Research professor @ Rutgers studying Medicaid. Social worker and health policy wonk. Union organizer (AAUP-AFT) and member of Brooklyn CB6. Baseball #LFGM and WNBA🗽enthusiast. Free 🇵🇸. ACAB. Still 😷. she/her.
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From buses to cabs to street closures, here’s everything you need to know about making your way through Manhattan during the games.
NOW: I’m outside the Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark, NJ where protesters are supporting detainees inside who are on a hunger and labor strike because of inhumane treatment.
Follow this thread for updates.
URGENT CALL TO ACTION:
ICE agents at Delaney Hall have escalated drastically. There are reports of them beating detainees inside the facility RIGHT NOW.
If you can't physically be at Delaney Hall, you need to CALL GOV. SHERRILL AND YOUR REPS!!!
Phone number and call script below ⬇️
From buses to cabs to street closures, here’s everything you need to know about making your way through Manhattan during the games.
Take for example, the claim that work requirements will reduce poverty. The HHS report ignores the facts that
*up to 7 million people are expected to lose Medicaid over the next couple of years &
*Medicaid is very effective at reducing poverty
But somehow, magically, this will reduce poverty? C'mon
New at Can We Still Govern: The Trump admin released a report saying that Medicaid work requirements will increase work and reduce poverty. There is a technical term for this: malarkey.
Actual experts @chloeneast.bsky.social & @adrianna.bsky.social break it down.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
A state review found the Health Department launched new initiatives and improved data collection. But Black women still face disproportionately high pregnancy-related death rates.
www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/03/m...
The City Reporter
"Kara Morillo, an organizer with the Eyes on ICE coalition, also told Gothamist she’d been told officers at Delaney Hall entered units containing men on an ongoing hunger strike, closed the vents, and began to assault and pepper spray detainees." gothamist.com/news/family-...
People who experience menopause at work often find out that there is no law guaranteeing their right to accommodations so they can keep working. Now that's starting to change. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Today’s #FindingsFriday insight comes from a #NEW article co-authored by CSHP faculty @aspishakthomas.com and @ericaeliason.bsky.social.
It explores utilization of postpartum #contraception and opportunities to remove barriers to accessing contraceptives after #childbirth: go.rutgers.edu/zwr9k0nt
Today’s #FindingsFriday insight comes from a #NEW journal article authored by CSHP Assistant Research Professor @aspishakthomas.com.
She explores the impacts of Medicaid #EstateRecovery on home ownership, home equity, and #Medicaid enrollment: go.rutgers.edu/pzhz4f05
Cherry-picked studies and unrealistic assumptions define a new government report
A state review found the Health Department launched new initiatives and improved data collection. But Black women still face disproportionately high pregnancy-related death rates.
