#Economicpolicy

Andrew Romanoff

Memo to @CoryGardner, John @Hickenlooper & every other politician parroting the insurance industry & trashing #MedicareForAll: THIS is why you’re wrong. Millions of Americans are losing their jobs—they shouldn’t be

Anna Gifty is finally on Tik Tok

The people have spoken and I have *finally* answered since a lot of #EconTwitter stuff is written by non-URM (thanks @ArkeyBarnett for the push): How to Hack #EconTwitter: A Resource

Anna Gifty is finally on Tik Tok

The silence of economists at a time like this is deafening. Some of you have really gone about your business like the world is not burning when your training and

Economic Policy Institute

Happening now! Watch the livestream here: https://www.epi.org/event/teacher-compensation-penalty-impact-on-teachers-education-and-society/#redfored #edchat https://twitter.com/EconomicPolicy/status/1316117074956218369 The teacher pay penalt

Much of #economicpolicy aims to 'fight' #unemployment. This is entirely unnecessary, because there is no such thing as lasting involuntary unemployment. This is unfortunately little understood today, but it is

facts are facts.

NEW: Attn to GA’s #UnemploymentInsurance system is long overdue. The economy is coming to a standstill & UI claims are surging. Unless state leaders use existing authority to ease access

Breanca Merritt

Black Hoosiers are 9.8% of IN's population, but 18.5% of IN covid-19 cases (HALF of the cases are missing race data). Let’s talk structural problems. Thread: We know nationally, blacks

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

While a disappointing jobs report, job gains in leisure and hospitality respond to increased demand in April1/nhttps://www.epi.org/blog/while-a-disappointing-jobs-report-job-gains-in-leisure-and-hospitality-respond-to-increased-demand-in-ap

Michael Madowitz

Today's thread on state & local budget shortfalls:How bad is it?Half answer: REALLY BAD!Full answer: REALLY COMPLICATED! You see...1/ https://twitter.com/mikemadowitz/status/1293568387826831362 Interlude: Folks to follow (who should

Kristen Anderson

An OpEd from @dkhos has been making the rounds this week. As someone who's spent years thinking about portable benefits, I think we need to get a few things straight.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/10/opinion/uber-ceo-dara-khosrowshahi-

Jobs. Congress must act this week or millions more will go jobless, lose healthcare, & fall fast without a safety net. This is deadly serious for aviation workers & others.

1. THREAD: Posting a piece I co-authored in 2019 with @anacidcommie in @timeshighereducation about the grad student mental health crisis. Below, I review the argument and situate it in context

March’s huge job losses are just the tip of the iceberg of what’s to comehttps://www.epi.org/press/marchs-huge-job-losses-are-just-the-tip-of-the-iceberg-of-whats-to-come/#COVID19 #coronavirus #JobsReport #JobsDay This morning’s Bureau of Labor Stati

Amy Maxmen, PhD

I spent 8 months investigating how exploitation, poverty & discrimination drove COVID—and why scientists haven’t really addressed these issues, despite studying them for 150 years. “Where is the urgency?” asks

Working with @DataProgress on our historic Progressive Cabinet Project has been an honor of a lifetime. For far too long, progressives have largely ignored the cabinet.In this memo, we look