Our nation’s labor laws are broken. There are strategies that worker advocates and lawmakers in pro-worker and even anti-worker states can employ to fill gaps left by federal labor law. Read the latest from @sharblock.bsky.social and @rdnayak.bsky.social clje.law.harvard.edu/leveraging-t...

Not unrelated -- here's a short pitch on why prevailing wages are good for the abundance agenda: onlabor.org/why-prevaili...

Love this report on the importance of worker power to the abundance agenda! @awhf.bsky.social and Kate have been so compelling on this intersection.

I for one love this metaphor! More pie is good!

Find CLJE Fellow @rdnayak.bsky.social and Executive Director @sharblock.bsky.social in @harvardsalata.bsky.social’s new interdisciplinary white paper on how extreme heat is reshaping life and livelihoods across India ⬇️ salatainstitute.harvard.edu/rethinking-h...

The Trump admin has harmed workers, unions and our economy by using violent immigration enforcement tactics as a distraction while they gutted worker protections, health care and good union jobs. Read our new report, Workers’ Rights ICE-d Out: https://aflcio.org/reports/workers-rights-iced-out

The checks and balances we were taught to trust? They’re not holding. Courts get overruled. Congress is standing down. The Supreme Court is concentrating its own power. @sarahrknight.bsky.social But how can states fix it? Let us explain: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Thanks to Democracy Journal for publishing my new piece on abundance—and why empowering communities can help build more and faster than before. (And thanks to all who gave me feedback along the way!) democracyjournal.org/arguments/a-...

Critics say distributional weighting in benefit-cost analysis is impractical But Dan Acland @goldmanschool.bsky.social proves otherwise—showing how weighting can overcome bias against low income & bridge divide b/w equity & efficiency equitablegrowth.org/research-pap... @equitablegrowth.bsky.social

This report is a tour de force and worth reading closely. This is one of my favorite sections, which captures an important lesson: if your risk tolerance is too low, you'll get a lot less done. That's not a reason to be reckless or act illegally, but at least to err on the side of action.

I love @dougbloch.bsky.social, Sameera Fazili, and Pronita Gupta making the case for the stabilizing impacts of community bargaining agreements! www.utilitydive.com/news/communi...

Fantastic report by the SHIFT Project team + @profsheenalives.bsky.social and @juliesulabor.bsky.social

Great op-ed from Seema Nanda on the DOL's attack on the homecare workers -- stripping wages from workers in one of the hardest jobs out there.

🚨Panel tomorrow🚨 Honored to join fellow panelists Julie Su and and Daniel Hornung. The BLS is vital to our economy, plain and simple. Join tomorrow to hear more about the agency, what it does, and why we need it. groundworkcollaborative.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Dr. Erika McEntarfer has devoted her career to public service. She has conducted herself as BLS Commissioner with great integrity. There is no evidence whatsoever that BLS data are politically biased. #econsky

Trump firing Commissioner of Labor Statistics Dr. Erika McEntarfer is completely consistent with how he behaves when presented with data he doesn’t like. He did this with the sharpie hurricane and he did it with the pandemic. Data are not political, they are data.

I have spent most of my life making government work for people. But the institutions I love have been losing faith with the public for a long time. If we love government, then when we rebuild it we’ll have to be willing to break some glass to make it deliver like FDR did.

Very thoughtful piece by @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social and Hannah Garden-Monheit on what it will take to rebuild the federal government -- which will include thinking big. thehill.com/opinion/whit...

Justice Connection sent a letter signed by 900+ former DOJ attorneys urging the Senate Judiciary Committee to rigorously examine Emil Bove’s assault on the department and rule of law before voting on a lifetime judicial appointment. Our full letter: bit.ly/3Ul58Ac

Bossware is on the rise—and it’s threatening #WorkersRights. Our policy agenda examines how unchecked workplace surveillance is degrading job quality & highlights worker-led solutions that use tech to empower, not exploit. It's time for lawmakers to follow their lead: www.nelp.org/insights-res...

I was excited to write this piece for Democracy Journal with my @cljeharvard.bsky.social colleauges @sharblock.bsky.social and Seema Nanda – explaining the attack on the National Labor Relations Act, and the stakes for workers and our democracy.

