Many workers have missed shifts without jobs being destroyed making it challenging to measure labor impacts with conventional sources. We use real-time daily data from Homebase to measure impacts. Thanks to UChicago and Homebase for making the data available. #EconSky #NumbersDay

New research with @aaronsojourner.org of the @upjohninstitute.bsky.social posted on @northstarpolicy.org's blog. We find that Operation Metro Surge caused declines in employees working, hours worked, and businesses open, leading to an estimated $106 million wage loss for Twin Cities workers.

When faced with a shockingly exploitative new employment contract that would’ve forced them to sign away their IP, their likeness rights, and their power of attorney, Jupiter Jetson and her coworkers at Sheri’s fought back—fast. They organized a union in SIX DAYS. www.thenation.com/article/econ...

Most renters — including those earning six figures — doubt they could afford a home in the foreseeable future wapo.st/4aG3YIT

Health care, new cars and new homes feel unaffordable to most Americans, a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos finds. Story by @laurenkaorigurley.bsky.social & Isabelle Gibson. Gift link -> wapo.st/4aG3YIT

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

Trump's Labor Department just proposed a pro-business rule would make it easier for companies to classify more workers as independent contractors rather than employees -Rescinds Biden era definition -Implications for gig workers, construction, truck drivers & many more

new: The Labor Secretary's husband remains banned from the DOL HQ, although local police closed an investigation. Three female labor staffers, all political appointees, complained internally that Shawn DeRemer touched them inappropriately. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

🚨 SCOOP: The IRS improperly disclosed confidential immigrant tax information to DHS, per sources. It opens up HUGE liability for the US government. Trump is suing the IRS over substantially the same disclosures -- for $10 billion. 🎁 Gift link:

Private sector union elections fell by nearly 30 percent in 2025, via @jaureliaglass.bsky.social @americanprogress.bsky.social www.americanprogress.org/shareable/the-number-of-national-labor-relations-board-nlrb-private-sector-union-elections-fell-by-nearly-30-percent-in-2025/?r=148214&l=6

Here's who the Washington Post just laid off.

I was laid off from the Washington Post today, along with hundreds (!!!) of incredible colleagues. If you need a data journalist, chart designer, or wacky-idea-specialist, give me a shout!

After 8 years writing the tech column @washingtonpost.com, I am among folks who were laid off today. I’m grateful for the stories I got to tell and the impact we made on privacy, sustainability & AI. You can keep following my work on my new (free) Substack geoffreyafowler.substack.com

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

After 20 years, I've been laid off at The Washington Post. substack.com/home/post/p-...

So many incredible journalists got laid off today. Heroes, mentors, friends. Just an absolutely devastating day. Starting a thread here with some of their incredible work, and how to follow and support them.

The Washington Post laid off hundreds of the country's most dogged reporters today, who did indispensable work holding the powerful accountable at home & abroad. We are heartbroken. Please share with anyone who cares about the future of journalism: www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

I expected the cuts would be bad but I'm honestly stunned and sickened seeing how many great journalists the Washington Post just lost. People who nailed huge investigations, documented war zones, exposed horrific crimes, dropped all at once for failures they did not cause.

For nearly a century, the @washingtonpost’s foreign correspondents have been on the ground for the world’s most pressing stories. Now, our desk is facing potential steep cuts. Washington needs us. The world needs us. If you read us and need us, please watch this video and share.

New from 404 Media: here is the user guide for ELITE, the tool Palantir made for ICE. A map shows people on a map; ICE clicks them, brings up their dossier. ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target. We obtained it, you can now read the document for yourself: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

Vigil for Alex Pretti in S. Minneapolis - changing “Who keeps us safe? We keep us safe!”

Scene blocks from Minneapolis shooting getting very hot — ICE setting off grenades and tear gas on protestors at many intersections. Giant clouds of smoke with little visibility. Armored trucks with FBI and Minn national guard rolling down street. Medics carrying out injured protestor on stretcher

Many thousands of protestors called out of work, school, refused to spent their money here in Minneapolis today where the high was -7 with windchill. Lake St, the commercial thoroughfare in S Minneapolis, was a ghost town. Closest thing to a general strike in my lifetime.

The Washington Post Guild is alarmed and appalled by federal law enforcement’s search and seizure of reporter Hannah Natanson’s property and personal devices. Hannah is a valued member of our union whose work covering the federal workforce has been essential (1/3)

For the first time in at least half a century, more immigrants left the United States than entered last year, according to new estimates released Tuesday. @laurenkaorigurley.bsky.social

Clearest angle yet of the ICE officer fatally shooting a woman in Minneapolis. DHS said a "violent [rioter] weaponized her vehicle, attempting to run over our law enforcement officers in an attempt to kill them." Is that what this shows?

