Congress just reintroduced the Healthy Families Act—7 days of paid sick leave for private sector workers. Wild that in 2026 this is still a fight. Massive thanks to @delauro.house.gov & @sanders.senate.gov  for leading the charge alongside 165+ congressional members. Working people deserve better.

Congress just reintroduced the Healthy Families Act—7 days of paid sick leave for private sector workers. Wild that in 2026 this is still a fight. Massive thanks to @delauro.house.gov & @sanders.senate.gov  for leading the charge alongside 165+ congressional members. Working people deserve better.

Roses are red, violets are blue, Trump's tariffs are tanking the economy, and they're ruining Valentine's Day, too.

🚨 NEW EPISODE of... "From D.C. Across the Americas" This week: co-director @MarkWeisbroton US sanctions "The US has enormous power over the international financial system, which makes US sanctions much more powerful, and therefore, deadly." FULL VIDEO: https://tinyurl.com/2w648f6w

"The resolution...proposes an alternative—'a New Good Neighbor policy, designed to foster improved relations and deepen more effective cooperation with all the countries of the Western Hemisphere'—to replace the Monroe Doctrine." @elpais.com 

"The challenges we face today, from drug trafficking to mass deportations to mass migration to climate change, cannot be solved through domination and military intervention. They require real partnerships based on mutual respect and mutual collaboration." -  @velazquez.house.gov

"For more than 200 years, the U.S. has used the Monroe Doctrine to justify a paternalistic, violent, and damaging approach to relations with our neighbors in Latin America and in the Caribbean." -  @ramirez.house.gov calling to bury the Monroe Doctrine today in Congress.

"A group of progressive Democrats on Tuesday introduced a resolution to 'leave the Monroe Doctrine to the dustbin of history,' in the words of @NydiaVelazquez and replace it with a foreign policy in the Western Hemisphere based on mutual cooperation and respect."

#BREAKING: 18 Members of Congress, led by @velazquez.house.gov and @ramirez.house.gov and backed by 30+ organizations, introduce a resolution to officially bury the Monroe Doctrine and adopt a Good Neighbor Policy toward Latin America and the Caribbean based on peace and mutual respect.

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From tariffs to federal hiring freezes, Trump’s policies negatively impacted Black employment across all age groups in 2025. @a-austin.bsky.social  outlines the federal and local policy choices needed to bring Black unemployment back down from recession levels.  https://bit.ly/4qQIoHe

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From tariffs to federal hiring freezes, Trump’s policies negatively impacted Black employment across all age groups in 2025. @a-austin.bsky.social  outlines the federal and local policy choices needed to bring Black unemployment back down from recession levels. 

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From tariffs to federal hiring freezes, Trump’s policies negatively impacted Black employment across all age groups in 2025. @a-austin.bsky.social  outlines the federal and local policy choices needed to bring Black unemployment back down from recession levels.  https://bit.ly/4qQIoHe

The AI boom is starting to look a lot like past tech bubbles. @deanbaker13.bsky.social warns that consumption is growing increasingly unstable and outpacing wage growth, raising major recession risks if the bubble bursts.  https://bit.ly/4q2FaPH

From tariffs to federal hiring freezes, Trump’s policies negatively impacted Black employment across all age groups in 2025. @a-austin.bsky.social  outlines the federal and local policy choices needed to bring Black unemployment back down from recession levels. 

99% of employers report positive outcomes. The cruelty is in knowing this works—and still denying it. #fmla33 #paidleave #paidleaveforall

America is a forced labor camp. Once you wrap your mind around that a lot of things make more sense.

NEW from CEPR's Peter Hart: On FMLA's 33rd anniversary, gaps are stark: 44% of workers can't access unpaid leave, 73% lack paid leave, and 95% of lowest-wage workers have nothing. The US is one of only 6 countries w/o national paid leave. A national program is long overdue.: https://bit.ly/4kjMIMp

🚨 NEW EPISODE From D.C. Across the Americas 🇨🇴 🇺🇸 This week, CEPR research fellow Mario Osorio analyzes the recent Petro-Trump meeting, where U.S.-Colombia relations go from here, and why everyone should pay attention to Colombia's upcoming elections in May. Full video: https://tinyurl.com/25ehnnjk

Today is the 33rd anniversary of FMLA—12 weeks of UNPAID leave that 44% of workers can't even access. The "party of family values" has spent three decades blocking anything better. #paidleave

NEW: Upcoming revisions to BLS jobs reports will show fewer jobs and fewer people employed. @deanbaker13.bsky.social explains that these are routine statistical corrections, not signs of a sudden labor market downturn. https://bit.ly/49Zoofy

