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.

Hardle 1/16/2025 | 4/10 🟨⬛⬛🟨🟩 2️⃣1️⃣ ⬛⬛🟨🟨⬛ 2️⃣0️⃣ ⬛⬛🟨⬛⬛ 1️⃣0️⃣ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 0️⃣5️⃣ Play #hardle on hardle.org

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...

A tour-de-force of scholarship and detective work: Fara Dabhoiwala reveals that a portrait of an 18th-century Black scientist, long dismissed as a caricature, is in fact a record of the man's mastery of Newtonian physics—and the only painting made in 1759 of the return of Halley's comet.

Water taxi from National Harbor to Alexandria—highly recommend to my APPAM pals!

Many infectious diseases are so rare today that it is easy to forget how very common they were before the introduction of vaccines. My chart presents an overview of the change in the US.

Friends Eli and Sharon had to bid goodbye to their ash trees. Eli told me he had found more ash seedlings around the property this summer than ever before, which made him believe they knew their fate. m.youtube.com/watch?featur...

Voted in Maine, had so much fun writing in second choices or selecting them strategically!

This year’s jack o’lantern. Couldn’t think of anything scarier than the election.

Dear Pennsylvania’s mail-in voters, To make sure your vote gets counted and doesn’t end up in a legal fight, remember to: 1) seal your ballot in the YELLOW ENVELOPE 2) write the CURRENT DATE on the outer envelope Best, The reporter who just updated this 👇 www.npr.org/2024/09/26/n...

Cool paper by @johnvoorheis.bsky.social and coauthors in the NBER blast today. Another great demonstration of the usefulness of combined Census survey and admin data. www.nber.org/papers/w33050

Past peak at Height of Land today, but still pretty awesome.

Dear Pennsylvania’s mail-in voters, To make sure your vote gets counted and doesn’t end up in a legal fight, remember to: 1) seal your ballot in the YELLOW ENVELOPE 2) write the CURRENT DATE on the return envelope Sincerely, The reporter who wrote this👇 www.npr.org/2024/09/26/n...

#CensusResearch📈📉 "Who Scars the Easiest? College Quality and the Effects of Graduating into a Recession" by Anstreicher & Miller shows the effects of graduating into worse economic conditions vary over college quality. ideas.repec.org/p/cen/wpaper...

“Pomology” not in word list? I may have to cancel my NYT games subscription over this.

Tali is pretty sure that the birds squabbling at the feeder have gotten into the Gibson tenor. Good resonance.

New in ILR Review: Our paper on the impact of industry credentials. doi.org/10.1177/0019...

Early Maine summer in pie form: strawberry rhubarb.

Check out my America Counts story for info on our exciting new public-use data on US income growth & mobility! Links to data tool, dowloadable data, code, and working paper. www.census.gov/library/stor...

I get this, which means I am both old and up on current events.