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The president inherited strong job-growth trends, coasted off it, and tried to take credit for it.His talking points do not match reality.#NoFool Same story with the unemployment rate. This chicken

1.3 million new unemployment insurance (UI) claims in week ending 10/3, 803K state + 464K PUA not seasonally adjusted (NSA). That's similar to the prior week, down 3%.25.5 million Americans

Lots of Americans worried about their ability to pay for housing. 34.7% of renters report no confidence or slight confidence in their own ability to pay rent next month, in

If we do not support the childcare sector through this temporary time of higher costs & lower revenues, it will collapse. This will become a high barrier for parents, especially

Great reporting @brycecovert @thenation including my new report w/@CLASP_DC @nwlc on crisis economics of the childcare sector.Cost to provide emergency care to essential workers now & keep rest restart-ready to

I've been working on an analysis of the child care services industry during pandemic. Working through the mechanics of production make it super-clear how this is a negative TFP shock

16.8 million Americans filed new claims for unemployment insurance in the last 3 weeks. Another 6.6m new claims for unemployment insurance for the week ending 4/4 and the prior week