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SNAP Is Down 5.3 Million People. States Got There on Different Clocks. (opens the original)
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About 36.4 million people got SNAP benefits in June 2026, 5.3 million fewer than in June 2025, the month before H.R. 1 was signed. Arizona is down 52.5%, a loss equal to about 6% of the state’s population, and 20 other states are down 10% or more.Subscribe nowThe law took effect on one date, but enforcement didn’t. Adults covered by the time limit who don’t meet the work requirement can get SNAP for three months out of every three years, so losses tend to show up about three months after a sta
SNAP Enrollment Is Down 5.3 Million Since July 2025 (opens the original)
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About 36.4 million people received SNAP benefits in June 2026, according to the latest USDA state data. That’s 5.3 million fewer than in June 2025, the month before H.R. 1 (the Big Beautiful Bill) was signed, and a 12.8% drop in a single year. National enrollment has fallen every month since March 2025.The last national update covered January 2026, when Arizona was the only state with a d
Minnesota's Unemployment Claims Are Shifting Toward AI-Exposed Jobs (opens the original)
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The last post in this series covered Arizona, Utah, and Virginia together, and this one moves onto Minnesota, because there are a couple different interesting things going on right now there!The one I’m most interested in is a slow rise in claims coming from the occupations where people actually use AI at work, which starts after 2022 and runs through this year. The other is a set of really large summer spikes that start in 2023, and those likely turn out to have an explanation in state law that
The PoliMetrics Archive (opens the original)
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I wanted to give an update on something I’ve been working on in the background for the blog!PoliMetrics has been running for a while now, and there was no good way to find any of the visuals in it. If you remembered a chart but not which post it was in, you were probably out of luck. So I spent the last stretch pulling the whole archive together and easy to flip through.<a class="image-link image2" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pgoP!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%
Loudoun County Makes $1.3 Billion a Year From Data Centers. Ohio Counties Can’t Cash In. (opens the original)
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Loudoun County, Virginia has 235 (235?!) data centers and 1,550 people working in the industry. Part one of this series showed the jobs case for data centers is weak almost everywhere I’ve looked, including official government reports, academic studies, and the raw data.Loudoun keeps on approving them, and it’s cut the residential property tax rate every year for a decade. So something is working here, and I want to know what it is!Whether a community sees any of it comes down to two decisions,
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