#policyimpact — Public Fediverse posts

Heartbreaking news from Heather Cox Richardson: 440,000 Arizonans have lost SNAP benefits since Republicans cut the program, shifting costs to states. A 65-year-old cancer survivor now skips meals to feed her grandsons, revealing the human cost of these policy changes. Read the full story here: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/july-21-2026 #SNAP #FoodAssistance #Arizona #PolicyImpact. Thank you, Heather, for this important report.

📽️ NEW #CPCGCWebinar video with Shuang Chen from the Department of Social Policy, LSE

Catch up on Shuang's discussion around explanations for low #fertility ideals in urban #China. In the seminar, Shuang presents two recent papers examining the puzzle.

https://youtu.be/taB28AdrTak?si=1Z2daSQ9jA2ZcRao

#demography #fertility #lowfertility #socialpolicy #populationstudies #China #urbanChina #onechildpolicy #fertilitydecline #familynorms #onlychild #fertilitypreferences #populationchange #policyimpact #fertilityresearch

Remember Hike, the WhatsApp rival that became a unicorn? They pivoted to real-money gaming, and now India's sweeping ban has sent them to the digital graveyard. Even mythical creatures aren't immune to regulatory crackdowns.

What's the most spectacular pivot failure you've witnessed in tech?
#TechNews #StartupLife #Gaming #PolicyImpact #Hike
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/13/hike-once-a-unicorn-shuts-down-as-india-cracks-down-on-real-money-gaming/

"Trade wars and tariffs are written in numbers—but human hardship is written in lost homes, canceled crops, and closed horizons." L.Nault

#HumanHardship #TradeWars #EconomicJustice #SocialJustice #PolicyImpact

A study on university mergers in 🇳🇴 shows that mergers did not improve the publication performance of existing staff. Instead, productivity gains came from hiring new, more research-active faculty.

👉 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-025-01409-z

At the same time, faculty report fewer resources, more bureaucracy, and leadership issues post-merger. 📉 #HigherEd #Academia #Efficiency #PublicationPerformance #PolicyImpact #Norway

The @G7 #Climate, #Energy & #Environment Ministers met in Sapporo 🇯🇵 this weekend to discuss current global challenges.

They “stressed the importance of best available science & evidence & Indigenous knowledge in policy-making.”👇🏽

https://www.env.go.jp/content/000127577.pdf
#G7 #PolicyImpact

@theogeo6 Danke für deine Unterstützung! Ich hoffe, die vielen Einreichungen haben #PolicyImpact...
#WissenSchafftKlimaschutz