theconversation.com/when-unpaid-... @leilagautham.bsky.social Also, inflation bites harder now than in the past--a larger share of total household consumption of goods and services is purchased in the market. No wonder people are feeling broke!

Terrific new report lays out an ambitious yet realistic vision for the U.S. care economy. tcf.org/content/repo... #CareCantWait #ChildCareForAll #PaidLeaveForAll

Hi five! Kiss the rich! The share of consumer spending by the top 10% has increased from 35% in 1994 to 49.2% today. tinyurl.com/ezyuf8u9

Whose economy? Not yours, unless you're in the top 10% (households making more than $250,000 a year) that account for 49% of all consumer spending these days. Sales of luxury goods and services are keeping the economy afloat... #inequality tinyurl.com/msz3u8n9

"Who's afraid of the Democratic Socialists?" and... "Socialism is emerging as the populist alternative on the left." from the pages of The Economist, September 15, 2025 #Mamdani

Watch the actual Fox News broadcast "joking" about lethal injections for the homeless. #homeless #evil www.mediamatters.org/fox-friends/....

Parents shouldn’t be going bankrupt paying for childcare. It’s time to rebuild our country’s childcare infrastructure to actually benefit families. Let’s pass my bill to offer care for $10/day while paying employees at least $24/hour.

New Mexico is the first state to commit to free, universal childcare and preschool www.krqe.com/news/politic...

New Mexico becomes first state to offer free childcare for all: ‘model for the nation’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Helpful. By @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social here: www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-york-s...

Famous last words, eh. I’m not feeling any sadness. Remembering his utterly disgusting words towards women. He told Taylor Swift & all women to “submit.” To husbands. To men. Disgusting prick. Wonder why the old guy shot him, though. 🤔

From @theguardian.com: "Irish woman with green card faces US deportation over $25 bad cheque. [She] has lived in US since 1977 and wrote cheque a decade ago, being held in isolation by Ice." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

The private cost of children in the U.S. is at least twice as high as conventional estimates suggest. #feministeconomics www.dollarsandsense.org/the-underest...

"So many girls, so little time"- quote from the Epstein birthday book. But a picture from the book is so much more telling--about rags to riches, from torn jeans to sex slaves--the intersection of class and gender (and, implicitly race). #Epstein #feminist

Individuals working freelance day jobs are now considered "suspects." Perhaps they will soon be required to wear a yellow star on their outer clothing to identify their "alien" status. #ice the.ink/p/illegal-un...

False promises, blue collar blues, and bye bye manufacturing. So far this year jobs in this sector have declined by 38,000. #stagflation www.wsj.com/opinion/augu...

Since our President prefers Diet Coke for breakfast, he might not have noticed that that ground roast coffee prices are up 38% from a year ago. #inflation www.cnbc.com/2025/09/04/w....

Most so-called pronatalist policies in the U.S. seriously underestimate the costs and risks of raising children in today’s economic environment. They also ignore child poverty. #feminist #childpoverty #pronatalism www.dollarsandsense.org/more-babies-...

What could we do with the $5.7 trillion owned by billionaires in the U.S. today? Wall Street Journal notes it could buy a Corvette Stingray for every 65+ U.S. driver. I guess it knows its subscribers well, even as it reveals its own values. #plutocracy www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

MAGA personality Charlie Kirk tells Taylor Swift, "Engage in reality more… Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You're not in charge.” Travis, buddy, time for you to speak up. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Wall Street Journal wryly describes a Big Con. #crypto www.wsj.com/finance/inve...

The tools we have for managing inflation and unemployment are not only weak--they are also fundamentally biased against working people. Economist Bob Pollin explains: www.dollarsandsense.org/trump-tariff...

"The ACA Subsidy Expiration Will Hit Millions Hard" healthcareuncovered.substack.com/p/the-aca-su...

The fact that this administration is hell bent on punishing Kilmar Abrego Garcia while rewarding Ghislane Maxwell tells you all you need to know about their violent racism and misogyny.

Paul Krugman and Arin Dube are on the same page. The Lisa Cook case is first and foremost about the rule of law. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/in-the-mat...

