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Club de Mediapart
« Aide à mourir » : lettre ouverte du Front de gauche antivalidiste (FGA) aux député·es
https://mcinformactions.net/aide-a-mourir-lettre-ouverte-du-front-de-gauche-antivalidiste-fga-aux-depute-es
#mort #findevie #euthanasie #suicideassiste #soinspalliatifs #FGA -
Club de Mediapart
« Aide à mourir » : lettre ouverte du Front de gauche antivalidiste (FGA) aux député·es
https://mcinformactions.net/aide-a-mourir-lettre-ouverte-du-front-de-gauche-antivalidiste-fga-aux-depute-es
#mort #findevie #euthanasie #suicideassiste #soinspalliatifs #FGA -
Club de Mediapart
« Aide à mourir » : lettre ouverte du Front de gauche antivalidiste (FGA) aux député·es
https://mcinformactions.net/aide-a-mourir-lettre-ouverte-du-front-de-gauche-antivalidiste-fga-aux-depute-es
#mort #findevie #euthanasie #suicideassiste #soinspalliatifs #FGA -
Club de Mediapart
« Aide à mourir » : lettre ouverte du Front de gauche antivalidiste (FGA) aux député·es
https://mcinformactions.net/aide-a-mourir-lettre-ouverte-du-front-de-gauche-antivalidiste-fga-aux-depute-es
#mort #findevie #euthanasie #suicideassiste #soinspalliatifs #FGA -
In Montana, retired Republican state legislator Cary Smith, who worked w/ #FGA, said…, "They offer a buffet of options. Their agenda is making government accountable; it's in the name."
He said besides drafting #legislation, FGA provides talking points & data to help policymakers support their arguments.
"They would go in & would say, 'This is what #Medicaid *fraud* is costing us,'" Smith said. "That would be the number you'd want to use in your bill."
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In the states, #FGA has become known as a #conservative "thought leader," said Brian Colby, VP of #PublicPolicy for Missouri Budget Project, a #progressive nonprofit that provides analysis of #state #policy issues.
"Conservatives used to try to chop away at the #federal #budget," Colby said. "These guys are doing it at the state level."
In its 14 yrs, FGA has created a playbook to shape state policy discussions about #PublicBenefits behind the scenes.
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#RFKJr's agenda now echoes some of #FGA's key messages, & he has said states can expect approval of their waivers. Meanwhile, congressional leaders are eyeing nationwide #Medicaid cuts & #work requirements, which FGA considers among its major issues. The foundation also has a connection working inside the administration: Its former #policy director, Sam Adolphsen, was tapped to advise #Trump on #domestic matters.
#law #plutocracy #PublicAssistance #SNAP #healthcare #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #USpol
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Part of #FGA's strategy is to pass #legislation #state by state, with the idea that the crush of new #laws will increase pressure on the #FederalGovernment. For example, states can't limit what #food is purchased through #SNAP without federal approval through a waiver process. And in the past, some of FGA's efforts have stalled because states never got that approval.
#law #plutocracy #PublicAssistance #Medicaid #healthcare #health #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Trump #RFKJr #USpol
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The same year, the #FGA helped pass #SNAP restrictions affecting eligibility in #Iowa. Since those restrictions have taken effect, the #FoodBank of Iowa has seen a record number of people show up at its pantries amid rising #grocery #prices & a scaling back of #COVID pandemic-era federal #support, said Annette Hacker, a VP at the nonprofit.
#law #plutocracy #PublicAssistance #Medicaid #healthcare #health #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Trump #RFKJr #USpol
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In recent years, the nonprofit #FGA helped draft a 2017 #Mississippi #law, the Jackson Free Press found, which intensified eligibility checks for #public #aid that made it more difficult for some applicants to qualify. It successfully pushed a 2023 effort in #Idaho to impose #work requirements for #food #benefits that #healthcare advocates said led some recipients to lose access.
#plutocracy #Trump #RFKJr #health #PublicAssistance #SNAP #Medicaid #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #USpol
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The main foundation started out as a staff of 3 w/about $60k in the bank. As of 2023, it had a budget of >$15M & a team of roughly 64, acc/to the latest available tax documents, & that's not counting the lobbying arm.