40 years of union data reveals notable shifts: private sector membership decreased while public held steady, gender gap nearly closed, and public/private sectors now equal in size. Full analysis: https://bit.ly/4sXZi82

Venezuelan oil output increases as the US lifts some sanctions, Gustavo Petro + Donald Trump meet today at the White House and Pope Leo XIV calls for US-Cuba dialogue after Trump threatens 30% tariffs on countries sending Cuba oil. These updates and more 👇

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In January's edition of CEPR's #SanctionsWatch: Trump eases some sanctions on 🇻🇪 oil sector Protests in 🇮🇷 sparked by sanctions-fueled crisis Trump threatens tariffs on countries sending oil to 🇨🇺 Sanctions cut 🇷🇺 oil exports, prices 🇸🇾 revitalizes currency & oil production https://tinyurl.com/yzwdk64e

Union membership held at 10% in 2025, but who unions represent has transformed. Women now make up 46% of members (up from 33% in '83) while Black workers remain most unionized. New from @hcbrown.bsky.social : https://bit.ly/4sXZi82

⚠️ When the AI bubble collapses, the risk of recession is high. @deanbaker13.bsky.social points out that a 3.4% drop in the labor compensation ratio equals about $1 trillion in annual spending that would disappear if the bubble pops. ⚠️ https://bit.ly/4q2FaPH

Black unemployment surged from 6.2% to 7.5% in 2025, a level that would signal a recession if experienced nationwide. @a-austin.bsky.social  urges federal, state, and local policymakers to reverse recent policy rollbacks and restore protections for Black workers.  https://bit.ly/4qQIoHe

Today is "running out of workers" day at the Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0... Tomorrow will be AI is taking all the jobs day. I guess the fact that these concerns are completely contradictory is too simple for the great minds at the WaPo.

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Next was an informative panel on the US union landscape at @ceprdc.bsky.social with @hcbrown.bsky.social, Suresh Naidu, and Aurelia Glass www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5GW... (3/7)

Trump’s threat to impose a 100% tariff on Canadian imports would cause a $300B tax hike, roughly $2.4K per household. @deanbaker13.bsky.social says this will hit American pockets hard, as 96% of Trump’s tariffs are paid by US citizens and businesses. https://bit.ly/4kd2hph

The Trump administration’s mishandling of #FEMA has left the US dangerously underprepared for the next major crisis. Staffing cuts, leadership turmoil, and a lack of clear direction have crippled the agency’s disaster response. 

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President Lula of Brazil spoke yesterday with President Trump and agreed to meet soon in Washington to discuss the situation in Venezuela, Trump’s proposed “Board of Peace” for Gaza, and the fight against organized crime. These updates and more here ➡️ https://tinyurl.com/bd6ymtn6

Dismantling #FEMA is a mistake, one that could cost lives. @mattsedlar.bsky.social#FEMAsays the Trump administration’s lack of leadership will weaken national disaster response when the next crisis hits.  https://bit.ly/4qvGtHE

The Trump administration’s mishandling of #FEMA has left the US dangerously underprepared for the next major crisis. Staffing cuts, leadership turmoil, and a lack of clear direction have crippled the agency’s disaster response. 

HAPPENING NOW: Where's the BLS union data? We're not waiting—join our expert panel breaking down the state of worker power and organizing trends. Steven Greenhouse, Suresh Naidu, Hayley Brown & Aurelia Glass are live. Join: https://bit.ly/MissingBLS

Black families with high medical expenses pay over 4X what the typical Black family pays ($11.6K vs $2.65K). For Hispanic families, it's 5X more ($12.6K vs $2.5K). Health care costs are deepening racial wealth gaps. Our latest research:

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By fast-tracking a bilateral investment treaty with the UAE and bypassing Ecuador's judiciary and legislature, President Noboa is ignoring the Constitution and the will of his people in favor of corporate colonialism, CEPR experts Mario Osorio and Pedro Labayen Herrera write. https://bit.ly/4sVwqgT

If the nearly $5 billion of Venezuela's special drawing rights (SDRs) are released, it could help the country's central bank fight inflation & purchase urgent necessities like food + medicine, CEPR's Alex Main and Ivana Vasic-Lalovic write in @phenomenalworld.bsky.social.

For the first time in decades, BLS isn't releasing January union data. What does this mean for workers? Join @hcbrown.bsky.social, @jaureliaglass.bsky.social & leading experts as we fill the gaps with CEPR's independent analysis. https://bit.ly/MissingBLS

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CEPR's @jakobjohnston.bsky.social cited today in @newhumanitarian.bsky.social: "After the [2010 earthquake in Haiti], humanitarian organizations distributed more than 40 million pounds of food. Almost all of it was imported. For many local farmers, that was a death sentence."