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Aaron Sojourner@aaronsojourner.org |
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#Labor #economics @upjohninstitute.bsky.social Brookings nonresident fellow • former senior economist for labor at White House CEA • living in Minneapolis. Views mine.
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Aaron Sojourner
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"We're gonna put kids in cages. It's gonna be glorious." - Mike Davis, former Chief Counsel of Nominations for Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Grassley, on what he'd do if he worked in the next Trump administration's Justice Department.
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Prof Dynarski
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thoroughly enjoying my Guardian subscription
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Thomas Hansen
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Italian prosecutors in Milan investigated how Dior is producing their handbags.
They found that the workers were sleeping in the facility so bags could be produced around the clock.
Consumers pay $2,780 per bag.
The production of the bags costs Dior $57.
Ht: @maxroser.bsky.social
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Laura Helmuth
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The Supreme Court's conservative majority rejects science, history and reality itself. Editorial from Scientific American: www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-... 🧪
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Aaron Sojourner
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It covers a lot of ground! Almost a thousand pages, mostly a laundry list.
static.project2025.org/2025_Mandate...
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Page 607.
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Project 2025 feels torn on ERISA. DOL should: - not take non-pecuniary factors into account. No environmental, social, or corp governance aims. - take non-pecuniary factors into account, the ones we prefer are legitimate. Ideology doesn't need to make sense, just move your coalition towards power
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Versus using the tax and transfer system, "...progressive childcare subsidies are the more efficient redistribution tool."
www.david-koll.com/files/okun_c...
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"Repeal Davis-Bacon" says the Trump campaign's outsourced policy arm Project 2025 (p 604). This is a declaration of war against construction worker unions.
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The U.S. needs more children working in more hazardous jobs, says Trump campaign's outsourced policy arm Project 2025 (p 525).
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Americans' rights on the job rest on the foundation of employment. Many buyers of labor engage in regulatory arbitrage, fraudulently treating their workers as self employed, independent contractors rather than employees. By narrowing foundation, capital erodes its legal obligations to workers.
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Tens of millions of American workers' rights to: - safe & health workplace (OSHA), - speak & act together to improve jobs (NLRA), - freedom from race & sex discrimination (EEO), - regularly scheduled paychecks & overtime pay (FLSA) should be repealed, per Trump campaign's outsourced policy arm.
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Jorge Caballero
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Project 2025, page 455-456: a national abortion database that includes detailed medical information, including the person's state of residence to assist with criminal prosecution
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"a majority of the 13 principal U.S. statistical agencies have lost more than 14% of their purchasing power in the last 15 years, limiting their ability to innovate." 1 example of deterioration 🚨 due to inadequate funding, BLS is cutting the sample size of the monthly Current Population Survey 🚨
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Stephen Wolf
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AP: ‘This is break glass in case of emergency stuff': Analysts alarmed by threats to US data gathering
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American workers should get less overtime pay & their bosses should keep that $, according to Trump campaign's outsourced policy arm Project 2025.
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Jorge Caballero
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Trump's Project 2025, page 591: coerce individuals to work multiple jobs by making it easy for large employers to re-classify workers as independent contractors with limited access to benefits and without the ability to unionize
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Jorge Caballero
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Trump's Project 2025, page 594: make it harder for employees to unionize and allow employers to commit workplace safety violations without fear of repercussions simply by claiming that they didn't intend to put workers in harm's way
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Jorge Caballero
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Project 2025, page 592: make it harder for employees to be paid at overtime rates by allowing employers to average the number of hours worked over 2-4 weeks
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Gerry Doyle
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and just fwiw I reject the idea that it isn't the media's job to inform. like that is our literal job. if people think things are not the way they actually are, that is by and large because we, the providers of information, haven't done well, right?
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George Pearkes
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*DISNEY CAST MEMBERS ANNOUNCE STRIKE AUTHORIZATION VOTE
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Aaron Sojourner
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Good.
www.axios.com/2024/07/09/f...
