AI's impact on the labor market is not happening in a bubble, but in an economy with deep, structural issues. We need to fix what's broken and invest where investment is needed. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

If we are sincerely worried about AI-driven job loss, we have to address the fact that our unemployment insurance system is unfit to the task. Built for an earlier industrial era, it has been seriously underfunded for 50 years. But it's fixable! Nice to see people putting some ideas on the table.

Part 2 of my series on AI and job loss. What do you do if you lose your job and never find another one? The US needs an ambitious, creative long-term unemployment program to foster second careers with dignity. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I have three columns coming this week that respond to the question, "What if AI destroys a lot of jobs?" Part 1: We need a strong short-term unemployment program, because for the majority of unemployed workers, it's a short transition to the next job. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

What's going on in the economy right now? Honestly, a lot. In this week's episode, we try to make our way through the big issues to understand where we are and where we are going. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

"When it comes to taking a whole pile of busywork hypothetically aimed at making things better and then producing no substantive forward motion, the Texas Legislature is God’s own machine, perfect and sublime." @texasmonthly.bsky.social, I love you. www.texasmonthly.com/news-politic...

I started listening to Optimist Economy, and I am really enjoying it. I thought this episode was particularly good. It’s so easy to feel AI doomerism, but maybe, as @kedseconomist.com suggests, we don’t need to and should instead be focused on worker protections. open.spotify.com/episode/2pjX...

The fear of AI job loss is palpable. So let's fix unemployment benefits. In my latest newsletter, I write about AI fears, AI fearmongering, and try to explain what we know and what we can do. www.kedits.com/p/what-are-w...

The US is not in a recession. So why is the labor market so weak? @kedseconomist.com says employer concentration is to blame 🎥

Really excellent podcast!! re: economy - unemployment - debt/taxes - AI

Absolutely love the brilliance @kedseconomist.com brings to this discussion with Scott and Ed. She is clear, articulate, empathetic, and thoughtful. #KAE2028!

I got to do one of my favorite things this week: spend an hour talking about big issues in the labor market and the economy. Thanks to Ed Elson and Scott Galloway for great questions and great conversation. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

Why don't Americans save more? My question back: Why is it that we have excellent policy tools that encourage saving that we withhold from most Americans? I talked to Here and Now this morning. www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

Today’s economy may remind you of the 1970s, but @kedseconomist.com explains why it’s more like the mid-aughts

Will millionaires flee states that try to tax them? Wrong question. Why are we improvising tax policy state to state when it’s the federal government that should be dealing with health care, child care and affordability? There we go! Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

As @kedseconomist.com showed in her research with us last year, solving the childcare crisis requires a “whole child, whole day, whole year” system, not a school calendar that leaves half-days and summer gaps for parents to fill.

Always a privilege to go on @marketplace.org and talk numbers with @kairyssdal.bsky.social We talked about a gathering storm of bad data releases and what it means. He also asked me about my latest newsletter, which you can find here: www.kedits.com/p/what-is-a-...

It's CPI Day! Just how hard has the energy shock hit US households, and how much worse will it get? @jonathanjlevin.bsky.social discusses the data LIVE with Allison Schrager and @kedseconomist.com Friday, April 10 @ 8:25 am ET:

Economy too weak, prices too high, and war in Iran? The comparison to the 1970s is easy to make. But I think it's the wrong one. I write for @bloomberg.com about the parallels our economy has right now with the mid-aughts. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

A newsletter from me! I talk about the technical words that economists have a hold over, words that carry enormous weight in how we view the economic struggles people experience. What is a recession? If nothing else, its a lens into how people view the unemployed. open.substack.com/pub/kedsecon...

This paper provides critical evidence for policymakers to ignore.

Always a pleasure to join Jean Chatzky to talk about the economy, recessions, careers, and optimism for the future. You can tell an interview goes well when it ends with "Kathryn please run for something." 🙌 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

HCR & Vanessa Williamson talk taxes in history & These Times™️. @hcrichardson.bsky.social @vanessawilliamson.bsky.social So good, it made me greedy. Now I want a longer panel w Naomi Oreskes & Kathryn Anne Edwards, please. @naomioreskes.bsky.social @kedseconomist.com www.youtube.com/live/aBcPKrw...

Applications OPEN for the Graduate Humanities Internship at the Roosevelt Institute! We teach current humanities grad students how to think and work in public policy spaces. Real-world alt-ac training. Paid, remote, part-time over two-semesters. See more here! rooseveltinstitute.org/roosevelt-so...

