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Writer on economic policy, bureaucracy, household finances, and the human relationship with animals, among other stuff, at The Atlantic. Ping me on [email protected] and annielowrey.25 on Signal.
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DOGE just suspended enumeration at birth in Maine, so you were correct. www.pressherald.com/2025/03/06/s....
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The first story is about why people have become less sensitive to price changes; the second is about ag advances and how cartelization keeps the price of eggs high. Gotta read the articles, bud.
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Also, journalists don't write headlines; and articles generally contain information and arguments that their headlines do not? Anyway.
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The article says nothing of the sort?! Good lord
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If you read the story, yes, a hundred years ago, people didn’t really buy eggs since chickens were common on farms and homesteads.
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The article argues that cartelization price-gouges consumers and makes bird flu worse so I have no idea what you’re talking about.
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that matters more than your book learn opinions ❤️
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As my colleague writes, this isn't about efficiency and productivity. It's about regime change. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Amy Paris was hired to help modernize the nation's donor organ network, which ensures critically-ill people get the organs they need.
She was also let go.
"We had alignment from Democrats and Republicans on the Hill, we had funding, and they were hiring more of us.”
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There's also data from private payroll providers and WARN notices: layoffdata.com
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lower union coverage, so I imagine that's true but not sure? BLS used to keep data on mass layoffs, program ended in 2013: www.bls.gov/mls/
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Many parents, I think? Reagan v. air traffic controllers, deindustrialization and plant closures in the 1970s, offshoring in the 1980s, the rise of lean management, growth of McKinsey-type consultancies?
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More on that here, as I stress that the government is not a business, doesn't perform the same tasks as a business, and should not be managed like a business in the first place!! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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There are policies that would address those problems, but this isn't it. Making universities build a new lab for every new research project isn't efficient, among many, many other concerns, including those about the basic legality of the rule.