account, she had no means to feed her children. Over $200 in SNAP benefits were stolen from another mom in Los Angeles County soon after the payment was deposited into her account. Because of the theft, she faced wrenching decisions […]
use of a security weakness in Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards, which are linked to a SNAP recipient’s account where states deposit SNAP benefits once a month. Unlike a debit card from a bank, EBT cards do not have a security chip, leaving them vulnerable to “skimming” when they are swiped at a card reader. […]
Dr. Joanna Rozpedowski hosts a session on “Space Wars: How State Conflict Is Going Extraterrestrial” at the Cambridge Conference on Catastrophic Risk 2024. The biannual conference, organized by the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), aims to break silos between different communities and to share experiences and approaches to studying, […]
While Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses a joint session of Congress on July 24, Members of Congress, NGOs and Israeli and Palestinian activists will gather in the Capitol to offer an alternative vision. Speakers will outline a vision for peace and security for Israelis and Palestinians that will differ significantly from what Netanyahu outlines […]
Armed conflict has a pronounced impact on women and girls, significantly constraining their access to education, healthcare, and economic empowerment, and even survival. In this panel, we will emphasize the adverse consequences of armed conflict on the lives of women and girls, highlighting the multifaceted ways in which their rights are further curtailed and their […]
Deeply damaging health coverage proposals recently advanced by Republican congressional leaders and conservative think tanks could gain traction in Congress next year. Cutting Medicaid would harm enrollees — including the millions of children, people with disabilities, and elderly people with low incomes who are covered by Medicaid — and increase health inequities.Medicaid helps children develop into […]
Deeply damaging health coverage proposals recently advanced by Republican congressional leaders and conservative think tanks could gain traction in Congress next year. Cutting Medicaid would harm enrollees — including the millions of children, people with disabilities, and elderly people with low incomes who are covered by Medicaid — and increase health inequities.Medicaid helps children develop into […]
No single piece of legislation establishes the annual federal budget. Rather, Congress makes spending and tax decisions through a variety of legislative actions in ways that have evolved over more than two centuries. The Constitution makes clear that Congress holds the power of the purse, giving it authority “to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts […]
renewal forms. August 2024 Link to this entry August 30 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released monthly unwinding data, including May unwinding renewal outcomes and operations data as well as preliminary June unwinding outcomes data. The August release also included updated outcomes data from January 2024. The data continue to show progress on ex parte rates (or rates of automatic renewals), with the nationwide […]
Workers in most states are eligible for up to 26 weeks of benefits from the regular state-funded unemployment compensation program, although 13 states provide fewer weeks, and two provide more. Extended Benefits (EB) are not triggered on in any state. Additional weeks of pandemic federal benefits ended in all states on September 6, 2021. Updated […]
d product accounts over time, possibly affecting their estimates of the share of total income growth occurring at the top of the distribution. Recent work by Piketty, Saez, and Zucman (PSZ) tries to address this concern by ambitiously combining tax, survey, and national accounts data to estimate the distribution of total national income, both before […]
What is climate change? Human activities — primarily the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and gas — are increasing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the Earth’s atmosphere, creating long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns. These shifts in our climate are causing floods, droughts, heat waves, and severe storms, among other impacts. We […]
