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Annie Hardison-Moody

@ahardison-moody.bsky.social
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Professor. Study religion and public health; gender, food, and parenting. Passionate about community engagement. Currently writing about collective responses to food insecurity. Also a hockey mom, PWHL fan, theater nerd, occasional runner

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KOSU @kosuradio.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
As changes to federal food assistance unravel, grocery prices are climbing. KOSU’s Anna Pope visited Oklahoma food banks to hear from people firsthand. "At this point, I can only take it day by day... And I just take everything as a blessing."
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Oklahoma SNAP enrollment has dropped 20%. Here's what it sounds like in local food banks
As changes to federal food assistance unravel, grocery prices are climbing. KOSU’s Anna Pope visited a couple of food banks to hear from people first hand.
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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
If you are having a hard time keeping up with the ever-changing SNAP participation data, I hear you. I would also like the number of people losing SNAP to stop getting bigger with each additional month of data!
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 19/08/2026
The Trump administration’s “big, beautiful bill” slashed spending on food stamps. Now, more than 1 million fewer children receive benefits.
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‘Mom, are we OK?’ Children worry their families can’t afford food after Trump’s SNAP cuts
The Trump administration’s “big, beautiful bill” slashed spending on food stamps. Now, more than 1 million fewer children receive benefits.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
SNAP has an outstanding ROI: every dollar we invest in SNAP generates $1.54 in economic activity. With SNAP cuts, people can’t continue to support these local grocers, so local businesses suffer. Everyone loses.
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Center on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
More than 4 million people have already lost SNAP benefits since last year's 2025 Republican reconciliation law was enacted. @katiebergh.bsky.social explains why the sharp decline reflects policy changes, not reduced need, via @wbur.org. www.wbur.org/npr/nx-s1-59...
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Over 4 million people are no longer receiving food aid amid sweeping changes to SNAP
SNAP, also known as food stamps, has seen a rapid and consistent participation decline since last July. The drop comes as the program faces historic cuts and changes.
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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Exactly this. People who want SNAP caseloads to return to where they were 25 years ago should probably explain why they want a highly effective & efficient anti-hunger program to reach a much smaller share of the people who need it.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The NYT piece notes SNAP use doubled since the early 2000s to explain cuts. But SNAP take up was artificially low. In the 90s ~80% of the eligible received benefits. This dropped to 52% by 2002. Bush admin worked on it. We were back at ~90%. We're about to see take-up among the eligible plummet.
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
This is really, really, really bad. I spoke to two mothers who lost food stamps who are eating less in order to feed their kids and still struggling to give their kids enough nutritious food www.thenation.com/article/econ...
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The Trump Administration Is Making It Nearly Impossible to Get Food Stamps
New work requirements and restrictions on SNAP have kicked millions off the benefit rolls, with more reductions to come.
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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🚨NEW: In the 9 months after last year’s reconciliation law enacted unprecedented SNAP cuts, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million. Based on available data, we estimate that at least 1.5 million fewer kids are receiving SNAP. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
Graphic showing the change in SNAP participation from July 2024 to April 2026. Between the reconciliation law's enactment in July 2025 and April 2026, the number of people receiving SNAP fell by more than 4.5 million.
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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
For #Juneteenth: 70+ years after the Civil War, the WPA's Federal Writers' Project began interviewing elderly Americans who remembered being enslaved. These moving narratives & photos are now held here at the Library. Narratives: www.loc.gov/collections/... Photos: www.loc.gov/pictures/ite...
Betty Simmons, Age about 100. Taken between 1936 and 1938. WPA Slave Narrative Project: Container, A932, vol. 16, part 4. Federal Writer's Project, United States Work Projects Administration (USWPA). Manuscript Division, Library of Congress.

An old African American woman in a button down dress stands in front of a chair with her hands clasped, looking at the camera. The chair is outside, positioned in front of a house. A younger woman stands on the porch behind her.
