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Moriah Harman

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Assistant Professor of Political Science at TTU | Political psych, behavior, and public opinion | inequality and redistribution | food politics | views are my own

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Moriah Harman @moriahjharman.bsky.social · 1h
Texas Tech Political Science is hiring in American (Judicial) Politics, deadline 10/26. I’m on the search committee and happy to answer any questions! sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
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Assistant Professor in American Politics - Texas Tech University - Job Details
Job Details: The Department of Political Science in the College of Arts and Sciences at Texas Tech University invites appli
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Congressman Don Beyer @beyer.house.gov · 30/09/2026
President Carter signed the Food Stamp Act because we agreed no one in America should go hungry. SNAP helped families buy food for nearly 50 years. Now, over 5 million people and counting have been kicked off thanks to Trump and Republicans' Big Beautiful Bill. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
It’s, um…interesting that the documentation req’d by disadvantaged folks to access social safety net programs - in the interest of “accountability” to ensure no improper use - is not req’d by the very politicians who rail about the need to be responsible with taxpayer dollars.
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Reminder: SNAP has an outstanding ROI. Every dollar spent toward SNAP generates $1.54 in economic activity. SNAP cuts didn’t get the attention that Medicaid cuts understandably did, but they were massive and will prove deeply harmful to millions of Americans’ food security — and to local economies.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
People who continue to pursue a technology under these circumstances are either massive liars or truly believe this and are persisting anyway, and either way they are rotten people who should be removed from all forms of power and access.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 05/09/2026
Yesterday, we were driving into Iowa for a soccer tournament, and my 12-year-old asked if Iowa has an NFL team. We explained--the state's population isn't big enough to support one. Well, fast forward to today--we pass a campaign sign for a Republican promising to "put Iowans first." 12 asks...🧵
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mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Supreme Court blocked the student loan forgiveness despite there being explicit statutory authority for Biden to do it and allowed the Iran War despite an explicit Constitutional prohibition on anyone besides Congress declaring a war.
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Moriah Harman @moriahjharman.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Submitted a question to @verasight.io, won the coveted @apsa.bsky.social shirt, and had a great panel. 🤩 That’s a wrap for #APSA2026
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Tuesday: The US govt offers its “deepest condolences to the victims and their families” after armed gangs storm a mountainside town in Haiti, killing dozens and kidnapping more than 50, including infants. Thursday: The govt deports 57 people, including a 3-year-old born in the U.S., to Haiti. 1/
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Moriah Harman @moriahjharman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
The Department of Political Science at Texas Tech is hosting this year’s Texas American Behavior Conference (11/13-11/14). If you’re a grad student or faculty member (at a TX university) studying American Political Behavior, please apply! Deadline 9/1/26. esrlttu.gov1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Moriah Harman @moriahjharman.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
I like to think I’m a young and hip professor…but today a student told me my hairstyle is “sooo early 2000s!”
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Michael Scott's Oopsies Ohno Grimace
Alt: Steve Carrell as his The Office character Michael Scott, wearing a blue suit, grimacing like “oh no.”
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Lauren Bauer @laurenhlb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
New analysis from me & Diane Schanzenbach, possibly my favorite piece ever: We study the SNAP payment error rate and explain why tying how much a state will have to contribute toward SNAP payments to its PER is inherently empirically unstable. Remand. www.hamiltonproject.org/publication/...
A policy that could cause states to drop out of the SNAP program due to chance should not be left to chance. SNAP should be fully federally funded.Figure 3 shows confidence intervals around the point estimates for a states SNAP payment error rate in FY2023. The confidence intervals are larger than the bins.
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Moriah Harman @moriahjharman.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I’d been thinking all morning about all of the kids in immigrant detention centers, many of whom should be excited about their first day back to school, then saw this. Where is our humanity?
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Stella Rouse @stellarouse.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I keep hoping this is not who we are, and I keep being disappointed.
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Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺 @rochaa.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
When a democratic president is elected suddenly the debt will be an existential issue for the Republicans and the @nytimes.com. They will all become fiscal hawks.
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Michael Shepherd @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
