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AlanaSemuels

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Senior Economics Correspondent, @TIME. Formerly The Atlantic, LA Times. 4 time Loeb finalist. Substack: alanasemuels.substack.com Signal: 628-249-0262

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The administration wants to cut federal spending but may end up paying subsidies to farmers who lose money on this trade war; in 2018-2019 it spent $23 billion on farmers. "It's a question of whether we want welfare payments or to make sales." time.com/7264403/farmer…

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For Many of America’s Aging Workers, ā€˜Retirement Is a Distant Dream’ @time.com @alanasemuels.bsky.social time.com/7260357/aging-…

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I wrote about people who hated health insurance so much they quit it and instead joined health sharing websites where they ask strangers to help with their healthcare bills. Surprisingly, they like resoundingly like it better. #CrowdHealth time.com/7269608/crowdh…

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"There's not a lot of room to make cuts before you lose functioning." How big cuts to HHS are worrying current and former employees: time.com/7273450/trump-…

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Advocates were concerned about food safety in the U.S. even before the massive layoffs at HHS. Now, there's even more reason to worry. time.com/7275746/food-s…

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was just asked if the administration has cut any funding to autism. The answer is yes: time.com/7279068/trump-…

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I'm not sure I've ever seen such a brutal distributional analysis from CBO. This contrasts the Medicaid and SNAP cuts for the lowest decile with the tax cuts for the top decile.

I'm not sure I've ever seen such a brutal distributional analysis from CBO. This contrasts the Medicaid and SNAP cuts for the lowest decile with the tax cuts for the top decile.
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America’s teeth are in bad shape, and dentists say that looming policy changes like Medicaid cuts and bans on fluoridation will make them even worse. time.com/7291226/americ…