Native Kansan. Mom, advocate, social worker. All tweets personal.
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RT @BruceLesley: Children are often an afterthought among politicians. But that is NEVER the case with @Tim_Walz.
@Tim_Walz was a public s…
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If it’s Saturday, we are knocking on doors for @Wikle4KS.
@SuzanneWikle had a good crew out this morning and we talked to hundreds of voters.
Picked up so new lawn sign locations and handed out lots of 🐶 treats! #lfk #ksleg
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Today I paid our monthly child care tuition. We pay more for child care tuition each year than we would for tuition at KU. Finding solutions to make child care more affordable, while also fully supporting early childhood educators, is a top priority for me. #ksleg
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When two of my favorite things-- Medicaid and @LastWeekTonight -- come together. Great (And funny!) explainer on what we work on daily @JoanAlker1 youtube.com/watch?v=bVIsnOfN…
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First evening of canvassing was a success! Knocked on 53 doors and talked to a lot of enthusiastic voters.
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Yesterday I joined hundreds of advocates in Topeka to rally for Medicaid expansion. I met Melissa, who is such an inspiration. #ksleg #runforsomething
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BREAKING: MS MedEx bill passes the MS House with a veto proof majority – 96-20!!!!!
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"The number of folks getting registered through Medicaid systems is minuscule. And I think it's time to sort of admit that the way we've been doing NVRA compliance is not working anymore," said @SamOlikerF in @NPR's @hansilowang's latest story.
Read more: npr.org/2024/02/23/122612064…
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New estimate predicts Medicaid expansion would serve 152K at no cost to state | #ksleg via @sherman_news kansasreflector.com/2024/02/…
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California conducted a survey of #Medicaid beneficiaries that were disenrolled for procedural reasons not because they were found ineligible. Highly concerning but unsurprising results:
dhcs.ca.gov/dataandstats/Doc…
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📢 We applaud the House for putting aside partisanship & passing a tax bill that helps over 16 million children in poverty.
W/ end of the enhanced #ChildTaxCredit in '21, child poverty spiked, & Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024 works to reverse trend.
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To date, we've left more than $6.6 BILLION of our own taxpayer dollars on the table in Washington, D.C., by not expanding Medicaid. The federal government would cover 90% of the costs to expand — there's no reason our own taxpayer dollars shouldn't be coming back home to Kansans.
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Key point from my colleague @SuzanneWikle -- as horrifying as the huge loss of Medicaid coverage under unwinding is, most of the problems with state renewal processes are not new, just more visible and at scale. We need to do better: clasp.org/blog/spotlight-on-…
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Check out our newly updated @CLASP_DC report about the #TANF work participation rate (WPR) to learn more about the changes to the WPR enacted under the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, and how the changes will impact states' ability to meet the WPR: clasp.org/publications/repor…
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According to @ParkerGilk: more work rules will “just force people to push education to the side and go on and get a lower-wage job and perpetuate a cycle.” washingtonpost.com/education…
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Some are saying not to worry about Medicaid coverage losses because of Medicaid’s retroactive coverage rules.
I disagree and my blog explains why. ccf.georgetown.edu/2023/06/2…
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All the evidence points to one truth: interior immigration enforcement causes lasting harm to children. There's a lot policymakers can do to fix it! Thanks to my co-authors, Nicole Chávez, @hanjliu, and @WendyDC5 and @lui355 for all of your work and collaboration on this report!
On immigration, public attention is largely fixated on the border. A new @CLASP_DC & @WeAreUnidosUS report analyzes key trends in interior enforcement & documents negative impacts on children in immigrant families, 90% of whom are US citizens. clasp.org/publications/repor…
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The expanded #ChildTaxCredit reduced food insecurity, child poverty rates, and financial stress for parents while it was temporarily in effect in 2021. Congress should pass the American Family Act to permanently expand the CTC to invest in children and parents!
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A quick note on poverty in the United States being fundamentally about power:
A lot of people worked hard to mitigate the harm to people with the lowest incomes in the #DebtCeilingBill, and I think the collective "we" were remarkably successful (a discussion for another note)...
