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Oversight Subcommittee Hearing on Virtue Signaling vs. Vital Services: Where Tax-Exempt Hospitals are Spending Your Tax Dollars

How Will We Feed Our Neighbors?
Lindsay Allen appeared appeared on the Slate Magazine Podcast discussing why SNAP benefits won’t renew in November as part of the, “How Will We Feed Our Neighbors?” Episode released on October 30, 2025.

Medicaid Billed for 52% of U.S. Hospital Costs from Gun Injuries
Alexander Lundberg appeared in Ben Schamisso’s Northwestern Now article, Medicaid billed for 52% of U.S. hospital costs from gun injuriesGun-injury care cost U.S. hospitals $7.7 billion from 2016 to 2021, with Medicaid covering 52% of costs’ on September 26, 2025.

What Research Shows about Banning Assault Weapons in the Past
For a decade, there was a ban on so-called assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition clips used in the shooting at the Annunciation Catholic School in Minneapolis. A study published last fall looked at the ban's effectiveness. Lori Ann Post, a co-author of the report, joins to discuss the research