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Whitney Jemison

@WhitneyJemison

I want better for us. Director of State Fiscal Research at @CenterOnBudget. Opinions are mine, but I probably want you to adopt them.

Washington, D.C. Katılım Ocak 2014
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Kelly Allen@kellakelWV·
See the subtle switch made here? Went from saying *private schools* shouldn't have to accept all students + families as a condition of accepting public taxpayer dollars to framing that as *parental choice* when in fact it is the private school's choice who they accept.
Jason Huffman@HuffmanJE

Government has no prevailing interest in compelling private institutions of learning to change how they operate. They are private. School choice funds parents and students, not providers. Parents are making choices based on what is best for their child’s education. We trust parents to make that call. They don’t need government to try to ham-handedly make private education the same one-size-fits-all mold families are escaping via school choice.

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Ty Jones Cox@TyJonesCox·
This plan's reported failure to address the emergency unfolding across the country is unconscionable. 4+ million people (including 800k kids) have already lost SNAP, far more than many expected. Congress must delay H.R. 1’s huge shift cost shift to states. politico.com/live-updates/2…
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Whitney Jemison@WhitneyJemison·
Heading into Juneteenth, I've been thinking about what delayed justice costs, figuratively but also literally. @BrakeyshiaSamms can clearly read my mind! Check out her new piece outlining why tax justice is racial justice. itep.org/celebrate-june…
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Whitney Jemison@WhitneyJemison·
These former governors are right: the SNAP cost shift is a ticking time bomb for state budgets. States will have to pay 100s of millions annually + had no say in its design or time to prepare. Extending the full 2-year delay to every state is a fair fix. hickenlooper.senate.gov/press_releases…
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Whitney Jemison@WhitneyJemison·
The supermajority requirement Iowa lawmakers want to enshrine in their state's constitution is not a new idea — it's borrowed from post-Reconstruction efforts intended to curtail Black political power and starve public investment. #themoreyouknow cbpp.org/research/state…
Clara Wilson (she/her)@ClaraEWilson

In the final moments of session, Iowa lawmakers passed SJR 11: an anti-democratic constitutional amendment requiring a supermajority vote to raise taxes while still allowing tax *cuts* to pass with only a simple majority. iowacapitaldispatch.com/2026/05/03/law…

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Whitney Jemison@WhitneyJemison·
Some states are still out here cutting taxes like the bill isn't coming due. My team at @CenterOnBudget is restarting our tracker to document the fallout. Sign up on the main page for email updates when new posts go up. cbpp.org/blog/some-stat…
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Whitney Jemison@WhitneyJemison·
It’s time for CA to restore tax justice and make corporations pay their fair share. Fingers crossed AB 1790 doesn’t die in the dark.
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Whitney Jemison@WhitneyJemison·
The CA #WWCR bill, AB 1790, is now in the Assembly’s Appropriations Committee, where up to a third of bills are quietly shelved without any committee vote. 🫠 kqed.org/news/12035888/….
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Whitney Jemison@WhitneyJemison·
Big news! In a historic vote last week, the California Assembly’s Revenue & Taxation committee pushed back against *40 years* of corporate lobbying to advance a bill (AB 1790) that would eliminate CA tax avoidance by the world’s most powerful corporations. connolly.asmdc.org/press-releases…
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Brendan Duke
Brendan Duke@Brendan_Duke·
New Jersey is considering fining large employers for the number of Medicaid recipients on their payrolls. An authoritative case from @EricLevitz of why this is horrible, no good, very bad idea (link in next post)
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