All-cause hospitalisations increased in states that terminated SNAP emergency allotments early compared with control states that maintained them, whereas all-cause mortality remained unchanged. Our findings indicate that reductions in nutritional assistance can have measurable clinical impacts. The increase in all-cause hospitalisations observed in our study might be driven by multiple factors, including declines in diet quality leading to the exacerbation of diet-sensitive conditions and heightened financial strain forcing individuals to make difficult trade-offs between food and health-care needs.

I hate living here.

Feels like Mamdani is the only politician we’ve elected in a generation who has any real power and any real intent to do lasting positive good with it.