Really important piece by @tghilarducci.bsky.social on the politicisation of the SSA!

How do we make sense of the many transitions across employment arrangements in India’s labour market? New in World Development, @rosaabraham.bsky.social & I study the trajectories that characterise Indian labour market, & identify 7 dominant ones. What do they look like? 🧵 x.com/surbhikesar/...

How Your Neighborhood Voted in the NYC Mayoral Election www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/24/m... Fantastic data tool by a great set of journalists!

Is it tho??? 🤔🤔🤔🤔 www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/24/m...

We stand by our use of relative poverty measures—an international standard vital for assessing poverty in wealthy nations. They highlight the struggles older Americans face that absolute metrics miss; crucial for a fair discussion on elder poverty. www.economicpolicyresearch.org/resource-lib...

Resharing this article on changes that have been made to the SSA in the first quarter of the year, in light of today's Supreme Court ruling on DOGE access to SSA data. www.economicpolicyresearch.org/resource-lib...

Two things the senate can do right now to save Social Security

Really exciting volume of HET articles edited by @alexmthomas.bsky.social for the Review of Development and Change! journals.sagepub.com/toc/rdca/30/...

Really important series on older Americans and debt, featuring a small soundbite by yours truly!

SCEPA published a new policy note, "America’s Retirement Crisis Hits a Breaking Point" as part of our "Tracking the Retirement Crisis" series. www.economicpolicyresearch.org/resource-lib...

Really important series by the SCEPA team documenting the timeline and the extent of changes made to the Social Security Administration in the first quarter of 2025, and what its implications could be for benefits payments! #SSA #SocialSecurity #Retirement #Economics tinyurl.com/4v3mch58

@karthikmanickam.bsky.social & I are researching @SCEPA the impact of student debt on retirement & compiling NYC resources for people seeking support! If you know great community orgs/center/person doing this work, esp with older NYers, pls share! #SocialSecurity #NYC #Debt #StudentDebt #retirement

Fantastic new paper by @prachibansal.bsky.social and co that discusses the distributional effects of inflation volatility in India!

Former SSA Economist David Weaver writes about how DOGE attacks on federal workforce disproportionately impact veterans. www.realclearmarkets.com/articles/202...

The ever-excellent Sanjay Reddy on why we all need to care about the efforts to dismantle academic freedom in US universities indianexpress.com/article/opin...

This is horrible to post, but I may as well post it. We are essentially shutting down research operations in my group, which is focused on treatments for pediatric brain cancer. I’m a well funded investigator, and there’s no choice. Science can’t function without the stability of NIH

Kalecki (1943): Political Aspects of Full Employment Reads like a comment on the great reversal in common sense on fiscal policy among German economists

Social Security clawed back benefits from a very alive "dead" man. This could be a random error, but in the first Trump administration these purges were anything but random. Here's what Daniel Costa and I wrote at the time. www.epi.org/blog/cleanin...

TNS Economist Rick McGahey quoted in the @nytimes.com “This is what authoritarians do — manipulate public policy and control it with personal decisions and seemingly idiosyncratic decisions, often to get or push for political support in return.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/b...

@joshbivens-econ.bsky.social channeling @delong in 2022: If Tesla sold all the cars bought in the US by the end of the next decade & made a per-car profit 10x that of GM, Ford & Fiat-Chrysler then that would be enough to justify its current stock valuation. www.epi.org/publication/...

Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.

@itpi.bsky.social has an updated resource guide for anyone needing to get up to speed quickly on the effects of privatization, including school vouchers. inthepublicinterest.org

NEW: The Social Security Administration is cutting staff. Field offices will be affected. The same thing happened in the 80s, when 21% of field office jobs were cut. And a new research paper finds that it resulted in 80,000 eligible Americans not getting earned benefits. prospect.org/health/2025-...

Professor Prabhat Patnaik: "The Crisis of Neo-Liberalism and Its Sequel." Join us on March 11 at 4pm ET. In person at UMass Amherst or via Zoom. Visit: peri.umass.edu/event/7176/ for more info.

The US-funded Demographic and Health Surveys, without doubt the single most reliable data source for umpteen countries in the global South, received a termination email last night. In the future this may well be viewed as a crime against humanity

I am sad to share that all Retirement & Disability Research centers have been ordered to stop work. My fellowship will no longer exist, and the work of so many talented researchers and dedicated staff will be cut short. www.ssa.gov/news/press/r...

Just seeing the RCT 'scandal' brewing among econs again. This is not a question about some bad apples or some instances of malpractice. The RCT industry has been completely distorted from its inception in Econ and this is closely tied to the incentive structure of the discipline.

Really interesting panel at ISLE connecting Kalyan Sanyal's work on Rethinking Capitalist Development to conceptualisations of peasant agriculture, solid waste management, and more. #econ

@tghilarducci.bsky.social quoted in this LA Times piece about how the Social Security's earnings cap exacerbates inequality and contributes to the issues of the system's solvency. www.latimes.com/business/sto...

Super important and accessible piece by my colleague and friend @jessforden.bsky.social on unpaid eldercare and paid work tradeoffs! theacademic.com/the-relation...