#Policymakers

matt blaze

mattblaze

It is indeed an outrageous abuse of power to degrade the USPS in order to prevent ballots from being delivered. But degrading the USPS during a pandemic that's made us

Jason Hickel

jasonhickel

The right have attacked the Green New Deal on the grounds that it will hurt economic growth. In response, the left have defended it by saying it will *increase* growth.

David Wachsmuth

dwachsmuth

These 1200 ghost hotels earned $30 million last year, took a minimum of 1400 units of housing off the market, and have flown under the radar of regulators, although they

Lyman Stone 石來民

lymanstoneky

I get this view but to be honest if we don’t have widespread vaccine availability in May then this is all a bit moot.https://twitter.com/ernietedeschi/status/1356235716460765184 The only reason we will have

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

Warwick Mansell

warwickmansell

New: teachers’ extraordinary work during Covid-19 undervalued, says academic group, as it describes government’s September re-opening plans as “unrealistic”. https://www.educationuncovered.co.uk/news/147101/teachers-extraordinary-wo

Saurabh Lall

LallSaurabh

In this uncertain university job market, some advice for PhD grads thinking about careers at thinktanks (and similar orgs). For bkd, I worked at two thinktanks – @WorldResources and @AspenANDE

Michael Clemens

m_clem

As people in poor countries get richer, they have a *greater* tendency to emigrate. I just released two major studies, one joint with @MariapiaMendola, exploring this remarkable phenomenon.Long-read summary here:

Dirk Auer

AuerDirk

Very glad to have been interviewed about vaccine passports by Belgian newspaper @lalibrebeBasic argument is that policymakers should put in place a system of vaccine passports - essentially enabling firms

IPA

poverty_action

Since May IPA has been running our RECOVR survey measuring the impact of the COVID-19 crisis. Today we're releasing data from 9 countries on Dataverse!https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/ipa All surveys contained common sets of

Lindsey Barrett

LAM_Barrett

ilaria liccardi & I just posted a new draft paper arguing that cloud-reliant, always-listening devices often break a bunch of laws when they accidentally record the owner, & anyone else

Paul Krugman

paulkrugman

A wonkish thread on the economics of unemployment insurance. Why? Because Republicans are talking nonsense, but also because it seems to me that even some of the people calling for

Nikhil Pahwa

nixxin

Since I'm receiving lots of Q's on my views on the Trump Ban and Parler ban by platforms (Twitter, Facebook etc), I thought write about it. Here's how I think

athreya

athreya49

Recently finished reading ‘The Economists’ Hour’ by @BCAppelbaum. It’s a remarkable history of economic policy making. What we also get in the process is a series of fascinating portraits about

Houston Institute

houstoninst

LONG THREAD: With today's announcement of substantial investment in data-driven pretrial criminal legal system reform, we are long-overdue for a broad conversation on addressing community needs, the role of philanthropy,

Cris Ramón

CramonBPC

Biden mentioned immigration before discussing strong labor unions also caught my ear. As a former union steward, I’m not opposed to both. But I can see how these two policy

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