Check out this thought-provoking interview with GC-CUNY Prof. Celina Su. "There’s something about figuring out what our streets and neighborhoods look like as an entry point that helps people really find common ground fairly quickly." @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social 👇👇👇

"Looking at the share of a justice's decisions that favor the wealthy over the course of our analysis period, we see that the court becomes more and more polarized along partisan lines." www.nber.org/papers/w34643 American democracy is truly in dire straits...

The world's time zones, visualized on an interactive, spinnable globe. Try it out- it'll default to your current time and (approximate) time zone: gist.github.com/walkerke/c4a...

I’m now upset that I wasn’t invited JUST for this. I happen to think my photography is INCREDIBLE.

Deportations caused pain but didn't deliver jobs: US-born unemployment is up in 2025

Matching the Forbes 400 to tax data finds that they pay a total tax rate of 24 percent of economic income, lower than the 30 percent tax rate paid on average in the US, from Akcan S. Balkir, Emmanuel Saez, Danny Yagan, and Gabriel Zucman https://www.nber.org/papers/w34170

EPI's Nina Mast on CNBC discussing the harms of 'No Tax on Tips'. The policy solution for increasing take home pay for low wage and tipped workers? Pay them. #minimumwage #tippedwage #affordability #notaxontips

POV: FRED every first Friday of the month. #JobsDay #JobsReport #EconSky

The Green Book Project is dedicated to documenting the businesses that maintained the human dignity of Black people as they traveled in the Jim Crow era. You can add your memories of these establishments to our Community Map! greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

Year after year, the news becomes uglier, politics more cruel, years more heavy and bodies more slow. With a new year there is new hope. That as the wolrd grows colder, that tomorrow can be better than today, so we wait through winter with the promise of spring. Hope is what we give ourselves.

If you are on a job market this year, our position at Kyiv School of Economics 👇 is still open! While there are risks, there are ways to mitigate them & you get a competitive salary & will conduct high quality impactful research! DM me or mail at [email protected] for any questions #econsky

New statement from Friends of BLS: "Some controversy...erupted on Dec. 30 following release of a highly informative Q&A that addressed how [BLS] estimated the Nov. 2025 CPI. We..find no reason to see the hand of politics anywhere in the Bureau’s CPI work..." www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...

The #GreenBookProject was bar-none the most meaningful research project I was a part of in 2025. Excited for 2026. Looking forward to another year!

The graphic design is so good.

BLS clarifies that they will NOT do a one-off change of their rent/OER methodology in April, as their updated FAQ yesterday seemed to imply. h/t Omair Sharif, who I think was the first to pin them down on this. #EconSky #NumbersDay

One of the best things about having a background in new media, like web/graphic design, is when people criticize your research I can just defer them to this totally supplement, and highly-aesthetic interactive website that I built for my working paper.

Recessions hit economically vulnerable groups first. 🚨 My First Working Paper 🚨 using broader labor-utilization measures, like a U6-based @claudia-sahm.bsky.social style rule, flags recessions months before dating. Please read + share: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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In 2025, The Hamilton Project published research on sweeping changes to federal government operations, the safety net, U.S. trade policy, and more. Read the recap:

An Upshot year in review. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I think @annastansbury.bsky.social empirical work on the top-heavy socioeconomic makeup of the economics academy is bar-none the most important inward-facing conversation we have as academics; and is the most illuminating work in explaining the status quo policy preferences of economists. #EconSky

The hot takes by economic commentators failing to understand the disconnect between GDP and consumer sentiment need to fully appreciate that the economy has been characterized by a kind of Robin-Hood-in-Reverse direction for over 35 years. #EconSky

Every out-of-touch headline about the economy reads like some "Let Them Eat Cake" meme. #EconSky

Commentators wonder why people feel discontent when GDP looks fine, but in a very unequal country, top-line stats can boom while all real gains are captured at the top. Meaning “the economy is growing” and “people are pissed” can both be true. Distribution isn’t a footnote—it’s the story. #EconSky

Using reduced opacity would help the legibility of visualizations where multiple lines often overlap.

This is a fun visual, but the y axis is unnecessarily large.

