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Labor econ @upjohninstitute.bsky.social & @IZA.org. Formerly senior economist for labor at White House CEA, UMinn prof, union organizer, bike courier, house painter, dishwasher... Minneapolis. Views mine. aaronsojourner.org Be kind • Work hard • Have fun
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A data broker owned by the major airlines, including Delta, American, and United, collected travelers’ flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection, and in the contract told CBP not to reveal where the data came from. From @wired.com: www.wired.com/story/airlin...

submitted 16 hours ago • 19 comments

U.S. economic growth rate projection cut by half to 1.4%. China growth rate little affected at 4.5%, 3X faster. Per new World Bank estimates, change largely due to U.S. import tax (tariff) increase, from @deanbaker13.bsky.social. substack.com/inbox/post/1...

submitted 6 hours ago • 3 comments

What happened when the U.S. forcibly sent 400,000 Mexican workers back to Mexico in the 1930s? The employment rate of native workers *went down* noticeably as a direct result. (You read that correctly) Why? Forced repatriation destroyed low-skill markets. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

BREAKING: The enforcement chief at America’s consumer watchdog is quitting, ProPublica has learned. Cara Petersen writes in her sign-off letter that it’s “clear that the Bureau’s current leadership has no intention to enforce the law in any meaningful way.” 🧵 1/

submitted 13 hours ago • 24 comments

Super interesting column @equitablegrowth.bsky.social by Alex Bell on how identification by anti-instruments reveals attribute tradeoffs, applied to job quality. Got to see him present it @upjohninstitute.bsky.social recently. New & interesting. #EconSky equitablegrowth.org/the-hidden-t...

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

Philly local tv station reporting that a man allegedly posed as an ICE agent in order to rob a car repair business office. How many other criminals might be getting this idea right now, given that actual ICE agents are refusing to show IDs, warrants, badges?

submitted 1 day ago • 467 comments

One of the things mentioned here is that they arrived in unmarked cars and wore casual clothing, so if staff hadn’t had the courage to tell them to go away, how would you know they were federal agents and not random adult men abducting children? This should be the biggest conservative mom panic ever

submitted 1 day ago • 43 comments

Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia. The behavior—never before seen in birds—may be a developing cultural tradition among one population: scim.ag/4kIi12G

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes [...] Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared." -Anne Frank

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BREAKING: An enormous peaceful protest has broken out in Los Angeles in defiance of Donald Trump’s ICE raids. This is how it’s done.

submitted 2 days ago • 68 comments

We’re only human Measures of economic policy uncertainty have eclipsed the pandemic. The largest increases are due to trade policy uncertainty and where the US will end up with regard to tariffs. Why do we care?

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

"The costs to keep the plants open, which could total tens of millions of dollars, are expected to fall on consumers... #EconSky

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Ooh retirement policy on Sunday morning. This is a very good article but it shows the limits of large scale state sponsored retirement plans. I am with @aaronsojourner.org that we will need mandatory, universal, low cost, low risk add ons ,but there is more.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Yup. Tax reform has to be key for retirement reform. If we change from deductions/exclusions to refundable credits, we can give LMI workers a ton of retirement security.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Facts. Behavioural economics pretty clear on this one. And in the empirical policy space, the countries with compulsory savings (e.g. Australian superannuation or Singapore) are the ones furthest from the fiscal pension cliff.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

I've done a fair bit of research & read more on how to increase retirement savings. It's made me pretty pessimistic about every strategy except mandatory, universal pensions for baseline retirement income security. Lots of people just won't choose to save but will need $ later.

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submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

The military isn’t being employed to carry out an immigration policy. The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.

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