New CEPR data: Union membership in the US fell from 18% to 10% since 1985—nearly cut in half. Every state but VT saw declines. Trump is accelerating the attack on workers, but this 40-year erosion started long before him. More from @hcbrown.bsky.social: https://bit.ly/4rmZKL5

When grifters run the government, everyday Americans suffer while footing the bill.

People living in the US need cost-of-living relief—not—more war.

🧵NEW DATA:  The bottom 80% of American households are getting poorer. It's not just people in poverty falling behind. @a-austin.bsky.social  looks into 50 years of data explaining why so many families feel squeezed. https://cepr.net/publications/reduce-inequality-to-address-affordability/

1/5 #JobsDay Preview 🧵 @deanbaker13.bsky.social on  what to expect from Friday's March employment report. The short version: the job market was already losing steam before the Iran war, and March is almost certain to look worse. Here is what the data is showing: https://bit.ly/4bKWVis

"The only method to counteract AI bias is the same one we use to counteract human bias: strong and effective diversity, equity, and inclusion policies." www.detroitnews.com/story/opinio...

Dr. Maria Stephan: I am so blown away! Not only are we heading into what will be the largest single day demonstration in US history, but each No Kings has gotten bigger and it's spread to more towns and communities across the country.

When our military is fighting a war Americans don't want, secret police are kidnapping and killing our neighbors, and the regime is working overtime to suppress the vote in the midterm elections, silence isn't an option. No Kings Day on March 28 has to be big, loud, and inescapable. Please join us.

Millionaires start hitting their Social Security cap today, while the rest of us pay all year, that's not just unfair—it undermines what the program is built on: collective care. This is why we need to #ScrapTheCap. bit.ly/4rjgSkO

The Day Million-Dollar Earners Get Richer by Stiffing Social Security cepr.net/publications...

No more WOKE healthcare. First we are going to bring back measles, then we are going to bring back AIDS, then . . . . After, we bring back all the diseases, we will be great again. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/h...

I told everyone it was not a good idea to elect Netanyahu as president of the United States.

did a little back of the envelope math for how much all this shit is costing. on the order of $1-2 billion per day just in direct spending, maybe 10 times that much in indirect effects

Do “Soft Skills” Explain Low Black Male Employment Rates? "Pursuing soft skills is therefore a lose-lose option for less-educated young Black men; they are not likely to increase their employment nor their wages." cepr.net/publications...

" the prospect of right-wing billionaires completely controlling the news networks is pretty horrible....My route to counter this trend is an individual voucher or tax credit that would give each person a sum, say $100, to support the news outlet of their choice." cepr.net/publications...

We know this would be waaaay too hard for Donald Trump to understand in his current mental state, but it might be good if some reporters at major news outlets could find out about it.

When growth slows, Black communities often feel it first and most deeply. jointcenter.org/state-of-the...

"More than half of all workers surveyed (51 percent), and 56 percent of Black workers, indicated that they receive less than one week’s notice about their work schedules." Learn more about Black workers in the South: cepr.net/publications...

Teacher certification exams impose disproportionate economic costs on Black and Hispanic candidates that are not justified by differences in teaching quality, from Christa Deneault, Evan Riehl, and Jian Zou www.nber.org/papers/w34860

The idea of a "war on fraud" by a president who has pardoned more fraudsters than all other presidents combined is pretty funny

Trump doesn't care about preventing crime. www.thetrace.org/2026/02/rand...

Axios’s well-sourced reporter Barak Ravid warned, “The Trump administration is closer to a major war in the Middle East than most Americans realize.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/o...

The American president is more insulated from accountability than a British royal. Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.

"It turns out that the share of total wealth held by the merely rich — those in the top 1 percent but not in the top 0.1 percent — has actually declined since the 2010s" paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-ultra-...

"Black immigrants, estimated at 4,685,000 people in 2024, are a highly diverse population" now they are divided with "equal shares for those born in Latin America and the Caribbean and those born in Africa." www.migrationpolicy.org/research/bla...

Wesleyan University President Michael Roth, a leader in organizing college presidents, has proposed Democracy Summer 2026, evoking the heroic Freedom Summer of 1964 that aimed to advance voting rights in Mississippi, now employed to safeguard the midterm elections. From Bob Kuttner:

Celebrate Black history and leadership by examining how past organizers built resilient movements. Transformative Justice Coalition’s Barbara R. Arnwine will explore systemic power structures and inequities, and translate historical lessons into contemporary movement-building & leadership practices.

A capitalist finds his inner Bernie Sanders on healthcare. [To get the full emotion of statement: youtu.be/Zi07_fWFBVk?...

In Munich "I did not meet a single person of any nationality who thinks that the American-European relationship is returning to business as usual" www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

If you ever forget the dominant stereotypes, don't worry, the AI will remember it for you. “The more prevalent or dominant a stereotype is, the more likely it is to show up in the model,” says Zook. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

The January jobs report was good, but it shouldn't completely change our view of the economy deanbaker22.substack.com/p/more-thoug...

Eliminate vaccines, accelerate climate change . . . . These folks may be the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/c...

"Trump decided it was more important to terrorize the people of Minneapolis to score points against his political opponents than to help his own supporters get through the winter." cepr.net/publications...

From tariffs to federal hiring freezes, Trump’s policies negatively impacted Black employment across all age groups in 2025. @a-austin.bsky.social  outlines the federal and local policy choices needed to bring Black unemployment back down from recession levels. 

NEW from CEPR's Peter Hart: On FMLA's 33rd anniversary, gaps are stark: 44% of workers can't access unpaid leave, 73% lack paid leave, and 95% of lowest-wage workers have nothing. The US is one of only 6 countries w/o national paid leave. A national program is long overdue.: https://bit.ly/4kjMIMp

Trump Gets Spectacularly Richer While Putting the Country on a Path to Poverty cepr.net/publications...

The economic and fiscal impacts of mass deportation: what’s at risk in Minnesota mnbudgetproject.org/resource/the...

Immigrants Add to the Vibrancy of Minneapolis immresearch.org/publications...

In 2025, Black America needed about 1.8 million more people working to have the same employment rates as White America. This Black jobs deficit cost Black America about $87 billion in lost income. cepr.net/publications...

Threat of US-Iran war escalates as Trump warns time running out for deal www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

"Union Membership Stagnated in 2025" By race, there was a small decline in the black unionization rate while it increased for other groups. cepr.net/publications...

The Black Jobs Deficit Cost Black America $87 Billion in 2025. In 2025, Black America needed about 1.8 million more people working to have the same employment rates (employment-to-population ratios) as White America. Details here: cepr.net/publications...

Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"

Trump and his family have pocketed more than $1.8 billion in cash and gifts since his reelection. He said he would usher in a "New Golden Age" for America, but one year into his second term, he's only ushered in a new golden age for his own wallet.

Black women and Black youth experienced larger declines in employment in 2025.

The Black Jobs Deficit Cost Black America $87 Billion in 2025 cepr.net/publications...

TOMORROW: We’re connecting voters in key states with their senators ahead of the upcoming vote on the Homeland Security funding bill. If you want to do more than demand ICE Out For Good from your Members of Congress, then this is the phonebank for you. 👇

The dangers of the right-wing takeover of the media is not fully appreciated on the left. @deanbaker13.bsky.social lays it out the problem and a public solution: cepr.net/publications.... Good journalism isn't free. Pay for independent media.

A whale went on Polymarket a few days ago & earned $400,000 correctly predicting Maduro's capture. @emmarjanssen.bsky.social had already been studying how easy it would be for White House officials to use prediction markets to self-enrich based on their own policy decisions. This is a great report.