Work stuff! A shiny new episode of @epi.org's podcast is live, this time featuring @chloeneast.bsky.social, @aaronsojourner.org, and Erica Williams discussing "The Cost of DHS Attacks on Immigrants." Available wherever fine podcasts are downloaded. Also here: www.epi.org/podcast/

NEW features on Relevant Football. In this update, you can now see a few basic health statistics for each Country. www.relevant-football.com/country/moro...

Also excited to see which local and state media lose their shit over this and reveal their politics in the process

WOOOOOOOOO Extremely excited about this and proud of my union, Denver DSA, and other local organizations for helping to turn her campaign into a movement.

I am stunned that the constitutional question was so close. I thought it would be 6–3 or 7–2. It is profoundly disturbing that four justices would allow either the president or Congress to rewrite the plain text of the 14th Amendment. This is obviously a good outcome, but the margin is alarming.

5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

The Supreme Court's second opinion is NRSC v. FEC. By a 6–3 vote, the court guts another campaign finance statute and overturns a 2001 precedent that upheld restrictions on political parties' coordinated expenditures with candidates. The three liberals dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court ruled that states can ban transgender girls from school sports. This is a devastating ruling for trans students across the country who simply want the freedom to play with their friends.

ICYMI I spoke with @aaronsojourner.org and @ericawilli.bsky.social in an @epi.org webinar last week about the economic and labor impacts of ICE activity in Trump 2.0 Recording with lots of info and references available here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPVR...

I learned much from this event. Listen to @chloeneast.bsky.social and @aaronsojourner.org discuss their research on the economic costs of what ICE is to our communities.

JFC I don’t know how many more ways I can say that my decade of research and the research of others find that deportations are bad for the economy and this decision will only harm workers.

The Supreme Court just ruled that the Trump admin can terminate Temporary Protected Status for Haiti and Syria, and jeopardized 1.3 MILLION TPS holders across the country. This decision is wrong. It’s bad for our communities, our economy and our country.

We just finished a great @epi.org webinar with @aaronsojourner.org @chloeneast.bsky.social and Erica Williams. It's our 9th webinar this year! If you missed one, we post them all to our site & we publish them via our podcast. Which you can find on Apple, Spotify, or right here: www.epi.org/podcast/

Tomorrow! A great, if depressing, conversation with me @aaronsojourner.org and @ericawilli.bsky.social about the economic harm the Department of Homeland Security in Trump 2.0 is causing. Register below!

The Trump administration's deployment of DHS agencies has caused irreparable harm with economic costs that are substantial—and mounting. @aaronsojourner.org @chloeneast.bsky.social @ericawilli.bsky.social break it down for you this Thursday at 1p EST. Register now us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

What are the economic consequences of the Trump administration’s deployment of DHS agencies such as ICE? @aaronsojourner.org, @chloeneast.bsky.social, and @ericawilli.bsky.social assess the numbers at an upcoming @epi.org webinar.

it is frustrating to see calls for a general strike when people having no understanding that there isn’t a lot of power in that if people don’t belong to some sort of organizing home. you need a way for people to have collective power for more than a day.

It seems we are now entering a new phase of the rise of inequality in the US. It's not just wealth and billionaires — it's a broader acceleration. Here's who benefited from economic growth in 2025, according to the latest estimates available on realtimeinequality.org

Nostalgia run through the UT campus trying not to get heatstroke! The rec sports office I worked at in college! The field I played flag football on! The Econ department! (A little bittersweet to be a longhorn these days with the state's political control over the university.)

Very excited to be at my first Labor Notes conference this year!

How are immigration raids and deportations damaging the labor market? Upcoming @epi.org webinar with new research and insights from the great @chloeneast.bsky.social @aaronsojourner.org @ericawilli.bsky.social

The Economic Cost of DHS Attacks on Immigrants @epi.org webinar with @chloeneast.bsky.social, me, and Erica Williams us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The gap between politicians action and the will of the people is so stark This is why political organizing work is crucial right now www.aclu.org/press-releas...

Anyway, my deep and sincere thanks to @chloeneast.bsky.social & @adrianna.bsky.social for rapidly providing this explainer. It is critical that people who know the issue push back against misleading govt info. Reporters: you know who to call on this topic! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

We're all so lucky that @chloeneast.bsky.social & @adrianna.bsky.social took the time to apply their expertise to this sham of a report.

