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Because life is too easy these days, I'm going to weigh in on the topic of @jenniferdoleac's minimum wage tweet. (The original is at https://twitter.com/jenniferdoleac/status/1350147987490672644, and the whole thread is
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Unpopular Opinion Thread: Re the Fed, Congress, 'Compassionate Conservatives', Dollars, Gold, Bitcoin, Firearms, and whatever else comes to mind The irony of many sophisticated thinkers here complaining about the Fed
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$580B in unemployment insurance benefits, expansions, & supplements saved tens of millions of jobless workers last year. Swaths of beneficiaries are about to be on the hook for huge surprise
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Zeke's asleep so real quick here's why next year is gonna be awesome. I'm a fan of presidential scholar Stephen Skowronek. He's got a "political time" theory about presidents -
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We talk about liberal and conservative bias, but status quo bias is at the root of many of our problems. The worst institutional failures, the most immoral policies, survive because
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Starting now at https://www.facebook.com/EconomicSecProj/videos/707375056587729/, join @AmirforATL, @NikemaWilliams, @rashadrobinson, @dorianwarren, @MichaelDTubbs, and more calling for a #guaranteedincome to make real #MLK 's vision to
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1/?Alright, I've got ahold of the 19-page "Fact Sheet" for the Biden "American Rescue Plan." (Thanks @TaxNotes!)This is prob the best we're going to get for now, so I'm gonna
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If you’ve been wondering lately, “How in the world can ANYONE be against blanket student debt forgiveness??” then this thread is for you Key objection #1: it’s a free
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Raul update. So I'm a labor economist, and I study crime, which in English means I know absolutely nothing about the real world when it comes either labor or crime!
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Broad student loan debt cancellation via executive order is good economics and politics. A thread (with lots of data). 1/ First, it’s important to remember that *a lot* of people
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NEW ON THE BLOG: Our @sion_bell and @mirandalit17 look at President Biden's latest batch of executive branch appointees, which bafflingly features both a proponent and an opponent of Trump's 2017
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1/ THREAD: As someone who's been researching and writing about #UBI since 2013, I can tell you that @SteveForbesCEO just expressed a ton of assumptions that are either a complete
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I've been researching the idea of Unconditional Basic Income since 2013. Here's a list of findings I've compiled from various UBI experiments, unconditional cash transfer studies, and cash dividend research.The
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