#Economicpolicy

Armine Yalnizyan

ArmineYalnizyan

Today's Labour Force Survey includes first ever job-related "race" data, from a new "fast track option" series of questions supplementary to the usual LFS.Some thoughts.1/n @StatCan_eng has always said it

Jackson Voss

JacksonVoss

Great piece in @thecurrentlaf - only thing I'd want to add to Geoff's analysis is that, while Lafayette is wealthier today than it was in the 80s, and this recession

Dr. Mai Nguyen

mai_nguyen_phd

Hey prospective grad students: as you head to interviews (congrats and good luck!) be sure to ask grad students in the program about $$! And seriously consider if the grad

Anna Gifty is on IG and says #SACE2021

itsafronomics

Remember the financial crisis of 2008 and how it disproportionately hurt Black communities? It's definitely because none of the economists @federalreserve represented those communities at any level of leadership within

Ettore Gallo

ettoregallo1

The paper I co-authored with @MariaCbgoes is out in @ReviewofPE (better yet, it's free access!) CHECK IT OUT!We model the negative dynamic feedback between #COVID19 infections and the #unemployment rate,

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

RevDrBarber

Seven months into a global pandemic, U.S. families are suffering: 225,000 lives have been lost, 30 million workers have lost either jobs or significant hours of work, nearly every

Steph Sterling

stephsterlingdc

.@JStein_WaPo raises a good question here: can $15/hour minimum wage be done via reconciliation? A short thread:https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1350161737996267523 The key question to answer is whether the Parliamentarian would rule

Universal Preschool NOW!

UPNOW2020

Whenever any significant public program is proposed, someone inevitably asks “how are you going to pay for it?” There’s nothing wrong with asking how tax dollars are spent. But this

Elise Gould

eliselgould

October #JobsReport analysis from @EconomicPolicy!Bottom-line: The next president inherits a devastated economy with millions out of work.https://www.epi.org/press/october-jobs-report-next-president-inherits-a-devastated-economy-with-millio

Gbenga Ajilore 🏃🏾‍♂️

gbenga_ajilore

Each #JobsDay, I primarily focus on the Black-White unemployment gap as it shows us a manifestation of systemic racism. While the ratio dropped to near par in April (as everyone

Larry Mishel

LarryMishel

Thread (1/14) on new paper explaining pvt sector union decline w/ @LaneWindham and Lynn Rhinehart. Retweet don't just like! @EconomicPolicy @GeorgetownKILWP https://www.epi.org/unequalpower/publications/private-sector-unions-corporate-l

Jennifer McClellan

JennMcClellanVA

My mom, aunts, grandmother, & great grandmother were all domestic workers for white families in segregated Mississippi for white families. As Mom tells it, that’s all they could do. As

Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

mushfiq_econ

A thread on my sense of the immediate #policypriorities for @JoeBiden & @KamalaHarris administration, to undo the most consequential damages wrought by the last 4 years. A journalist’s question forced

Elise Gould

eliselgould

The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey shows declines in hires: As winter hits, the #Biden administration will be facing a mounting, not waning, crisishttps://www.epi.org/blog/the-job-openings-and-labor-turnover-survey-shows-declines-in

Elise Gould

eliselgould

Little changed in today's BLS release of Job Openings and Labor Turnover for December. In fact, "little changed" was mentioned 17 times in the report, including little changed in job

Anna Gifty is on IG and says #SACE2021

itsafronomics

As you all know, I write A LOT (for different magazines and media outlets) on everything from economics to STEM to structural racism in those spaces.Inspired by the lovely @taylorcrumpton,

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