Under TrumpCare, 27 million Americans could end up having their annual health benefits cut off and 20 million could see lifetime limits on their coverage.
Jun 16 2017
Overcoming Barriers to Clean Energy Innovation
Congress must address these barriers and support the innovators and entrepreneurs that will create good jobs and investment today and power the economy of the future.
Ahead of Father’s Day, Joint Economic Committee Democrats released a fact sheet today underscoring the need for affordable, high-quality child care and parental leave. The fact sheet examines the crucial family-friendly policies needed to lift up all American families, including mothers, children and fathers alike.
Jun 15 2017
TrumpCare, Medicaid, and the Opioid Crisis
Joint Economic Committee Democrats released a fact sheet today on the important role Medicaid plays in fighting the opioid crisis and how TrumpCare would reverse the progress we have made so far. The fact sheet follows last week’s Joint Economic Committee hearing on the economic impacts of the opioid crisis.
Two years ago, although pregnant women won a victory in the Supreme Court in Young v. UPS, the complicated process set up in the decision still left many working women uncertain about their rights in the workplace. Just last month, former Wal-Mart employees filed a class action lawsuit for refusing them reasonable accommodations, which a 2013 study estimated occurs to 250,000 women each year. Many more are likely discouraged from even asking.
State-by-state graphics showing how many jobs each state would lose under TrumpCare with comparisons to state industries. Graphic data is from Economic Policy Institute’s new report “How many jobs could the AHCA cost your state?”
Maybe, just maybe, the action taken by the Kansas legislature last week to end the massive tax cuts pushed by Governor Brownback and enacted five years ago will wake up Congressional Republicans to the folly of massive tax cuts for the wealthy as a means of economic growth.
In 2015 alone, opioid overdoses killed more than 33,000 Americans. To see how the opioid epidemic has affected your state, see JEC fact sheets.
Jun 12 2017
State Opioid Epidemic Fact Sheets
The Joint Economic Committee released state fact sheets with information on how each each state has been impacted by the opioid epidemic. The fact sheets also examine how Medicaid has helped those seeking treatment for substance use disorders.
Today, the House of Representatives voted on the Financial CHOICE Act (CHOICE), House Republicans’ disastrous proposal to dismantle the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. It seems that House Republicans have already forgotten the wreckage left by the Great Recession and 2008 financial crisis —when 8.7 million Americans lost their jobs, 3.8 million homes were foreclosed on, and households lost $17 trillion in wealth.