Matt McConnell
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economic justice and rights researcher for @hrw focusing on global health | ex @OpenSociety fellow | writer of mediocre SFF | 🇺🇸/🇧🇦đź‡đꇷ | he/him
Bay Area, CA
Joined February 2012
By failing to extend the ACA premium tax credits, Congress would be more than doubling annual premiums for millions of people next year.
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ACA tax credits are a band-aid on on a broken healthcare system, but one that's protected millions from the often catastrophic harms of being uninsured Removing them w/o fixing the system isn't policy, it's cruelty More from @hrw and @OxfamAmerica ⬇️ https://t.co/Hl1uRL5C8K
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The US Congress’ failure to extend public subsidies for private health insurance threatens the right to health and financial security of millions of people.
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ACA Open Enrollment is Nov. 1. Higher premiums and out-of-pocket payments could await many Marketplace enrollees. More on these and other issues to watch in the 2026 Open Enrollment period: https://t.co/XpsyPEQcJK
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Moroccans are claiming their human rights and calling for an end to corruption. Will King Mohamed VI deliver on his promise to create jobs and improve health care and education? Will his government investigate the use of lethal force by the police against protestors?
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Today, the Supreme Court reheard Louisiana v. Callais, which could determine whether Black voters have a meaningful chance at equal representation in Congress. Learn more👇 https://t.co/XCWBpxvKW8
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Low tax revenues helped drive Sri Lanka to economic crisis. New report from @hrw on how tax policies favoring companies & the wealthy have for decades been undermining human rights, including to education https://t.co/TbQE1DVrf1
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Sri Lanka’s tax policies played a driving role in the country’s devastating 2022 economic crisis and have contributed to the chronic underfunding of education and other public services.
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NEW: HRW report finds Sri Lanka’s tax policies that favored the wealthy drove its devastating 2022 economic crisis and contributed to chronic underfunding of education & other public services 🧵  https://t.co/qe3MfiyqFD
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Low tax revenues helped drive Sri Lanka to economic crisis. New report by @hrw’s @sarah_saadoun on how tax policies favoring companies & the wealthy have for decades been undermining human rights, including to education  https://t.co/o2bTMuClQR
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“If the admin’s goal is to help make America healthy, it has to stop making it harder for people to make informed choices about health care... [the] right to health requires health policy driven by evidence, not ideology or ... personal beliefs." @hrw ⬇️ https://t.co/aaGefCTCdQ
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The US Department of Health and Human Services under the Trump administration appears to be providing health-related information to the public based on politicized and ideological priorities.
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In the 1950s, the false “refrigerator mother” theory fueled stigma & denied children with autism support. Today, Trump & Kennedy repeat unfounded claims linking vaccines or Tylenol to autism—risking more fear, blame & discrimination. https://t.co/bUGYOMpLkK
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256 GW of new solar installed in the last six months in China with spillover to most of the rest of the world. In the latest Chartbook newsletter I try to get the measure of industrial policy at planetary scale.
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"Thanks to the work of diabetes patient advocates like @t1international ... @WHO lists now recommend that all governments should ensure that [insulin analogs] are made available “at prices individuals and health systems can afford." More from @hrw 👇 https://t.co/fJVECiVZO1
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What may seem like a technical exercise in global health bureaucracy- the World Health Organization’s update to its Essential Medicines Lists - will in fact have life-changing consequences for...
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AI-Capex is the everything cycle, now Just under 50% of GDP growth is attributable to AI Capex
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Had a great convo with Rosie Bultman of @KCSB and my @hrw colleague @sarah_saadoun about the Trump admin's terrible budget bill and how it will make ordinary people pay for tax cuts for the rich with their health Take a listen 👇 https://t.co/vHtOh4BTVz
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Podcast Episode · The Global Power Report · 07/24/2025 · 24m
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Pleasure to join The People’s Program with Rosie Bultman along with my colleague Matt McConnell to talk about how Trump used the budget bill to kill a global rule that would’ve helped prevent companies from dodging taxes
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Podcast Episode · The Global Power Report · 07/24/2025 · 24m
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Maksym Chernyak came to the US from Ukraine seeking safety. He died in ICE custody. This is his story. https://t.co/ShO8vEidRV đź§µ
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#Ethiopian doctor Daniel Fentaneh, detained for almost 2 weeks on politically motivated charges, following health workers’ strike. Gov’t should drop charges, end clampdown & meaningfully engage with grievances @hrw
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On the afternoon of June 25, police in the regional capital of Ethiopia’s conflict-affected Amhara region arrested Dr. Daniel Fentaneh, a gynecologist and obstetric resident at Bahir Dar University...
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L'avenir de la finance est en train de se décider et cet avenir doit donner la priorité aux droits humains. Human Rights Watch participe à la Conférence internationale sur le financement du développement à Séville, en Espagne. @mcconnell_m nous explique les enjeux ⤵
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