Monique Morrissey
@moniquemorrissey.bsky.social
Labor economist at pro-worker Economic Policy Institute. Low tolerance for infighting. Otherwise happy to hear from you on this new-to-me site, especially if you make me laugh. Views my own. Daughter of a French-Canadian immigrant. No random DMs. (she/her)
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Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) shuts down USAID and State Dept. seeks to absorb parts of the agency and eliminate the rest
The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by billionaire Elon Musk and a team of his followers, entered the offices of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), shuttering much ...
www.epi.org
ICYMI, @epi.org has two new resources for researchers and anyone tracking Trump actions:
data.epi.org
www.epi.org/policywatch/
#EconSky
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www.epi.org/policywatch/
#EconSky
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This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year.
Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.
Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.
For First Time in Decades, Child Deaths Will Rise This Year
Almost a quarter of a million more children around the world are projected to die in 2025 than in 2024.
www.wsj.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
This fetid landmark, this historical stain on humanity is primarily due to the stunningly reckless obliteration of America's foreign assistance agency earlier this year.
Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.
Led by the richest man on earth. In secret, on a weekend. With zero analysis or discussion of its catastrophic impacts.
Almost every day from my window, I see a family of crows harass a small (Cooper’s?) hawk. This afternoon the hawk ended by circling upward lazily on a thermal of rising air, as if to tell the crows “you’re not getting under my feathers.” I’m not taking sides, but it’s beautiful to watch.
December 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Almost every day from my window, I see a family of crows harass a small (Cooper’s?) hawk. This afternoon the hawk ended by circling upward lazily on a thermal of rising air, as if to tell the crows “you’re not getting under my feathers.” I’m not taking sides, but it’s beautiful to watch.
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Many people are saying www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
Opinion | We Have a Way to Pay for Free Buses. It Means Free Street Parking Is Over.
www.nytimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Many people are saying www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/o...
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Raccoon gets drunk at a Virginia liquor store and passes out in bathroom
Raccoon gets drunk at Ashland ABC store and passes out in bathroom
Talk about a trashed panda.
www.axios.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Raccoon gets drunk at a Virginia liquor store and passes out in bathroom
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Excellent piece from the always-excellent @josephpolitano.bsky.social on why no one should be citing Current Population Data on immigration levels, and why it's a problem that we don't have better data on this crucial question. #EconSky
www.apricitas.io/p/america-is...
www.apricitas.io/p/america-is...
America is Flying Blind on Immigration
Nobody Knows How Many Immigrant Workers Have Left the US Amidst Trump's Mass Deportations. That's Incredibly Bad.
www.apricitas.io
December 2, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Excellent piece from the always-excellent @josephpolitano.bsky.social on why no one should be citing Current Population Data on immigration levels, and why it's a problem that we don't have better data on this crucial question. #EconSky
www.apricitas.io/p/america-is...
www.apricitas.io/p/america-is...
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This letter to @thetimes.com mourning Tom Stoppard's passing is a stunner.
What the sciences owe to the humanities cannot be quantified, predicted, or planned.
www.thetimes.com/comment/lett... HT @paulnightingale.bsky.social @harrywallop.co.uk
What the sciences owe to the humanities cannot be quantified, predicted, or planned.
www.thetimes.com/comment/lett... HT @paulnightingale.bsky.social @harrywallop.co.uk
December 2, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This letter to @thetimes.com mourning Tom Stoppard's passing is a stunner.
What the sciences owe to the humanities cannot be quantified, predicted, or planned.
www.thetimes.com/comment/lett... HT @paulnightingale.bsky.social @harrywallop.co.uk
What the sciences owe to the humanities cannot be quantified, predicted, or planned.
www.thetimes.com/comment/lett... HT @paulnightingale.bsky.social @harrywallop.co.uk
Got this book for my niece's birthday & it's a hit w/ the whole family. Drawings are gorgeous & while an interest in natural history helps, you don't have to be a fan of bugs to appreciate. Like last year's "Our Moon: A Human History," it focuses on how they affect us.
www.amazon.com/Insectopolis...
www.amazon.com/Insectopolis...
Insectopolis: A Natural History
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www.amazon.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Got this book for my niece's birthday & it's a hit w/ the whole family. Drawings are gorgeous & while an interest in natural history helps, you don't have to be a fan of bugs to appreciate. Like last year's "Our Moon: A Human History," it focuses on how they affect us.
www.amazon.com/Insectopolis...
www.amazon.com/Insectopolis...
