director made clear that the law is actually helping low-income americans. the subsidies make those lower income people better off. this is an implicit taxes. i understand that. i guess i understand the better off in the context of health care. consider that begrudging acceptance that the aca might do something good. joining me from washington is jarrod burnstein and josh greene. i cannot think of any other term other than breathtaking
joining me now is james peterson and jarrod burnstein. jarrod, these cuts seem bad no matter what party you re from. what s your analysis of this? obviously, bad. for the economy, as you mentioned, remember you don t hear this enough. we have an unemployment rate that s already way too highly elevated, stuck at 8% overall for african-americans, much higher. and what does this kind of policy do? it takes an economy that s already not growing quickly enough and subtracts $85 billion of spending in 2013. that shaves about half a percent off gdp growth. so whether we re talking about a macro level, the numbers i was citing, or a micro level, how this plays out on the ground, you know, poor families losing educational slots, head start slots, childcare slots, nutritional programs for women,