The #FGA got early funding from a grant from the State Policy Network, which has long backed right-leaning think tanks with ties to #conservative activists including brothers Charles & David #Koch.
#law #plutocracy #Trump #RFKJr #health #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #USpol
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Now, #FGA sees more room for change under the #Trump admin & the #RFKJr-led *#health* dept, calling 2025 a "window of opportunity for major reform," according to its latest annual report.
https://thefga.org/about-us/annual-reports/
Tarren Bragdon, a fmr Maine legislator, founded FGA in 2011 to promote policies to "free millions from government dependency & open the doors for them to chase their own American Dream," he said in a [BS] statement on FGA's website.
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#FGA's proposals often seek to limit who taps into that #aid & the help they receive. Those backing the group's mission say the goal is to save tax dollars & help people lift themselves out of poverty. Critics argue that FGA's proposals are a backdoor way to cut off aid to people who need it & that making #healthy #food & #healthcare more affordable is a better fix.
#law #plutocracy #Trump #RFKJr #health #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #USpol
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#FGA has worked for more than a decade to reshape the nation's #PublicAssistance programs. That includes #SNAP, formerly known as #FoodStamps, which federal data shows helps an average of 42M people afford food each month. It also advocates for ways to cut #Medicaid, the federal-state program that connects 71M people to subsidized #healthcare, including efforts in Idaho & Montana this year.
#law #plutocracy #Trump #RFKJr #health #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #USpol
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Meet the Florida group chipping away at #public #benefits one state at a time
The organization largely behind social restriction #legislation is the Foundation for Government Accountability [#FGA], a #conservative policy think tank in #Florida, & its affiliated lobbying arm, which has used the name Opportunity Solutions Project [#OSP].
#law #plutocracy #USpol #PublicAssistance #SNAP #Medicaid #healthcare #Trump #RFKJr
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/05/06/nx-s1-5387527/fga-foundation-for-government-accountability-states-snap-work-requirements -
Футбольные алгоритмы глобальной оптимизации (часть 1)
Совсем недавно закончился Евро-2024 и, если честно, оставил после себя смешанные чувства. Я, конечно, больше по хоккею, однако такое событие, как чемпионат Европы по футболу, не могло остаться совсем за бортом. Скажу сразу, по зрелищности турнир совсем не порадовал. Много разочарований, организационных проблем и других форс-мажоров, да и всё-таки в турнирах такого уровня ждёшь большего накала страстей, больше голов, больше хайлайтов. Но это так, чисто субъективно. По итогам турнира много обсуждали разные технологические новшества, которые с каждым годом всё глубже проникают в игру, хотя их применение тоже носит спорный характер. Однако и спорт (в данном случае футбол) влияет на технологии, и в этой статье я хочу написать об одном из неочевидных влияний. Речь пойдёт об алгоритмах, инспирированных динамикой футбола и стратегическими элементами футбольного матча.
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Футбольные алгоритмы глобальной оптимизации (часть 1)
Совсем недавно закончился Евро-2024 и, если честно, оставил после себя смешанные чувства. Я, конечно, больше по хоккею, однако такое событие, как чемпионат Европы по футболу, не могло остаться совсем за бортом. Скажу сразу, по зрелищности турнир совсем не порадовал. Много разочарований, организационных проблем и других форс-мажоров, да и всё-таки в турнирах такого уровня ждёшь большего накала страстей, больше голов, больше хайлайтов. Но это так, чисто субъективно. По итогам турнира много обсуждали разные технологические новшества, которые с каждым годом всё глубже проникают в игру, хотя их применение тоже носит спорный характер. Однако и спорт (в данном случае футбол) влияет на технологии, и в этой статье я хочу написать об одном из неочевидных влияний. Речь пойдёт об алгоритмах, инспирированных динамикой футбола и стратегическими элементами футбольного матча.