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Annie Hardison-Moody @ahardison-moody.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Looking forward to reading this study. @sarahkbowen.bsky.social and I found something similar in our work - when lower-income caregivers ran low on SNAP, meat was often the first thing to go, leaving them to fill their pantry with cheaper options like ramen. It wasn't a choice, but a necessity.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 20/05/2026
New SNAP rules are meant to encourage healthier eating. But they could backfire if it instead pushes small grocery stores – often the only option in food deserts – to stop accepting SNAP altogether.
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New SNAP rules requiring that benefits be used at stores selling healthier food could backfire
Many convenience stores, corner markets, bodegas and other small stores will have to make changes if they want to continue to accept SNAP benefits.
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Annie Hardison-Moody @ahardison-moody.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
❤️🏒
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Annie Hardison-Moody @ahardison-moody.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Loved cheering on this @pwhlcharge.bsky.social team all season. It was a sad night for Charge fans, but what a great fight and run ⚡ Go Charge Go!
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The Hockey News - Women's @thehockeynewsw.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
As the buzzer sounds on another season for the Ottawa Charge, and another missed opportunity at the Walter Cup, there remains much to celebrate about a team that defied expectations at almost every turn. ✍️ @chrissinclairrr.bsky.social thehockeynews.com/womens/pwhl/... #WomensHockey
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The Ottawa Charge Have Much To Celebrate Despite Walter Cup Loss
As the buzzer sounds on another season for the Ottawa Charge, and another missed opportunity at the Walter Cup, there remains much to celebrate about a team that defied expectations at almost every tu...
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Annie Hardison-Moody @ahardison-moody.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
What a game 🏒⚡️
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 03/05/2026
The number of food-stamp recipients is falling sharply—including by 50% in Arizona, according to state data—as new rules on who qualifies for SNAP benefits begin to be implemented.
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More Than Three Million People Have Lost Federal Food Aid
The number of food-stamp recipients is dropping sharply as states start implementing new Trump administration rules on who qualifies for SNAP benefits.
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Sarah Bowen @sarahkbowen.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
YES. We’ve heard a lot about this in our interviews with food-insecure moms over the years. Rotisserie chicken is easy, healthy, and relatively cheap. Not allowing people to use their SNAP benefits to buy it seems like needless punishment.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
What these changes look like in raw dollar terms, per CBO analysis of GOP budget bill: Typical household in bottom income decile loses ~$1,600 annually. Typical household in richest income decile gains ~$12,000 annually.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
New analysis from the Congressional Budget Office on the distributional impacts of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. After the tax cuts, spending cuts and other impacts, average household resources will decline for the lowest earners and rise substantially for the highest earners.
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Lauren Bauer @laurenhlb.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
The poverty team at Columbia ran the numbers on *just* the Thrifty rollback and *just* on families with kids and found that for every $1 in cuts ("savings"), we all lose $14-20. My goodness. povertycenter.columbia.edu/sites/povert...
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Annie Hardison-Moody @ahardison-moody.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
So thankful to get to work with and learn from Dr. Gonzalez, an expert in youth development and on why storytelling matters. So excited for this book!
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Apropos of nothing I feel like one of the most important things to help your kids develop is an ability to self-regulate.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
NYT: ".. Nearly a quarter of consumers using buy now, pay later loans finance groceries, up from 14 percent a year ago." @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/02/b...
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Consumers Are Financing Their Groceries. What Does It Say About the Economy?
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Jacob Wallace @jacobwswallace.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Ok folks, we know work requirements reduce benefits without increasing work (cc: @chloeneast.bsky.social) But who loses benefits and what happens if work requirements are reversed? New evidence from linked SNAP-Medicaid data and a natural experiment in CT tell a concerning story... Thread below 👇
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SNAP work requirements have biggest effect on those least able to work
Most people pushed out of SNAP in Connecticut didn’t find their way back in, even when work requirements were later reversed.
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The Hamilton Project @hamiltonproject.org · 23/05/2025
Volatility in employment and hours is endemic in the service sector. Under current and proposed work requirements, this means that low-income workers could lose access to basic needs programs because of factors often out of their control—even if they work enough hours across the year on average.
