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Saturday, April 11, 2015
Stories to share: U.S. energy going green, and more
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| Here's some recommended reading that's easy to share. No fluff, just facts -- that's the Truth Team way. Know anyone else who can handle the truth? Forward this email to a friend -- ask them to join the Truth Team and receive updates like this. Not a toy: Plummeting prices are boosting renewables, even as subsidies fall - The Economist Global investment in renewable energy, chiefly wind and solar power, rose by a sixth in 2014, to $270 billion. This was partly because of subsidies in the rich world, such as America's 30% federal tax credit for solar projects. Under a system known as "net metering", consumers with small solar installations can sell surplus power to the grid at the same price as they pay for power flowing in. But even if the tax credit is cut, as expected, solar electricity could displace 9.7% of American retail electricity sales by 2019, reckons Bernstein, a research firm--over 30 times the share today. Since big solar installations are more cost-efficient than small ones, that makes little economic sense. But the days when renewables were largely a sop to rich-world consumers' consciences are clearly over. Nearly half of last year's investment was in developing countries, notably China, whose energy concerns have more to do with the near term than with future global warming. It worries about energy security, and it wants to clean up its cities' air, made filthy partly by coal-burning power plants. The 2014 figure is slightly less than the previous peak, in 2011 (see chart). But investors today get more energy for their buck. The cost of battery storage, a vital part of a solar-powered future, has fallen by 60% since 2005, and the overall cost of a solar-power system is down by 75% since 2000. IHS, a consultancy, reckons the cumulative fall will be 90% by 2025.   Why 2015 could be a record year for the greening of U.S. energy - Washington Post // Chris Mooney In general, changes to our energy system come slowly. It's a marathon, not a sprint. In general. Nonetheless, 2015 is shaping up to be a pretty special year and a pretty significant 365-day shift in how we get our power, says a 2015 power market outlook released Thursday by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. "This Research Note is more sensationalist than we typically write," it confesses. The reason is a combination of three separate factors all moving in the same direction -- an expected record for renewable energy installations, another forecast record for coal plant retirements and booming natural gas. The consequence, if these forecasts are realized, would be considerably cleaner energy and an impressive one-year drop in U.S. emissions. Four largest states have sharp disparities in access to healthcare - LA Times // Noam N. Levey The national divide over the Affordable Care Act is beginning to affect Americans' access to medical care and perhaps even their ability to pay medical bills, a new study of the country's four largest states suggests. Residents of Florida and Texas, which have resisted expanding insurance coverage through the health law, reported more problems getting needed care than residents of California and New York, which both guarantee coverage to their residents. Floridians and Texans were also significantly more likely to struggle with medical bills and to report that they had medical debt, according to the study from the Commonwealth Fund, a New York foundation that studies health systems domestically and around the world. "Health policy decisions made by state leaders matter," the study's authors conclude, warning: "Coverage gaps are leaving millions uninsured and without access to affordable coverage." Study Shows Why Hundreds Of Thousands Of Adults With Serious Mental Conditions Can't Get Help - Stateline via HuffPo // Michael Ollove More than a half-million adults who said they wanted help with their serious mental conditions last year couldn't get it because they lacked the resources and weren't eligible for Medicaid to pay for treatment, a new study finds. Those people -- an estimated 568,886 adults ages 18 through 64 diagnosed with a serious mental illness, serious psychological stress or substance use disorder at the start of last year -- lived in 24 states that didn't expand Medicaid eligibility under the Affordable Care Act in 2014, according to a study published this week from the American Mental Health Counselors Association (AMHCA). In contrast, 351,506 adults with those same mental health problems got treatment paid for by Medicaid in the 26 states and the District of Columbia, which did expand coverage of the state-federal health insurance program to eligible adults living on low incomes. The upshot, said Joel Miller, AMHCA's executive director, is "the health of hundreds of thousands of people would be improved" if all states provided Medicaid coverage as they were given the option to under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Seattle Restaurant Data Demolishes Conservative Argument Against $15 Minimum Wage - ThinkProgress // Alan Pyke Weeks before the first gradual increase in Seattle's minimum wage kicked in, conservative pundits decided that the city's vibrant restaurant scene was shuddering to a halt. Numerous prominent outlets on the right touted a thin report in a local magazine that a handful of well-liked restaurants were closing down to avoid the wage law. High-profile writers confidently proclaimed that Seattle's once-proud restaurant scene was in retreat and that the wage hike was already chilling business activity and killing jobs, based on one anecdotal report. None of that was true. When the Seattle Times asked them about the story, the restaurant owners in question laughed off the claim that their decisions were motivated by the wage law. But even that direct testimony didn't stop the media wave all the way. The conservative National Federation of Independent Business ran a post parroting the disproven restaurant closures claim days after the Times debunked the anecdote underlying the narrative. Now, there's even harder evidence that the right was wrong. The Big Picture pulled the numbers on how many restaurant permits have been issued by the city each month going back to the start of 2012. The chart shows plenty of ups and downs - what data scientists call "noise" - but the 12-month average for permits is almost perfectly steady. 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Thursday, April 9, 2015
Check out "Ben Carson Takes on Al Sharpton on Obamacare, Wedlock, Medicaid" on Tea Party Command Center
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FWD: Quick signature needed→ Hands off SNAP!!!
