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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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Using the New Poverty Data

September 9, 2015 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

An archive of this webinar is available here.

Using the New Poverty Data

Wednesday, September 9, 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Eastern time

The annual Census Bureau data about poverty, income, and health insurance will be released on September 16 and 17.  There is increasing recognition that poverty is stubborn, entrenched, and damaging.  There is also a growing body of evidence about what works to reduce poverty.

Learn how to get accurate information about your state and community – and how to use it to press for real solutions.

Presenters:

Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Jared, formerly Chief Economist and Economic Advisor for Vice President Biden and the Obama White House, and now a prominent writer and commentator on economic issues, will predict likely poverty and income trends in the new data.  And show us what works to reduce poverty – and what doesn’t.

Deborah Weinstein, Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs

Debbie has been providing practical, hands-on tips on using the Census survey data for a long time.  Each year, she works to streamline the info so you can find and use poverty, income, health insurance, education, disability, race/ethnicity, employment and other data for the nation, and for states and communities.

The webinar will give you step-by-step instructions to find the information you need, including trends over time and comparisons to other states.  All registrants will be sent those instructions and follow-up help when the Census Bureau releases its new reports.

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September 9, 2015
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