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alexhenke.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Economics at Howard University Research on crime, domestic violence, evictions, public policy, and corruption Opinions are my own
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submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Oh nice, Howard University is now classified as R1.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Adams must be removed. The city cannot sustain being governed for nearly a year by a Mayor who is being coerced by Trump admin in order to escape charges. This corruption poses a real threat to the people of the city. He should have resigned a while ago, but will not. So it’s time for him to go.

submitted 18 days ago • 1775 comments

nuking USAID and asking for CIA resignations is Cold War dream list stuff and there are basically two powers who would be rooting for it

submitted 27 days ago • 28 comments

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

submitted 27 days ago • 1754 comments

Is there something the people in the Mavs front office know about Luka that we don't? I get he has an attitude and conditioning issues, but that can't be the only thing. Perhaps the secret we're learning is that with Cuban out of the picture they've become myopic and cheap.

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

submitted 31 days ago • 502 comments

I'm keeping a running list of disappearing federal data in the 🧵 below. If there are others I missed let me know. crampell[at]washpost[dot]com or Signal username crampell.13

submitted 31 days ago • 261 comments

Lifting the tariffs and raising the coffee supply won’t bring prices down. That’s just deregulatory market fundamentalism. Actually what we need to do is decommodify coffee.

submitted 36 days ago • 18 comments

Do you ever wonder if Ea-nāṣir sold good copper and Nanni was just a bad customer?

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

All NIH study sections canceled indefinitely. This will halt science and devastate research budgets in universities.

submitted 40 days ago • 610 comments

People hate Matt. I don't really, even though I vehemently disagree with much of what he proposes (most importantly the trans stuff). The core of the difference is Matt's intense econ brain applied to politics, which is perhaps the biggest problem Dems have at the moment. (Thread)

submitted 40 days ago • 13 comments

As congestion pricing takes effect, remember that 85% of people who work in Manhattan commute by public transit, walking, or biking (and the share is even higher for workers in the congestion relief zone south of 60th)

submitted 57 days ago • 7 comments

I once naively thought that since child mortality was so much higher back in the day people would be inured to it. But reading the Stoic philosophers (Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius in particular) made it apparent: no, it was experienced as fully devastating, it took immense fortitude just to go on.

submitted 63 days ago • 21 comments

Recently accepted by #QJE, “Cognitive Endurance as Human Capital,” by Brown(@clbrown.bsky.social), Kaur, Kingdon, and Schofield: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Two things can be true: 1. Kings ownership is the main problem and has been for a long time. 2. Mike Brown is not a good head coach. Coach of the Year is a curse primarily because it goes to mediocre coaches who have one fluke season and then regress to the mean.

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Today HUD released data showing homelessness has reached a record high in 2024, jumping roughly 120k compared to last year The jump was especially pronounced in New York, which saw a 55k increase compared to last year, and Illinois, which saw a 14k increase.

submitted 67 days ago • 23 comments

Why do we dislike inflation? This paper for @brookingsinst.bsky.social revisits this long-standing question, already asked by Robert Shiller in 1997, with current data and survey methods. Some key findings:🧵 1/10 socialeconomicslab.org/research/pub...

submitted 89 days ago • 2 comments

Many theories of this election will only be resolved by 2028, and by then we'll only care about the theories of the 2028 election.

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Lived experience

submitted 102 days ago • 0 comments

Same story for the past four seasons. LeBron James and Anthony Davis are still a dominant duo, but they lack championship-caliber support.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

I was thinking it might finally be a good idea to migrate here from other platforms. Here's to hoping that's the only migration I have to do.

submitted 118 days ago • 0 comments