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Dear Rob,
Hello! A couple weeks ago we wrote you about the billions of dollars in proposed cuts to SNAP in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate budgets despite the fact that one in five kids in the U.S. rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP or food stamps) for their meals each day. [1] Ridiculously, some in Congress are still pushing those cuts.
This is why we need you to take action TODAY!
Moms and dads need to speak up and tell Congress “hands off of SNAP!”: http://action.momsrising.org/sign/ProtectSNAP/?t=5&akid=6549.847037.9CePSg
Now is the time to raise our voices even louder for our families! Congress will be coming back to Washington, D.C. next week to make final decisions about SNAP. And elected leaders are calling us to ask how many people have signed on to this open letter. Decision-makers are paying attention! The more people who sign on, the bigger the impact we’ll have together. It’s time to pump up the volume. It’s a critical moment to mobilize families in support of SNAP!
This is a big deal: The proposed cuts to SNAP are extreme and would result in struggling children and families going without food. Our partners at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimate that the $125 billion cut to SNAP in the U.S. House budget would result in 11 to 12 million people being cut from the program. [2] Disproportionately, this would harm children, women, the disabled, and the elderly.
Congress is coming back to Washington, D.C. on Monday. We have a short amount of time to make a big difference.
Will you join me in writing our members of Congress and telling them “hands off SNAP!”? http://action.momsrising.org/sign/ProtectSNAP/?t=7&akid=6549.847037.9CePSg
Thank you for being a strong voice for children and families across the country.
-Elyssa, Kristin and the entire MomsRising.org team
P.S. After you sign on, will you help us double down our efforts in stopping these cuts to SNAP by forwarding this email to your friends and family and posting this link to Facebook and Twitter? http://action.momsrising.org/sign/ProtectSNAP/?t=10&akid=6549.847037.9CePSg
P.P.S. Scroll down to see more information in the message we sent a couple of weeks ago.
[1] U.S. Census Bureau. “One in Five Children Receive Food Stamps, Census Bureau Reports.” January 28, 2015. http://action.momsrising.org/go/5519?t=12&akid=6549.847037.9CePSg
[2] Dorothy Rosenbaum and Brynne Keith-Jennings. “House Budget Would Slash SNAP By $125 Billion Over Ten Years.” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, March 20, 2015. http://action.momsrising.org/go/5572?t=14&akid=6549.847037.9CePSg
To: Rob
From: Elyssa
Subject: Hands off SNAP!
Dear Rob,
Some U.S. members of Congress are at it again: they are literally trying to take food out of the mouths of hungry children and families. This week the House of Representatives and Senate proposed their budgets and the legislation attempts to gut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP or food stamps).
