Digest: What the data really shows

A third of Americans don't know that Obamacare is the Affordable Care Act, and more.

You're one of the best messengers we've got in this movement. As you begin to reach out to friends, family, and neighbors, it's important to stay up-to-date on the issues and have the facts by your side. Here's some recommended reading that's easy to share. Enjoy! Organizing Unhappy with Trump? Call your congressman: Local delegation fielding record numbers of calls Seattle Times // David Gutman 57,000 calls and emails about the proposed Education secretary. A 3,900 percent increase in calls from a year ago. Washington's members of Congress are being bombarded by constituents spurred into action by the Trump presidency. Read full article... Tweet this Share this Organizing The big lesson of Trump's first 2 weeks: resistance works Vox // Matthew Yglesias Protests, phone calls, and mobilization are making a difference. Read full article... Tweet this Share this Climate Change U.S. Solar Industry Clamors for Workers as Jobs Climb by 25% Bloomberg // Chris Martin One out of every 50 new American jobs last year was in the solar industry, which now employs more than 260,000 workers, according to an annual report Tuesday from The Solar Foundation, a Washington-based nonprofit. That's up 25 percent from 2015, and the biggest gain since the group first compiled the data in 2010. Read full article... Tweet this Share this Facts are meant to be shared Forward this email to a friend (or two, or three!), and they can sign up for the next Digest right here: Sign up Climate Change Wind Power Surpasses Hydroelectric in a Crucial Measure The New York Times // Diane Cardwell The main fuel driving the robust spread of wind farms across the country -- with a dense cluster sweeping up from Texas through the Great Plains -- has been a combination of federal tax incentives and state mandates requiring utilities to buy renewable energy as part of their strategies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions to stem climate change. Read full article... Tweet this Share this Health Care Republicans in Idaho tried to design a better plan than Obamacare -- and failed The Washington Post // Robert Samuels Richard Armstrong, the state's director of health and welfare, said Idaho was losing more than $50 million a year paying for indigent patients who would need less state help if they were insured. He also concluded that the price of unpaid emergency-room care meant higher costs for everyone. Read full article... Tweet this Share this Health Care One-Third Don't Know Obamacare and Affordable Care Act Are the Same The New York Times // Kyle Dropp and Brendan Nyhan In the survey, 35 percent of respondents said either they thought Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act were different policies (17 percent) or didn't know if they were the same or different (18 percent). This confusion was more pronounced among people 18 to 29 and those who earn less than $50,000 -- two groups that could be significantly affected by repeal. Read full article... Tweet this Share this Health Care Hospitals would face higher charity costs without Obamacare USA TODAY // Tony Leys Since passage of the ACA, uncompensated care has steadily declined as a percentage of hospitals' overall costs -- hitting a record low in 2015, according to the most recent data from the American Hospital Association. In 2009, hospitals were forced to write off nearly $40 billion in charity care, about 6 percent of their overall costs. In 2015, that figure had dropped to $35.7 billion, about 4.2 percent of overall costs. Read full article... Tweet this Share this Immigration Immigration and crime: What does the research say? The Conversation // Charis Kubrin, Graham C. Ousey, Lesley Reid, and Robert Adelman Research has shown virtually no support for the enduring assumption that increases in immigration are associated with increases in crime. Read full article... Tweet this Share this Immigration It's Not Foreigners Who are Plotting Here: What the Data Really Show LAWFARE // Nora Ellingsen A former FBI analyst crunches the numbers on federal terrorism cases and finds "[a]bsolutely nothing in the large body of data we have about real terrorist plots in the United States remotely supports either a focus on barring refugees or a focus on these particular seven countries. Nothing." Read full article... Tweet this Share this Gun Violence [Interactive] Murder rates in 50 American cities The Economist Crunching numbers on 280,000 murder records from 1980 to 2015 shows that among our 50 cities gun use has increased from 65% to 80% of all murders. But that number varies dramatically by city. Read full article... Tweet this Share this Help sustain this movement This movement is powered by small-dollar donations from organizers across the country -- help keep it going. Chip in

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