Abundance Has a Theory of Power www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/06/09/a...

Supreme Court Signals That It Will Declare Removal Protections for NLRB Members Unconstitutional www.nlrbedge.com/p/supreme-co...

Matt @mattbruenig.bsky.social always has the clearest and most concise arguments for defending the welfare state. No Medicaid cuts!

Conditioning Medicaid and health care services on work is cruel, counterproductive, and defeats the whole purpose of having insurance Excellent column from @mattbruenig.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/o...

I really appreciate this clear, easy to understand, argument from @mattbruenig.bsky.social about the cruelty of Medicaid work requirements. It’s a genuine problem how widespread the notion is that welfare programs are overrun with people who just don’t want to work. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/o...

"Medicaid Work Requirements Are Cruel and Pointless" by Matt Bruenig New York Times www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/o...

"Our society could decide that police and fire departments will not respond to calls made by individuals who worked less than 80 hours in the prior month, but most would find this repugnant and contrary to the purpose of these services." gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/o...

In the NYT today talking Medicaid work requirements. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/o...

Very happy to see NLRB Edge, my niche AI-powered newsletter about the NLRB eclipse 13,000 subscribers. Great resource for anyone wanting to keep up with the NLRB! www.nlrbedge.com

Success Sequence Followers Do Not Follow the Success Sequence peoplespolicyproject.substack.com/p/success-se...

@ryanlcooper.com bring back the truck discourse www.slate.auto/en

More Unfair Labor Practices from Bryan Johnson www.nlrbedge.com/p/more-unfai...

The Fertility Question mattbruenig.com/2025/04/13/t...

The Employment of Young Men www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/04/11/t...

Bryan Johnson Commits Another Unfair Labor Practice in NY Mag Article www.nlrbedge.com/p/bryan-john...

Scratch Coding Tutorial ft. Jane www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlxV...

Great piece nymag.com/intelligence...

Great piece nymag.com/intelligence...

AI Coding Tutorial: Calculating Uninsurance Rate at Every Age www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQEt...

"The advantages of being many are many" -- Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions.

I’m back in Peoples Policy Project with a post about how cuts to the federal workforce will reach every corner of the country.

Federal Workers Are Spread Out Across the Country www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/04/02/f...

I Have Filed Another Unfair Labor Practice Charge Against Bryan Johnson www.nlrbedge.com/p/i-have-fil...

The NLRB lacks a quorum once again. www.nlrbedge.com/p/dc-circuit...

Norway’s State Investment Fund Should Dump Tesla prospect.org/world/2025-0...

fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social episode, we have @mattbruenig.bsky.social on to talk about the Ezra Klein/Derek Thompson book "Abundance" www.leftanchor.com/e/abundance-...

Notable that BYD only barely eclipsed Tesla's revenue while selling 2.3 times as many cars. Tells you all you need to know about price and efficiency.

1. Excellent review of Abundance that usefully disentangles the (often useful, at worst harmless) policy prescriptions from ticklish question of political salesmanship & the dubious politics of the larger movement. www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/03/24/t...

What Happens to People Who Have Three Months of Emergency Savings? www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/03/25/w...

New Matt Bruenig www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/03/24/t...

"Indeed, we have now seen what it looks like when the government supports and subsidizes technological innovation and implementation without concerning itself with the inegalitarianism of the system. His name is Elon Musk." www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/03/24/t...

Excellent, from @mattbruenig.bsky.social, on “Abundance”. www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/03/24/t... ht @ryanlcooper.com

My review of The Abundance Agenda and discourse surrounding it. www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/03/24/t...

Read the piece praised by the chief economist of Biden's Council of Economic Advisors, the nation's top economist on low-wage work, and the think tanker who I critique in the piece, but derided but never linked by knower of all things, Will Stancil www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/03/19/h...

In the NYT Today: How Bryan Johnson, Who Wants to Live Forever, Sought Control via Confidentiality Agreements www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/t...

This is a good post. I think we'd be better off coming up with a better stat to reflect economic insecurity, as paycheck to paycheck is super ambiguous and doesn't necessarily focus policy change in the right direction www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/03/19/h...

I am releasing my new paper-- Workification--into the world. It's forthcoming with UCLA Law Review and available on SSRN: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

To support this concept, I researched (hopefully) all NLRA and FLSA "employee" classification cases regarding students and work therapy programs--which have exploded since the 2010s. (huge thanks to @mattbruenig.bsky.social 's NLRB Research Database)

If they were paid every day, 46 days of savings would be 46 paychecks. One simple trick that would bring paycheck-to-paycheck living to 0% without actually costing anyone anything. We might be able to get that done legislatively.

How Many People Live Paycheck to Paycheck A debate for the ages, finally settled once and for all by me www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/03/19/h...

do most American workers live “paycheck to paycheck”? maybe. it depends what that means. see @mattbruenig.bsky.social www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2025/03/19/h...

Hard to imagine a business investing in production aimed at providing a domestic alternative to tariffed goods when there is absolutely no guarantee Trump will maintain tariffs for any particular period of time and has done so much on-again-off-again stuff already.

NLRB Resumes Issuing Decisions After Return of Member Gwynne Wilcox But important caveats apply. www.nlrbedge.com/p/nlrb-resum...

Yglesias on the Politics of NAFTA mattbruenig.com/2025/03/11/y...

Starbucks caught in a contradiction. Bound to happen once you are in the hundreds of the NLRB cases like they are.

What happens when you die while your NLRB charges are pending.

A run down of the Faster Labor Contracts Act that was introduced in the Senate yesterday

Trump telling agencies that Musk cannot order them to fire is almost certainly just being done to help defend against lawsuits. Trump wants to be able to say that the firings are not coming from Musk in court.

nice writeup, dramatically more informative than the one in the NYT