Dear friend,
We know that poverty is a policy choice. For several years, the Kairos Center has been working with leading researchers, policy experts and organizers to challenge narratives on poverty (and other social injustices) that tell us otherwise. These relationships are increasingly important as we continue to learn together, organize against regressive and harmful policies and build power from the ground up.
This newsletter compiles 13 resources from the Kairos Center and our broader network. From our research on projects of survival to new resources on the Brutal Budget to the inspiring example of FreeDC, we hope these help you navigate our current moment so we can better organize for survival and beyond.
With faith and hope, The Kairos Team |
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A Matter of Survival: From Basic Needs to Community Power |
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Since we released our "A Matter of Survival" (AMOS) report in April, our policy and organizing team has been sharing it far and wide. From Children's Defense Fund's Hall-Proctor Conference to the Organizing Revivals in Philadelphia and New Mexico, we're meeting with organizers, faith leaders, national organizing networks and others around both meeting our needs and building power. |
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1. Complete AMOS report, which shows how networks of care sustained communities through the pandemic and beyond. Also, a mini-zine version for easy distribution. 2. Spanish translation of the AMOS Executive Summary 3. Toolkit version for faith communities. This is part of the “Faithful Fight” series of toolkits curated by Protect Democracy. |
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A budget of brutality or the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" |
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Since July, we've been tracking the impact of the federal budget on our health care, food security, household spending, and more. Below are some resources to help understand when these cuts are coming and how they'll impact your local and state community. |
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Timeline of the budget’s impact |
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Some of the most devastating parts of the budget will take years to go into effect, which gives us time to organize ourselves in response. |
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4. A comprehensive OBBBA timeline, with filters for SNAP, Medicaid, student loans, and more. |
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Measuring the budget’s deadly impact |
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5. Yale School of Public Health study showing that ~51,000 people will die every year because of the health-related provisions in the budget. 6. Fiscal Policy Institute’s (FPI) study exploring OBBBA's impact on New York’s health care system and finances. 7. Kairos Center’s compilation of resources that measure the budget’s state and local impacts. |
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A budget of brutality or the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" |
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This summer, we have witnessed an alarming escalation of state violence against protesters, unhoused people, immigrant communities and others across the country. These articles and resources offer expert analysis on this use of force and how it affects our democracy. |
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Occupation and Deportation |
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8. From the Brennan Center, background on President Trump's use of the Posse Comitatus Act for domestic deployment 9. The National Homelessness Law Center responds to Executive Order on Homelessness 10. Also from the Brennan Center, how the OBBBA is creating a "deportation industrial complex" that will be increasingly difficult to dismantle |
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The expansion of funding for the military/law enforcement apparatus has meant larger payouts for corporations invested in war and repression. |
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11. How warmonger profiteers and Silicon Valley billionaires are benefiting. 12. Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights’s report on corporate complicity in Israel's illegal occupation, apartheid, and now genocide in Palestine. |
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We know it doesn't need to be this way. |
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Poverty is a policy choice. |
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13. In June, research showing the positive impact of the expanded Child Tax Credit on family health and well-being was published in the Journal of American Medicine Association's Open Network, authored by researchers from Children's Health Watch and the Kairos Center's Shailly Gupta Barnes. |
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For a full list of resources, check out this compilation. |
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