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Zach Parolin @zparolin.bsky.social · 9d

New WP: We study how minimum wage increases affect poverty and food hardship in the U.S from 1981-2019. Different from recent work, we study the Supplemental Poverty Measure + two measures of food hardship, factor in cost-of-living differences, and more. www.iza.org/publications...

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 9d

One of the more meta similarities between 2000 and 2025 is the extent to which the likelihood of a bubble is widely recognized and discussed, even as asset prices climb.

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Jon Walker @jonwalkerpdx.bsky.social · 11d

This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 10d

Since "war ravaged" is now being used without any relationship to reality, I hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful sunny afternoon like the one here in war ravaged Western Mass.

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 11d

The pro-worker labor policy of the Trump administration is getting very hard to detect

Josh Eidelson @josheidelson.bsky.social · 11d

Scoop: Under Trump's NLRB general counsel, the agency's withdrawn a slew of allegations it had been prosecuting, including that an Apple all-staff email Tim Cook sent was illegally coercive, & that firms including Curaleaf had illegal noncompete agreements www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

US Labor Board Withdraws Claims That Apple CEO Violated Workers’ Rights

The US labor board has abandoned its allegations that Apple Inc. Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook violated federal labor law, one of many cases where the agency is adopting a more business-friendly ap...

www.bloomberg.com

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Chris Zepeda-Millan @profczm.bsky.social · 12d

Finally some good news out of UCLA… Our program has been elevated to an official Department of Labor Studies, the first labor studies department in UC history!

newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/ucla...

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 17d

Btw he also engaged in ad hominem attacks on Zucman, while opposing the 2% wealth tax.

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 17d

Shocking news.

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Jed Kolko @jedkolko.bsky.social · 18d

The BLS is NOT postponing the monthly inflation report, the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Rather, the delay is for the annual Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX). CEX provides the "weights" for the CPI and other inflation measures.

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 18d

Link to gifted story on the Zucman tax debate in 🇫🇷: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/b...

‘Tax the Rich,’ French Protesters Cry, as the Wealthy Push Back on Paying More

www.nytimes.com

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 18d

Don't look now, but I expect calls for tax justice to grow louder here in America too.

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 23d

Link: www.ncronline.org/vatican/pope...

Pope Leo's 1st formal interview: Wage inequality, Elon Musk, peace and polarization

Pope Leo XIV decried economic inequality between rank-and-file workers and corporate titans, according to transcripts from his first formal interview with a journalist since ascending to the papacy.

www.ncronline.org

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 23d

Pope Leo XIV speaks out against wage inequality.

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 25d

It was a conditional statement not a prediction 🙂

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 25d

Its possible Trump
was misinformed.

If he publicly apologizes to Cook and explains his errors, I would consider believing his sincerity.

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 25d

To remind everyone, If she did not claim both houses as primary residences, it means that the President's entire claim (that he can fire her) is faulty.

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 25d

Not surprising, but still very important.

www.reuters.com/world/us/fed...

Exclusive: Fed Governor Cook declared her Atlanta property as “vacation home,” documents show

A loan estimate for an Atlanta home purchased by Lisa Cook, the Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud by the Trump administration, shows that Cook had declared the property as a “vacation home,” according to a document reviewed by Reuters.

www.reuters.com

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 28d

Love it or hate it, this type of pressure on corporations to shape the contours of the market is something the left has wanted to do for a long time, but any actual attempt would have led to an uproar.

Trump has been able to do it with relatively little uproar.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/u...

How Lutnick Is Using Government Power to Pressure Private Companies

www.nytimes.com

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 28d

I lived in Seattle in 1991. When my kids ask me what I memories I have about music from my youth this is it.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28d

“Smells Like Teen Spirit”, released as a single 34 yrs ago today

“No one had any psychic foresight .. that the song would go on to do what it did,” said Grohl. “We just fuckin’ rocked it in a little rehearsal space that was like a barn. .. We just thought it was another cool song for the record.”

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 28d

“Smells Like Teen Spirit”, released as a single 34 yrs ago today

“No one had any psychic foresight .. that the song would go on to do what it did,” said Grohl. “We just fuckin’ rocked it in a little rehearsal space that was like a barn. .. We just thought it was another cool song for the record.”

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 29d

Alt title: Reimagine carbon based life forms demanding social security privatization

Stephen Nuñez @socio-steve.bsky.social · 29d

So Cato seems to have decided to use fake, AI-generated young people expressing worries about the future of Social Security to illustrate the need to overhaul social security.

www.cato.org/blog/reimagi...

Reimagining Social Security Is Out Today!

Reimagining Social Security presents bold, evidence-based ideas to protect younger workers from rising tax burdens and mounting debt, while supporting the most vulnerable seniors.

www.cato.org

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 29d

Here is a scary story: a two-sided Wile E. Coyote cliff. One is Trump policies: market may have under-priced costs. Another is AI: investors may have been overly optimistic.

Correcting beliefs on one may lead to corrections in the other: with a scary multiplier.

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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · Sep 5

a major concern coming out of the jobs report today is prime-age Black employment, which fell in 2025

these data are noisy and while it would be great if they turned around, I'm not optimistic: there will be downward pressure from federal job losses over the next few months

Line plot showing Black employment to population ratios for those ages 25-54 each month between 2023 and 2025. The title of the plot is "Black employment rates fell in 2025"

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · Sep 5

Overall, if you separate the signal from the noise, the labor market is looking increasingly under duress.

Unfortunately, policies by this administration have not helped, to put it charitably.

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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · Sep 5

Finally, if the labor market were not becoming more slack, we might see an uptick in wage growth. That's not happened: nominal wage growth has slowed a bit over 2025.

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