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Work requirements penalize workers in volatile occupations
Elizabeth Ananat, Anna Gassman-Pines, and Olivia Howard warn that work requirements, such as those Congress is currently considering adding or expanding in means-tested programs, penalize low-income w...
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Bruno J. Navarro @brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
New macro-empirical research finds that every dollar invested in non-defense public R&D yields $1.40–$2.10 in economic output, and since World War II, government funding has driven roughly 20% of U.S. productivity.
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Trump’s NIH And NSF Cuts Estimated To Cost The U.S. Economy $10 Billion Annually
Economists find public R&D drives U.S. productivity growth — and pays for itself
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
House budget bill would lead bottom income quintile to lose ~4% of their income on average ($800), but top percentile would see their incomes rise 4% (nearly $70,000). If tariffs remain in place, the overall impact on families would be even more regressive. budgetlab.yale.edu/research/dis...
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Distributional Effects of Selected Provisions of the House Reconciliation Bill (Preliminary)
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PWHL @thepwhl.com · 17/05/2025
Ticket punched. 🎫 Here's the highlights from the @pwhlcharge.bsky.social’s series-ending win over first seed Montréal Victoire last night!
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Jamila Michener @povertyscholar.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
We cannot harm those deemed “undeserving” without also harming many who are supposedly “deserving.” These false dichotomies serve only the most wealthy/elite. MLK was on point when he said that “injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.” We ignore that wisdom to our own peril.
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South Dakota Searchlight @southdakotasearchlight.com · 11/05/2025
A South Dakota woman planned to get prenatal care and deliver her baby 10 minutes from home, but she’s driving more than three hours round trip. More than 100 rural hospitals have stopped delivering babies since 2021, resulting in tough choices for patients. buff.ly/gtDsTaV Via @kffhealthnews.org
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Rural patients face tough choices when their hospitals stop delivering babies • South Dakota Searchlight
More than a hundred rural hospitals have stopped delivering babies since 2021, according to the Center for Healthcare Quality and Payment Reform.
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Annie Hardison-Moody @ahardison-moody.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
My how the times have changed. Tough losses for my kiddo and our favorite @thepwhl.com teams yesterday, but I loved having a hockey Mother's Day. What a game @pwhlcharge.bsky.social 🔥
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Dr Chris Noone @chris-noone.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Just out! Our peer-reviewed critique of the Cass Review has been published by BMC Medical Research Methodology. Please read and share. We show that the Cass Review is fatally flawed and should not be the basis for policy or practice in transgender healthcare. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
This study in The Lancet found that cuts to US spending on PEPFAR, the program to deliver H.I.V. and AIDS relief abroad, could cost the lives of 500,000 children by 2030. Half a million kids. Kids. www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-04...
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Nearly 500,000 children could die from AIDS-related causes by 2030
Experts including Prof Lucie Cluver, Professor of Child and Family Social Work, Department of Social Policy and Intervention, and Dr Seth Flaxman, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science
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Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
With news that the US economy is shrinking, who is most affected by recessions? The same populations that already rely on Medicaid, SNAP, & Head Start to meet basic needs Cutting these programs now would deepen poverty in a way that harms whole communities, most of all those directly affected
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Who Suffers during Recessions?
(Summer 2012) - In this paper, we examine how business cycles affect labor market outcomes in the United States. We conduct a detailed analysis of how cycles affect outcomes differentially across pers...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Phenomenal thread:
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60 Minutes @60minutes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
60 Minutes found no criminal record for 75% of the Venezuelan migrants the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. cbsn.ws/4lC4Vp5
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
#FDA "as we know it is finished.... I believe that history will see this as a huge mistake." — @robcaliff.bsky.social, former agency director, says of the sweeping cuts leveled today at #HHS & its agencies. www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/h...
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HHS starts layoffs of thousands of workers across its agencies
Layoff notices began arriving early Tuesday for thousands of employees of HHS and its subsidiary agencies, with as many 10,000 workers potentially expected to be hit by the cuts.
