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Sam Melvin

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Policy researcher fighting for thriving babies and caregivers with science and stories | Views mine only | she/her

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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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Sam Melvin @sammelvin.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
At #SRCD2025 Policy Preconference, Walter Gilliam reminded us that Ed Zigler, known as the father of #HeadStart, modeled the program on how we used to treat immigrant families, including his own. This story brought me to tears as we fight for that legacy: medicine.yale.edu/news-article...
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‘Father of Head Start’ and Zigler Center leader reflect on Head Start at 50
If you believe in karma — the good kind, that is — then you’ll believe it was working for Head Start pioneer Edward Zigler two years ago. He was preparing to
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Sam Melvin @sammelvin.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
What wasn’t mentioned in tonight’s #jointaddress: ❌ Access to affordable, quality health care and child care ❌ Costs of groceries, housing, and basic needs ❌ Paid leave and fair wages How does ignoring families and gutting Medicaid, SNAP, programs that benefit babies = the American dream?
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Casey Peeks @kcpeeks.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Needless to say there was a whole lot of awful going on in this speech tonight, but there was also a whole lot missing. Trump spent a lot of time discussing the economy tonight, but you know what’s missing from his remarks? A plan for child care.
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Peggy Bailey @peggybaileydc.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
The President left out "for the wealthy' when talking about the tax cuts he supports. His proposals, which are included in the House budget resolution, cut taxes for the top 1% and pay for it by cutting food assistance and Medicaid. #CBPPJointAddress
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Casey Peeks @kcpeeks.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Trump just claimed that his administration is prioritizing eliminating exposure to toxins, especially for children. However, they are actively attempting to prohibit the replacement of lead service lines all while gutting the EPA.
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Center for Law and Social Policy @clasp.org · 05/03/2025
3/ Detaining children without charge, separating families, & forcing kids into harmful conditions is NOT who we should be. Every policymaker who voted for this bill voted against children’s well-being. We must do better. #JointAddress
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Anthony Wright @awright2care.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
If you care about child cancer, maybe it's a bad time to cut #Medicaid, which covers over 40% of children in our country.
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MomsRising @momsrising.org · 05/03/2025
FACT: One of the best ways to keep our children healthy and help children with disabilities like autism is to NOT cut Medicaid by $880 billion — as proposed by congressional Republicans and Donald Trump. #MOMSky
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MomsRising @momsrising.org · 05/03/2025
FACT: What Musk calls "government waste" are jobs and programs that lift veterans, farmers, small business owners, sick children, seniors, and families across the United States. Take action to say no to Musk, DOGE, and Trump's unlawful overreach: action.momsrising.org/sign/governm... #MOMSky
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Tell Congress to stop the dismantling of federal agencies & unjust mass firing of employees!
Take action now! Tell Congress to stand up to Elon Musk and Donald Trump and stop the dismantling of federal agencies and unjust mass firing of employees!
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Melissa Boteach @mboteach.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Notice what Trump isn’t talking about in his #jointaddress to Congress: The Republican plan to rip healthcare from people to pay for tax cuts for billionaires and corporations.
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First Focus on Children @firstfocus.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
President Trump touts cuts to foreign aid during his #JointSession, but let's be clear: cutting USAID programs saves very little money, but it WILL cost millions of children their lives. firstfocus.org/resource/fac...
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Fact Sheet: USAID cuts total $4 billion for children, tens of thousands of lives   | First Focus on Children
Trump's USAID shutdown halts $4 billion in vital aid for children, threatening millions with malnutrition, disease, and death. Learn how this affects global health and security.
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Emily Gee @emily-gee.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Curious how Trump can balance the budget while providing TRILLIONS in planned tax giveaways, including to corporations and billionaires? If he does, it will be at a grave cost to the health care and economic security of working- and middle-class Americans. www.americanprogress.org/article/4-wa...
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4 Ways House Republicans’ Emerging Tax Package Would Put Billionaires Over Families
The emerging House Republican tax package would raise working- and middle-class families’ costs to shower enormous tax giveaways on the wealthiest Americans.
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Sam Melvin @sammelvin.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Babies and families—and the programs and people that provide resources that help them to thrive—are not wasteful #jointaddress #stopthecuts
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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Megan Carolan @megancarolan.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
"Notably, the Idaho hearing featured testimony from child care provider after child care provider stridently opposing the proposed changes, with one aptly noting, “how often do you get small business owners up here asking you to regulate them more?”" #childcare
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Andrea Ducas @andreaducas.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
What could House Republicans’ $880B in potential Medicaid cuts mean for your congressional district? On average, we estimate a $2B funding loss per district and substantial reductions in coverage in states that expanded Medicaid. ⬇️ www.americanprogress.org/article/the-...