DOGE was A LOT less likely to cancel contracts from companies that donated money to Republicans than companies that donated to Democrats.

Most Americans don’t have faith that their political leaders care what they have to say. So, we asked them what messages they'd have for Trump and Democratic leaders if they did have the chance to speak their mind. New polling here: www.cnn.com/2025/12/24/p...

The U.S. military is being used inside the United States. There's a lot we don't know about how, why, and under what authorities. Lawfare's Domestic Deployments tracker and map, updated by Loren Voss, shows we know—and don’t know—about certain domestic military deployments.

As the president touts GDP numbers, I keep coming back to this: economists need an economic well-being index—a transparent composite that tells us how the economy, with a focus on the income distribution, not just on average. #EconSky #Economics 1/9

I made this useful holiday voter guide for progressive activists who would like to make inroads with non-traditional voters. #EconSky #Epstein

President Trump is praising above-expectation GDP, criticizing #affordability and #recession concerns, simultaneously some economists praise recent low-end wage gains, but on any real timeline almost all gains have been concentrated at the top. Put simply, growth has been inequitable. #EconSky

A related story is that coverage of the economy seems to track high income sentiment. The deluge of bad economic news matched the relatively brief window (2022-2023) when high and low income Americans had the same opinions of the economy.

Love this end of year graphic by Tyler Smith. I did my own 5-minute rendition. I'm using Steelfish which is a very tall font to fill the digital space, this font is used on Beyoncé's self-titled. Did a slight gradient to make the font pop. And added a warmer background color. #Design

I don’t know anyone my age who owns a house. All my friends struggle. I helped my friend file taxes for money she made on OnlyFans to get through the pandemic. Friends fundraise to bury family because they can’t afford funerals. Shame on those who peddle this narrative.

Check cashing places were already predatory.

Post-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

Professor @arindube.bsky.social — zooming out, isn’t the key problem that real wage gains are not "broad-based" but basically confined to the top income decile, with little to no growth for anyone else? This quick graph is using the same @epi.org data/CPI-U, what am I missing? #EconSky

Donald Trump’s administration faced new criticism of its handling of documents related to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after the justice department removed 16, including an image of the president, from a trove of files released on Friday. ft.trib.al/y9cpOwC

Labor market was so awful in the 1980s that real wages fell for the bottom fifth of workers and didn't bounce back for over a decade

#WeekendPlaying 🔖 A NEW TOOL ON MONETARY POLICY 🏦 With the latest rate cut earlier this week by the Bank of England, explore some of the factors influencing this decision with our brand new #MonetaryPolicy Dashboard 👇

This is the quintessential Wall Street to Main Street pivot that moderate-income families, struggling with affordability, need in terms of policy advocacy and framing.

Signs of labor market softening amid significant delays in data availability due to the government shutdown according to @kdoc-writes.bsky.social The latest on the State Unemployment by Race & Ethnicity →

2024 ACS just dropped at IPUMS-USA usa.ipums.org/usa/index.sh...

Call it affordability, vibes, politics: asking people how they're doing financially has been a grim exercise for some time. Only 21% in 4th quarter said they're better off financially than a year ago, near Great Recession lows. Drop in 3 steps: pandemic '20, high inflation '21-22, and past year.

Using #unemployment rates disaggregated by labor utilization, in a modified #SahmRule, shows broader measures of underemployment indicate #recession months prior. In part because economically-vulnerable groups tend to be #underemployed. 🚨New Working Paper🚨 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #EconSky

Funding Opportunity! We are now taking applications for our Early Career Research Awards. These awards provide support to recent PhD earners researching policy and employment issues. Those working in economics, sociology, public policy, political science, and related fields may apply. #Econsky

Using unemployment rates, disaggregated by education, in a modified #SahmRule, shows that low-educated groups experience recessions months prior. Data shows unemployment rates for many economically vulnerable groups have been rising. 🚨New Working Paper🚨 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #EconSky

Using unemployment rates, disaggregated by race, in a modified #SahmRule, shows that marginalized racial groups experience recessions months prior. Data shows Black unemployment rates have been rising. #EconSky papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....