Kelly Allen
@kellakelWV
Poverty charges interest. Toddler mom, ED @WVCBP, friend to pups, aspiring Instagram food photographer
As the WVCBP & our partners continue working to analyze the coming impacts of H.R. 1, the massive budget reconciliation package, our new blog previews key upcoming changes to health care & food assistance and, where possible, their fiscal & human impacts. wvpolicy.org/federal-reconc…
West Virginia Department of Education names Johnson Elementary aide, Upshur County Schools custodian, 3 others as finalists for State Service Personnel of the Year. ow.ly/G7Pz50WtnTx
CBO's score for reconciliation under current law baseline: $3.4 trillion increase in deficits over 10 years "Increase in the deficit is estimated to result from a decrease in direct spending of $1.1 trillion and an decrease in revenues of $4.5 trillion" cbo.gov/publication/61…
"Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs" according to a {Human Rights Watch} report." theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
"Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs" according to a {Human Rights Watch} report." theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
"Migrants at a Miami immigration jail were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates “like dogs" according to a {Human Rights Watch} report." theguardian.com/us-news/2025/j…
“They literally said we weren’t going to touch Medicaid. And we touched a trillion dollars worth of Medicaid.” That's Republican Chip Roy -- via @NOTUSreports -- blowing up the big Trump/GOP lie on health care notus.org/congress/house…
The rescission bill the House is voting on will cut $100 million for UNICEF's efforts to feed toddlers in emergencies. Meanwhile the recent OBBB included 3x that for Mar-a-lago security.
Among the little-noticed benefits tucked into the One Big Beautiful Bill: $300M to protect Mar-a-Lago and Trump’s homes.
People who get health insurance through the Affordable Care Act could soon see their monthly premiums sharply increase as subsidies expire and insurers propose a major premium hike for 2026. nbcnews.com/health/health-…
One reason Clare will pay more for health care is Trump and Republicans in Congress thought it was extremely important that the wealthiest Americans be able to pass on $30 million to their heirs tax free instead of just $14 million.
Health insurance premiums going up by ~25% in 2026 is going to be a major economic and political problem. And there is no real attempt from the Administration to do anything about it. wsj.com/health/healthc…
By a partisan 216-213 vote, the House approved President Trump's request to pull back $8B in foreign aid and all $1.1B set aside for NPR, PBS and their stations for the next 2 yrs. Congress has now unraveled its role in public media stretching back more than a half-century.
The independent market monitor for the largest regional power grid in America finds that AI data centers are causing big power price increases: "Customers are already bearing billions of dollars in higher costs as a direct result of existing and forecast data center load."
Link to reporting: indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/07/18/rep…
BLS's import price indices explicitly do not include tariffs. So this chart is actually making the exact opposite point: foreign producers have likely eaten very little if any of the cost of US tariffs in the form of lower prices. 1/2
The temporary $50 billion rural health fund in the Republican tax and spending bill gets distributed from 2026 to 2030. But, 63% of the Medicaid cuts hit after 2030.
Between this and wind energy cuts, Iowa delegation is taking some real L’s
*TRUMP: COCA-COLA AGREED TO USE REAL CANE SUGAR IN US SODA
Good on @SenCapito and @JimJustice_WV
The decision to withhold this funding is directly contrary to President Trump’s goal of returning K-12 education to the states. This funding goes directly to states and local school districts, where local leaders decide how this funding is spent, because as we know, local…
If this were true (not funding programs without any impact on outcomes), you'd champion Hope Scholarship enrollees getting the same success metrics/assessments as public schools. Now you'll say, "trust parents". But that also would mean trusting parents who choose public schools
The implication that we’re “pitting programs against each other” is a distraction from the real issue: we’re being asked to fund roles without any demonstrated impact on academic outcomes. School counselors can play a valuable role, but only if they’re part of a coherent,…
Our evolving argument we’ve been making since…. 2021. Also, not the left but 😎 wvpolicy.org/hope-scholarsh…
The left's narrative on Hope continues to evolve as they lose ground. First Hope was the reason students were leaving schools and forcing consolidation. Now the argument is we just cannot spend any education dollars unless it's on public schools. The fact is education spending…