CSWEP strongly condemns Larry Summers’ behavior as revealed in the email correspondence with the late Jeffrey Epstein. While abuse of power in the economics profession is not new, rarely has the intent behind such abuse been so clearly stated.

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

The president has one core job under the Constitution: to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” Not thwarted, diverted, blunted, revised or ignored. Faithfully executed.

Today’s No Kings protest could be the largest single-day protest in U.S. history. People have power.

Yesterday, I asked Americans to tell me what a DOUBLING of health care premiums would mean for their families. Here are just a few of their responses:

We can fund health care and keep the government running, or we can shut everything down to raise prices on people. To me, that’s a pretty easy choice.

POLLS: Who do Americans blame for the gov't shutdown?* WASH POST 47% blame Trump/GOP 30% blame Dems MARIST 38% blame GOP 27% blame Dems NYT/SIENA 26% blame Trump/GOP 19% blame Dems MORNING CONSULT 45% blame GOP 32% blame Dems [*all taken b/w late Sept & Oct 1] www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Everyone should read this: Why Is Your Flight Always Delayed? Blame Government Shutdowns. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o...

Months of public pressure won't distract from the fact that the worsening affordability crisis is a result of the President Trump's mishandling of the economy, not Fed decisions. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Canary down.

Contrasting long-term vs short-term unemployed tells a huge story short-term unemployed is mostly about people losing jobs, long-term unemployed is about people not finding jobs

US blue-collar job growth has completely stagnated, hitting the lowest level since the onset of the pandemic—manufacturing is currently losing jobs at a rapid pace, and growth in construction/transportation has slowed to a crawl

Biden’s job market missed the predictions on the upside, not downside

Hi! How’s that economic working out for you? Recall what the last president did ⬇️

DC is not only a city with lots of pedestrians and cyclists, but a large deaf population. All are at risk when there are high speed chases on our streets. mayor.dc.gov/release/mayo....

Since I’ve lived in DC, two pedestrians have been killed on my block. High speed chases endanger all of us here in DC and MUST STOP: “Ten car chases. Six crashes. Park Police have new rules in Trump’s D.C.” www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

For your Econ 101 lessons …

President Trump’s federal takeover of D.C.’s local police is unprecedented. “The last person who asserted the authority to use military personnel for routine law enforcement anywhere in the country for any reason was King George,” a legal scholar said.

Kudos to the @financialtimes.com for getting the story right. Let’s not let President Trump distract us from downward trends in the labor market. Let’s reject his baseless attacks on the credibility of the data and focus on how his administration is harming America’s workers.

Access to broadband is essential — for work, school, and basic services. It’s also key to a thriving economy and American-made infrastructure. The Biden administration knew this, which is why we invested $42.25 billion in broadband deployment. BUT ...

Final CBO score of the "big beautiful bill" is out Largest Medicaid cuts ever - in fact, at least 4 times the size of the previous largest; $894-$990 bn cut Kicks 10 million off health insurance Largest SNAP cuts ever, $197 bn cut Still increases the deficit by $3.4 trillion from huge tax cuts

Every major health system in Louisiana is warning Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the state’s congressional delegation that the Senate GOP’s planned Medicaid cuts “would be historic in their devastation.”

Pro-equity = pro-growth (can someone please tell the Republicans?)

Staring at this chart as the Republicans work to pass their bill to gut America's clean energy investments and concede to a future of de-growth and being less competitive in the technologies that matter, which will lead to fewer good jobs here in the USA. Big Ugly Bill.

How messed up do you have to be to say that stripping health coverage from up to 16 million people, removing food from kids, and raising taxes on some low-income people is “immaterial”?

Where do I sign up?

These are lies

Republicans are about to decimate Medicaid across the country and their top two Senate leaders are trying to get their states exempted from the cuts at the 11th hour.

The Joint Committee on Taxation is up late and busts out this striking distributional analysis of the Senate bill on taxes:

This @washingtonpost.com visual sums it up: tax cuts (that go disproportionately to the richest) paid for in large part by cutting health care and food for millions of Americans, and adding to the national debt.

“The administration cut over $4.6 billion in grants related to pandemic response, both for Covid and future pandemics. It laid off experts on imminent health threats, such as widespread transmission of bird flu to humans, leaving the country dangerously unprepared for the next emergency.”

blackout bill seems bad, is bad

Republicans are now suddenly planning to TAX renewable energy, transforming the repeal of the IRA from a challenge to a full-blown crisis for American solar and wind. I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why. Please share! This is really important!!! @heatmap.news

Republicans are blowing it all up for tax cuts that give more than twice as much to the top 0.1% than to the bottom half of America combined. They aren’t breaking Senate rules to like provide health care or child care or education, but for tax cuts that disproportionately go to the rich.

And this was before the shenanigans this weekend. Rich get more and more, millions will lose health care, food, and access to good, clean energy jobs. Big Bad Bill.

Read the bill. And explain what it means: 😠 12 million people lose health care 😠 22% SNAP cut (nutrition program) 😠 $63,000 tax break for the top 1% 😠 Millions of lost clean energy jobs Working class people will lose jobs, health care, food and the rich get richer and richer Shameful

Did you know the 4 out of every 10 births are financed by Medicaid? Did you know that rises to almost 5 in 10 in nonmetro -- i.e., more rural -- areas? Yet, we have to kick them off Medicaid because millionaires and billionaires need another tax break. How shameful. www.kff.org/medicaid/sta...

Let this sink in ... 12 million people will lose their health insurance so that rich people can get yet another big tax break. 12 million lives will be directly harmed by Trump and the Republican's Big Bad Bill. 12 milliion.

The Senate Republican bill would cut SNAP by $186 billion - 22% by the final year. This would be by far the largest SNAP cut in history and would rip food assistance away from millions of households, including families with kids and veterans.

"The biggest jobs killing bill in the history of the country" That is how the North American Building Trades Unions describe the Republican budget bill. So where are the normally aggressive leaders of the Abundance Movement like @tednordhaus.bsky.social and @thebti.bsky.social? #energysky

Senate Republicans are calling to cut Medicaid and CHIP by over $1 trillion, growing to an 18% cut by 2034. This would be at least four times the size of the largest Medicaid cut in history.

Rural families will be so very much harmed by the Big Bad Bill. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/o...

"China installed 93 GW of solar capacity last month – almost 100 solar panels every second..."

It’s been exciting to watch the UK Labour government take on a fulsom strategy to foster economic competitiveness and create good jobs across the country. Many lessons from what we did in the United States—and a number of advantages that will help them succeed where we could not. on.ft.com/4eeQzaA

Please read and share this statement from Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark. (via WCCO reporter Caroline Cummings on X)

Fun times: E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

It's always interesting to compare the numbers to the Tea Party protests and the respective coverage of them.

I wish folks would ask the current administration this: Why is it that investment in the construction of manufacturing structures fell both times President Trump took the helm? And why did it rise so high and so fast under President Biden? Data from: www.industrydatanavigator.org/data-viewer/

I just created a quick map depicting which portions of the United States are now (as of today) or will imminently be (by early June) without 24/7 local National Weather Service coverage (per Washington Post reporting). #CAwx #CAfire #CAwater #ORwx #AKwx #WYwx #KSwx

Let's be real: if Republicans pass the House budget bill as is, it will murder the US nuclear industry, ruin our chances of winning the AI race (by constraining power supply), concede the global auto sector to China, and vaporize about half a trillion dollars of US manufacturing investment...