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smart, useful research from the brilliant Jeanne Lambrew The Century Foundation with a county-by-county map detailing how much GOP's budget bill will jack up health care costs for middle and working class Americans. via Zack DiGregorio tcf.org/content/data/a…

The big banks all passed the Fed's "stress tests" but for some reason that would like an answer to, the Fed didn't even acknowledge or test for bank exposure to the $2 trillion private credit market, something the fed's own researchers have worried about. apnews.com/article/bank-s…

I don’t think most people know we are days aways from millions losing their health insurance in the biggest cut to Medicaid in history, plus millions losing food assistance in the biggest cut to SNAP in history The next few days are crucial for fighting the “big beautiful bill.”

The Trump working class agenda; wipe out food banks and enrich actual banks by pushing grocery purchases onto high interest credit cards

Don’t sleep on the BILLION DOLLAR slush fund for MOHELA and the rest of the student loan industry, with no guardrails and no strings attached. This is a kickback to buy off their opposition to gutting financial aid for millions of people and jacking up costs for borrowers.

We polled what costs people are most frustrated about. Groceries, utilities, and health care were the top 3. The GOP bill makes each of them more expensive

TCF Senior Fellow Chiquita Brooks-LaSure (Chiquita Brooks-LaSure) joins The Weeknight on MSNBC to discuss Medicaid cuts, the threat of widespread hospital closures, and what comes next as the bill heads back to the House.

The GOP Megabill passed by the Senate today would be the largest transfer of wealth from the working class to the rich in American history.  TCF President Julie Margetta Morgan on Senate Republicans’ attack on working families: “This bill overwhelms actual food banks to pad the profits of

For months, Trump's CFPB has insisted it is focusing its efforts on protecting servicemembers & veterans The Associated Press: "Navy Federal Credit Union will no longer have to refund $80 million to servicemen and women for illegally charging them overdraft fees" after CFPB dismissal of the case

Congress is advancing a bill that will make healthcare, education, groceries, and utilities more expensive, and the Trump Administration is cutting wages for home health workers. I just can't get over how many fronts Donald Trump is opening in his war against the working class

The Trump administration is starting to add prior authorization to traditional Medicare and almost nobody noticed. We did. Here's Robert Kuttner with the story:

Effects on WMass if ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ passes US House? Widespread harm on ‘decent people’ masslive.com/westernmass/20…

House Speaker Mike Johnson just rammed through massive cuts to Medicare. 40% of his constituents rely on it, and we went to talk to them.

It's not just Medicaid: ⁦Connecticut Insurance Department⁩ warns of major problems coming for private health insurance including skyrocketing premiums and deductibles for people in Connecticut.

Great piece with an absolutely devastating student loan table by the great Jennifer Zhang

I was told firms would never use a price shock to opportunistically raise prices

Spreading public health misinformation has consequences. cnn.com/2025/07/05/hea…

again, the reality is that the only way the law can achieve its intended Medicaid savings is if millions of "legal, eligible, and vulnerable" enrollees are pushed out of the program

For the record: the average union member receives more paid vacation time (not “micro-retirement”) than non-union members do.  aflcio.org/formaunion

Important read//Megan Greenwell on how private equity is devastating the media. cjr.org/the-interview/… via @cjr