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Amalie Zinn @amaliezinn.bsky.social · 3d

A’ja Wilson is RIDICULOUS!!! Truly another level of basketball 🤩

Amalie Zinn @amaliezinn.bsky.social · 5d

Got to attend this event last night and it was BEYOND fantastic. @itsafronomics.bsky.social is absolutely electric and infectious - not only did she get people out on a Sunday night to talk about economics, but she had people lined up after to talk to her (myself included). Go buy #TheDoubleTax !!

Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · Sep 12

LAST U.S. STOP IS LOS ANGELES!!!!!!!!!!

I AM SO EXCITED TO SHARE THAT I'LL BE IN CONVERSATION WITH ANNA MALAIKA TUBBS- NYT Bestselling author of Three Mothers and Erased at the Rep Club in LA on October 5 at 7 PM PST!

Tickets are sold here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-event... #la #booksky #blacksky

OOK EVENT: The Double Tax - Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman & Anna Malaika Tubbs

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David Cohn @dhcohn.bsky.social · 6d

Amazing time at Reparations Club tonight, listening to Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman (@itsafronomics.bsky.social) talk about her extraordinary book #TheDoubleTax. Everyone should pick up this book! Very important reading for EVERYONE. Also Anna is hilarious.

Two copies of the hardcover book, “The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and Underpaid.”

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 5d

I am reading Dr. Wilson's work and several Black women economists like Dr. Ofronama Biu to prep for a couple interviews this week where I hope to tie these numbers back to #TheDoubleTax!!! This is another plea to please invite these incredible women to your platforms!

www.urban.org/research/pub...

Black Women and Vulnerable Work

This study examines the representation of Black women in potentially vulnerable occupations, considering factors such as pay, benefits, hours, and alternativ…

www.urban.org

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · Aug 23

The Wealth of Two Nations, which documents the evolution of the racial wealth gap, is one of the most important papers in THE CENTURY.

Wealth of Two Nations: The U.S. Racial Wealth Gap, 1860–2020 Get access Arrow
Ellora Derenoncourt , Chi Hyun Kim , Moritz Kuhn , Moritz Schularick
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 139, Issue 2, May 2024, Pages 693–750, https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjad044
Published: 18 September 2023 Article history
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The racial wealth gap is the largest of the economic disparities between Black and white Americans, with a white-to-Black per capita wealth ratio of 6 to 1. It is also among the most persistent. In this article, we construct the first continuous series on white-to-Black per capita wealth ratios from 1860 to 2020, drawing on historical census data, early state tax records, and historical waves of the Survey of Consumer Finances, among other sources. Incorporating these data into a parsimonious model of wealth accumulation for each racial group, we document the role played by initial conditions, income growth, savings behavior, and capital returns in the evolution of the gap. Given vastly different starting conditions under slavery, racial wealth convergence would remain a distant scenario, even if wealth-accumulating conditions had been equal across the two groups since Emancipation. Relative to this equal-conditions benchmark, we find that observed convergence has followed an even slower path over the past 150 years, with convergence stalling after 1950. Since the 1980s, the wealth gap has widened again as capital gains have predominantly benefited white households, and convergence via income growth and savings has come to a halt.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · Aug 18

Jackson, Mississippi, has the nation's highest homicide rate, more than 3 times the rate in DC

Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · Aug 18

Mississippi becomes the fourth state to deploy National Guard troops to Washington, DC. governorreeves.ms.gov/governor-ree...

Governor Reeves Statement On Mississippi National Guard Deployment to Washington, D.C.

Governor Tate Reeves today released the following statement on approving the deployment of approximately 200 Mississippi National Guard Soldiers to Washington , D.C.:

governorreeves.ms.gov

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Amalie Zinn @amaliezinn.bsky.social · Aug 12

Sending so much love, strength, resolve, and resilience to DC and the DMV.

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Amalie Zinn @amaliezinn.bsky.social · Aug 12

Moreover: this fascist abuse of power distracts from the point. If we want our county to be safer, for fewer people to be unhoused, we have to invest in cities and communities with real $$ and use real, evidence-based public policy and finance, not police force.

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Amalie Zinn @amaliezinn.bsky.social · Aug 12

DC is such a beautiful city - filled with so many people who care so deeply about making our community and the country better, safer, and more welcoming for everyone. There is no need for and no facts to support this takeover.

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Amalie Zinn @amaliezinn.bsky.social · Aug 12

This week, I’ve been driving across the country as I am moving from my hometown of DC to LA to begin my PhD @priceschool.usc.edu. While I’ve been taking in the sights on my road trip, I’ve also been following along as Trump sics federal forces on the city I grew up in.

