"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.

The Constitution is very clear: War powers belong to Congress, not the White House. Contact your senators and demand that they check the regime’s lawless violence — or there’s no telling where this will end.

Great column from @jamellebouie.net referencing the Declaration of Independence: "Trump has “... sent hither Swarms of Officers to harass our People...”; he has “kept among us, in Times of Peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our Legislatures..." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...

I wrote this piece at the end of last week. It was published Sept. 9. Stop the political theater, and let's enact the gun safety policies that the majority of Americans agree on. cepr.net/publications...

I done told ye youtu.be/MqiTec0oq6s?...

1B on an airplane none of us will ever fly on, and $200M for a ballroom none of us will ever dine in, but we can’t “afford” to feed hungry kids.

If this firing doesn't lead to panic in financial markets we know we have a stock bubble.

Last month, I was worried about signs of growing black joblessness. This month provides more reason to worry: Black unemployment up from 6.8% to 7.2%. Employment-population ratio drops from 57.7 to 57.2. @ceprdc.bsky.social @jointcenter.bsky.social cepr.net/publications...

As ICE terrorizes communities, remember that some of Trump's biggest supporters are private prison companies that will make bank off his budget bill. And Stephen Miller recently disclosed over $100K of stock in Palantir, the shady data firm ICE uses to target immigrants. Cashing in on cruelty.

The Joint Committee on Taxation is up late and busts out this striking distributional analysis of the Senate bill on taxes:

Due to the ongoing U.S. measles outbreak, a Texas man worried that his young son was at risk and took him to get vaccinated. The cost of the shot? $1,400.

Virginia is one of the top 3 states for Black employment. The Trump administration is destroying many of those jobs. cepr.net/publications...

The Republican Budget Bill: Take from the Poor, Give to the Rich cepr.net/publications...

A federal program to protect US cities against extreme heat has just evaporated

"Young Workers Continue to Have Troubles The unemployment rate for workers between the ages of 20-24 remained at 8.2 percent, 2.2 percentage points above the low hit in January of 2024. Their EPOP fell to 65.4 percent in May, 2.8 pp below the peak hit last January." cepr.net/publications...

"Employment at the federal level is now 42,000 below its year-ago level." cepr.net/publications...

This admin is taking its lead from Jim Crow and calling for the removal of “illegal” diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility from schools. Just because Secretary McMahon doesn't know something doesn't mean students across America should be deprived of learning history.

Reminder: DOGE was never about "efficiency."

Maryland was the second best state for Black employment. It's decline has begun. 2,600 federal jobs lost in April. This does not include those placed on leave, who took buyouts or early retirement. cepr.net/publications...

The Trump administration has effectively ended white-collar crime enforcement. All this week, we're going to look at what ripoffs, deceptions, and cons will rise as a result to part the public from their money. This intro sets the stage: it's the Golden Age of Scams. prospect.org/power/2025-0...

Science is an economic driver in Hamilton, Mont., thanks to Rocky Mountain Laboratories, a federal research lab. Now, layoffs and funding cuts are having an impact in this town far from Washington.

Nearly 1 in 5 Asian Americans use Medicaid; 9.8% (nearly 1 in 10) of Asian American workers depend on it. GOP plans to cut Medicaid could strip millions of care. Read more: https://f.mtr.cool/oerjxekhwt

Musk and Trump are delivering a damaging blow to the Black middle class, especially in Virginia and Maryland. cepr.net/publications...

Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

One in six Asian Americans rely on Medicaid. Republicans are willing to let people die to give tax cuts to the rich. @karthick.com @janellewong.bsky.social cepr.net/publications...

Next target: left-leaning nonprofits. "House Republicans on Monday quietly revived a proposal that would grant the Trump administration broad authority to crush nonprofits it views as part of the political opposition." www.commondreams.org/news/nonprof...

The Trump Organization has entered into real estate deals in all three countries Trump plans to visit this week wapo.st/3F11lnU

@michellesingletary.bsky.social illustrates the difference between a symbolic act and structural change. The prize is always structural change. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

The new Pope, retweeting Senator Chris Murphy, in support of gun control