As Team Trump takes a bat to workers' rights, it's a “Which side are you on?” moment. Some Democratic leaders are waffling or worse. Instead they should unambiguously stand for workers every chance they get. My latest in @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1972...

The sad and preventable return of black lung. And Trump just paused enforcement of a rule that would address it. A friend of coal miners? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w... @jbarab.bsky.social @aflcio.org @rdnayak.bsky.social

This great analysis by Sam Berger explains how the Republican Tax Bill makes it harder for families to access services and costs them benefits even if they qualify. www.cbpp.org/research/fed...

Sometimes I feel like the Trump era has presented a kind of trolling, darkly humorous test to American liberals: * Everything you have been skeptical of since the 1960s—or since you became a politically conscious person, with a sensibility shaped by that era—you will now be forced to _defend_. *

Administrative burdens: policymaking by other means

Kind of baffled by this passage. Starts off saying the funds were "wasted" on "equity projects". Then says that by equity she means making the system easier to use and more accessible, which sounds like a good thing to do. Then she says that didn't count as bad DEI.

Check out my new piece on the dangers of the Supreme Court giving Trump the power to control independent agencies- scary, radical stuff.

Friendly reminder that the most important things for most businesses to make decisions and investments are the rule of law and regulatory certainty.

New, from me: Quick explainer on why the Supreme Court (likely) decision to overturn Humphrey's Executor and move toward unitary executive theory will undermine any future efforts to rebuild state capacity. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/why-the-su...

Read for yourself this provision of the reconciliation bill, which is the current text just released by the House Rules Committee. Then read: Dean Erwin Chemerinsky's essay this morning in @justsecurity.org. Chemerinsky's essay is titled: "A Terrible Idea" www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...

Our best chance to stop this thing is in the House. Rs are trying to pass it though Budget tonight, through Rules Wednesday, and then through the full chamber on Friday. It would kick millions off Medicaid and take food assistance away from households with kids as young as 7. Please help stop it.

BREAKING: Judge blocks President Trump’s unconstitutional campaign to radically restructure and dismantle the federal government. This ruling is one of many that prove Elon Musk, DOGE, and even the president himself are not above the rule of law and the will of the American people.

This is a fantastic opporutnity to fund research on the Inflation Reduction Act, and a positive vision for creating jobs all around the nation!

A LOT of people do not want to hear it but in the United States at least, food has never been safer to eat, not to mention tastier

No taxes on overtime just isn't the same without overtime rights. Will President Trump fight for them? (From my former Biden DOL colleagues Seema Nanda and Jessica Looman.) otherwords.org/biden-gave-m...

Great look at key indicators from @aimstettner.bsky.social and @tcfdotorg.bsky.social .

DOGE is counting on fired federal workers being unable to afford the lawyers they need to understand and protect their rights. Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network is connecting thousands of lawyers with federal workers for free legal support. WorkersLegalDefense.org/

How does this square with cuts to mine safety? x.com/jmain_joe/st...

Strategic tariffs & investments can grow an economy. But Trump's sledgehammer tariffs, combined with attacks on collective bargaining & mass worker layoffs, leave consumers afraid to spend money & investors looking elsewhere. This endangers economic prosperity. www.cnn.com/2025/04/03/i...

Smart tariffs can be a useful tool. Strategic restructuring can make government work better for the people. But the last 73 days have been all chainsaws, no scalpels, and the potential impacts are alarming.

This is a fantastic opporutnity to fund research on the Inflation Reduction Act, and a positive vision for creating jobs all around the nation!

A FU to workers. Stripping away a tiny agency that made such a difference in making sure workers don’t get killed on the job. www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...

Koh: I think if this is a president who really wanted to empower workers, he wouldn't have just stripped 700,000 people of their collective bargaining rights..

Building climate resilience must be a collaborative and interdisciplinary effort and we need multiple voices at the table in order to shape effective policy. Read more from @sharblock.bsky.social and @rdnayak.bsky.social as they return from #India2047 salatainstitute.harvard.edu/how-work-and...

@sharblock.bsky.social and @rdnayak.bsky.social presented on the hazard of extreme heat on workers in the U.S. & India at #India2047, hosted by @harvardsalata.bsky.social and The Mittal Institute. Experts from various fields addressed challenges for living a decent life when temperatures are rising.