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NEW: Climate policies must urgently deliver for working people struggling with the cost-of-living crisis. Today, we're releasing Immediate Relief, a series of policy proposals to cut costs, protect rights and survival, and expand leisure and access. 🧵
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Americans are suffering under an affordability crisis, while the climate crisis is making life more expensive.
Both require urgent action — and both can be addressed simultaneously. jacobin.com/2026/10/climate-…
Climate disasters are getting costlier while the Trump administration guts disaster response. Congress should move money out of ICE and into FEMA to keep communities safe. More below ⛑️
Meanwhile, ICE—which 50 percent of Americans want to abolish, and ran on a $6 billion annual budget 10 years ago—has roughly $100 billion in unused funding provided through budget reconciliation. That funding doesn’t have to stay with the agency. stopgreedbuildgreen.climatea…
Congress can rescind unspent funds and send them to FEMA to provide immediate assistance after disaster declarations. Longer term, FEMA should be made into an independent agency and given the resources and authority to lead a comprehensive federal approach to climate resilience. stopgreedbuildgreen.climatea…
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Last week we looked back on the first twelve months of our research on the UK and US military industrial complexes.
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Community Health Centers serve one in ten US residents, but the One Big Beautiful Bill Act hobbled Medicaid with hundreds of billions in cuts, endangering both CHCs and their patients. Read our analysis and recommendations to supercharge CHCs below 🩺
We propose using reconciliation to double the unsustainable budget of the Community Health Center Fund from $4.6 billion to $9.2 billion, on two conditions: 1️⃣ Free care for patients under 200 percent of the poverty line, including dental and mental health 2️⃣ Solar and battery storage for CHCs most exposed to blackouts.
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This would be cost effective: Over 10 years, it would be about 5 cents for every dollar that OBBBA cut from Medicaid. Read more from @grayson_flood: stopgreedbuildgreen.climatea…
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An overwhelming majority of US motorists say they feel they have zero choice in how much they get behind the wheel — and most of them explicitly want to transportation system that doesn’t force them to drive almost everywhere they go, a new study finds.
Climate change is making life more unsafe and unhealthy. Policy can protect people’s rights and promote their survival by moving money towards governmental agencies and services that provide essential safety and recovery from disasters, illness, and extreme weather. Our new set of proposals:
🩺 Supercharging Community Health Centers
⛑️ Rerouting Funds from ICE to FEMA to Support Recovery, Not Terror
Read more—link below.
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Taking the climate crisis seriously should mean taking the economic crisis seriously, beginning with lowering the many costs average Americans are currently seeing rise because of climate change: jacobin.com/2026/10/climate-…
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Great piece by @olliemilman. People want policymakers to do something about climate change. They're connecting higher costs + hotter summers. We need a political agenda starting with immediate relief: help people now, decarbonize the economy long-term.
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Nearly 48 million people in the US are food insecure, and Congress just cut SNAP by 20 percent. It's time to restore and expand food assistance for everyone who needs it. Our thoughts below 🍏
We propose increasing SNAP spending by 25 percent to help address food insecurity while raising the income cap to 400 percent of the poverty line. Investments in SNAP more than pay for themselves. Details:
A warming climate is making people sicker as drug prices soar. Expanding government-negotiated drug prices to everyone could save households, businesses, and taxpayers hundreds of billions. More below 💊
We’re proposing a three-pronged approach to lower drug prices for everyone:
1️⃣ Negotiate prices for 50 or more drugs each year
2️⃣ Extend publicly negotiated prices to everyone
3️⃣ Extend the IRA’s inflation rebate to the commercial market
This could save the federal government $480 billion, and households and businesses $212 billion. The plan is reconciliation-ready. Read more:
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