#Recession

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

Another 1.0 million people applied for UI last week, including 712,000 people who applied for regular state UI and 289,000 who applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA). 1/ After two

Kassie Navarro 😷

kassien

It's #GivingTuesday + #GivingNewsDay!As you're thinking about the causes you'll support today, I hope you'll consider @19thnews, a newsroom that is dedicated to investing in serious, nonpartisan reporting that

Jon Favreau

jonfavs

Joe Biden should announce that the first bill he’ll introduce as President is the John Lewis Voting Rights Act of 2021, a law that would guarantee every American the right

Jay C. Shambaugh

JayCShambaugh

A lot of talk of risk on overheating if we do 1.9T relief bill (e.g. @LHSummers @ojblanchard1 ). Of course there’s a risk of anything. Question is balance of risks

Callie Cox

callieabost

If a friend tells you they’re waiting for a market drop to buy anything, ask them “why do you think the market will drop?” and watch their heads explode. Sounds

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

Last week, total initial unemployment insurance (UI) claims rose for the fourth week straight, from 1.6 million to 1.7 million. Of last week’s 1.7 million, 884,000 applied for regular state

Roy Rogers

fauxintel

As we leave the Trump behind, I think it is critical to think about the Bush II years as we chart a path forward. 12 years after W left office,

Jenny

jkhiseler

What I find so bogglingly demoralizing about Accessibility Standards Canada's expectation that "organizations" work for free is that we, accessibility professionals, are in a constant battle to have our work

Roger Sollenberger

SollenbergerRC

I've been covering Kelly Loeffler (R-Cayman Islands) pretty steadily for @Salon, and since today's Georgia runoffs make it a special day, here's a recap of some standout stories that might

Julian Jessop

julianHjessop

UK #GDP rose by 1.2% m/m in December and 1.0% q/q in Q4 2020. This was better than expected, including by the OBR, and means that (unlike the eurozone) the

Ali Velshi

AliVelshi

1/9We're in the worst recession since the Great Depression, but the S&P 500 is within striking distance of its ALL TIME HIGH. 25 years ago, as a young reporter, I’d

Harsh Gupta Madhusudan

harshmadhusudan

Viral is the same person who said let us not cut rates lest bad loans be evergreened. When convenient focus on inflation, otherwise not. Within inflation choose headline or core

Citizen of Somewhere Else

CitizenSE

I have to disagree with this one. Finishing up our F21 teaching schedule's first complete draft and struck by how aggressive I've gotten at offering upper-level writing courses to make

Patrick W. Watson

PatrickW

THREAD: My non-data-driven election outlook, considering what we can know without relying on polls. 1/ We know that following their 2012 loss, the GOP postmortem said it needed to reach

Gerrit Kurtz

GerritKurtz

Overall, the #Sudan Partnership Conference today was a success, but some difficulties remain, including for the co-host, @GermanyDiplo. Here are a few take-aways. TREAD 1/ #BerlinSudanConf Financially, at least 845

Paul Hebden

prformativcontr

So attended a media industry seminar last night which contained some interesting observations about the media "culture war" which are relevant to the covid situ. >>> 1st - lots of

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