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Футбольные алгоритмы глобальной оптимизации (часть 1)
Совсем недавно закончился Евро-2024 и, если честно, оставил после себя смешанные чувства. Я, конечно, больше по хоккею, однако такое событие, как чемпионат Европы по футболу, не могло остаться совсем за бортом. Скажу сразу, по зрелищности турнир совсем не порадовал. Много разочарований, организационных проблем и других форс-мажоров, да и всё-таки в турнирах такого уровня ждёшь большего накала страстей, больше голов, больше хайлайтов. Но это так, чисто субъективно. По итогам турнира много обсуждали разные технологические новшества, которые с каждым годом всё глубже проникают в игру, хотя их применение тоже носит спорный характер. Однако и спорт (в данном случае футбол) влияет на технологии, и в этой статье я хочу написать об одном из неочевидных влияний. Речь пойдёт об алгоритмах, инспирированных динамикой футбола и стратегическими элементами футбольного матча.
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#Watchdogs that monitor #darkmoney groups say #FGA is just the latest example of an #advocacy organization bankrolled by a small network of #billionaire activists intent on #deregulation, dismantling #welfare protections and restricting #voting rights.https://wisconsinwatch.org/2023/07/wisconsin-billionaires-effort-shrink-social-safety-net/ #news #press #Wisconsin
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Egads, you mentioned me on Hacker News. Sorry, "Hacker" "News".
I don't think it's happened before; what does one do in this situation?
I always loved the "chocolate-covered banana and integration of European currency systems" formulation. As you (quite correctly) point out, the obvious unconnectedness of the one with the other is the most fundamental aspect of the problem, and calling it "XY" loses that.
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Republicans want to force Americans in poverty to pick up the tab for the tax cuts they gave to their wealthy donors, while giving those donors more vulnerable workers to exploit
GOP threatens to blow up the United States’ economy unless Democrats agree to shrink the social safety net by adding #work #requirements to programs such as #food assistance and #healthcare.
In doing so, GOP lawmakers are following the agenda pushed by an obscure conservative think tank, the Foundation for Government Accountability (#FGA ), that recently made headlines for helping secretly draft several state bills to roll back child labor laws.
The effort comes several years after the GOP passed massive, deficit-busting tax cuts benefiting the wealthy and corporations — and as the party pushes to make those tax cuts permanent, at an estimated cost of $3.5 trillion.
https://www.levernews.com/dark-moneys-behind-the-debt-ceiling-plan-to-punish-the-poor/
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It just keeps getting more venal - The conservative campaign to #rewrite #childlabor #laws
The Foundation for Government Accountability, a #Floridabased #thinktank and #lobbyinggroup, #drafted #statelegislation to strip #childworkplace #protections, emails show link to full text free https://wapo.st/43UN57H #HumanTrafficking #ChildLabor #FGA #OpportunitySolutionsProject #LeoLeonard Making it easier to #hire #14-yearolds -
It just keeps getting more venal - The conservative campaign to #rewrite #childlabor #laws
The Foundation for Government Accountability, a #Floridabased #thinktank and #lobbyinggroup, #drafted #statelegislation to strip #childworkplace #protections, emails show link to full text free https://wapo.st/43UN57H #HumanTrafficking #ChildLabor #FGA #OpportunitySolutionsProject #LeoLeonard Making it easier to #hire #14-yearolds -
It just keeps getting more venal - The conservative campaign to #rewrite #childlabor #laws
The Foundation for Government Accountability, a #Floridabased #thinktank and #lobbyinggroup, #drafted #statelegislation to strip #childworkplace #protections, emails show link to full text free https://wapo.st/43UN57H #HumanTrafficking #ChildLabor #FGA #OpportunitySolutionsProject #LeoLeonard Making it easier to #hire #14-yearolds -
It just keeps getting more venal - The conservative campaign to #rewrite #childlabor #laws
The Foundation for Government Accountability, a #Floridabased #thinktank and #lobbyinggroup, #drafted #statelegislation to strip #childworkplace #protections, emails show link to full text free https://wapo.st/43UN57H #HumanTrafficking #ChildLabor #FGA #OpportunitySolutionsProject #LeoLeonard Making it easier to #hire #14-yearolds -
What are you doing this weekend