"People who start work in a recession tend to earn less over the course of their careers, von Wachter’s research found, making for more divorces, smaller families, and worse health." Prof. Till von Wachter, faculty director of CPL's UCLA site interviewed -> www.marketplace.org/story/2026/0...

In 2019, Sonoma County overhauled its system for awarding Housing Choice Vouchers and more than 12k people signed up for a new lottery. A new study (in Housing Policy Debate) focuses on the outcomes of that lottery and the people who were selected to receive a voucher capolicylab.org/mitigating-t...

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This is awful. So many business tied to a true working waterfront.

This is hilarious, but I gotta put in a good word for the Moccamaster. Ours is 15 years old and still makes coffee every bit as good as the first pot. Before splurging on it we’d gone through at least one cheapo coffeemaker per year (the hard water of Ithaca, NY, is not kind to coffeemakers).

NEW -- What the hell was that? And why? www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

A story I found about Haiti: In 1999, a group of Haitians were tired of political disorder and dreamed of a better life in the United States. So they built a small, 23-foot boat by hand using pine trees, scrap wood, and used nails. They called the boat "Believe in God."

Looking for the perfect gift? A donation to the California Policy Lab for #GivingTuesday will help fuel research that leads to practical solutions — so that programs work better, dollars go further, and more Californians have access to stability and opportunity: capolicylab.org/donate/

I have long had an obscure, complex theory about Susan Collins that explains these things. Susan Collins is terrible and anyone who ever suggested she is a moderate is a liar or a rube. That's it. That's the whole thing.

The California Policy Lab provides independent, practical research that helps our government make better decisions and improve more lives. In this interview, Prof. Till von Wachter explains CPL's research showing the LA wildfires impacted people both inside and outside the directly impacted areas.

Classic

“It means believing that racism is not a natural condition of poverty but a political weapon that rich men use to constrain poor people’s political power.” Been trying to tell my Maine friends this but haven’t been able to pin it down so succinctly. We buy into this when we make excuses for him.

Every mention of SNAP being frozen should include this simple fact: TRUMP is CHOOSING TO CANCEL FOOD ASSISTANCE. There are literally emergency dollars available to keep SNAP funded.

trump treating the white house like he treated the old bonwit teller building envisioningtheamericandream.com/2024/04/15/t...

My prophetic protest sign

Will Maine really choose a 77 year old senate candidate because that's what Chuck Schumer wants? I know Janet Mills is popular, but she'll be 79 when the next senate term starts and the entire Dem base is crying out for a new generation. When will they learn to stop shooting their own feet?

Nostalgia is the death of curiosity.

11% of California student loan borrowers are 30+ days late on making their payments, according to a new California Policy Lab fact sheet: laist.com/news/educati... #CaLeg #PersonalFinance #StudentDebt #StudentLoans #California

It’s time for the white community to stop playing the victim & have an uncomfortable conversation about violence, parental responsibility & the families raising the thugs causing all the white-on-white violence in Republican-controlled cities. Maybe it’s their culture Did I do it right?

🔥BLS Staff: "We will publish reliable data, no matter how inconvenient the results... Acting Commissioner is a respected career professional. There are no other political appointees at BLS... will remain accurate & nonpartisan... if that ever changes, the professionals will tell you." #StandWithBLS

“—meet it is I set it down, That one may smile, and smile, and be a villain!”

Graham Platner, an oyster farmer from Maine, wants to “claw back wealth that was created by the labor and the consumption of working-class Americans who have not shared in the riches they helped build.”

I heard someone say “We have poverty not because we cannot care for the poor, but because we cannot satisfy the rich.” And if that ain’t the TRUTH

I guess this is why my interlibrary loan request from Colby (Waterville) to Curtis (Brunswick) took a week.

A Chester in a window.

My great-great Uncle Ralph (Gould), author of Yankee Shopkeeper, left behind a letter to his sister in which he describes an assistant of some kind: “I feel he is an instance of God’s carelessness.” I can think of so many public figures I could apply this description to today.

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

Trump’s first BLS Commissioner, Bill Beach, calls today’s firing groundless and dangerous. www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...

The Friends of #BLS protest the firing of BLS Commissioner Erika McEntarfer. The rationale for firing her is without merit and undermines the credibility of federal economic statistics that are a cornerstone of intelligent economic decision-making by businesses, families, and policymakers.

With Trump about to try to fake economic stats, it's not very helpful for leftists to say they were already cooked. They're not. I follow this stuff very closely and have for years. They're very good and assembled by civil servants who take their jobs very seriously.

So many protesters on the rt 1 bridge between Bath and Woolwich it was hard to find a place to stand at the rail.

"I’m a hungry chickadee. I’m going to warble the hell out of this yard. Did you know sound travels twenty times faster at dawn? That means it’s going to pass right through your skull into the meat."

New NBER working paper with Andrew Johnston and Nolan Pope. We examine family dissolution, proxied by divorce (an observable breakdown), and how family circumstances and children’s outcomes change. www.nber.org/papers/w33776

My MA alma mater! Congrats Barbara!

A key item on my health “to do” list is to get my measles antibodies checked. Why? I had hemorrhagic measles when I was 6 and nearly died. Drs warned my parents that I could not be exposed again via vaccination. I don’t know what happens if I get exposed to measles in the wild. Vax your kids!

This sounds amazing

🚨 Thrilled that our 🆕 paper “Age and Cognitive Skills: Use It or Lose It” just came out in #ScienceAdvances @science.org 💡 Longitudinal evidence: age pattern of literacy+numeracy not as bleak as cross-section suggests + strongly differs by skill usage www.science.org/doi/full/10.... 🧵A thread 1/7

We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

Ugh, I am so doomed.

Wow, this is Eva's JMP if I recall correctly. Great paper!

New NBER paper out with awesome trade shock team (Autor, Dorn, Hanson, Setzler): www.nber.org/papers/w33424

In my head all day.

I’m proud of the content & writing in this essay. publishing in @msmagazine.com has been a longtime goal of mine. And this essay is the first that I wrote from start to finish at my desk in my Providence apartment msmagazine.com/2025/01/26/p...

Happy MLK Day.

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How can you learn about employment in very specific industries? Use Quarterly Workforce Indicators! This America Counts story shows how: www.census.gov/library/stor...

Check out our updated working paper: “Asian Migrants and the U.S. Housing Market (2009–2018)” papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... We investigate the underlying channels through which Asian immigrants impact U.S. housing prices: amenity capitalization effects vs. capital inflow effects #econsky

Reshape in Stata without looking at the help file

The Center for Economic Studies at the Census Bureau has a broad portfolio of research topics. We now have a new tool for exploring that portfolio Search our over 35 years of working papers by authors, organizations/datasets, and keywords lehd.ces.census.gov/applications...

Today, we released our first Quarterly Workforce Indicator Highlights! content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USC...