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As legislators weigh more #COVID19 relief, SSN's experts are here to provide background and analysis. Today's thread comes from urban poverty expert Dr. Joan Mazelis (@JoanieMazelis), author of “Surviving Poverty:

Sharon Parrott

ParrottCBPP

While it is encouraging to see a group of Republican senators engage on a #COVIDrelief package, the proposal those Senators released falls short of meeting the nation’s needs in key

Jordan Weissmann 🗽

JHWeissmann

My initial take on Mitt Romney's child allowance proposal: It looks good. As @dylanmatt writes here, some of the pay-fors are controversial, and it may not reduce poverty as much

Daniel Foster

DanFosterType

There are many better explainers out there but for the few followers who may benefit from it: federal minimum wage hikes are conceived of as helping the proverbial young single

Dr. Jennifer Doleac

jenniferdoleac

If I am required to pay undergrad RAs $15/ hour, I will definitely hire fewer of them. Silver lining: less paperwork for me. Ok enough pot-stirring for now; I'm muting

Bryce Covert

brycecovert

It seems I’m going to be the only??? person to say: I don't like Mitt Romney's child allowance proposalhttps://newrepublic.com/article/161259/mitt-romney-welfare-poverty-basic-income Yes, having Mitt “free stuff” Romney put fo

Matt Steinglass мы живем в мертвящей пустоте

mattsteinglass

Here’s our endorsement of the Biden and Romney plans to pay parents a direct cash benefit. I would just add two points: 1/https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/02/13/reducing-child-poverty-in-america?frsc=dg%7Ce First, America is despera

Alex Lee 李天明

VoteAlexLee2020

$9.6 BILLION CA RELIEF PACKAGE: The Assembly, Senate, and Governor have reached an agreement for emergency relief to individuals and small businessesHere's what's in the coming package: Support for Individuals:•

Dan Hon

hondanhon

Also, if you're a technologist interested in working in government now (at whatever level), and you're thinking "well, everything there is broken, nobody knows what to do and I can

Alissa

alissa_brie

Absolutely agree w/@Western_Center. Golden State Stimulus should provide much more to undocumented Californians @kimbojorque Families that include undocumented Californians were excluded from THOUSANDS of $s in federal economic relief payme

Daniel Hemel

DanielJHemel

A Biden presidency w/a narrow GOP majority in the Senate is not half a loaf. It's the loaf. I'd be happier if Ds had flipped the Senate -- to mix

Philly Power Research

ResearchPhilly

Doing our best to model the millions of dollars flowing between PACs that are funded primarily by options trader/school privatization champion Jeff Yass – and fueling the Commonwealth Partners-affiliated PA

Jason Furman

jasonfurman

A few thoughts on the recovery plan that President-elect Biden is announcing tonight.THREAD: It is *very* large. Together with the December legislation it would be around $2.8T, which is about

Lyman Stone 石來民

lymanstoneky

After yesterday's excitement around Romney's child allowance plan, I had a hard time sleeping, tormented by dreams of income and distribution tables yet-to-be-calculated.So I woke up at the crack 'o

Maria Chong

mariachong

Seattle voted in the $15 minimum wage and none of the fear-mongering came true. Restaurants didn’t close. Fast food stayed cheap. Socialists didn’t invade. Economy is fine. Ultra-wealthy business owners

Diane Schanzenbach

dwschanz

V. excited about Sen Romney’s child allowance proposal, but v. worried a/b eliminating SNAP Categorical Eligibility (“cat el”) as a $3B annual pay for. My wonkiest tweet thread ever. h/t

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