CEPR News November 6, 2025
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While the White House is sending mixed signals about whether it will distribute Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits this month, a new analysis by Hayley Brown shows that disabled people will be disproportionately harmed by the suspension of food aid. Adults with disabilities make up about 25 percent of SNAP recipients – nearly twice their share in the overall population. About one in four SNAP recipients reports a disability, compared with about one in nine non-recipients. The disparity remains among working adults as well – almost 12 percent of employed adults with at least one functional difficulty receive SNAP benefits, compared with about 6 percent of employed adults without a disability.
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| How Trump’s Regime Change War Could Be Prevented
Mark Weisbrot writes in The Nation that pressure from Congress could curb Trump’s aggression toward Venezuela ― specifically, a War Powers Resolution like the one Congress passed in 2019 against US involvement in the war on Yemen. “Trump vetoed [that] resolution, but he stopped the US mid-air refueling of Saudi planes that were bombing Yemen. This was one of the most important parts of this legislation and ended up saving many lives, along with other de-escalation that followed.”
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| Senate Tariff Votes are Step in The Right Direction
Before Trump’s tariff policies reached the Supreme Court this week, there were three votes in the Senate that sought to curb the White House’s tariffs. Brandon Novick argues that Trump’s erratic policies have already caused some economic harm, and it is a good thing that Congress is asserting its Constitutional authority to challenge these regressive and reckless policies.
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Trump Slaps Russia with New Sanctions
The Trump administration imposed the first Russia sanctions of its second term; Iran has withdrawn from the nuclear deal in the wake of snapback sanctions; the UN General Assembly again passed a resolution demanding an end to the embargo on Cuba, with a vote of 165 countries in favor of the resolution and only 7 against; the Senate passed Caesar Act repeal as Syria struggles to rebuild; and much more in our latest Sanctions Watch bulletin.
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Why America's Wage Gap Keeps Growing
On the Mostly Economics podcast, Dean Baker speaks to Kim Weeden, a Cornell sociology professor and the director of the Center for the Study of Inequality, about why America’s wage gap keeps growing. They discuss the fact that protections for minimum wage workers have weakened over the past 40 years, while the rules that protect high earners have only gotten stronger. You can catch this episode at CEPR’s YouTube channel, or anywhere else you get your favorite podcasts.
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The US Warships Off Venezuela Aren’t There to Fight Drugs
In Al Jazeera, Guillaume Long warns that the massive US military buildup off Venezuela’s coast marks a dangerous escalation toward regime change. The “bitter irony,” he writes, is that under the guise of anti-narcotics operations, Washington risks empowering cartels, harming Venezuelans, and destabilizing the wider region. |
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The Taxpayers’ Tab for Donald Trump’s Big Beautiful New Ballroom
Trump’s destruction of the East Wing of the White House to build a new $350 million ballroom paid for by corporate donors is an obvious example of brazen corruption. Dean Baker takes a look at some of the other angles to this story – specifically the tax revenue that the public loses out on when corporations and the mega wealthy splurge on Trump’s vanity project.
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WhoWhatWhy, interviewing Dean Baker, When the Bubble Bursts: The Economy Can’t Be Spun
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El Destape, quoting Alex Main, Trump quiere reconstruir un "patio trasero" a fuerza de militarización y obsecuencia
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CNBC, citing CEPR, How the 2026 Social Security Payroll Tax Cap Could Impact Your Paycheck
- La Vanguardia, quoting Mark Weisbrot, Pensamiento mágico de Javier Milei
- Truthout, citing CEPR, Trump Is Punishing Blue States by Defunding Their Infrastructure Projects
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Al Arabya English, interviewing Guillaume Long, Trump Lands in Tokyo Amid Hopes for US-China Trade Truce
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