The new oven in our rental apartment died but my hero husband roasted the turkey and vegan turk’y and potatoes in the courtyard grill dressed for the chill like the former upstate NY football bro he was before finding the union religion. Here’s lookin’ at you, Mike, and this equally chill cormorant.
November 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
The new oven in our rental apartment died but my hero husband roasted the turkey and vegan turk’y and potatoes in the courtyard grill dressed for the chill like the former upstate NY football bro he was before finding the union religion. Here’s lookin’ at you, Mike, and this equally chill cormorant.
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Trump’s new H-2A wage rule will radically cut the wages of all farmworkers - and that appears to be the administration's explicit intention: New estimates from @benzipperer.org & me at @epi.org show farmworkers stand to lose $4.4 to $5.4 billion annually under DOL’s updated Adverse Effect Wage Rate
Trump’s new H-2A wage rule will radically cut the wages of all farmworkers: New estimates show farmworkers stand to lose $4.4 to $5.4 billion annually under DOL’s updated Adverse Effect Wage Rate
The Trump administration will cut the pay of all farmworkers by reducing the minimum wages paid to workers filling seasonal agricultural jobs in the H-2A visa program. By lowering wage rates implement...
www.epi.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Trump’s new H-2A wage rule will radically cut the wages of all farmworkers - and that appears to be the administration's explicit intention: New estimates from @benzipperer.org & me at @epi.org show farmworkers stand to lose $4.4 to $5.4 billion annually under DOL’s updated Adverse Effect Wage Rate
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Social Security has announced yet another reorganization. The devil will be in the details.
But the fact remains: Even after the reshuffling is complete, SSA will have thousands fewer and less experienced staff because of the deep cuts the Trump Admin made this year.
www.cbpp.org/research/soc...
But the fact remains: Even after the reshuffling is complete, SSA will have thousands fewer and less experienced staff because of the deep cuts the Trump Admin made this year.
www.cbpp.org/research/soc...
Reassignment Won’t Fix the Largest-Ever Social Security Staffing Cut
The Social Security Administration will have fewer and less experienced staff on the front lines serving the public with significantly less support, leading to worse outcomes for people who rely on So...
www.cbpp.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Social Security has announced yet another reorganization. The devil will be in the details.
But the fact remains: Even after the reshuffling is complete, SSA will have thousands fewer and less experienced staff because of the deep cuts the Trump Admin made this year.
www.cbpp.org/research/soc...
But the fact remains: Even after the reshuffling is complete, SSA will have thousands fewer and less experienced staff because of the deep cuts the Trump Admin made this year.
www.cbpp.org/research/soc...
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A rising tide should lift all boats (not just the yachts).
→ When the economy expands, everybody should reap the rewards.
Since the late 70s, policy choices have led to the bigger boats getting lifted while the rest of us feel like we're sinking.
🛟 read more below:
www.epi.org/productivity...
→ When the economy expands, everybody should reap the rewards.
Since the late 70s, policy choices have led to the bigger boats getting lifted while the rest of us feel like we're sinking.
🛟 read more below:
www.epi.org/productivity...
The Productivity–Pay Gap
The huge gap between rising incomes at the top and stagnating pay for the rest of us shows that workers are no longer benefiting from their rising productivity. Before 1979, worker pay and productivit...
www.epi.org
November 25, 2025 at 4:24 PM
A rising tide should lift all boats (not just the yachts).
→ When the economy expands, everybody should reap the rewards.
Since the late 70s, policy choices have led to the bigger boats getting lifted while the rest of us feel like we're sinking.
🛟 read more below:
www.epi.org/productivity...
→ When the economy expands, everybody should reap the rewards.
Since the late 70s, policy choices have led to the bigger boats getting lifted while the rest of us feel like we're sinking.
🛟 read more below:
www.epi.org/productivity...
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
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My money's on the turkey that runs a crypto exchange.
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 PM
My money's on the turkey that runs a crypto exchange.
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Of all the people to attack, a sitting US Senator, husband of a congresswoman who survived being shot in the head, a former Naval aviator who flew 39 combat missions and a freaking actual honest to god astronaut who’s been to space four times!
These are not bright guys.
These are not bright guys.
November 24, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Of all the people to attack, a sitting US Senator, husband of a congresswoman who survived being shot in the head, a former Naval aviator who flew 39 combat missions and a freaking actual honest to god astronaut who’s been to space four times!
These are not bright guys.
These are not bright guys.