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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · Aug 12

Grossly irresponsible of the Times to have this ludicrous credulous spin as the top story the morning after a president who rules by fiat proclaims a totally specious emergency to militarize the capital - an editorial insult to our intelligence and our democracy.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Aug 1

What to make of POTUS's attempt to fire the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)?

Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Aug 1

The very clear message is that the BLS head will be fired if they do not produce numbers that meet Trump's approval.

In related news, these are the last set of BLS job numbers we can assume have not been doctored.

Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · Aug 1

Corrupt. Dangerous. Deeply deeply damaging.

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Jesse Rabinowitz @jesserbnwtz.bsky.social · Jul 24

"This order does nothing to lower the cost of housing or help people make ends meet. The safest communities are those with the most housing and resources, not those that make it a crime to be poor or sick."

Full statement at homelesslaw.org/statement724...

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · Jul 24

There is considerable evidence that housing first is the best way to address homelessness housingmatters.urban.org/feature/hous...

Trump admin is already proposing massive cuts to HUD’s housing programs; now it wants to use an executive order to sweep people off the streets—but not give them homes.

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · Jul 24

Trump’s order “seeks to shift federal funding away from longtime policies that sought to get unhoused people into housing first, and then offer treatment. Instead, it calls for prioritizing money for programs that require sobriety and treatment, and for cities that enforce homeless camping bans.”

Trump signs an executive order making it easier to remove homeless people from streets

The White House directive calls for prioritizing money for programs that require sobriety and treatment, and for cities that enforce homeless camping bans.

www.npr.org

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Manuel Schechtl @schechtlm.bsky.social · Jul 16

⚠️ New timely WP ⚠️ Rising wealth inequality and democratic backsliding at the US state-level #EconSky #Sociology #PolicySky
@stone-lis.bsky.social WP here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...

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Amalie Zinn @amaliezinn.bsky.social · Jul 4

Please for the love of god get A’ja Wilson some help!!!

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Amalie Zinn @amaliezinn.bsky.social · Jul 2

Also grateful for @nonprofitunion.bsky.social for their hard work to make the nonprofit sector a better, more inclusive, equitable work environment. I was so proud to be an NPEU member for the past few years and will continue to support their work.

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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · Jul 1

GOP reconciliation bill's effects:

—Poorest 1/5 of earners: *declining* after-tax incomes
—Those making >$3 m/year gain $118,000
—12 m people become uninsured
—3.2 m people lose food stamps
—US stops its efforts to combat climate change
—$122 billion spent on deportation & concentration camps

tony romm @tonyromm.bsky.social · Jul 1

NEW: The just-passed Senate Republican package is much better for the rich than the poor. Any gains from lower taxes may be wiped out from the loss of Medicaid, food stamps and more. Some Republicans looked to exempt their own states from the cuts.

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/b...

Poorest Americans Dealt Biggest Blow Under Senate Republican Tax Package

www.nytimes.com

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · Jul 1

"The minutiae of the Medicaid policy" - 16-17 million people will lose health insurance in a country where health care costs are ruinous. Many of these are exactly the people Vance claims to represent. But erecting a police state to deport foreigners is more important, I guess.

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · Jul 1

I’ve warned about the nativist mind virus for many years. They’d destroy the economy, bankrupt the government, shred the Constitution, trample our freedoms, and imprison their own people to get what they want: not just mass deportation, but something more like ethnic cleansing

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Amalie Zinn @amaliezinn.bsky.social · Jul 1

Increasing taxes on those likely struggling to make ends meet, all while stripping away the social safety net of Medicaid and SNAP. Inequitable, inefficient, bad economics, and just plain cruel. But hey, that tax cut for millionaires is going to drive growth, right? 🥴

David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · Jul 1

The Joint Committee on Taxation is up late and busts out this striking distributional analysis of the Senate bill on taxes:

chart shows that under the bill, people making under $30,000 pay more in taxes, and millionaires pay substantially less.

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Sabreena Merchant @sabreenajm.bsky.social · Jun 27

the Mystics freaking rock

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Amalie Zinn @amaliezinn.bsky.social · Jun 13

Exciting to be starting new research with the @financialequity.bsky.social on trust in banking! Stay tuned…nore updates and details to come.

Partnership for Financial Equity @financialequity.bsky.social · Jun 12

Our Director of Research and Membership Engagement Jason Andrade met up with @amaliezinn.bsky.social, research analyst at @urbaninstitute.bsky.social at the recent @cfefund.bsky.social Bank On National Conference in DC.

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · Jun 11

So...yesterday, I found out that my #PhD funding from the government was terminated so money for survival is now in jeopardy. 🙃

If you know of ANY sources of funding, please let me know.

#academicsky #academia #research #blackademics #econsky

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Amalie Zinn @amaliezinn.bsky.social · Jun 11

Thanks so much for sharing! Will definitely be doing more work on this

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