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Addressing climate change ultimately comes down to how we coordinate a transition to more expensive inputs to our production processes, so it will necessarily involve a *short term* decline in

When I talk about unions people often ask “aren’t you afraid workers will get too powerful?” and in the current context of the US it feels sort of like saying

The extent to which we face equity-efficiency tradeoffs is really overstated. A lot of the time we're sacrificing efficiency to maintain inequality Income inequality has a significant negative effect on

If you want to get serious about addressing the wealth boomers have accumulated through rent seeking, using capital gains taxes, VATs, and LVTs is a much better way to go.https://twitter.com/jdcmedlock/status/1283432404732895232

The relief bill also contained the most generous unemployment benefits in history and the first non-phased in #ChecksChecksChecks. And bailing out companies is important in this situation. It should have

Hot take? I think Pete would have been a way better president than Biden This is a bland obvious take to half the people, and a hot, incorrect take to

I’ve talked to multiple small business owners who laid people off without knowing there were going to be forgivable loans available that would fully cover payroll.And I’ve talked to multiple

Universal Long-Term Care is an urgent policy matter that is massively popular even when paid for with a broad-based payroll tax. Check out me and @ColinJMcAuliffe's latest in the @DataProgress