Here's why Team Trump is suddenly talking about rejiggering the way GDP is calculated. This is just a projection, based on other recent economic data, and there will be a new estimate available tomorrow.

Newsletter is out (and free, as always). This week has some Super Bowl leftovers, some transit stuff and a conversation with people in the suddenly uncertain business of making government data more accessible.

It's been a while since I've watched something that had me literally laugh out loud several times in 5 minutes, but this artisanal data collector did it www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDr6...

So excited to be teaching a new data visualization course at UNC’s Department of City & Regional Planning next month. I’ll be posting all the course materials here frank-muraca.com/communicatin...

In every New York City neighborhood, Kamala Harris received markedly fewer votes than President Biden did in 2020, while in most neighborhoods, Donald Trump notched modest increases compared with his last run. nyti.ms/490k4KT

Oh so it’s over

Anyone writing about the impact of losing the CRA?

New Research Thread🧵: We examine the spatial patterns and eviction rates of single-family landlords in the Twin Cities. We find Private Equity firms and REITs each have their own distinct geographies and evict tenants at higher rates than smaller landlords. 1/

It’s hard to overstate how much people hate inflation—and the lasting scars this recent surge caused. People across the board, even Democrats, mainly blamed the government (see the figure👇). Check the summary 🧵for "Why do we dislike inflation?" here: x.com/S_Stantcheva...

What a cool chart

New: Hours after Trump won, ICE asked companies to submit plans for how they’d expand ICE’s system of GPS trackers + databases surveilling “noncitizens” awaiting trial or deportation. Gov contractors said ICE’s timing was probably not a coincidence: www.wired.com/story/ice-su...

I made a starter pack for public interest technology, critical data studies, and related fields. LMK who else I should add, please. #PublicInterestTech #PublicInterestTechnology #DataforSocialGood go.bsky.app/He8HTaC

Great visuals here

Back to work

A new study estimates that 65% of people who had to travel for abortion care *before Dobbs* incurred a “catastrophic health expense”—defined as 40% or more of their ability to pay—compared to 32% of those who were able to access care in their home states jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

One of the side effects of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was reduced demand for Low Income Housing Tax Credits by investors. Reduced corporate tax rate = less need for tax credits. The result was a drop in subsidy for AH projects and drove up the financial gap thats often filled by local govs

From FHFA (regulators of Fannie and Freddie): Home Purchase Appraisals in Minority Neighborhoods www.fhfa.gov/sites/defaul...

As expected, the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by a quarter percentage point. No clear signal on where rates go from here. #EconSky #NumbersDay Statement: www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/p... Live coverage: www.nytimes.com/live/2024/11...

Just this summer, the American Statistical Association released a thorough report about the fragile state of the country's public data systems www.amstat.org/policy-and-a...

One of the side effects of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was reduced demand for Low Income Housing Tax Credits by investors. Reduced corporate tax rate = less need for tax credits. The result was a drop in subsidy for AH projects and drove up the financial gap thats often filled by local govs

“Got it”

A 33 point swing toward the GOP in the 18-29 male vote over the span of six years, double that of women -- www.wsj.com/politics/ele...

The National Housing Crisis Task Force just released a very useful report setting out a roadmap for federal actions to improve housing availability & affordability. Check it out: nationalhousingcrisis.org/app/uploads/...

Shouting this recommendation from the National Housing Crisis Task Force from the rooftops nationalhousingcrisis.org/app/uploads/... Housing makes up more than 16% of GDP but our systems for tracking construction costs, rents, and new construction are still extremely decentralized if tracked at all

New blog post! I helped build Idaho's official election results website (with #rstats and #quartopub) and we did some neat stuff to auto-generate hundreds of R chunks. Here's a guide about how to create tabsets and slides programmatically with inline knitr chunks www.andrewheiss.com/blog/2024/11...

"...service providers told ProPublica about people they were working with who struggled to access Medicaid, disability benefits, food stamps, sobriety programs and housing after their documents were confiscated in encampment removals." projects.propublica.org/homeless-enc...

This was really good

BLS statement about Helene and Milton’s impact on this morning’s jobs report (including the survey itself) www.bls.gov/news.release...

"It is certainly true that the number of immigrants who arrived in the most recent surge in 2022 and 2023 was historically high...However, the timing of this surge does not line up with the substantial increase in home prices and rents of recent years." www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/role-re...

as control of Twitter has become more openly partisan, now is a great time to encourage municipal and regional govt and civic comms teams to move, or at least provide alternatives! public transit, parks, libraries, museums, highway, utilities, weather, emergency, schools, etc

It's been 12 hours so maybe everyone has moved on, but I created a graph with the all the missing lines. Visually, you could say White men without college degrees were ahead of 10 groups in 1980 (5th place out of 16), and only 7 groups by 2022 (9th place).

I've never seen this kind of occupational stat before thehill.com/lobbying/495...