Chelsea Sedani

🚨Announcing our PolicyTALKS Panelists! 🚨 On June 9 from 9:30-11AM, we will be hosting our next PolicyTALKS event: "Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But the Rent: The impact of rent burden in Massachusetts"!

You can see the state-by-state fallout from these SNAP cuts in our freshly updated SNAP tracker: cbpp.org/research/food-…

For 30 years, Congress has fully funded #WIC to ensure all eligible families who apply can receive full benefits. The House agriculture appropriations bill would break this promise: it would underfund WIC & cut benefits for WIC participants in every state. cbpp.org/blog/house-agr…

Let’s be clear — this is only the beginning. Even more struggling families will lose access to the food assistance they need to afford groceries as the full brunt of H.R. 1's SNAP cuts take effect. Stay tuned and we'll continue to update as more data comes in.

We also added February data for additional states, with more big decreases in the number of SNAP participants between July & February in: FL: -16% LA: -15% MA: -12% IL & UT: -10%

🚨SNAP tracker update: We just added March data for the 16 states reporting so far. The # of low-income people receiving SNAP continues to fall. Largest drops since H.R. 1 was enacted in July: AZ: -51% TN: -15% VA: -13% SC & TX: -11% CT, IN, KS, PA: -10% cbpp.org/research/food-…

I’m so grateful I get to work with these incredible leaders 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Recent snapshot from @centeronbudget: since #OB3 implementation, #Massachusetts has seen a 9.5% drop in the #SNAP caseload due to harmful policies passed at the #federal level resulting in over 100,000 less people accessing needed food assistance #mapoli buff.ly/akyJSCR

As Senator @JamieEldridgeMA said “We often say that the budget is a moral document. I want to observe that our tax code reflects our values as well.” We couldn’t agree more! #mapoli

TY Senator @JamieEldridgeMA for your words on the floor on how SWM supp is proposing to mirror federal corporate tax cuts. These cuts, that corps are already getting at fed level, are built on the backs of the most vulnerable families. Why mirror them at the state level? #mapoli

Last July, the Republican megabill (H.R. 1) enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history. Today, we're releasing a tracker of how many people in each state are losing the SNAP benefits they need to afford groceries. cbpp.org/research/food-…

TY to Senators @SenMikeMoore @senrobynkennedy @SenDiDomenico for your leadership on these critical #childcare #K12 and #SNAP related amendments. We appreciate you! #mapoli

We’re joining partners to push for amendments to the Senate W&M #budget to address #childcare waitlist (#1), provide resources to DTA to quickly hire caseworkers (#94) & give urgent relief to districts affected by declining #K12 enrollment of multilingual students (#355) #mapoli

After enacting the deepest SNAP cuts in history last year, President Trump’s 2027 budget would continue to make groceries less affordable for low-income families. It would slash the WIC fruit & vegetable benefit by $1.4 billion & eliminate a food program for low-income seniors.

Read FRAC’s analysis of the President’s Budget: frac.org/blog/frac-anal…

A few initial thoughts on the President’s FY27 budget. Big picture: Today’s budget isn’t a serious plan to address real issues facing families and the nation and isn’t worthy of the American people.

NEW: MA House is readying to vote on a $1.8B spending bill that would infuse $ into the T, send millions to MA sheriffs, and pad the state’s World Cup effort with an additional $10 million — addressing a pain point as the state readies to play host #mapoli bostonglobe.com/2026/03/17/met…

Last week, we joined the Common Start Coalition to push for critical investments in #childcare in FY 2027. Providers, educators, advocates, and other partners came together to uplift the need to address the waitlist & make sure we’re supporting educators and providers adequately.

As we continue to track corporate disclosures for 2025, so far 234 companies have avoided $125 billion in federal income tax on $880 billion in profits. itep.org/corporate-tax-…

Just how much have Trump's tax cuts benefited huge corporations? Our Senior Fellow Matt Gardner says it's entirely possible that for 2025, S&P 500 corporations "will overall be paying something less than 10% of their income in corporate taxes." marketplace.org/story/2026/03/…