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Kim Jong Un's Toolbox: Weaponizing Hunger as a Political Tactic

This Week's Lincoln Square Conversation

Thank you Barbara Shields, Education is a lamp, Peggy Anderson, Megan Johnson, Richard Hogan, MD, PhD(2), DBA, and many others for tuning into my live video with Lincoln Square!

In it, Lisa and I discuss the good

  • Ohio retired teachers speaking truth to power in Columbus

  • a surprising bipartisan coalition standing up to gerrymandering in Indiana

  • Amy Acton’s surging candidacy for Governor in Ohio

…the bad and the ugly

  • using hunger and food support as a political tactic to try to raise health costs (it’s so twisted I got tongue tied trying to explain it!).

Ohio data analyst Eric Pachman put together a map showing how many Ohioans participate in SNAP, by county, using the most recent data available:

You can click on this link to look at the numbers and trends in each county.

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