07-04-2025
Prof. Leighton Ku on how federal cuts to Medicaid and SNAP could trigger the loss of a million jobs
Leighton Ku, lead author and Director of the Center for Health Policy Research and professor of health policy and management at GWU's Milken Institute School of Public Health (Courtesy photo)
As NC Newsline has reported at length recently, Republicans in Congress are seeking to enact massive and unprecedented cuts to two of the nation's core social safety net programs — Medicaid and SNAP food assistance. And while it's not hard to show how such cuts will impact the people in need who depend on those programs, a new report from the Commonwealth Fund and The George Washington University School of Public Health points to another big and worrisome likely impact. It warns that the proposed cuts could trigger severe economic consequences — including the loss of a million jobs, a $113 billion decline in the gross domestic products of U.S. states, and $8.8 billion in lost state and local tax revenue in 2026 alone. And recently, to learn more, Newsline caught up with the report's lead author, the Director of the Center for Health Policy Research at The George Washington University, Professor Leighton Ku.
Click here to listen to the full interview with Leighton Ku.
