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Lew Blank

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  • 2 weeks ago | dataforprogress.org | Lew Blank

    MethodologyTo provide estimates of opinion at the congressional district level, we apply a synthetic area weighting technique which constructs a policy support score by first modeling and then applying geographic level iterative proportional fitting, or raking, to ensure congressional level representativeness.

  • 2 weeks ago | dataforprogress.org | Lew Blank

    Cover photo attributable to . Survey MethodologyFrom May 16 to 19, 2025, Data for Progress conducted a survey of 1,160 U.S. likely voters nationally using web panel respondents. The sample was weighted to be representative of likely voters by age, gender, education, race, geography, and recalled presidential vote. The survey was conducted in English. The margin of error associated with the sample size is ±3 percentage points.

  • 2 weeks ago | dataforprogress.org | Lew Blank

    While Republicans in Congress are still divided on the specifics of the legislation, they are pushing forward a reconciliation bill that is likely to include major cuts to Medicaid and tax breaks for wealthy Americans. The GOP reconciliation plan (or the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”) fully extends the tax breaks enacted by the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

  • 3 weeks ago | dataforprogress.org | Lew Blank

    By Matthew CortlandThis week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee advanced a bill that includes hundreds of billions of dollars in Medicaid cuts, estimated by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office to kick at least 13.7 million Americans off their health insurance. This effort to gut Medicaid is abhorrent and immoral, and must be defeated. Thankfully, we have some data-driven tools to use in this fight.

  • 1 month ago | dataforprogress.org | Lew Blank

    On April 29, the Trump administration terminated nearly $400 million in AmeriCorps grants and placed 85% of AmeriCorps staff on administrative leave.

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Lew Blank @LewBlank
2 May 25

RT @CaringAcrossGen: FYI: In every congressional district in the United States, less than 15% of voters support cuts to Medicaid. That’s a…

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29 Apr 25

RT @DataProgress: Which Trump administration actions are sparking the most backlash? New data show it’s three things: Social Security Admi…

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Lew Blank @LewBlank
12 Mar 25

RT @ryanodonnellpa: voters often say they support mass deportations in theory—until they have to think about the actual people being deport…