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Misty Heggeness

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“I’m having fun. Leave me alone.” Author of SWIFTYNOMICS: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy 📚 Pre-order here: https://a.co/d/dDydwxe. Currently: co-director Kansas Pop Center & associate professor, KU. Formerly: Census|NIH|USDOL.

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Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social · Apr 18

🎆Come one, come all! 🎆 SWIFTYNOMICS: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy is now available for pre-order! a.co/d/hZLsS95 @ucpress.bsky.social #swiftynomics

Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

#WarRavagedPortland

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Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social · 3d

Do you know what is too big to fail? Our families and the communities they live in. Motherhood, for example, is too big to fail. What are our leaders doing about it?

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 3d

The ‘Too Big to Fail’ author returns with an eye-opening account of the banking titans and practices that led to financial disaster on.ft.com/476eZRL

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❤️‍🔥 katie 🐈‍⬛️ @sk8tie.bsky.social · 3d

His name was kitty
Made his money being pretty and witty
They gave him the key to this city
Then they went and said his litter was shitty

My tuxedo cat soup lounging In his cat tree

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Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social · 6d

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Jessica Pellien @jessicapellien.bsky.social · 6d

Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy by @mlheggeness.bsky.social is now available on @NetGalley for review. Media and bookstores, request a copy here: www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

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#Economics #Feminist #Books 💙📚

Swiftynomics

NetGalley helps publishers and authors promote digital review copies to book advocates and industry professionals. Publishers make digital review copies and audiobooks available for the NetGalley comm...

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Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social · 7d

The Kens are Kenning again…

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 7d

Stephen Miller: "All that bullshit is done, over, it's finished. The gangbangers you deal with- they think they're ruthless? They have no idea how ruthless we are. They think they're tough? They have no idea how tough we are. They think they're hardcore? We are so much more hardcore than they are"

Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social · 8d

So generals came back only to learn that our authoritarian leader is going to train them to turn them on civil disobedience? 👀👀👀

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Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social · Apr 6

🚨For the past two years, we have worked feverously to create a solid set of starter statistics on the economics of care. I couldn’t be prouder of what our small but mighty team has created for y’all. Check it out below, download data, and follow us @thecareboard.bsky.social! 🚨

The Care Board

The Care Board: Visualizing care connections across the U.S. economy. Using data, we reveal the essential role of care in sustaining families, communities, workers, and the broader economy.

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Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social · 14d

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Laura Bassett @lebassett.bsky.social · 15d

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

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Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social · 16d

Food for thought…

Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 16d

Tried to get my real ID. I had my license, my SS card and my birth certificate.

I was not allowed to get my real ID because my birth name is different than my married name. Now I have to go dig up a marriage certificate. You know who wouldn’t have to do this? A man.

Never change your last name.

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Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social · 20d

Quotes by moi! www.glamour.com/story/are-yo...

Are You Mom Enough to Stay Home?

It’s a growing trend—the romanticizing of stay-at-home motherhood as the pinnacle of true happiness. But at a time when American moms are reaching their breaking point—and right-wing values are infilt...

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Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 21d

We are hiring at The Economist.

This is not just any internship. You will be a paid staff member and writer for 6 months.

www.economist.com/finance-and-...

The Economist’s finance and economics internship

We invite applications for our Marjorie Deane scheme

www.economist.com

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Business Insider @businessinsider.com · 24d

Sripriya Balasubramaniam left her job at Oracle to raise her son. She was worried about getting back into the workforce, but turned an internship into a full-time role.

I took an 11-year career break to raise my son. At 41, I took an internship and landed a senior role after 3 months.

Sripriya Balasubramaniam left her job at Oracle to raise her son. She was worried about getting back into the workforce, but turned an internship into a full-time role.

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David Wessel @davidmwessel.bsky.social · 24d

Goldman estimates underlying pace of job growth has decelerated to ~ 25k jobs/month. The breakeven rate of job growth - needed to keep unemp from rising - is ~70k jobs/month, reflecting immigration slowdown & less cyclical upward pressure on labor force participation than previously anticipated.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 27d

Very excited to see my podcast with John Parman about our review of the racial segregation literature is out! Listen to “Reviewing Residential Segregation” here: www.aeaweb.org/research/rac... via @aeajournals.bsky.social

Reviewing residential segregation

Trevon Logan and John Parman discuss the meaning of segregation and how it has shaped US history.

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Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social · 27d

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Colby Smith @colbylsmith.bsky.social · 27d

NEW: The Trump administration has asked a federal appeals court to allow it to move ahead with firing Lisa Cook from the Fed's board, in an attempt to stop her from taking part in the central bank’s meeting on interest rates next week

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Steven Lucy @slucy.bsky.social · 29d

This was a pretty interesting read.

VERY high-ups at JP Morgan were, like, hanging out at his ranch and island even when he wasn't there, and then ignoring red flags.

When they finally decided to fire him, the head of the private bank went TO HIS HOUSE to tell him.

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/m...

How JPMorgan Enabled the Crimes of Jeffrey Epstein

www.nytimes.com

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Axios @axios.com · 29d

Men's wages went up last year but women's incomes didn't budge, per new data out this morning.

The gender pay gap is getting wider, reversing progress

It's the second consecutive year that the gender wage gap widened.

www.axios.com

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Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Kens are fighting!

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · Sep 7

Lemme speak with directness and a sense of urgency about our most important economic threats, and what history teaches us about moments like this.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Sep 6

Changing the name of the Department of Defense will cost billions.We could build units for all unhoused veterans. Or give service members a pay raise so 35K active duty members wouldn’t have to rely on food stamps. Or… or… or…

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thetranscendedman @atranscendedman.bsky.social · Sep 5

London researchers estimate COVID-19 vaccines cost $79B in 2020–21 but returned $4.8–$37.8T in health and economic benefits.

That is $60–$475 gained for every $1 invested, making them one of the best global investments ever.

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

The global return-on-investment of COVID-19 vaccines in the first year of the vaccination programme

COVID-19 vaccines played a critical role in reducing global health burden during the COVID-19 pandemic, but their rapid development required extraordinary effort. This study aims to evaluate their glo...

www.medrxiv.org

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Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social · Sep 3

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · Sep 3

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · Sep 2

That Pritzker press conference was... surreal, and I think marks a significant moment of escalation in the constitutional omni-crisis. This was the governor of a state saying plainly the Union itself is being torn apart and his state is being militarily invaded by an authoritarian regime.

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