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Send a message thanking those who stood up and voted against this monstrosity of a bill, or send a message to your members of Congress who voted for it, admonishing them for their vote.

Congress has enacted the Big Brutal Bill and Donald Trump has signed it into law.

This bill is deadly.

According to researchers from Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania, $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts plus other health care cuts—the largest in history—will result in the deaths of 51,000 people per year. Those deaths include 18,200 people who are eligible for both Medicaid and Medicare, 20,000 people who will lose health care coverage due to the elimination of the premium tax credit for the Affordable Care Act, and 13,000 deaths due to staffing cuts at nursing homes.

At a time when so many are struggling to afford the basic costs of living including groceries, new data from the Urban Institute shows that 5.3 million families will lose $25 or more per month in SNAP benefits, with the average such family losing $146 a month in help paying for food. Sixty-two percent of the families experiencing these very large SNAP losses include children.

All of this is being done in order to pay for extending the Trump tax scam—making tax breaks for the rich permanent—and funding Trump’s mass immigration detention and removal machine.

Congress needs to hear from you. Send a message thanking those who stood up and voted against this monstrosity of a bill, or send a message to your members of Congress who voted for it, admonishing them for their vote.

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How Benefit Cuts Impact People with Disabilities: How to Fight Back

April 19, 2018 @ 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

You can view an archive of this webinar with ASL and captioning here.

Webinar:  How Benefit Cuts Impact People with Disabilities; How to Fight Back

Learn about likely federal policy threats affecting people with disabilities, in programs such as Medicaid, nutrition assistance, SSI/SSDI, housing and legal protections.  Included in the webinar will be a discussion of effective messaging to combat these threats, and action steps you can take to get involved. Following the presentations, participants will have an opportunity to ask questions.

WHEN: Thursday, April 19th, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT

PRESENTERS:

T.J. Sutcliffe, Director of Income and Housing Policy at The Arc

Lisa Ekman, Co-Chair, Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities Fiscal Policy Task Force

Rebecca Cokley, Senior Fellow, Disability Policy, Center for American Progress

Rebecca Vallas, Vice President, Poverty to Prosperity Program, Center for American Progress

Moderator:  Deborah Weinstein, Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs

This webinar is co-sponsored by Center for American Progress, Consortium for Citizens with Disabilities Fiscal Policy Task Force, and the Coalition on Human Needs. The webinar will be captioned and ASL interpreting will be provided; a transcript will be available, along with the recording and slides.

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Date:
April 19, 2018
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3:00 pm - 4:00 pm