💥 My book Rural Pain, Republican Gain is officially released today!! 💥 The book is an outgrowth of my dissertation work that I started in 2016. Indescribable feeling to be able to hold it in book form just under a decade later. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Rural Pain, Republican Gain
An eye-opening look at how Republican policies have affected health outcomes in rural communities and why poor, rural white voters are turning to the Republican Party—not despite this harm, but becaus...
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Ruth Zakarin @ruthz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Trauma clinician here. Even if those kids are released tomorrow they will never be fully released from the trauma of their incarceration. They may leave Dilley, but they will never completely leave Dilley behind them. The impact is forever. That is what our government chooses to do to children.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
See also d'Urso et al. www.cambridge.org/core/journal... and prior work by Clifford and coauthors www.cambridge.org/core/journal... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Pre-treatment measures are fine (cc: R2). Contrary to 90s lore, 𝗆̶𝗈̶𝗇̶𝖾̶𝗒̶ priming ain't a thing.
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Where to place sensitive questions? Experiments on survey response order and measures of discriminatory attitudes | Political Science Research and Methods | Cambridge Core
Where to place sensitive questions? Experiments on survey response order and measures of discriminatory attitudes
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Adam H. Smiley @asmiley.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Important new paper for anyone studying affective polarization. I learned a lot! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Measuring affective polarization: Matching concepts to measures
Affective polarization is the extent to which partisans like their own party relative to their dislike of opposing parties. High levels of affective polarization in the United States and many other c...
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Moriah Harman @moriahjharman.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The Department of Political Science at Texas Tech is hosting this year’s Texas American Behavior Conference (11/13-11/14). If you’re a grad student or faculty member (at a TX university) studying American Political Behavior and would like the call for proposals, please DM or email me. Deadline: 9/1
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 12/08/2026
In recent years, FDA inspectors have uncovered disturbing lapses in facilities producing food bound for American supermarkets. Under the second Trump administration, inspections became their lowest since 2011, excluding the pandemic. (Published Nov. 2025)
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Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts
The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh fru...
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Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Some lovely work by Peter Enns 👇 A major political science finding overturned by: 1) Simpson's paradox (i.e. collider bias) caused by 2) Dichotomization In this case, measurement & causal inference are closely linked--as they often are. medium.com/3streams/one...
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One of the Most Prominent Findings in Political Science Might Be Wrong
Which means your voice matters more than you’ve been told!
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Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
1.5 million of those were children www.cbpp.org/blog/number-... There is no job data showing 5 million people, or anywhere close, found new jobs because work requirements don't work and many of these people were already working. www.cbpp.org/blog/work-re...
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Number of Children Receiving SNAP Continues to Drop Under Harmful 2025 Republican Reconciliation Law
In the 19 states with publicly available data or that have shared unpublished data, the harmful Republican reconciliation law has taken SNAP food assistance away from more than 1 million children...
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Moriah Harman @moriahjharman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
In today’s reminder that policies have consequences: mountainstatespotlight.org/2026/08/03/s... Charitable organizations struggle to continue to do the same or more work with even less financial support and even more public demand. And Americans are worse off for it.
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Food stamp cuts are pushing more West Virginians to food pantries
West Virginians losing food stamp benefits are turning to overwhelmed food pantries as funding and supplies fall.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/08/2026
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)
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Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe
Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...
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Moriah Harman @moriahjharman.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Have you written or read an article (published since 2016) that you think belongs on the reading list of a political behavior seminar? If so, please share your recommendations!
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Katie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
And here’s the entirely foreseeable result of a law that imposes massive penalties if states give families the wrong amount of SNAP benefits, but no penalties if they make it virtually impossible for eligible families to get benefits in the first place.
But Savaiano says Nebraska DHHS workers more recently started asking for more detailed financial and medical information that he believes has led to unnecessary burdens and loss of food assistance to qualified Nebraskans. 

