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I'm in @UpshotNYT today looking at a burning question: how many parents are out of the labor force in America now due to COVID-related school closures? TL;DR: Probably anywhere from

@mikemadowitz and I had a productive conversation about this data.It turns out, the disparity in marriage employment *counts* is mostly an artifact of something else going on in the household

A short thread on what to expect from tomorrow's jobs report. TL;DR: two metrics that have done well in predicting employment so far are telling two different stories: one a

Retail sales growth for August came in a bit below expectations (+0.6% month-to-month), but was still positive.This advance data will be revised next month, possibly significantly.But this nevertheless supports the

A short thread on the emergency $600 per week unemployment insurance payment, more formally known as Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (FPUC) /1 FPUC payments are currently coming to around $18

#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

The SBA has released some summary statistics on the PPP loan program through April 13. A brief thread on what we know so far. /1 https://content.sba.gov/sites/default/files/2020-04/PPP%20Report%20SBA%204.14.20%20%20-%20%20Read-Only.pdf SBA reports th