The household survey is a useful read on the labor market for various demographic groups. The unemployment rate ticked up to 4.4%, its highest since 2021. While a more volatile series, the data show high Black unemployment, holding steady at 7.5% in September, and 1.5 ppts higher than May. #EconSky

Finally, the first #JobsDay since the shutdown! The latest data out today is for September before the shutdown began on October 1. Highlights: - payroll employment up 119k for Sept while August change was revised down to below zero - unemployment rate ticked up 3 months in a row to 4.4% #EconSky

Over 125 economists signed the open letter calling on the President, Congress, and the American public to uphold the principles of Federal Reserve independence and not remove Lisa Cook without due process. There's still time to sign! And please share. #EconSky docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Shout out and gratitude to our city comptroller @bradlander.bsky.social for his bravery and standing up for justice

The Trump Administration was more than twice as likely to fire Black and Hispanic or female scientists than it was to fire white or male scientists www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Senator Heads to El Salvador Seeking Release of Wrongly Deported Man www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04... This is the kind of leadership we need; thank you Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland)!!

Grabbed at his appointment to become a citizen. Is this who we are? 😕🇺🇸

My God. ICE wrongfully arrested a man while his 5-year-old autistic child sat in the backseat—and shipped him off to an El Salvador prison. No due process. Now the Trump administration claims they can’t get him back. How many more? THIS NEEDS TO BE A BIGGER STORY.

🪼🪼🪼 It’s jellyfish season in Delaware 🤔 Our champions stand on business when it comes to Elon and everything in between. Time for a real opposition party: @workingfamilies.org & @delawarewfp.bsky.social.

Deadline for submissions in one week -- April 1st!

A serious look at tipping on "Last Week Tonight with John Oliver." A key point: "If you really want to give relief to tipped workers...eliminate the submiimum wage [for tipped workers] and then your tip goes on top of that" www.youtube.com/watch?v=89R9...

My work on the problems with no-tax-on-tips (and tipping generally) was featured on Last Week Tonight (@lastweektonight.com) yesterday. Kudos to John Oliver for explaining in far more entertaining fashion than I ever could. youtu.be/89R9ZxKaIOw?...

We invite paper submissions for the 9th Annual Freedom and Justice Summer Conference, happening July 31 – August 2, 2025, in Puerto Rico! Submission deadline is April 1. Visit neaecon.org to learn more about topics of interest and conference details. #NEAEcon #EconomicGrowth #EconomicDevelopment

This is a key point. We just saw prices for food at home go up in today's CPI print and the Budget Resoultion is calling for huge cuts in nutrition assistance for low-income families. (edited to correct typo - though I could use a hug)

"the real problem with the federal government is that it is too small to properly secure the health, safety, and overall well-being...Cutting it further will make a bad situation worse." --Algernon Austin (@a-austin.bsky.social) and Jordan Billings cepr.net/publications...

After a 7 yr legal battle, Michigan is finally increasing its minimum wage & starting the phase out of the subminimum wage for tipped workers. But lawmakers are trying to undermine the increases for tipped workers. EPI's S. Hickey will testify today to support eliminating the tipped minimum wage.

Millions trusted Trump to protect their healthcare. Now, families face losing coverage to pay for billionaires' tax cuts. Why are they so comfortable devastating other people's lives? https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/10/nx-s1-5289001/trump-republicans-medicaid-proposals

Citations in economics reflect scientific influence, elitism, and racial hierarchies about who is allowed to create influential knowledge. Especially bad for Black economists. Samuel Myers, Jr. has been researching this for years, and nice to see this new contribution. www.nber.org/papers/w33150