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Here is a LaTeX / Overleaf template for academic papers. This document has a bibliography already incorporated and has shells to incorporate multi-panel figures and complex tables. github.com/talgross-bu/...

submitted 23 hours ago • 2 comments

If you’re in DC/CHI/SF/NYC, join us! #SaveCFPB #CFPB

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Once again, just like with Musk and Twitter, these fucking idiots don't understand what was already happening, rip it down, and then try to rebuild the same thing, but way dumber, because they can't understand nuance and complexity.

submitted 1 day ago • 82 comments

Wow, this WSJ editorial is riddled with disingenuous statistics. Medicaid spending is higher and Medicare spending lower across Obamacare because one was expanded and the other was partially reformed. Medicaid spending per beneficiary is better than per person ... www.wsj.com/opinion/medi...

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Medicaid at 60 special issue from JHPPL is out, ungated. All-star lineup includes: @povertyscholar.bsky.social @pamherd.bsky.social @laurawherryr.bsky.social @joefigs.bsky.social @charleywillison.bsky.social @ericpatashnik.bsky.social & more read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/issue/...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Super interesting, although surprised that the no-barriers didn’t have much difference, somewhat unexpected given the other results. Wonder what’s the learning from that result?

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The bill just passed in the house voted to reduce spending in this area, likely Medicaid by $880 billlion in the next ten years. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

House Republicans just voted to gut Medicaid, which covers 1 in 5 Americans overall, including 41% of births and 63% of nursing home care. They also just voted to gut SNAP, on which 41 million food insecure Americans rely. This won’t just harm people. This will kill people. They own this.

submitted 2 days ago • 227 comments

Mutual Aid networks are going to be even more indispensable now. Join one today. Donate money to food banks and places that feed the hungry. Share free health screenings with your neighbors. www.mutualaidhub.org

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Another hallmark of dictatorships is deleting data 📈📉📊 so that there is no evidence or grounds to make empirical, fact based arguments. 🙏🏼 Read more about this concerning aspect and what to do about it in my guest blog with @kaitsims.bsky.social empiricaltruths.substack.com/p/the-friday...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

UVA's Board of Visitors meets tomorrow to discuss cutting gender-affirming care. You deserve to know your rights. The Virginia Human Rights Act is clear: No one can discriminate against Virginians based on their gender identity in places of public accommodations. That means schools & hospitals.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

There's still time to nominate before Monday!

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🚨🚨🚨 PSA- Gov. Braun has banned the distribution of the Imagination Station books in Indiana. For those who do not know, Imagination Station is a program started by Dolly Parton which provides a free book each month to children from 0-5. 1/2

submitted 8 days ago • 1307 comments

This is not about efficiency. Giving federal employees purchase cards saves money - it reduces layers of paperwork and red tape. Imagine running a business where you stopped employees from purchasing anything. The goal is to shut down government by other means.

submitted 7 days ago • 78 comments

I mean what’s stopping from declaring that the number 2 is not even is odd? Does the president decide our math too?

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

They're dismantling the agency that can, if it did robust enforcement, fill the deficit. For every $1 it spends on enforcement it generates $5-$9 in revenue. We lose ~1 trillion dollars each year to tax fraud, mostly from the rich. Musk paid no income tax in 2021 www.propublica.org/article/the-...

submitted 8 days ago • 12 comments

So like as "the people", can we fire Elon Musk? Who can fire him?

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

What's a good stimulant that can give me a boost of energy for 3 hours after I teach so that my mind is sharp enough to grade non-simple thesis? Kidding..... BUT if you have ideas let me know :)

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

The intention is not to save money accounting for tradeoffs and optimization, the intention is to centralize power and run things like a business. In that framework, division of power, and checks and balances are obstacles to executive power of a CEO.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Call me weird, but if you only care about people getting harmed because the people who lean with you politically are also getting harmed - you may be a shitty, shitty person.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Friday morning. UVA Rotunda. See you there, Charlottesville.

submitted 9 days ago • 4 comments

ICYMI: Concern is growing over threats to public trust in the Census Bureau and its independence from political interference — and if you have information you think the public should know, I'm a @npr.org correspondent who's available on Signal at hansi.01

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Reminder about this quick survey! If you're in academia (grad student, RA, postdoc, faculty, admin) this is a chance to share your thoughts about the recent executive orders on DEI, grant funding, and related topics!

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

It sucks that “an actual Nazi working at a new government agency named after a Shiba Inu meme, run by the South African shadow President, is trying to access all your banking information” probably sounds like some Lyndon LaRouche-level insane crank nonsense to normal people.

submitted 11 days ago • 4 comments

Reporters take note: The press release stipulates that "Navigators only enrolled 92,000 consumers," but completely omits any reference to the 292,000 people Navigators enrolled into Medicaid and the 112,000 people referred to other insurance providers. Their math doesn't math.

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

🚨🚨🚨 Urgent Message to Share WIDELY 🚨🚨🚨 Federal employees that are dismissed as part of the Musk & Trump assault should appeal on the grounds that they were fired for partisan political reasons‼️ ➡️ Make an appeal to MSPB following these procedures: www.mspb.gov/appeals/appe... 💪🏼👊🏼✊🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

"3 weeks ago, a 19-YO who calls himself “Big Balls” online didn’t have access to govt personnel records & more. A 25-YO w/a closet full of racist tweets hadn’t gotten the keys to Treasury systems that pay out $5.45T each year. Elon hadn’t turned the Oval Office into a romper room for his 4-YO son."

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Remarkable how Congress passed a law, the President signed it, the Supreme Court upheld it…and now everyone is simply pretending that all didn’t happen www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/t...

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this.

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

This sentence alone: Republican nuttiness "could foster the emergence of drug-resistant HIV strains" science.org/content/arti...

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🚨 CFPB COMPLAINT PORTAL DOWN🚨 Another (!) illegal act from the muskrats taking over HQ--public complaints to the CFPB are no longer updating. The last ones to make it in came through on Feb 10. We will get back to them when we can! #deleteDOGE #saveCFPB

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

Going going gone.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

The piece I've been waiting for: How Musk personally benefits from gutting the federal government. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/u...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Thanks, @aaronsojourner.org! Stay tuned because we've got excited proposals planned.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

I am so appreciative of the people who are doing the work to save public data and information!

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Some people cite this idea that “stories” are better at persuading people than facts and figures. Has anyone look if this is true for presenting research to economist?

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

You are not powerless, and he is not unstoppable. Look at, and learn from, the funding freeze and how quickly he was forced to surrender.

submitted 18 days ago • 3903 comments

Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.

submitted 21 days ago • 146 comments

Many of our friends in federal government and international organizations are not okay. If you haven't reached out to your friends who have probably been fired or put on administrative leave, reach out. They need massive emotional support right now.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Hi #econtwitter and #econsky, we finally made the switch! This is the official account for the Electronic Health Economics Colloquium (EHEC). Follow for our 2025 presentation schedule, out soon! And please share widely!

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

A serious proposal: If the Trump administration is going to neglect and eliminate entire US Government functions, Democrats should select a full shadow cabinet to fill the void. Send an alt SecState to the G20, have an alt CDC Director let us know what’s really going on with Bird Flu and TB, etc.

submitted 22 days ago • 77 comments