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INCOME & WORK SUPPORTS UPDATE
January 2023

Featured Publications from 2022
A Community-Driven Anti-Racist Vision for SNAP [[link removed]]

Child Tax Credit: Key Findings from July 2022 National Survey [[link removed]]

States Can Reduce Medicaid’s Administrative Burdens to Advance Health and Racial Equity [[link removed]]

Advancing Disability Equity and Access in TANF and SNAP for People with Long COVID [[link removed]]

SNAP “Program Integrity:” How Racialized Fraud Provisions Criminalize Hunger [[link removed]]

In the News
January 5, 2023 | Tompkins Weekly
Families call for return of Expanded Child Tax Credit [[link removed]]

January 3, 2023 | New York Times
The Benefits of an Expanded Child Tax Credit: Letter to the Editor in Response to Scott Winship’s Essay [[link removed]
IWS updates]

The 2023 Omnibus Appropriations bill includes some heartbreaks—particularly the glaring omission of expansions to the Child Tax Credit (CTC), which demonstrably led to the lowest level of child poverty on record, and the Earned Income Tax Credit, a program with long-standing bipartisan support. The bill also failed to address key immigration issues and terminated Emergency Allotments under SNAP. At the same time, it includes important wins for people with low incomes, including victories on child care; health and mental health; labor and education; protections for pregnant workers; and Summer EBT. CLASP applauds the bill’s passage and notes that the legislation’s key provisions—and what it overlooks—highlight policy priorities for 2023 and beyond. You can read CLASP's full analysis of the bill here [[link removed]].

Key publications and blogs
January 9, 2023 | Melissa Young & Emily Andrews
Addressing Economic Inequity with a Whole-of-Government Approach: Recommendations for Aligning Federal Subsidized Employment Investments [[link removed]]

December 15, 2022 | Nat Baldino
As Coffee Shops Unionize, Workers Need Greater Federal Support [[link removed]]

December 13, 2022 | CLASP
Paving a Pathway to Prosperity: Children & Families [[link removed]]

What we’re reading
To kick of the New Year, the IWS team has compiled our favorite books from 2022!

Building Love Together in Blended Families: The 5 Love Languages' and Becoming Stepfamily Smart by Gary Chapman, PhD and Ron L. Deal, MMFT. This book explores the unique challenges of blended families and how to use practical skills and collaboration to build an empowering path forward that fosters thriving relationships.

Babel Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by RF Kuang. Kuang uses the magicians at school trope to take on the industrial revolution and colonialism. But it’s also sharply funny and a fast read.

The Collected Schizophrenias by Esmé Weijun Wang. The book is a collection of nonfiction essays exploring the contradictions and complexities of living with chronic illnesses.

The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together by Heather McGhee. The author embarks on a journey across the country, tallying what we lose when we buy into a zero-sum paradigm – the idea that progress for some of us must come at the expense of others.

The Night Watchmen by Louise Erdrich. This book is a fictional story based on the life of the author’s grandfather, who fought against Native dispossession in North Dakota.

Caste: The Origin of our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson. In this book, Wilkerson gives a real and revealing in-depth account of the country's structure as an unrecognized caste system.

Becoming Abolitionists by Derecka Pernell. In this memoir, Purnell recounts her own path towards abolitionism; she argues that the police are doing exactly what they were created to do and, in response, imagines new systems that address the root causes of violence, rather than perpetuate it.

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