Really fun episode in which we answer that fabled question, did Boomers ruin the economy? No, y'all. Not even close. And if you're looking angrily at Boomers for being successful, you're looking away from something else. Dive in with us! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...

"We have never seen corporate profits to the degree we have over the past 4 years." — @kedseconomist.com At the same time, families are going without retirement plans, affordable health coverage, or paid leave, even as the cost of living keeps rising. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

I was reading this article yesterday and excitedly screenshot and showed my wife where they referenced you and exclaimed,”LOOK IT’S OUR ECONOMY GIRL!!” We could feel the optimism ✨

Look for me at the end, coming in with the optimism! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/o...

🙌🏻 high praise 🙌🏻

Corporate America is in its golden era. @kedseconomist.com explains why that’s not helping workers 🎥

If corporate income tax collection had kept up with 1960s levels, companies would be paying $620 billion more a year in taxes. In my latest, I ask: what did we get in return? Not wages, not benefits, but record profits and a growing public disgust with companies. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

And if they’re mad about this, how could it parlay to being mad about corporate tax rates??? Things I’m thinking about.

Republicans in Congress rn

I went on Prof G Markets to talk about the jobs report yesterday. Easter egg for the careful listeners: I forgot to silence my phone and you can hear that my text alert sound is the Star Trek hailing frequency chirp. Being a nerd: it's really a total commitment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSNZ...

People live longer so Social Security's retirement age needs to go up, right? I disagree, and explain in my latest piece how this is a benefit cut with some loose logic attached. We can make the program better and fairer, but not like this. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Today, the BLS released the latest Job Openings and Labor Turnover survey data for December. Highlights: - job openings fell in sharply in December, down 966k over the year - hires ticked up slightly, but remain depressed at levels similar to 2013 - quits and layoffs unchanged #NumbersDay #EconSky

Today's #JobsReport highlights: - payroll job growth 130k in January, but benchmark revisions show 2025 much weaker than originally reported - unemployment rate at 4.3%, up from 4.0% last January - federal government continues to lose jobs #EconSky @epi.org #NumbersDay

The easy fix is the inadequate one. 'Just build' will not solve housing affordability because it doesn't get at the root of the problem: the accumulation of decades of deepening income inequality. My latest for Bloomberg: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

A must read from the great @kedseconomist.com

At 7.3%, Black women’s unemployment is now at levels white women only saw during the Great Recession. @kedseconomist.com and @jessicajfulton.bsky.social explain what job loss at this scale means for families, communities, and the economy. Read in @19thnews.org: 19thnews.org/2026/01/blac...

The AI bubble is well trod territory. In my latest for Bloomberg, I write about the economy's dependency on an industry that has poor outcomes, inefficiently high costs, and is completely dependent on government support: health care. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

It's Fed Day! As tensions boil over with Trump, the US central bank is widely expected to hold rates steady. 🎥 Tune in as @jonathanjlevin.bsky.social discusses LIVE with Allison Schrager and @kedseconomist.com Wednesday @ 1:55pm EST

Shout out to those hero readers of print journalism who could make it to the third page of the national section to read about the shooting yesterday. Here’s the cover, fwiw:

202-224-3121 ^congressional switchboard. Call your rep, call your senator, and ask them why there was illegal use of your social security data. Make this a constituent request for help: should you do something to protect yourself? Is there legal recourse? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“Don’t ever let Summers or men like him fool you, and remember the most devastating thing you can say to them is the one that is also true: they are replaceable.” 🔥

One of the most prominent members of my profession for far too long. I wrote about Summers, misogyny, the tail of brilliance, nepo babies, capability, and the lesson we could all learn from this. www.kedits.com/p/what-does-...

You know you've made it when you have a professional enterprise with it's own branded merch. Optimist Economy has some swag for purchase! Top seller so far: the hat. merch.ambientinks.com/collections/...

Dreading what may come up at the Thanksgiving dinner table? The Optimists will help you prepare to thoughtfully and effectively respond to a range of issues that might surface 👇

New! Sirens welcomes @kedseconomist.com to explain (dun-dun) the economy (no pressure!), unpack the visit of "strategic partner" MBS and whose strategy he's partnering under, looks at the justice system and cringes through the lens of Comey, Epstein, and Kelly. sites.libsyn.com/92063/ai-dea...

Even though @kedseconomist.com and @rauzi.bsky.social are on a break they did a PSA podcast to arm yourself with counterpoints to the dumb things your drunk uncle, Fox News watching aunt and cryptobro cousin are going to say when you’re over for Thanksgiving rss.com/podcasts/opt...