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The Republican House Budget Resolution's Potential $880 Billion in Medicaid Cuts by Congressional District
The Republican House budget resolution would cost congressional districts an average of $2 billion each and could eliminate coverage for 15.9 million people.
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Lea Woods @lea9223.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Head Start provides nearly a quarter (22%) of child care supply in rural areas. It is a critical early education and anti-poverty program. Cutting its resources is a cruel attack on families. www.americanprogress.org/article/proj...
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Project 2025 Would Eliminate Head Start, Severely Restricting Access to Child Care in Rural America
If enacted, the elimination of Head Start would undermine economic growth and exacerbate inequalities among families with young children.
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Yesterday ~68 people employed in HHS's Administration for Children & Families early childhood offices were terminated. I'm told Office of Head Start lost ~20% of staff; Office of Child Care lost ~25% These workers process grants for preschools/childcare centers, monitor health/safety issues, etc.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
FANTASTIC ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?) You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have www.datalumos.org/datalumos/
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Sam Melvin @sammelvin.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
We're #hiring! @zerotothree.bsky.social’s Policy Center seeks a Policy Research Analyst passionate about early childhood development and data-driven #policy for babies and their families. Pls share widely! Apply now: job-boards.greenhouse.io/zerotothree/... #ECEHiring #PolicyResearch #DataAnalysis
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Policy Research Analyst
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MomsRising @momsrising.org · 12/02/2025
Wait, what? Child care costs more than rent? New data released from the @dol.gov shows that families are paying a high price to access the care their children need #SolveChildCare
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
JUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Erica Greenberg @ericahgreenberg.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
🌟 Did you know that most federal education data are archived in the @urbaninstitute.bsky.social Education Data Explorer? It's a great resource for research and analysis - and there's even a full API version linked in thread. 🌟 #EduSky #EdPoliSky #EduSkyECEC educationdata.urban.org/data-explorer
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Education Data Explorer
Explore education data
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Morgan Polikoff @mpolikoff.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Uh, this is a nuclear bomb on university budgets if I am reading it correctly. Mandating an indirect cost rate of 15% *overnight*?
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ZERO TO THREE @zerotothree.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Medicaid is a lifeline to babies, children and their families and covers 2 in 5 of all US births and 40% of all children. Urge your Members of Congress to #ThinkBabies and protect Medicaid. #HandsOffMedicaid
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Aram Sinnreich @aramsinn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
My university library is assembling a list of resources for disappeared US government #data. Check it out: subjectguides.library.american.edu/data_rescue
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Subject Guides: Government Information Data Rescue: Home
Links to trusted repositories that have rescued U.S. government data
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Jackie Mader @jackiemader.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
America relies on immigrants for critical child care roles: 1 in 5 child care workers is an immigrant. In recent weeks, providers have told me that some of those teachers are too scared to come to work, and children are staying home, due to fears around raids: hechingerreport.org/1-in-5-child...
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New immigration policy could devastate America’s fragile child care system
Trump’s deportation threats are already affecting child care workers and the children in their care. The child care industry relies heavily on immigrants.
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Sam Melvin @sammelvin.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
PSA to download that Head Start PIR data you’ve been planning to analyze today! For no particular reason!
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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
You will notice here that this got coverage, though. Again, as you're hearing these stories from folks around you or experiencing cutoffs yourself, make sure the storytellers are hearing them. Local and state media, all your electeds. We need to communicate this isn't a Washington problem.
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David Hackney @davidnhackney.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
The American College of OB/GYN’s website is now hosting the critical documents purged by the CDC This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now #MedSky www.acog.org/clinical/cli...
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ACOG Endorsed
The following documents have ACOG’s endorsement and are listed in order of endorsed date.
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Emily Ramshaw @eramshaw.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Here’s what @19thnews.org saved from the federal government’s data purge 19thnews.org/2025/02/fede... via @jazzmyth.bsky.social
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Urban Institute @urbaninstitute.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Urban Institute and @rwjf.bsky.social recently launched the Local Data for Equitable Communities grant program. If you're a nonprofit looking to leverage funding for data projects to catalyze action to improve conditions where you live, apply now!
Local Data for Equitable Communities blue header over top a colorfully illustrated city scape.
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Hilary Wething @hilwething.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
DATA RELEASE WHEN DATA FEELS SCARCE! Check out data.epi.org -a data repository with 78,000+ series on topics like employment, wages, poverty, and inequality. You can get many measures by gender, race and state! I've been working with our @epi.org team to build this and am so proud of the result
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Topics - EPI Library
The EPI Data Library offers comprehensive, up-to-date labor data from Economic Policy Institute analysis, covering wages, inequality, and economic trends across demographics.
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Sam Melvin @sammelvin.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Hi! I’m new here. Posting about all things policy, politics, and science that affect babies, young children, and their caregivers. Sometimes other stuff too!
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