#Policymakers

Peggy Bailey

PeggyBaileyDC

Thread: Trump’s expected executive orders to (among other things) extend the eviction moratorium from the CARES Act are woefully inadequate for addressing renters’ hardship. People need help paying the rent.

Mike Pierce

millennial_debt

This new behind the scenes look at the fight to #cancelstudentdebt has a lot to offer, but it misses the mark on one key piece of economic data-- the current

Missouri AFL-CIO

MOAFLCIO

#PROAct TREAD: Our woefully outdated labor laws are no longer effective as a means for working people to have our voices heard. Inequality has skyrocketed because union membership has dwindled

Dr. J Robson

JenniferRobson8

Put me in the camp of the "both and". The CCED has lots flaws & was designed, explicitly, using an outdated breadwinner model of Canadian families. Moving from the deduction

Wedge LIVE!™

WedgeLIVE

It's hard not to sense a little disdain for democracy in this assessment of the city's governing structure, produced by three members of the Charter Commission (I'm assuming it's mostly

Kristin Schumacher

Femiwonk

Workers shouldn't have to choose between paying the bills and caring for their family or themselves. Federal #COVID #paidsick days and #paidleave provisions expire at the end of the month.

Misha Denil

notmisha

If I were starting grad school now I would not do a PhD in ML. It's not the competition that would steer me away though, I think it's a bad

Tejas N. Narechania

tnarecha

I've seen some "helpful" posts on what the Biden FCC should/not do, incl. some tired tropes about refraining from 1930s-era regulation. (PS: Social Security is 1930s-era regulation, too.)So here's a

Kevin Huffman

k_huff1

This NYT bonanza tracking different districts is great. @katetaylornyt lays out the challenges and realities in the cover piece. There is 1 canary in the coal mine for 21-22 that

Jabin T Jacob 鄭嘉賓

jabinjacobt

The first Indian casualties since 1975 on the disputed India-China boundary changes many things for Indian policymakers as well as for scholars and observers of China. No longer can we

dhanuraashi

dhanuraashi

"In fact, that is a strength of India, because our policymakers did a remarkable thing at the time of green revolution — they introduced a minimum support price. That is

Rethinking Economics India

rethinkecon_in

Missed our event on Administrative and Policy perspectives on Diversity in Economics with @monkprayogshala and @bahujan_econ? Here’s a short thread about what we discussed with @beena and @tejas yesterdayYou can

Ronen▼.com

RonenV

Ok, I wasn't going to say anything about this, but it's clear that this is accidentally misleading people in a way that may cause more covid infections: "Pfizer claimed trials

Keaton Miller

millersdrafts

New working paper with @john_morehouse7 and @Brett_Garcia_ on the impact of short-term rentals (Airbnb) on housing prices: http://www.keatonmiller.org/s/2020-12-11-str-heterogeneous.pdfPrev. consensus in lit. is that Airbnb drives up house

ACRE

ACREcampaigns

Our response to news that Brian Deese, managing director at BlackRock -- the world’s largest asset manager -- will head the National Economic Council (NEC) under the Biden administration: a

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/6Just before I saw this article I was re-reading (for the second time) Glyn Davies's 1994 history of money and came across this passage:"There are few things more impressive than

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