Millions of working families will lose coverage and millions more face sharply higher premiums if the ACA tax credits expire. New analysis from @kdoc-writes.bsky.social and @groundwork.bsky.social's Breyon Williams find Black Americans would face deep losses and financial harm.

Including the value of health insurance in our assessment of poverty shows even greater disparities. @icidmartinez.bsky.social and I discuss a new measure introduced by Census that does just that, and show how valuable the ACA premium subsidies have been in easing families' affordability woes

☝️Those are steps states can take to protect their workers. If you want to take a deeper dive on the harms of Trump's attacks on public health + equity + workers, check out @kdoc-writes.bsky.social Political Economy of Health series, starting here

In the Political Economy of Health @kdoc-writes.bsky.social dives deep into Trump’s attacks on public health, equity, and safety. 3/ www.epi.org/research/rac...

Love to my friends and colleagues born abroad today, you deserve to feel safe and welcome where you are ❤️

Fear and cruelty are their goals. It is dangerous to keep treating this administration as legitimate. This is tyranny.

The "why's" are important here: Trump's attacking equity to make it harder to hold the government & corporations accountable for the harm they do, particularly to communities of color. But don't get it twisted, these actions make us all sicker and less economically secure 😷📉

The cuts to #publichealth will not only lead to worse health outcomes in general, it will make health inequities even worse. #healthequity Trump’s gutting of public health institutions is setting the stage for our next crisis www.epi.org/blog/trumps-... by @kdoc-writes.bsky.social via @epi.org

These attacks on HHS make it harder to protect workers and their families, and to hold corporations accountable (that's the point!). They're also making us more vulnerable to the next public health and economic crises 📉😷 www.epi.org/blog/trumps-...

That 🟠 man is manipulating the stock market in real time. Scary

IT'S OFFICIAL. I WROTE MY FIRST BOOK! 🤯 #TheDoubleTax unpacks the cost of being a woman, why the bill runs higher for women of color, and how closing the gaps moves us ALL forward. #blacksky #booksky #econsky PRE-ORDER NOW: tinyurl.com/doubletax-or... Get Involved: tinyurl.com/doubletax-join

What do you get when thousands of federal workers are laid off, millions of borrowers' credit scores drop 100s of points, and billions of dollars of federal funding evaporates over the course of a few months? Idk, but I bet it starts with an 'R'

Remote work doesn't thwart productivity. It boosts focus. Government workers are 12% more productive when randomly assigned to work from home. They're more efficient where it's quiet. Most people aren't shirking from home. They're escaping distractions and long commutes.

Reparations? In this economy? Yes, in fact, and now more than ever. Here's the latest from me on why it's critical we don't let the chaos of this political moment cause us to lose sight of our commitments to equity ✊🏾 Why we have to keep talking about reparations in 2025 www.epi.org/blog/reparat...

sites.utulsa.edu/chetu/event/... Cool new conference for those interested in political economy, keep this on your radar!

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, remember that children, poverty, and economic freedom were at the heart of Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. More than 60 years later, child poverty persists—especially for children of color. www.epi.org/blog/child-p...

Wishing you all a Very Normal, Largely Uneventful 2025, with little to no World Changing Events (at least one quarter, please?)

What he actually wants is for Black children (and adults) to turn off their pain receptors for injustice, so he doesn't have to hear them complaining about it. Nah. Stay sensitive to racism, it doesn't have to be inevitable. Calling it out is how we remove racists from the power structure

New in PN: RFK Jr. is a massive public health threat "Kennedy has articulated a vision that will, if enacted, lead to the deaths of untold numbers of people, many of whom have not even been born. It's difficult to overstate the long-term danger he poses."

Saw this post and was like "Damn it's been years can people let that man rest?? He was the King of Pop 😢" #twoamericas

I sincerely hope all of us on the progressive side of the world are taking rest and restoration seriously as we enter this new era of...chaos, is I guess the best term. What steps are we taking to stay mentally and spiritually healthy and grounded, in and out of work? #econsky #blacksky

5 days left to get 10 free ebooks from Haymarket

We popping out and showing people on #Blacksky? Bet 😂 In and out of cosplay #bookofclarence

What if, instead of trying to have a productive writing day, you aimed for a satisfying one instead?

People of Bluesky, let's get to know each other better- what's your favorite movie? Quote share your answer on GIF form! Mine was: Black Dynamite 🧨✊🏾

I refuse to join Bluesky- I don't want to become part of an Ekko chamber ⏱️

Glad to have contributed a chapter on stratification economics to this wonderful project- it continues to be relevant today, perhaps even more so! Shoutouts to @itsafronomics.bsky.social for pulling it together 👸🏿✊🏾

Sick of seeing the best of Black America being put in the same sentences as white mediocrity...happened with Kamala, happened with Beyonce, now Iron Mike is getting in the ring with a YouTuber? I'm tired boss 😮‍💨

A handful of billionaires now have unprecedented control over banking, the food we eat, the health care we can access and, now, the information we receive. This is what oligarchy looks like.

New report update from me via EPI. Either president was going to inherit a fairly strong economy, with racial disparities that stem from structural features of the labor market. With the incoming administration, addressing any of those persistent disparities becomes significantly more challenging

What you mean somebody put me in a pack, who tf said- OH, a "starter pack", I see I see. Carry on 😶‍🌫️😂 #blacksky

Who needs economists anyway? Are we here just to caution folks against the consequences of bad policy, to legitimize the status quo, or to chart a path toward somewhere new and bold? I'd argue the last few years have shown us that if it's the first two, people really are not trying to hear it 🤫