Buddy Scarborough
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Sociologist, University of North Texas; opinions are my own.
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Federal Reserve
4 months ago
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
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Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckGHaBLSn4
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Trevon Logan
8 months ago
I have no idea why the high inflation of grocery prices stopped being news. Groceries prices are rising higher than total inflation and have been for some time. Biggest just in 3 years last month! Everyone has to eat, so everyone feels this in their budgets.
apple.news/AXttO9mKeSy-...
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Grocery prices have jumped up, and there's no relief in sight — NPR
Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee...
https://apple.news/AXttO9mKeSy-JYgB5YAeNHw
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
11 months ago
“If you are not careful, and if you are not tapped into your own humanity and that of others, it can be tempting to mistake people for symbols.”
www.newyorker.com/news/essay/z...
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Zohran Mamdani and Mahmoud Khalil Are In on the Joke
What it feels like to laugh when the world expects you to disappear.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/zohran-mamdani-and-mahmoud-khalil-are-in-on-the-joke
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Victor Ray
11 months ago
This should not be a controversial opinion. Massive unaccountable conglomerations of wealth are bad, and saying so should be celebrated.
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A Better Balance
12 months ago
The Women's Bureau of the DOL plays a vital role in promoting gender equity in the workforce. We can't let this essential agency be slashed when working women need it most.
#SaveWB
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Trump wants to eliminate a 105-year-old office that supports women
Staffers see the proposal as part of an effort to fundamentally reshape America's workforce.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/06/womens-bureau-labor-trump-cuts/
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Yet more bad news. Scarier is what will fill the void left in the absence of good data.
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Kim Weeden
about 1 year ago
Amidst all the posts about how NSF funds the basic science that (eventually) leads to marketable products, its role in funding data infrastructure is getting lost. The GSS (1972), ANES (late 1960s), and PSID (1968) are rounding error in the discretionary budget but vital national resources. 1/6
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Marshall Steinbaum
about 1 year ago
One thing Wisconsin, etc, shows is that the elite Dem conventional wisdom that a precondition to recovery is conciliating Silicon Valley is false.
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Acyn
about 1 year ago
AOC: What they like to call as radical, I believe is common sense. I believe that when a person gets sick, they shouldn’t go bankrupt in the wealthiest country in the history of the world. Common sense I believe that a minimum wage should cover the minimum cost to live. Common sense...
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Adam Bonica
about 1 year ago
1/🧵 Judges across ideological lines are ruling against Trump at strikingly similar rates (84% liberal, 86% centrist, 82% conservative). This isn't partisan opposition to Trump—it's the judiciary functioning as intended by cutting across partisan lines to uphold the Constitution.
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Louise Seamster
about 1 year ago
a thread re DOGE cuts When I was doing dissertation fieldwork I was struck by how often well-off white people talked about trash in Benton Harbor. A newly-formed "parks conservancy" had been granted control over park maintenance as one of the last acts of the departing emergency manager,
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Pam Herd
over 1 year ago
Trump & Musk are teeing up their biggest target yet: Social Security. They're using "fraud" as a political tool to justify the attack. Social Security has long been the rock of the welfare state. It comprises 40% of income for older adults. It's so popular, the GOP loves it just as much as Dems 1/
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Aaron Sojourner
over 1 year ago
The Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics, a great org, asks individuals & orgs to sign their letter requesting Congress act to restore data that has been removed & ensure a similar purge does not reoccur.
#EconSky
#PolicySky
#sociology
#PoliSky
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Left twitter a long time ago, but back here to learn from others doing good, impactful, work under these new and challenging conditions.
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