Great job MN Dept of Labor & Industry recovering wages owed to MN construction workers that their employers stole from them The underlying fraud hurt the underpaid workers, law-abiding construction companies, & taxpayers. MN's joint employer law enabled real accountability kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

Monica Prasad has an entire book on how tax cuts became the GOP's only cross faction policy, and by God, is it now Dem slopulist orthodoxy

"what if we created a big entitlement program and all it did is make people much better off financially?" do you hear yourself

I have long thought financial health was an underrated benefit. Everyone wants to measure health effects of medicaid but it is first and foremost financial insurance bsky.app/profile/nora...

Thinking about the Warsh testimony more, noteworthy how he highlights trimmed mean inflation. It just happens to be the lowest, of course. But it's a terrible lesson to draw from the past 6 years. It got it wrong in both directions, misleading many. newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/cherry-pic...

No no there’s not a lot of Will Stancil discourse. That’s just how it feeeeels to the average American. If you look at this graph, you can see how ….

I'm working on a story for Business Insider on the 2010s-era guys who supposedly had a great idea for an app and where they are now, given vibe coding. If you used to know one of these guys (or used to be one or still are) and want to chat, email me at [email protected].

you're gonna be shocked but it turns out this weird economic data is downstream of very poor survey design

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The problem with American oligarchy is that we only hear from those in the top <=15% of wealth. In that frame, the 2010's were the decade of cheap Ubers and six-figure tech jobs, not underemployment and deaths of despair. Likewise, the 2020s were about the DoorDash recession, not <4% unemployment.

This is how you know the economy is really bad, 40% of Americans earning more than $500,000 per year are living paycheck-to-paycheck /s

This is...100% wrong? Like the reason 2021-2024 had reduced income inequality and high wage growth is because of expansionary policy. It's important to *defend* such policies!

It's enraging how St*ncil and the "vibecession" ghouls (that sounds like the worst band ever) pretend they support lib-left fiscal policies when their claims can only justify the old austerity and technocratic policies that feed into income inequality and lack of social mobility but "liberally."

Centrists on here will say, "oh you want to firebomb a Walmart? That pales in comparison to my strategy, voting" and then firebomb a Walmart

It is funny seeing the resurgence of the 90s and early 2000s pop culture consensus that the worst possible fate is a steady but unfulfilling office job. This is a “soft man” belief, sustainable only in the greenhouse of full employment and labor scarcity, but must be learned again and again

I am reasonably good at argumentation and part of that is because I've done it a lot specifically on the Internet. The reason I operate in this manner is because I am very specifically trying to pin someone down on a very particular point.

Socrates: and what is the purpose of a screen? Gloucon: to look at S: just so. And where does one look when driving? G: at the road S: and does a man’s gaze best view object at a time, or two? G: surely just one S: indeed - thus it cannot be proper for a car to have a screen

New USDA data released today: H.R. 1 enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history last July. By January, more than 3 million fewer people were receiving food assistance. Nationwide, SNAP caseloads fell by more than 8% in just 6 months — despite no improvement in economic conditions.

Good question.

Oh heyyyy check me out on @npr.org Marketplace's Make Me Smart! I talk about why Trump's Mass Deportation is harming the labor market, harming US-born workers, and why the false narratives about mass deportations persist Make Me Smart www.marketplace.org/shows/shows/...

🫠 To be clear, the "congo line" cometh because others are willing to may more for American barrels, which is how the global deficit price pain spreads to North America.

Researchers writing about their work frequently rely on clichés. Yet, little is known about how such clichés affect

I recently had the opportunity to chat with @socio-steve.bsky.social about the scope & findings of my book Coverage Denied, which came out today. I had a lot to say, so it turned into a 2-part series that spans the patient and physician experiences of ins barriers. open.substack.com/pub/roosevel...

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented The Nice Place To Immigrate To as a cautionary tale. Countries: At long last, we have created The Nice Place To Immigrate To from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Nice Place To Immigrate To.

one very basic question is "why did this start mattering in 2020 specifically" and a second somewhat more obscure question is "why is the vibecession larger the richer you are" substack.com/home/post/p-...

This week on fireside stacks ( @rooseveltforward.org ) I sat down with @mirandayaver.bsky.social to discuss her new book, "Coverage Denied," which deals with one of the lesser understood aspects of our health insurance maze. You can find part I below. 1/2 www.firesidestacks.com/p/when-healt...

The thing about Camp of the Saints is that...when it was written, it wasn't some hazy prediction, the author said "This is happening RIGHT NOW!" and yet, FIFTY YEARS LATER, and society persists as a place where immigrants live side by side by people when they're not being brutalized by fascist thugs

“Let people enjoy things”—no. Nobody should enjoy selection bias or measurement bias

Claims: 1/ Initial claims at 214K, below year-ago levels (and very close to where we were in 2023 and 2024). Layoffs have decreased this year. We may see a brief spike next week or the following one due to spring break

How to post on a twitterlike: 1. spend 20 min listing edge cases and objections to your point, 2. compress each quibble into a single word choice that implicitly addresses it 3. finally, watch replies to the post ignore those qualifiers and perfectly recreate the original list of objections

I will literally draw you a picture.

get in loser we’re being prosocial we’re paying our taxes we are NOT stealing from whole foods

This was my prediction from 3 years ago.

I'm sure I'm just repeating old truths here, but: the older you get the more you appreciate someone who isn't afraid of eating shit, getting up, and moving forward. It's more trust-building to be someone who can show the scars of stupidity than maintain a kayfabe of Threading The Needle of life.

i wonder if back when they invented hammers they had hammerpunk fiction predicting what the world would look like in the future when hammers were widely distributed lol

In "Matt and Brian solve the vibecession" - the hosts @mattyglesias.bsky.social and @brianbeutler.bsky.social discuss findings from The Wage Standard. www.politix.fm/p/matt-and-b...

Vibecoding political maps of Mirkwood circa TA 2953. ... Is this how it starts? cc @mytholder.bsky.social

There's an unfilled niche for this stuff. It used to be the domain of voxplainers, but I haven't seen one of those in a while, e.g. www.vox.com/2017/9/8/162... Stuff with more research and less reliance on immediate factfinding than snopes, but with the same role.

Not a single shred of evidence in the article that this is an actual trend. www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

New Census Working Paper: "Unemployment Insurance Extensions, Labor Market Concentration, and Match Quality" by David Wasser www.census.gov/library/work...

I'll be at a workshop organized by @rohanalexander.bsky.social next week on how AI will change quantitative social science. This is my short paper, and this is the key argument. ryancbriggs.net/blog/as-ai-l...

this article convinced me that the tax should be $10

The propsective Fed Chair refuses to say whether cutting interest rates 250bps would stimulate the economy and boost inflation

90 mins in and we have our first discussion of the full employment mandate*! *it's about AI, and how it will eliminate jobs

For @slate.com & @economichardship.bsky.social, I reported on how chaos and changes surrounding SNAP benefits are taking a toll. People described endless fear and worry over feeding their kids, where their next meal will come from, and whether SNAP could become even more difficult to access.