NEW: Publishers of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announce they are shutting down the newspaper on May 3, 2026. Hours ago, the Supreme Court of the US declined to extend a stay on a court order for the paper to pay its journalists following the end of a 3-year strike.

NEW: Stephen Miller has been the public face of the Trump's unprecedented immigration crackdown, but George Borjas, a Cuba-born Harvard economist provided the intellectual underpinnings until he left the White House last Friday. My profile of Borjas: wapo.st/3NwJbhs

New: We got an internal ICE document revealing its $100 million ad plan to bring in 14,000 new hires: deals with "tactical" influencers; ads to gun & military buffs; and geo-targeting phones around NASCAR races and gun shows. A "wartime recruitment" mode with paramilitary branding: wapo.st/44QrP5j

Breaking news: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to release full funding for SNAP benefits by Friday. The ruling comes after the partial funding disbursed had yet to reach those who qualify for the benefits.

STORY: Elon Musk wins $1 trillion pay package tying him to Tesla for a decade. Even in an era of skyrocketing CEO pay, the award is unprecedented. The closest comparison is Musk's prior, $56 billion deal, which is mired in a court dispute. wapo.st/3Xf0Qfi

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this. can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

Several South Korean firms have pulled or prolonged a pause on investment in U.S. projects after a massive immigration raid on a Hyundai plant in Georgia that resulted in hundreds of Koreans arrested. By @laurenkaorigurley.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

A new wrongful death lawsuit alleges that Character AI and Google are liable for the death by suicide of a 13-year-old girl in Colorado, Juliana Peralta This is the third wrongful death claim against a popular AI app for a teen's death by suicide this year www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

“The Trump administration has ordered the removal of signs and exhibits related to slavery at multiple national parks, according to four people familiar with the matter, including a historic photograph of a formerly enslaved man showing scars on his back.” www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Statement from @postguild.bsky.social on the firing of Karen Attiah:

Finding a job is becoming exceedingly bleak: more than 1 in 4 workers without jobs have been unemployed for at least half a year, according to new data Since 1950, this has only happened a few times and always after a recession

EJ Antoni, Trump’s pick to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, shared a Darwinism-inspired theory about inherent differences between men and women's IQs during a talk to Heritage Foundation interns last year. from @jacobbogage.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Breaking news: President Donald Trump will nominate E.J. Antoni to lead the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a staunch critic of the agency and the top economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation.

Trump is nominating the top economist at the Heritage Foundation and a Project 2025 contributor to lead the BLS. EJ Antoni, a staunch critic of the agency, emerged in recent days as a favorite candidate among influential Trump advisers, including Bannon www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

News: The Labor Dept announced an "aggressive" deregulatory agenda today to cut 63 regulations On cutting board: -union protections for migrant farmworkers on H2a visas -minimum wage/overtime for home health workers - affirmative action requirements for apprenticeships

Big news: The NYC Central Labor Council - AFL-CIO just announced that it is endorsing Zohran

NEW: The Trump admin has vowed to hold companies accountable for employing undocumented workers But ICE has overwhelmingly focused on arresting workers rather than punishing employers www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Powerful NYC unions, including SEIU's 32BJ, are switching their endorsements from Cuomo to Mamdani (32BJ's endorsement helped propel Eric Adams to victory in 2021)

Baltimore! Really, really exciting event happening at @redemmas.org this Saturday—all labor folks should join us! @jazbrisack.bsky.social, one of the original worker-organizers from Buffalo at the first Starbucks to unionize in 2021, will be in convo w/ the great @laurenkaorigurley.bsky.social ❤️✊🏽

On Saturday, I'll be talking to legend @jazbrisack.bsky.social about their new book on organizing the first unionized Starbucks in the US, at Red Emma's in Baltimore at 7pm. See u there! Jaz is co-founder of @sbworkersunited.org , which has unionized 600+ Sbux stores since late 2021.

This Saturday, don't miss @jazbrisack.bsky.social, barista salt and co-founder of @sbworkersunited.org, in conversation with @laurenkaorigurley.bsky.social! withfriends.co/event/234725...

SCOOP from last night: ICE reversed its guidance from last week that exempted farm, hotels, restaurants from immigration raids. DHS told agents to continue those raids. washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

DAVID IS RELEASED and with his family! He still faces an unjust felony charge. While we’re relieved that David is out after three nights in detention, we demand the Trump regime drop the unjust charge against him & end the raids! seiu.co/endraids #FreeDavidEndRaids