Do you dream of an economy that is just and strong, sustainable, and equitable? Where every job is good, every worker can join a union, and every family and community can thrive?
We do too, and right now EPI is hiring a development director and a research assistant.
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):
NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2
The US has a healthcare affordability crisis. What can we learn from Canada, the Netherlands & the UK? Tune in Apr. 21 with @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social & CEPR. This is free & open to all. https://bit.ly/3Qbrndg
#PrivateEquity in healthcare. Administrative waste. Skyrocketing costs. What can be done about it? @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social & CEPR are co-sponsoring a must-see virtual conference on Apr. 21. Register now:
A photo of a print NYT headline saying the strait is open next to an IPhone NYT headline saying it’s closed
Schrödinger’s Strait of Hormuz
Right out in the open, Donald Trump is suing his own IRS to try to steal $10 BILLION taxpayer dollars.
I just introduced a bill that would make this theft ILLEGAL.
"The economic case against the current [helath insurance] system is not fringe. It is mainstream, durable, and empirically overwhelming."
-Wendell Potter, HEALTH CARE un-covered
healthcareuncovered.substack.com/p/how-privat...
Online conference on the US healthcare affordability crisis -- and what we can learn from Canada, the Netherlands & the UK.
Sponsored by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and @ceprdc.bsky.social.
Tuesday, April 21, 9am - 12pm ET
Zoom link to register: jh.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Wouldn't it be nice if you could say goodbye to TurboTax and file your taxes for free, online, and directly with the IRS?
I have a bill to get that done.
"A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess."
A. Philip Randolph, born on this day in 1889
ALT Text Generated by Claude: Screenshot of the Health Insurance Influence Tracker website (health_insurance_influence tracker), described as a political campaign contribution tracker. The site tracks donations from nine health insurance political action committees representing the largest for-profit insurers and major PR and lobbying groups. Key statistics displayed: $32M total PAC dollars, 86% of members taking PAC dollars, and 536 members tracked. The tracked PACs are AHIP, Humana, CVS, UnitedHealth, Elevance, Cigna, Centene, Molina, and BCBS Association. A sortable member list shows the "$500,000 and above" tier with 8 members, with three visible: Steny Hoyer (D, MD-05, $807,500), Mitch McConnell (R, KY, $672,000), and Brett Guthrie (R, KY-02, Chair of the House Energy & Commerce Committee, $631,500). The site uses a dark background with gold/orange text.
A new Health Insurance Political Campaign Contribution Tracker tracks Political Action Committee contributions from the following PACs: AHIP · Humana · CVS · UnitedHealth · Elevance · Cigna · Centene · Molina · BCBS Association.
healthinsurancetracker.com
I’d like to live in a country where a grandma doesn’t have to work as a Door Dash driver to pay for her husband’s cancer treatment
Harry Sisson: Trump is having a mental health episode right now. He’s been posting on social media all night. He posted at: 9:49pm (Ai Jesus photo) 9:50pm (Trump tower on moon) 10:10pm (dumb meme) 10:32pm (news clip) 10:53pm (news clip) 12:43am (announcing Hormuz blockade) 2:35am (article about Biden) 2:36am (article on naval blockade) 2:37am (article on Rep. Swalwell) 2:37am (posted the same article about Biden again) 2:38am (article on his ballroom) 4:10am (article on Iran) He’s not sleeping, he’s pretending to be Jesus, and he’s posting all night. He’s not well.
So far, Vance’s foreign policy record is yelling at Zelensky for not thanking Trump enough, campaigning for AfD in Germany and Orban in Hungary, getting rejected by the Pope on his invite to the US, and failing in the Iran negotiations.
These are the NASA projects that the Trump regime are terminating. Some provide vital data to monitor the weather and climate of the planet. Many are already fully operational and are to be discarded.
"Magataotao" on Twitter writes: "I am Catholic. This👇is not my Pope." Attached is a video of the Pope saying that we should search for peace and reject war. A community note under their tweet says: "You are not a Catholic if you do not accept the Pope, but rather a schismatic. Canon 751: “Schism is the refusal of submission to the Supreme Pontiff,” ie. the Pope. https://www.vatican.va/archive/cod-iuris-canonici/eng/documents/cic_lib3-cann747-755_en.html"
first in my bloodline to see someone get excommunicated by a community note
Chief Economist @joshbivens-econ.bsky.social breaks down what today's inflation means now and in the future 👇
I have a new piece in Time Magazine about building a Wage Standard.
Link: time.com/article/2026...
This is so well done. 👌
If the Dems do win the House or Senate, looking into this stuff is a must.
Yesterday EPI's @hshierholz.bsky.social joined 🎙️ @the1a.org to discuss what is causing the job market standstill.
📻 Missed the live episode? Catch it here: the1a.org/segments/wha...
You're not too late to register for this conversation between @benzipperer.org + @joshbivens-econ.bsky.social about the State of Working America.
They'll discuss everything from how AI to Iran to zany policy impacts our economy today, and what we can expect to come.
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Arin Dube's Economist in Action video on minimum wage
What happens when minimum wage rises? CORE Economist in Action @arindube.bsky.social's research has been featured in The @newyorker.com by @johncassidysays.bsky.social. Read John's article below, or watch Arin's EinA video to learn more:
📰 www.newyorker.com/news/the-fin...
🎥 youtu.be/99ZTpN5R3mk?...
NYT headline from April 7: "How Much Humiliation Can Vance Take?"
As George Carlin once asked: "Can God make a rock so big that he himself cannot lift it?"
The silence of Republicans as their president threatens to commit genocide is deafening.
They're all complicit.
So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?
Trump Truth Social post
Donald Trump just threatened to unilaterally destroy an entire civilization.
Is there genuinely no limit to what Republicans will allow this unhinged, unwell man to do?
Congress must come back to Washington to rein in this dangerous behavior immediately.
just to be clear, everyone, when 8 pm EDT comes and goes, regardless of what does or does not happen, the president still threatened genocide and war crimes and we should still impeach, arrest, and try him
The President of the United States is threatening to commit war crimes and wipe out a "whole civilization" — all because he started a disastrous war of his own making and had no plan and no strategy for how to end it.
This is abhorrent, and the American people do not support this.
