#Wages

Trollman Bullcum

TrollmanBullcum

The really sick and insidious thing about @friendlyjordies’ attack on @AusUnemployment is the context in which it sits.In the 70s and 80s, when labor organising was at its strongest, big

Matt Darling 🌐💸

besttrousers

I think that lots of people misconceive how state level UI replacement rates are calculated. It's not the case that states are currently just setting replacement rates at 45% and

Kambree

KamVTV

Joe Biden would be the worst choice to lead the U.S. economy out of the Coronavirus crisis. President Trump knows what it takes to get Americans back to work. The

Matt Scott

Matt5cott

It’s really important people understand that the problems at #Arsenal are structural. Economics graduate Arsène Wenger’s policy of implementing a unique flat wage structure - whereby *Bendtner* got *£52k a

Laurie Macfarlane

L__Macfarlane

Great piece by @davies_will on the centrality of the housing market to the UK’s political economy.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/26/boris-johnson-tories-economy-rising-house-prices-wages This bit is spot on. The housin

Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II

RevDrBarber

Religious right white evangelical leaders are the cause of Trump & the rise of white supremacist domestic terrorists. You have undergirded this president & refused to critique him too. Likewise,

Crew for a Trader Joe’s Union ✊🌺

TraderJoesUnion

We should not have needed to create a petition for hazard pay. We should not have needed to lose our jobs and wages for wanting to wear gloves and masks.

Anna Stansbury

annastansbury

New WP! Monopsony and Outside Options (@gregorschub, me, & @Bledi_Taska)How much do workers' outside job options matter for wages? This is important to understand the degree of imperfect competition &

Ernie Tedeschi

ernietedeschi

#CPSMicrodataDay There are lots of topics potentially of interest of course. I created my normal batch of charts during very different, happier economic times. So for the moment, I thought

Greg Walters

Gregoryjames00

Love how all the FOH people are sharing posts about tipping so well if people start dining out again because of exposure. Yet to see any mention of the BOH.....as

Dr Rachel Pope

preshitorian

It’s telling though that talking northern identity draws non-northerners to frame it as class. Because we’re all w/class in the NE eh. Except we weren’t - miners who loved opera,

oogmar

oogmar

My famously anti-group chat coworkers from well over a decade ago have a few chats going now. Several are Execs now, wandering their towns for signs like this, and reaching

James Pethokoukis

JimPethokoukis

A short thread: Why the *reality" of wage stagnation, flat income growth, and upward immobility may not be what you think. Like, at all.https://www.aei.org/economics/checking-in-on-the-american-dream-3-charts-that-show-us-living-standa

Beth McColl

imteddybless

ask any woman what the best sex of her life REALLY was & i guarantee it was over a long weekend with some guy who lived in a treehouse and

Rohit Chopra

chopraftc

Food delivery apps, like @Grubhub and @DoorDash, are part of the middleman economy, sitting between restaurants, drivers, & customers.Without a restaurant- or driver-run alternative, dominant delivery apps can extract more

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unhappychels

Capitalism is an economic system that primarily serves to benefit those who own capital. If you don’t own any capital and you advocate for capitalism that means you are advocating