He said, for example, that some new and renewing SNAP  applicants have had to get signed confirmation from a neighbor about who eats in their household. 

“The state is now requiring verification for absolutely everything,” Savaiano said. 

“It’s making it harder and harder for people to apply and receive SNAP.”
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Michael Shepherd @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
🚨New Book Alert 🚨 Thrilled to announce the publication of my first book: Rural Pain, Republican Gain by @uchicagopress.bsky.social ‼️ Officially released in one month but at the warehouse and ready to ship to you and yours! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Rural Pain, Republican Gain
An eye-opening look at how Republican policies have affected health outcomes in rural communities and why poor, rural white voters are turning to the Republican Party—not despite this harm, but becaus...
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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Hear me out: this is even wilder than it looks. Out in the ag world, Taylor Farms was THE instigator for a lot of the big food safety moves for lettuce over the last 20 years. That's a legacy that just should NOT have ended up like this.
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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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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The Trump admin's latest strategy to mass generate removal orders is diabolical: - Take a huge group of people with hearings scheduled in late 2026, 2027, or 2028. - Send them a physical letter rescheduling all of their cases to next week. - Those who inevitably miss court get ordered deported.
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Deportation Orders Soar in NYC as Trump 'Mega Master' Hearings Accelerate
A new report finds removal orders for people who missed hearings more than doubled in New York City in June, as a new tactic of hastily scheduled court dates rolled out.
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public health guy @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
matthew always brings the receipts
• A law called the "Food Traceability Rule," designed to make tracing contaminated food easier, was supposed to go into effect on January 20, 2026.
• Taylor Foods started paying Sidley Austin to lobby. on "regulation of food safety" in January of 2025.
• On March 20, 2025, FDA announced they were pushing back the implementation of the "Food Traceability Rule" by 30 months.
• On March 26, 2025, Taylor Fresh Foods Inc contributed $1,000,000 to MAGA Inc, a Trump-aligned super PAC.
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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
“Food safety experts worried that [big MAHA/MAGA cuts to food safety staffing] would make it easier for foodborne illnesses to spread undetected. And would you believe that they were right?”
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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
In Aug. 2025, we wrote “medical providers should prepare for new food-born outbreaks in a weakened food safety system…Americans as a whole can expect to live in a less healthy country, with less regulated food and medicine, reduced healthcare access and equity, and less resilient emergency response”
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Trump's second presidency begins: evaluating effects on the US health system
The first hundred days of the second Trump administration was unprecedented, with the administration taking remarkably aggressive, often questionably legal actions across health policy. This article u...
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Paul Nadeau @pauljnadeau.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Not to make this all about America, but things like this, the Tartan Army, the Cape Verde story, Bosnia-Herzegovina and others are good illustrations of how you can be proud to be where you're from and confident in your identity while being kind and gracious and without being a complete dingleberry
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
There are incredible new cancer drugs every year that are showing promise at defeating cancers that were previously guaranteed death sentences — and the Trump administration is doing everything it can to illegally kill the grants that fund the research. MAHA indeed!
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Former Senator Ben Sasse (R-NE) says in an interview this week that his tumors shrunk by 80% thanks to new cancer drug
Ben Sasse: "I'm down 99%, in five months, of how much cancer is in my blood."
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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.
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Pitchfork Economics @pitchforkeconomics.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Some economics is complicated. This isn’t. Hungry kids have a harder time learning, reading, doing math, and staying healthy. So when politicians cut food assistance and threaten school meals, they are not saving money. They are creating future harm. Feed the damn kids. ampr.gs/3SJsqm4
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Congressional Republicans’ Big Beautiful Bill Threatens Access to Free School Meals
Students across the country could lose access to free school meals, forcing the typical family with two children to spend $1,900 to $2,200 more per year for school meals.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ICE murdered another person.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/07/2026
NEW: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records.” with @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton Vowed to Crack Down on “Illegal Voting.” He May Have Violated Texas Election Law.
The Texas attorney general appears to have used an address where he did not live while voting in six elections in the past two years — despite his warning voters that “it is illegal to misrepresent yo...
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The Hamilton Project @hamiltonproject.org · 06/07/2026
Signed into law on July 4 last year, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will make SNAP substantially and detrimentally less responsive to economic downturns, @laurenhlb.bsky.social and Diane Schanzenbach warn. Read more:
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SNAP cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will significantly impair recession response - The Hamilton Project
Lauren Bauer and Diane Schanzenbach analyze how SNAP cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will affect the program’s response to recessions.
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Trump celebrating Balogun’s eligibility to play for Team USA when his administration would strip Balogun’s citizenship tomorrow if he didn’t play world class soccer is really a chef’s kiss.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 03/07/2026
Mamdani: "As we mark 250 years ... we see the wealthiest country -- one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more ... we see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans"
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Adam Bonica @adambonica.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
There is nothing more patriotic than wanting better lives for your neighbors.
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Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh.com · 03/07/2026
Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Here’s an partial list of govt agencies that will no longer be “independent,” but more closely controlled by the president (and what they regulate): SEC (stocks), NRC (☢️), CIA (🕵️‍♂️, NSF (🧪), EPA (🌲), FCC (📺), FTC (trade), CPSC (consumer safety), SSA (Social Security), USPS (📪), FDIC, FEC (elections).
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/06/2026
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show children are losing access.
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More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show ch...
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
“The dismantling of USAID, according to models from Boston University epidemiologist Brooke Nichols, “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children,” Gawande wrote.” hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-s...
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USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/06/2026
Children weren’t the target of federal food program changes, but they’re increasingly “collateral damage,” one expert said. The drop in the number of children receiving SNAP benefits is a “public health crisis” in the making, said another expert.
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More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits After Trump Changes Federal Food Program
Republican backers of Trump’s signature domestic policy bill repeatedly claimed that revisions to the food benefits program wouldn’t affect the most vulnerable. But reports from a dozen states show ch...
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Debbie Schildkraut @debbiejsr.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Second here (2/2): academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...
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State Identities and the 2024 Election
Do states matter to people? As President Trump engages in high-stakes standoffs with state governments, attempting to send National Guard and military troo
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