In July 2025, Congressional Republicans and President Trump passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), the most regressive piece of U.S. tax and budget legislation in living memory. Combining large tax cuts that disproportionately flowed to the rich with significant cuts to Medicaid (a public health insurance program), the Affordable Care Act, and food assistance, the bill was massively unpopular. And yet, the OBBBA is now public law. In this project, we ask why.
Read more about Patrick Sullivan and his research at Bluesky and his website.
About the series:
Bites of Inequality is a midday talk series at the LMU Institute of Sociology in cooperation with ISI, which brings together science and the public in an open format. The focus is on current research on social inequality, presented and discussed in an accessible form.
The talks take place on Tuesdays from 12:15pm to 1:45pm in Konradstraße 6, room 208.
You find the series is in LSF under Comparative Stratification Research (event number 15261).