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Dr. Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
It’s hard for many people to see the importance of what CDC does because when it succeeds, there isn’t an outbreak. Your neighbor doesn’t overdose. Your cousin stops smoking or your child doesn’t start. Your grandmother doesn’t develop cancer. Cuts to this work would put us all at greater risk.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Torsten Slok: “Data from the Fed shows that households’ ability to come up with $2,000 for an emergency expense within the next month is at the lowest level since the survey started in Q4 of 2015. Taking into account that the CPI level today is 35% higher than in 2015, the situation is even worse.”
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Keung Hui @keunghui.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
NC food banks, schools and farmers take a hit after Trump administration slashes funding. Funding axed for food banks and schools to buy fresh produce & meat from local farmers and producers. (Via @chantalallam.bsky.social & @daniellebattaglia.bsky.social) #ncpol www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...
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NC food banks, schools and farmers take a hit after Trump administration slashes funding
North Carolina has participated in the program since 2022. Cuts are expected to be finalized in early May. What to know.
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Civil Eats @civileats.com · 13/03/2025
STARTING SOON: Join us for a Civil Eats Salon about mutual aid with Katina Parker, founder of Feed Durham, and Yasmin Ruiz, food justice co-organizer at Chicago’s Little Village Environmental Justice Organization. ➡️ buff.ly/mb52XCK
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
The Agriculture Department has axed two programs that gave schools and food banks money to buy food from local farms and ranchers, halting more than $1 billion in federal spending. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...
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USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks
States have been notified that they will not receive 2025 funding for schools to buy food from nearby farms.
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
From Ron Valdisseri, David Holtgrave and Julie Scofield: 'we are obliged to speak out about the dangers of these policies; 'silence is not an option'.” www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
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When Executive Directives And Public Health Ethics Collide | Health Affairs Forefront
Recent policy directives from the White House seek to compel actions that are contrary to widely accepted standards of ethical public health practice.
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Annie Hardison-Moody @ahardison-moody.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Still teary after seeing my kid interact with the amazing @pwhlcharge.bsky.social players last night at open practice. A puck from Serdachny, pics with McMahon and Clark, getting to see Maschmeyer up close, and so much love from other @thepwhl.com fans and players. Full ♥️
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Annie Hardison-Moody @ahardison-moody.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Celebrating three fabulous student thesis defenses today with the PWHL takeover tour tonight 🏒 some tix still available Raleigh folks!
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BSPH Department of Population, Family and Reproductive Health @hopkinspfrh.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
📔Just Published: Research by PFRH's Alysse Kowalski + colleagues in the journal Pediatrics sheds light on how the COVID-19 pandemic and economic support policies (like stimulus payments & expanded child tax credit) impacted #foodsecurity across U.S. households: publications.aap.org/pediatrics/a...
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COVID-19 Economic Supports and Household Food Security Patterns
Household food insecurity (FI) has significant and enduring consequences for children’s health, academic performance, and behavior.1 The national prevalence of in FI in US households with children inc...
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
The average American voter thinks that the government is too big but that it should spend more money on everything it does. This explains a decent share of the political chaos of this country.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 04/03/2025
Uganda’s LGBTQ population was already struggling to cope with the fallout of a harsh anti-gay law when the disruption of U.S. aid put people at even greater risk. Vital medical supplies remain scarce, and members of LGBTQ groups increasingly report feeling depressed or suicidal.
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Where Being Gay Is Punishable by Death, Aid Cuts Are ‘Heartbreaking’
Uganda’s L.G.B.T.Q. population was already struggling to cope with the fallout of a harsh anti-gay law when the disruption of U.S. aid put people at even greater risk.
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Roger Parloff @rparloff.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Per senior USAID official, Trump Adm actions likely to cause * up to 18m additional cases of malaria; 166k additional deaths * 200k children paralyzed with polio * 1m children not treated for malnutrition * 28k new cases of infectious disease www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...
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U.S.A.I.D. Memos Detail Human Costs of Cuts to Foreign Aid
The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to an agency whistle-blower.
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