#Recession

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

Here we go again. Last week, 2 million workers applied for unemployment insurance (UI). Breaking that down: 1.2 million applied for regular state UI (not seasonally adjusted), and 830,000 applied

Ben Collins

oneunderscore__

New from me:Has a friend, almost overnight, become certain masks are for slaves, pedophiles run the world, and Donald Trump is saving it?You're not alone.Here's how QAnon and Facebook created

Council of Economic Advisers

WhiteHouseCEA

The economy added only 49,000 jobs in January, after losing a revised 227,000 jobs in December. This pace is far below the rate necessary to pull us out of the

Openly Black Mikki Kendall

Karnythia

Every time I see tweets like these I think about the tech people I've met & the $500 Lanvins so many wear. Or the $1100 Owen kicks some of the

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

Another 1.3 million people applied for UI last week, including 853,000 people who applied for regular state UI and 428,000 who applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA). 1/ https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf The

Julian Jessop

julianHjessop

FWIW, I’m relatively relaxed about the fiscal costs of #Covid: borrowing will drop sharply as the economy recovers, the #debt burden is manageable, and there’s no need for #austerity to

Justin Hicks

Hicks_JustinM

SB 44 now starting which would enact a work share unemployment program. Sen. Boots has already said they committee won't vote on this bill, it's for informational purposes only. Sen.

Rachael Swindon

Rachael_Swindon

However you look at it, today has been an utter shambles from the Labour leadership. Regardless of your thoughts about Jeremy Corbyn, you know he would’ve stood by teachers, parents,

Sam Hughes

samh510

In 2012 when I was interning at CAP the housing finance group was worried that it was too ambitious to even suggest mortgage cramdown and THEY LITERALLY JUST DID IThttps://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/1341112094079512579

Subomi

subomiplumptre

MY NEW YEAR CHARGE | My watchword for 2021 is, BE DYNAMIC. Please be open to change and be quick to respond. You may have been surprised by COVID-19 in

Tara Straw

TaraStraw

In the midst of a pandemic & economic crisis, DOJ urged SCOTUS yesterday to take health care away from 20m+ people. Insanity. (thread)https://www.cbpp.org/health/commentary-aca-repeal-even-more-dangerous-during-pandemic-and-economic-cri

Emily Badger

emilymbadger

The rich have cut spending more than everyone else in the coronavirus recession. And their spending has crept back much slower.That’s bad for all of the lower-wage workers – servers,

ALEX Superfan

RyanAtRBM

Damn, a three year deal and the “deal value” is $1.65m. That’s a whole fuckin lot, especially when 99% of the CSGO scene has no exposure to salaries, buyouts, and

🌹Socialism: Antidote to Fascism🌹

RobertJacobTO

#IStandWithTrudeau crowd likening CERB to UBI or Emerg Wages, listen to list of considerations before approvalDespite these barriers, Canadians applied under gov't direction to survive lockdownsLiberal MP concedes CERB debt

Kishore C Iyer🇮🇳

Kishoreciyer1

This targeted GDP growth is an exercise in futility, the growth will have to happen organically, the population must be allowed to increase its consumption when it pleases and when

🌸 Commonist 🐙 #AbolishNYPD🚩

OfMarxandMen

As someone who has been called a rad lib, identitarian, and race reductionist(all by the way incredibly mean things to say to me personally and I will cry), I don't

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