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Upjohn Institute
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When Minnesota changed a policy to pay adoptive parents what it pays foster parents, adoption rates rose and children did better in school. Our @aaronsojourner.org in the @minnpost.bsky.social
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Carolina A. Miranda
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Read @mattdpearce.bsky.social's lovely tribute to the incomparable Jane McAlevey. Coalitions are built conversation, one by one, not by hashtagged tweets.
mattdpearce.substack.com/p/fix-your-u...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)
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Relatedly, please remember that a federal appeals court recently ruled that cops can compell you to use biometrics to unlock your phone. Passwords, pins, or patterns, people.
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Ed Zitron
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Newsletter: Goldman Sachs has called BS on Generative AI, and I believe that it's time that everybody follows suit - generative AI is unreliable, unsustainable, requires an entire rebuild of America's power grid, and is most decidedly not the future.
www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture/
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Joseph D. Ortiz
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Battery longevity: CATL announces batteries w/ a 1.5 *Million* km or 15 yr warranty. Given the average US rate of driving is ~13,500 miles (~21,726 km) it could cover 69 yr! The EV body will wear out long before the battery. Lots of use beyond EVs too. 🧪🔌💡 thedriven.io/2024/04/03/c...
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The Baffler
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Jane McAlevey died on Sunday at the age of fifty-nine. Sarah Jaffe writes on the legendary labor organizer and author, who inspired a generation of young people cut off from class politics to think about the still-central role of the workplace.
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Philip Bump
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Trump avoids policy, meaning it all comes down to personnel. And his personnel is who is driving Project 2025. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Personnel is policy — particularly when your campaign assiduously avoids policy and your past and your future personnel is publicly endorsing robust policy proposals. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Dan Greene
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In contrast to the militant South Korean unions at, say, Hyundai, Samsung kept labor out until 2020. Last month they had their first walkout. This week their first strike, over pay and union rights. Voluntary but still included about a fifth of the 30k workers in the unit
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Bill McBride
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Housing July 8th Weekly Update: Inventory up 1.1% Week-over-week, Up 40.0% Year-over-year www.calculatedriskblog.com/2024/07/hous...
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Dean Baker
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It's Fed rate cut time! cepr.net/time-for-the...
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Charlotte Garden
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The obvious implication being that BJS is going to get turned into Breitbart…
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Four Years Ago Today
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July 7, 2020 As the pandemic continues to rage, Trump announces the United States is withdrawing from the World Health Organization. Candidate Joe Biden promises to immediately reverse this if elected. (He did, in his first hours in office.)
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Biked 23.85 miles and got some pretty pics of Minneapolis!
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Aaron Sojourner
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HT @theredprince.bsky.social
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Tahar 🇺🇦 🇵🇸 🇺🇳 🇪🇺
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So what’s now, you ask? The NFP doesn’t have a majority, but holds the largest number of seats. So, it’ll need to cobble together enough seats to reach 298. That means NFP will have to negotiate with Div.G & Ensemble to form a coalition & governing majority. There will be a LOT of horse-trading
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hilzoy
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And speaking of Baltimore, I'm sure my followers are waiting on pins and needles for my latest update on our astonishing fall in homicides. The wait is over! 😏
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Olivier Simard-Casanova
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I find the literature studying the economic effects of narratives so fascinating.
This new working paper shows that narratives explained 1/5 of the output variance during the Great Recession!
www.nber.org/papers/w32602
#EconSky #MonitoringEconomics
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wade of mutilation
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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:
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Aaron Sojourner
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Thanks, Elizabeth!
cc @ginatb2.bsky.social
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Thanks! cc @ginatb2.bsky.social
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Aaron Sojourner
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Help us out, here, please.
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Gina
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Aaron, any data/stats on Green jobs? Photovoltaics, specifically?
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Aaron Sojourner
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That's a great question and I don't know the best sources. Here's one covering through 2023.
www.energy.gov/policy/us-en...
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Coal mining: 0.03% Oil & gas extraction: 0.08%
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