WaPo headline: “Pentagon says it will investigate Sen. Mark Kelly after controversial video”
So it’s now “controversial” to tell people to disobey illegal orders?
So it’s now “controversial” to tell people to disobey illegal orders?
November 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
WaPo headline: “Pentagon says it will investigate Sen. Mark Kelly after controversial video”
So it’s now “controversial” to tell people to disobey illegal orders?
So it’s now “controversial” to tell people to disobey illegal orders?
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Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died
Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old.
www.whatimreading.net
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Breaking: Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, has died. She was 111 years old
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🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Monday dismissed the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) cases against FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, finding that the prosecutor President Donald Trump handpicked to bring charges against them had been unlawfully serving since September.
Federal Judge Dismisses Trump’s Political Prosecutions of former FBI Chief Comey, NY AG James
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:01 PM
🚨BREAKING: A federal judge Monday dismissed the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) cases against FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, finding that the prosecutor President Donald Trump handpicked to bring charges against them had been unlawfully serving since September.
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Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
November 24, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Hegseth is now threatening to recall Sen. Mark Kelly to active duty in order to court martial him.
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Yale Law galaxy brain
November 23, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Yale Law galaxy brain
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Or an even greater reunion movie,
two men in a car with the words 10 years written on the bottom
ALT: two men in a car with the words 10 years written on the bottom
media.tenor.com
November 22, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Or an even greater reunion movie,
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In Trumpland the September jobs report was great, in the real world it was pretty bad. No sector other than healthcare is creating job cepr.net/publications...
The Economy After the September Jobs Report
The September jobs report shows weak job growth, higher unemployment, and a cooling labor market driven mostly by healthcare gains.
cepr.net
November 22, 2025 at 4:28 PM
In Trumpland the September jobs report was great, in the real world it was pretty bad. No sector other than healthcare is creating job cepr.net/publications...
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As you're making the BIG grocery list this weekend, consider buying union-made. When you buy union, you're supporting:
✨ Good jobs in U.S. communities
💵 Living wages
🩺 Good benefits
🦺 Safe working conditions
🫶 Dignity and respect for workers
These quality products are produced by union members 🧵
✨ Good jobs in U.S. communities
💵 Living wages
🩺 Good benefits
🦺 Safe working conditions
🫶 Dignity and respect for workers
These quality products are produced by union members 🧵
November 21, 2025 at 9:59 PM
As you're making the BIG grocery list this weekend, consider buying union-made. When you buy union, you're supporting:
✨ Good jobs in U.S. communities
💵 Living wages
🩺 Good benefits
🦺 Safe working conditions
🫶 Dignity and respect for workers
These quality products are produced by union members 🧵
✨ Good jobs in U.S. communities
💵 Living wages
🩺 Good benefits
🦺 Safe working conditions
🫶 Dignity and respect for workers
These quality products are produced by union members 🧵
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maybe they can be shamed sometimes? www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
Trump admin backs off idea to force SNAP users to reapply
Officials will rely on state standards that are already in place to ensure eligibility, despite USDA chief Brooke Rollins’ comments last week.
www.politico.com
November 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
maybe they can be shamed sometimes? www.politico.com/news/2025/11...
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🚨 Big tech billionaire attempts to ban state regulation of AI are unpopular, dangerous, and not in the public interest.
These bans will make it easier for employers to discriminate, lower worker pay, steal creative work, spy on workers, retaliate and union bust. It doesn’t have to be this way →
These bans will make it easier for employers to discriminate, lower worker pay, steal creative work, spy on workers, retaliate and union bust. It doesn’t have to be this way →
How Banning State Regulation of AI Harms Workers — We Build Progress
webuildprogress.org
November 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
🚨 Big tech billionaire attempts to ban state regulation of AI are unpopular, dangerous, and not in the public interest.
These bans will make it easier for employers to discriminate, lower worker pay, steal creative work, spy on workers, retaliate and union bust. It doesn’t have to be this way →
These bans will make it easier for employers to discriminate, lower worker pay, steal creative work, spy on workers, retaliate and union bust. It doesn’t have to be this way →
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I'm on the #EconJobMarket! I study how policies and childhood environments shape outcomes of low-income & vulnerable kids.
In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.
In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.
November 20, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I'm on the #EconJobMarket! I study how policies and childhood environments shape outcomes of low-income & vulnerable kids.
In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.
In my JMP, I study the effects of allowing youth who would have aged out of foster care at 18 to stay until 21—offering support their peers not in foster care get from parents.