Home care workers are now getting an official kick in the butt-they will no longer be guaranteed minimum wage or overtime protections. Evelyn Coke won a 2007 court case that laid a legal foundation for such guarantees. Keep her face in mind and push back. #care tinyurl.com/5xs5ehxk

"Trump’s Motives Can Be Opaque. I Asked a Feminist Economist to Bare Them." ...and they're not pretty! (C.J. Polychroniou interviews me at Truthout.org)

What side are you on? "...what Trump is really waging is mostly a class war against middle- and lower-income Americans rather than a trade war against other countries. The hit from his tariffs to the typical family is much bigger than the hit to GDP." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-econom...

The reserve army of impersonators continues to feed on the embodied labor of human minds. Direct quote from Wall Street Journal today: "CEOs are now talking openly about AI's immense capabilities likely leading to job cuts." #ai #jobcuts www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

Maybe you thought the new Child Tax Credit was actually going to help kids? Wrong... #childcosts brucelesley.substack.com/p/the-child-...

Legal abuses of immigrants are going to hurt our economy. #peri #immigration www.dollarsandsense.org/wages-employ...

Economist Gerald Epstein explains the crypto grift: www.dollarsandsense.org/crypto-what-... #crypto

Paul Krugman takes down the trade deal with Japan, which is likely to hurt all of us, including our auto manufacturers. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Really proud of this! I wrote a proposal for the @rooseveltinstitute.org about how to design a universal system for child care, after school, and summer. In my latest newsletter, I talk about what it would look like, how it would work, and the potential it holds. open.substack.com/pub/kedsecon...

Exclusive: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication. My latest. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Underpaid or overpaid? aeaweb.org via @aeajournals This research on the UK pay transparency rule suggests that an equalizing effect came from lower wages for men rather than higher wages for women. Need more research on why.

Medicaid Kayfabe: Fake Wrestling www.dollarsandsense.org/medicaid-kay... In the so-called debate over the Big Beautiful Bill, most Republicans were just pretending.

substack.com/home/post/p-... We should have a contest for the most preposterous MAGA claims: Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins claims that able-bodied adults on Medicaid can replace the immigrants growing and harvesting our crops this summer. Just look at the numbers presented here:

Krugman provides a hilarious take-down of Trump's form letter to South Korea, demanding that it remove non-existent tariffs on imports from the U.S. substack.com/home/post/p-...

About "distributional criminality," a technical term for "eat the poor." www.dollarsandsense.org/no-matter-ho...

The sounds of a reserve army of androids on the march: Featured in the Wall Street Journal: "CEOs are no longer dodging the question of whether AI takes jobs. Instead, they are giving predictions of how deep those cuts could go." www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-w...

This is great. But the term "working week" is being applied to paid work. More time freed up for personal, family, and community care work is a big plus, but let's keep track of who is actually doing that care work and how it is or is not being rewarded.

An apt headline, as Senator Murkowski from Alaska caved to pressure from the Top. substack.com/@perticone? #careeconomy #healthcare

How and why more people will die as a result of recent and upcoming budget cuts-- includes a link to an open letter of protest from 6,000 health care professionals. The skull below is grinding its teeth. #careeconomy #healthcare www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A big and beautiful tax cut for the rich, which will cost the bottom 20% of taxpayers an average of $560 compared to a boost of $6,055 to those at the top end. Have taxpayers "in the middle" been bought out by tiny increases? Or are they just clueless? www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

“From Moscow to Washington, Brussels to Budapest, money is doing the heavy lifting in reshaping laws, policies, and public norms around gender, sexuality, and reproductive rights” - and the UK has emerged as a leading funder. www.theparliamentmagazine.eu/news/article...

Petty rules and unreliable websites cut social spending by making it difficult for eligibles to apply for and maintain eligibility. Medicaid cuts will reach far beyond so-called "slackers" to hurt children and the elderly. #CareCrisis brucelesley.substack.com/p/denied-by-...

Patriarchal Economics 101. Trump guru Charlie Kirk explains that success for MAGA entails moms staying home: “We should bring back the celebration of the Mrs. degree.” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/s...

The headline is misleading- I don't favor trying to increase the birthrate right away. What I do favor is greater recognition of the value of "public goods" like natural assets, a stable climate AND human capabilities (including those of the next generation). www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/w...

Work requirements as a bogus strategy for reducing Medicaid costs that will hurt low-income families. www.revaluingcare.org/the-stealthy...