Putting aside that it’s real dumb to take all of these at once, why would take these all to stream?

Supporting Working Families for a Strong Economy and Democracy YouTube video by Columbia SIPA

Excited to be in conversation with distinguished labor leaders Mary Kay Henry, @aijenpoo.bsky.social, and @juliesulabor.bsky.social at @columbiaigp.bsky.social together with my colleague Jen Klein! We'll be talking about the intersection of workers, economic policy, and democracy.

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No one's gonna believe us when we tell them about this

What was the hold up

This shit is so lazy, but worse, it's self-absolving for people like Edsall and his readers, who'd rather not countenance the notion that their own tolerance/approval of Biden's suppression of pro-Palestine protests may have taught "kids" that they couldn't count on "adults" to stand with them.

Crucially, Edsall is also demonstrably wrong based on reporting published by the NYT's newsroom—no bellwether of youth movements, that.

Thomas B. Edsall, who is 84, included 5 big block quotes from Jonathan Haidt (lol) in this piece, and the perspective of exactly 0 kids (lmao).

Absolutely! We're also interested in how unions had historically constructed their own price indexes, and how these were presented in the context of BLS organized research board. With this administration weaponization of measures, it would be great to examine alternate approaches

A fun thing is in the UK the law is still in effect; the solution to it is that resignation from parliament works by the PM appointing you to the (unpaid) position of Crown Steward and Bailiff of the Chiltern Hundreds, and office of profit under the crown, which disqualifies you from parliament

This is real. I graduated law school in 2021 and I’ll be starting a federal appellate clerkship later this year. Progressive judges are increasingly looking for work experience. And they tend use OSCAR more. No parallel to conservative judges hiring 1Ls and 2Ls.

I think firms and other institutions should really rethink clerkship bonuses and other attachments of merit given FedSoc's power these last few decades

For me, a big “aha” moment in law school was when I realized that every year, the handful of normal, median-ish guys (they were all guys) who would land huge clerkships seemingly out of nowhere were all officers in the student FedSoc chapter

Important context for anyone seeing the inevitable headlines about AI announcement causing a huge percentage increase in the Allbirds stock price

Miller personally ordered the arrest of a student for protesting the Gaza genocide. Democrats need a plan to deal with him, specifically.

Ohhhhh so Allbirds sold all their IP to someone else and this is a zombie company that got funding to "do AI" and use the name, got it

Incoming Hungarian PM Péter Magyar went on Orbán's state TV today for the first time in 18 months:

"This factory of lies will end once the Tisza govt is formed... What has been going on here since 2010, which even Goebbels or the North Korean dictator would have been envious of, cannot continue."

At its core, the political economy of scholarship was never supposed to rely on ~$50k from a smelting fortune. Institutions have hollowed out their support, the feds have done the same, and all that's left is inadequate private funding.

I'd like our financial system to promote and sustain companies that sell good quality products that people like and find useful rather than incentivize driving the product into the ground and pivoting toward speculative short term returns.

My doubt is that this is where the conversation is going, as the vibecession debate seems to always devolve into a food fight between partisans here, and a confusion over how real wages are computed

Ideally we go back to treating the CPI as a politicized (not in a partisan way though) instrument, and thus more susceptible to democratic accountability than the approach we take now. We need to go back to actually measuring the cost of living for workers as we did when the CPI was first devised.

In particular, we trace how the CPI was once aimed at measuring a true cost of living for American workers, with the aim of raising their "decency and health." Now it is much more ostensibly aimed at measuring some "real" change in price levels across the entire economy

Oh I also want to focus on how we measure the CPI as the root of our questions of affordability. I have a paper, along with two coauthors, out soon in Stanford Law and Policy Review tracing how the political valence of the CPI has been hidden through obscurantist means

What makes it really annoying is that Orbán — the leader of a small, relatively poor state in the EU — did face *some* external constraints on his ability to make an opposition victory next to impossible. He was trying to *reduce* those constraints via his shift toward Russia, but it wasn’t enough.

The American Presidency Can Never Be Trusted Again It’s time for multiparty democracy and a limited executive.

At the first available opportunity, we should basically abolish the presidency

recently in @liberalcurrents.com

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I'd like to believe doubts about how to interpret shifts in real wages are about how the consumer price index used to adjust nominal wages obscures true changes in the cost of living.

Put yourself in shoes of someone in a oil & gas importing country

Its triage: which hospitals get fuel, which industries shut, which crops get fertilizers?

Those who don't have deep pockets in a bidding war pay in increased hunger, lost wages and shrinking economies.
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The amount of pain and misery that the US is heaping upon the world is staggering.
Everyone knows that fuel fertilizer food shocks are coming. While millions go hungry & governments are destabilized.
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How Big Upzonings Affect Housing Supply In this report, we explore how housing investment in New York City and Philadelphia changed over the past 15 years after the introduction of major zoning cha…

Overall, this paper provides new, substantial, statistically significant evidence that large-scale upzonings can have a major effect on housing production, particularly in the context of a receptive housing market.

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Neighborhood scale upzonings increased housing production in many NYC neighborhoods

Upzoned block faces saw significant increases in housing unit permits in Philadelphia

How do upzonings impact housing supply?

In brand-new research published today @urbaninstitute.bsky.social, we show that big upzonings in New York City & Philadelphia had large, statistically significant effects on supply & permitting with several years of reforms.

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This is also true in American politics, where the two party system & our broken, deeply countermajoritarian electoral, legislative, & judicial institutions enable the 30% to become the 51%:

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