#TANF

Esfandyar Batmanghelidj

1. Short thread:Photo 1 is the flight path of Mahan Air Flight 1152.Photo 2 is MEA Flight 403.Photo 3 is Qatar Airways Flight 416.They all used the same Syrian airspace

Family Income Support Team at CBPP

When #COVID struck, #TANF the primary cash assistance program for families with the lowest incomes, was at its weakest point in the program’s history in most states, our annual update

Michael Needham

Thread. A lot of allies on the pro-family right seem to be skipping past Marco's argument on the child allowance presented today in National Review.https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/02/bidens-child-care-plan-is-wrong-for-families-and-

Analisa Packham

Putting together some Tik Toks on safety net programs (our last unit to cover in Public Econ). You can follow them here as I upload them or you can follow

Reports suggest #Lebanon's #Hezbollah-friendly security chief #AbbasIbrahim is in DC today to meet w/@WHNSC advisor - USG's former chief hostage negotiator - on fate of Americans still held in #Syria.

For my final assignment in the @wcpoverty seminar I’m taking with Prof @JennieRomich, I want talk to you about federalism, U.S. anti-poverty policy, and the COVID-19 policy response. In case

Units of the Syrian Armed Forces secured the defection of a large force of US-backed fighters from al-Tanf camp where the US forces train and arm them. The fighters were

I got a copy of Bolton's book.He was against the #Syria withdrawal, but the Kurdish YPG: "Why we were affiliated with one terrorist group in order to destroy another stemmed

So how does this happen? What are the steps that lead us to the point where Americans and Russians are in close proximity on the ground?https://twitter.com/woodruffbets/status/1298653526579650562 There were a series

Code of Vets ™

READ THREAD1. if you have not done so get online to your local county website, sign up for SNAP or EBT to get some assistance in food2. if you need

Elizabeth Tsurkov

A constant problem with US interlocutors in the Middle East: they project their hopes & goals on the Americans, believe the US has a grand strategy when there isn't one

Londyn Robinson (rheuminate)

Friendly reminder, 60% of med student’s parents are in the upper 10% of income earners, so most of y’all didn’t get this experiential learning like I did.Without further ado, the

Matt Darling 🌐💸

One last point re:Klevan 2019. I think that people sometimes are overselling how much it matters whether people understand the EITC. Here’s an example from @ryanlcooper’s (excellent!) review of @mattbruenig’s

Oh man, I am about to make you so mad you asked because I KNOW THIS ONEAlso for the something like 50k of you who have followed me since I

Time for a thread on the intentionally abysmal social safety net in this country.This is prompted by two things: 1) finding that the COVID stimulus reduced poverty, and 2) my

Danilo Leandro Trisi

Recent @pewresearch survey results show how #COVID19 could be widening inequality by race & ethnicity:49% of Hispanic, 36% of Black, and 29% of white adults say someone in their household