Having relied on HHS's planning and evaluation office to provide solid evidence for assessing important policies, I'm very disappointed at their hack job supporting the Trump work requirements. @adrianna.bsky.social and @chloeneast.bsky.social have the goods. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Satisfying to help set the record on work requirements straight with @adrianna.bsky.social "Given the research evidence and policy details, we conclude that, in the real world, Medicaid work requirements are much more likely to worsen poverty than to reduce it."

Even if you take the ASPE report's lit review at face value — and you shouldn't, it skips critical recent + relevant work — the rosiest 1990s work requirements study in their technical appendix suggests an effect size less than 10% of what the report's "model" projects with @chloeneast.bsky.social:

New at Can We Still Govern: The Trump admin released a report saying that Medicaid work requirements will increase work and reduce poverty. There is a technical term for this: malarkey. Actual experts @chloeneast.bsky.social & @adrianna.bsky.social break it down. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

Not only do Medicaid work requirements not increase employment, but a majority of adults on Medicaid already work.“It’s hard not to think that the cruelty of the policy is the point,” @chloeneast.bsky.social said. “Adding work requirements to Medicaid is part of a massive shift in our safety net."

Medicaid work requirements were always going to be cruel. Then, the White House intervened (likely) and made the definition of who can be exempt based on disabilities/health much stricter. This is going to kill people. New from me at @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I wrote about Delaney Hall, the ICE concentration camp where imprisoned immigrants are staging a work and hunger strike. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

HHS's review skips every paper about SNAP work requirements. Maybe bc @chloeneast.bsky.social & my “conclusion from a review of the literature on work requirements is that the best evidence shows they do not increase employment.” aspe.hhs.gov/reports/medi... www.hamiltonproject.org/publication/...

Brutal to watch this administration twist research on a topic I've spent years working on to fit the narrative they want The research is clear that work requirements won't lead to big increases in work or reductions in poverty This is why I feel political organizing work is part of my job rn

Excellent new @brookings.edu analysis on the economic fallout from ICE in Trump 2.0 www.brookings.edu/articles/ice...

Excited to have my first piece out in @theconversation.com today! Covering two of my recent papers that show how ICE activity is different in Trump 2.0 than the past 10 years and why this matters for the labor market. theconversation.com/when-ice-ram...

My new research on ICE's negative labor market effects has hit over *2 billion* potential media views. I think that qualifies as viral? 👀

Story out today on my new research in the @nytimes.com We find ICE activity in Trump 2.0 hurt the labor market and hurt US-born workers. Article: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/r... Paper: www.nber.org/papers/w3512...

*** NEW RESEARCH *** Images of ICE targeting US cities have been commonplace in since January 2025. What's the economic effect of this new immigration enforcement regime on businesses, both workplaces and retailers, in targeted areas? Thread... 🧵

Ooooooo I'm making the Department of Homeland Security mad with my new research y'all Check out @planetmoney.bsky.social's coverage of my research on the labor market effects of ICE in Trump 2.0 and DHS' response here: www.npr.org/sections/pla...

Directed me to a pregnancy center in my area that discourages abortion, shames people who have gotten an abortion, and includes bible quotes. Did not list as options planned parenthood or any other clinic that performs abortion in my area.

Productivity hack: just don't respond to emails...

Prominent WSJ coverage of important research on negative impact of deportations on other workers by @chloeneast.bsky.social and Elizabeth Cox, both at @colorado.edu. www.nber.org/papers/w35129

Great WaPo article out on our paper where they got the White House to respond to our findings! 🤭

Listening to the new Noah Kahan album on the bus from Dartmouth to the Boston airport while grading is a vibe to close out a looooong but great academic year. Pic from fabulous run along the Connecticut river this morning

New paper (w @elizabethacox.bsky.social ): Labor Market Impacts of ICE Activity in Trump 2.0 ICE activity reduced employment for undocumented immigrants in US, did NOT increase employment for U.S.-born workers & generated negative spillovers in immigrant-intensive sectors bit.ly/3QZWbxW

Heading out for work trip 6 of 6 this semester. (I’m exhausted, thanks for asking.) Barely made it on my flight but now on my way to give a seminar at Dartmouth!

Ironic to have a labor economics conference on May Day aka International Workers’ Day! You can catch me speaking at the May Day rally in Denver tomorrow in between SOLE conference sessions!

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/...

"The proposed rule threatens to terminate housing assistance for almost 80,000 low-income people, including 37,000 children, most of whom are U.S. citizens or otherwise “qualified” noncitizens, and to force the harmful separation or displacement of about 20,000 mixed-status families…"