We can’t let Congress get away with this again! One in five children in the U.S. rely on SNAP for their meals, yet Congress keeps making major cuts to the program while giving bigger tax breaks to big business and billionaires! [1]
Moms and dads need to speak up and tell Congress “hands off of SNAP!”: http://action.momsrising.org/sign/ProtectSNAP/?t=16&akid=6549.847037.9CePSg
SNAP helps real families trying to make ends meet. Families like Lorraine’s: “I was a middle class hard-working professional, until my marriage ended around the same time as the recession hit. I suddenly became the unemployed single mother of two girls, ages 4 and 7. [After endless job searching and selling off many of my possessions] a close friend suggested I apply for food stamps. His family had used them. That night, thinking of my girls, I piggybacked off of the neighbors’ wireless signal and Googled “how to apply for food stamps.” A few weeks later, it was a huge relief to trudge up the stairs to my apartment with my happy kids, carrying bags of fresh groceries. It felt better than Christmas. These are tough times, and I learned the hard way that pride doesn’t put a warm meal on the table, but that the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) does.”
Like Lorraine’s children, one in five children rely on SNAP to put food on the table. The House budget hits SNAP with a double whammy. First it cuts the program by $140 billion over ten years. [2] And then as if that were not enough, the budget block grants SNAP, turning control over to the states by 2021. [3] This might sound fine, but what this really would mean is SNAP would be less able to respond to increased need during an economic downturn (like the one many of us are still trying to pull ourselves out of). In addition, states would be able to shift funds away from food assistance to other purposes, meaning our families struggling to put food on the table wouldn’t be able to get the service we deeply need. [4] The Senate budget also includes major funding cuts that would result in less SNAP dollars for our families.
Converting SNAP to a block grant would harm the millions of low-income families who rely on it now or will need help in the future. Currently 46 million people access SNAP—how will moms and dads provide food for their families if these draconian measures are passed through Congress? [5]
We need your help in making our voices loud and clear. Write Congress TODAY and tell them “hands off of SNAP!”: http://action.momsrising.org/sign/ProtectSNAP/?t=18&akid=6549.847037.9CePSg
Children and families shouldn’t have to go hungry while big businesses and billionaires rack up more tax breaks! The Congressional budgets lower tax rates for large corporations and wealthy individuals, creating a windfall for the wealthiest few and pushing struggling families deeper into poverty. [6] The members of Congress who support this budget claim they are helping the economy, but in reality, slashing funding for food stamps only hinders our economic growth. SNAP doesn’t just help individual families, it also helps our local economies. According to the USDA, SNAP is a key public benefit program, which also serves as an economic stimulus, creating an economic boost that ripples through the economy when new SNAP benefits are redeemed. [7]
So join me in calling on Congress to do the right thing and protect the funding and integrity of SNAP: http://action.momsrising.org/sign/ProtectSNAP/?t=20&akid=6549.847037.9CePSg
This is a real threat to a real important program, so we need all hands on deck. Once you write your members of Congress, post the action link to Twitter and Facebook, and forward this email to your friends. We have to make sure we come together to protect SNAP for kids and families.
Thank you for being a strong voice for children and families across the country.
-Elyssa, Donna, and the entire MomsRising.org team
[1] U.S. Census Bureau. “One in Five Children Receive Food Stamps, Census Bureau Reports.” January 28, 2015. http://action.momsrising.org/go/5519?t=24&akid=6549.847037.9CePSg
[2] Bob Greenstein. “Statement by Robert Greenstein, President, On House Budget Chariman’s Plan.” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, March 17, 2015. http://action.momsrising.org/go/5521?t=26&akid=6549.847037.9CePSg
[3] John Bresnahan. “GOP budget plan: Slash spending, transform Medicare, boost military.” Politico, March 17, 2015. http://action.momsrising.org/go/5522?t=28&akid=6549.847037.9CePSg
[4] “Chairman Ryan’s Baseless Attack on SNAP/Food Stamps.” Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. http://action.momsrising.org/go/5523?t=30&akid=6549.847037.9CePSg
[5] Arthur Delaney. “House Republican Budget Whacks Food Stamps and Medicaid.” Huffington Post, March 17, 2015. http://action.momsrising.org/go/5524?t=32&akid=6549.847037.9CePSg
[6] Harry Stein and Anna Chu. “Congressional Republican Leaders Claim to Support the Middle Class, but Their Budgets Only Work for the Wealthy Few.” Center for American Progress, March 18, 2015. http://action.momsrising.org/go/5525?t=34&akid=6549.847037.9CePSg
[7] “The Business Case for Increasing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participation.” United States Department of Agriculture, July 25, 2013. http://action.momsrising.org/go/5534?t=36&akid=6549.847037.9CePSg
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