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Getting disability benefits got harder after the Social Security Administration’s staff was slashed and program rules were changed by Trump

Getting disability benefits got harder after the Social Security Administration’s staff was slashed and program rules were changed by Trump

A rapid series of administrative, staffing and policy changes the Social Security Administration underwent early on in the second Trump administration are making it much harder to get disability benefits that millions of Americans rely on to make ends meet. The agency cut more than 7,100 jobs – more than
Katie Savin, California State University, Callie Freitag, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Matthew Borus, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Enforcing Prohibition with a massive new federal force of poorly trained agents didn’t go so well in the 1920s

Enforcing Prohibition with a massive new federal force of poorly trained agents didn’t go so well in the 1920s

As the actions of agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement come under intense scrutiny, it’s worth noting that a little more than 100 years ago, another expansion of federal policing – to enforce national Prohibition – also sparked nationwide concern. As a U.S. history scholar, I know both
Richard F. Hamm, University at Albany, State University of New York