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thomasjdurfee.bsky.social
Visiting Instructor at Macalester College. Ph.D Candidate at U of Minnesota Dept of Applied Econ and R.A. at The Roy Wilkins Center. Labor and Public Econ, Policy Analysis, & Disparity Studies. he/him https://sites.google.com/view/thomas-durfee/home/
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submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

Totally normal

submitted 1 day ago • 91 comments

Doomtree: No Kings

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Judge Breyer orders Trump to return control of the National Guard back to California, saying the call-up was illegal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 4 days ago • 214 comments

In econ, an opportunity attack is the damage of your attack relative to your next best alternative action.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

This conversation with @hiphination.bsky.social about the philosophy of budget math is my favorite episode of Slate Money in a very long time slate.com/podcasts/sla...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

I hate that I could hear this picture www.instagram.com/p/DKi-4B7OmW9/

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

Really looking forward to their robust training for new adjunct and graduate instructors on how to design their course around this new curriculum objective. They definitely wouldn't just make a sweeping policy change and leave it to the least supported instructors to figure it out w/o any guidance🙃

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

U.S. health officials confirmed the salmonella infections were linked to contaminated organic and cage-free brown eggs from August Egg Company. All recalled eggs should be thrown away, the CDC said.

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments

How close are we to another Kent State, except with masked ICE agents instead of the National Guard?

submitted 10 days ago • 43 comments

Raise funds for Trans Lifeline: twitch.tv/drawfeeshow

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Let’s be clear: ICE injured and detained the president of SEIU California for peacefully observing. ICE picked the wrong side. The wrong state. The wrong person. and the wrong union. David Huerta stood up. And now 750,000 SEIU workers are standing up behind him. seiuca.org/press-releas...

submitted 11 days ago • 327 comments

EXTREMELY BAD NEWS for economic research, per former BLS Commissioner @ericagroshen.bsky.social on LinkedIn. BLS is suspending access to its restricted data "for the forseeable future." Applies to projects through the Federal Statistical Research Data Centers & onsite projects with BLS. #EconSky

submitted 11 days ago • 33 comments

Wake up babe, new DiD Lit just dropped

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

I think it's funny when students try to infer things about you based on loose correlations. "They talked about how he used this textbook to learn about IS-LM models after the 2008 financial crisis today. Are they... you know... Keynesian?"

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

One way to do away with concerns about tariffs leading to inflation is to simply stop collecting accurate data on consumer prices. No price data, no way to estimate inflation. Problem solved! 🥴🥴

submitted 12 days ago • 18 comments

Rulers will now have fewer markings on them so people will stop trying to verify how tall I am. Ooftah, this is cynical.

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CBO is out with its final cost estimate of the tax-and-spending bill passed by the House. - Revenue ⬇️ by $3.7 trillion over 10 years - Spending ⬇️ by $1.3 trillion - Debt ⬆️ by $2.4 trillion over 10 years - Uninsured pop. ⬆️ by 10.9 million in 2034 Full analysis: www.cbo.gov/publication/...

submitted 13 days ago • 50 comments

When I feel powerless amidst all the crazy, it's helpful to me to just do something. My something was taking the time to talk to NPR about why we should not cut federal data collection. I realize it won't change many minds. But it was something: www.marketplace.org/episode/2025... #econsky #dataecon

submitted 13 days ago • 27 comments

hi, cis folks! it’s pride. you with us? cool. have you called your senators about the budget bill that’s trying to strip trans healthcare from people of all ages on medicaid or ACA plans? that’s like 20% of us & this is the govt we’re up against. find reps here reps.fyi tap the thread for scripts

submitted 15 days ago • 16 comments

Support bi rights and bi wrongs.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

The worst of all worlds: eating your satanic coworkers drugs at a house party.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

⭐ BABY SHOES ⭐ 🔥 𝗕𝗔𝗕𝗬 𝗦𝗛𝗢𝗘𝗦 🔥 🎉 B͓̽A͓̽B͓̽Y͓̽ ͓̽S͓̽H͓̽O͓̽E͓̽S͓̽ 🎉

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Monique is a fantastic economist from the UMN APEC department. Excited to see this development!

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Hiring season is over for this year, but UNC will be completely unable to hire tenured scholars from other universities (with the possible exception of Texas and Florida) until they resolve this.

submitted 19 days ago • 6 comments

🧪 Attention those with terminated grants, including for NSF, NASA, EPA, NIH, etc: Let Congress know about the impact of terminations via this form: democrats-science.house.gov/grantcancela... Only Dem staff on the House Science Committee will have access (unless if you explicitly state otherwise).

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

Adding this to my summer reading list.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

How do peers affect your undergraduate major choice? This paper finds that students emulate peers when choosing majors. Moreover, the evidence points to social learning, rather than social utility, being the main driver of these effects. tinyurl.com/bdz52w5k #Economics #EconBlueSky #Education

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments