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APDU @apduorg.bsky.social · 1d

***Reminder: Join us for just 30 minutes on Tuesday to learn how to take action to protect the nation's only comprehensive source of food security data.***

APDU @apduorg.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 USDA canceled the Food Security Supplement (FSS), the gold standard for measuring food insecurity.

Join our Rapid Response Data Briefing to learn:
🔵 What’s in the FSS
🔵 Why it matters for hunger & nutrition policy
🔵 What’s at risk
🔵 How to take action

Register now: tinyurl.com/FSS-webinar

Webinar
Rapid Response Data Briefing
Understanding the Food Security Supplement
Tuesday, October 7
3:00-3:30 PM ET

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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 2d

1. Take this seriously. Here is how you do it. Take a screenshot of the #HatchAct violation, whether it's on LinkedIn or other social media or on the actual US Government website. When you file your complaint, provide your personal contact information. If you're a furloughed fed, you're off-duty.

Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 3d

OSC tells us how to file a #HatchAct complaint. Nearly all federal sites are in violation. Do not accept this as normal. #FEDSTRONG
osc.gov/Services/Pag...

How to File a Hatch Act Complaint

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Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 3d

OSC tells us how to file a #HatchAct complaint. Nearly all federal sites are in violation. Do not accept this as normal. #FEDSTRONG
osc.gov/Services/Pag...

How to File a Hatch Act Complaint

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 2d

The request for states to produce new population estimates or lose FEMA $ makes, and I can't emphasize this enough, no sense.

dataindex.us @dataindex.us · 3d

🚨 To receive FEMA Emergency Management Performance Grants, states must now certify that their population counts as of 9/30 exclude people removed under US immigration laws.

Regardless of one’s philosophical view, our latest blog outlines several technical concerns.

🔗 dataindex.us/newsletter/a...

Data Demands Put State FEMA Funds at Risk | America's Data Index

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 4d

Entirely preventable.
Entirely unacceptable.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 4d

A baby has died of whooping cough in Mississippi amidst their worst pertussis outbreak in more than a decade.

If you have a loved one with an infant or are near babies a lot, please consider getting a pertussis booster, as is recommended by legitimate science and healthcare professionals.

Mississippi Baby Dies of Whooping Cough Amid Rising Cases

A baby in Mississippi has died of whooping cough for the first time since 2012. The baby was less than two months old—too young for vaccination.

www.mississippifreepress.org

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dataindex.us @dataindex.us · 5d

Curious what is happening to federal data during the government shutdown?

In our latest post, @datageekb.bsky.social asks @csmarcum.bsky.social about the impacts of the shutdown on:
✅ ICRs
✅ Public data access
✅ Data releases
✅ And more!

Read the full discussion here: dataindex.us/newsletter/a...

What the Government Shutdown Means for Federal Information Collections and Data | America's Data Index

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 5d

Always fun to catch up, even if the reason is a downer...
Also, if you have questions about this #shutdown, Chris probably has the answers.
Read along!

Chris Marcum 📖 @csmarcum.sciences.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

I had a great conversation with my academic sibling, Beth Jarosz on the dataindex.us team, all about what happens to federal data when the government is out of order during a shutdown.

https://dataindex.us/newsletter/article/3362b9b8-a993-4741-92a9-25c720adeb7a

A photograph of an out of order sign in front of the doors in the new executive office building courtyard on the White House campus.

Photo is CC-BY 2025 Chris Marcum

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 6d

Seems convenient that the admin is cutting SNAP benefits and also terminating the survey that tracks food insecurity.

But there are ways to take action.

Spend 30 minutes with us and learn what you can do.

APDU @apduorg.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 USDA canceled the Food Security Supplement (FSS), the gold standard for measuring food insecurity.

Join our Rapid Response Data Briefing to learn:
🔵 What’s in the FSS
🔵 Why it matters for hunger & nutrition policy
🔵 What’s at risk
🔵 How to take action

Register now: tinyurl.com/FSS-webinar

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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 6d

Ya. I call that "success would be worse" familyinequality.wordpress.com/2025/06/10/p...

Projections show that increasing the birth rate (as if you could) is the wrong way to get more workers

A little math shows that increasing the birthrate is a slow, expensive, and ineffective way to get more workers.

familyinequality.wordpress.com

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 6d

Can't talk about demography without talking about immigrants, and #fact that ICE enforcement actions have been targeting people with NO CRIMINAL RECORD.

HT @nytimes.com

Chart from NYTimes showing ICE arrests by criminal history.

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 6d

If today's audience is any indication, it will make a difference.

Not sure if you stayed on, but following panelist M Alvarez from @kidspartnership.bsky.social echoed some similar points.

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 7d

And @karenguzzo.bsky.social doing an incredible job of explaining the difference between period and cohort fertility (without saying either of those terms, because this is largely a policy audience) and the implications.

Audience is paying very close attention.

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 7d

Also, even with that low immigration projection, and anticipated declines in birth rates, we still will (checks notes) have children in California in 2070.

More reason to not buy into the moral panic about falling birth rates.

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 7d

State forecast update incorporates updated higher international migration through 2024 but substantially lower in the long run, resulting in a lower population forecast.

Chart showing DOF 2023 and 2025 forecast updates, with 2025 lower.

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 7d

It's a downer of a shutdown day, but on the bright side, I get to see colleagues W Schwarm, @karenguzzo.bsky.social, E Zheng, and K Kane talk about population trends at the annual @scagnews.bsky.social Demographic Workshop.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 7d

www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...

Statement of the Friends of BLS on the White House’s Withdrawal of Dr. Antoni’s Nomination

Following the withdrawal of Dr. Antoni’s nomination, the Friends of BLS urges President Trump to find a new nominee who possesses the key characteristics identified by the Friends in our statement of August 13, 2025. We believe the next nominee should demonstrate a commitment to gold standard statistics, strong management skills, excellent economics training, and a record of public support for the integrity of BLS products and standards

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 7d

I know other things have our attention today, but it was nice to put my demographer hat back on...

B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 7d

"If pension & health care systems are designed to accommodate a new population structure, such as by automating jobs that were previously done by younger workers, or by adjusting pay-in or pay-out rates in a pension program, an aging pop structure can be sustainable for a very long period of time

The dangers of an aging population

Newsweek has broken down what the concerns behind a declining birth rate are.

www.newsweek.com

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 7d

"If pension & health care systems are designed to accommodate a new population structure, such as by automating jobs that were previously done by younger workers, or by adjusting pay-in or pay-out rates in a pension program, an aging pop structure can be sustainable for a very long period of time

The dangers of an aging population

Newsweek has broken down what the concerns behind a declining birth rate are.

www.newsweek.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 7d

Dear @apnews.com

The republicans control congress. Democrats did not vote down anything. If the GOP wanted to fund the government, they could have changed the rules to pass a CR with a simple majority like they did 11 days ago to approve 48 trump appointees at once.

Fix your headline.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 7d

BREAKING: Democrats vote down a GOP bill to keep the government open, putting it on track for shutdown after midnight.

Democrats vote down GOP funding bill, putting government on path to shutdown

Senate Democrats have voted down a Republican bill to keep funding the government, putting it on a path to a shutdown after midnight Wednesday.

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Leah Abrams @leahrabrams.bsky.social · 7d

The @popassocamerica.bsky.social deadline is coming up on Sunday 📆

I welcome submissions to Session 708: Older Workers, Longer Working Lives, and Health.

I look forward to reading your work in this area!

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 7d

That is beautiful. And I wish I could get a craft to stick. But so far the thing I've found works (for me) is word puzzles. They do the trick but aren't nearly as pretty.

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 7d

The J6 insurrectionist to agency head pipeline is still incomplete.
(Thankfully.)

Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 7d

Whoa, White House withdraws Trump’s controversial nominee to lead BLS after ousting predecessor over jobs data
www.cnn.com/2025/09/30/p...

White House withdraws Trump’s controversial nominee to lead BLS after ousting predecessor over jobs data | CNN Politics

The White House has sent paperwork to the Senate to withdraw the nomination of E.J. Antoni as head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, three sources told CNN.

www.cnn.com

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 7d

I was just there and was reminded of how great of a city it is!

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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 7d

A message from our team to current and former federal workers ⬇️

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B Jarosz @datageekb.bsky.social · 7d

I will say that those who have dunked on "virtue signaling" did us all a grave disservice.

We are social animals.
Signals matter.

Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 8d

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 8d

Fuckin yikes, man

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