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Noam Scheiber
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Labor and workplace reporter at the New York Times, former New Republic writer. Author of "The Escape Artists," about Obama and the Great Recession.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 5d
CA Gov Gavin Newsom signed a law today giving Uber and Lyft drivers the right to unionize: nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b... But they're still considered contractors not employees.
Gig Drivers Win the Right to Unionize in California
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 5d
Relatedly, @alecmac.bsky.social wrote a very good piece a few months back on a topic I touch on, which is the Potemkin job ads companies run when they're trying to secure a green card for a worker and are supposed to try to find a U.S. worker first.
The Tech Recruitment Ruse That Has Avoided Trump’s Crackdown on Immigration
Every Sunday, newspapers are full of ads for tech jobs that aren't really looking for applicants. They reveal an aspect of U.S. immigration law that hurts both domestic and foreign workers — yet has e...
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 5d
“There was a string of layoffs ... We see how everything is abused, the risk to the overall system. How if this continues there’s a real chance that people who are born in America won’t be able to get jobs.” Tech workers on why the H-1B issue blew up now. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...
The Fuel Behind Trump’s $100,000 Visa Fee: Lost U.S. Tech Jobs
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 7d
There is a real epidemic in this country of people telling you they're sending you an email from their desk. If you're sending an email, can we just assume there's a decent chance it came from your desk and skip that part?
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 7d
"The Magnificent Seven big tech companies—Alphabet, Amazon.com, Apple, Meta Platforms, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla—recently made up about 37% of the S&P 500’s market capitalization, the highest share on record." www.wsj.com/finance/stoc...
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 7d
Well, kinda depends who you ask but I hear what you're saying. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/t...
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 7d
And Republican views of the GOP remain strong. 91% favorable versus 8% unfavorable.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 7d
By contrast, around this time in the previous cycle, Sept. 2023, 93% of Dems had a favorable view of their party vs 7% unfavorable. news.gallup.com/poll/511979/...
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 7d
To understand why Democrats feel pressure to energize their base and not compromise to avoid a shut down, consider how weak their support is among Dem voters. A recent Gallup poll found only 73% of Dems have a favorable view of their party, vs 21% unfavorable. news.gallup.com/poll/692978/...
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 12d
"Through the 1960s, corporate lobbying was a collective enterprise--a large majority happened thru trade associations, not lobbyists that companies hired directly. That had flipped a generation later. By 1998, companies spent 63% of their lobbying money on their own lobbyists."
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 12d
Why are so many business leaders caving to Donald Trump? Because of the collapse of "the establishment," which had many good consequences and at least one dubious one: corporate America is no longer very good at collective action. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...
Why Corporate America Is Caving to Trump
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 12d
"Since the overall number of [H1B] applications could drop drastically, Amazon, Google and other big companies may find that their bids have less competition than they used to." Great piece on the data behind H1Bs and the likely effects of Trump's changes. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
$100,000 Per Employee: How the H-1B Visa Fee Could Reshape Work Forces
Because sponsoring a visaship comes with significant upfront costs, employers need higher-earning workers to justify the new expense.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 23d
A decade ago about 20% of the long-term unemployed were college grads. Today it's about 1/3. And the long-term unemployment rate for college grads has been rising pretty quickly the last two years. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 23d
If you're interested in the sociological effects of all of this, I have a book coming out on the topic. us.macmillan.com/books/978037...
Mutiny
The story of a disillusioned generation that set out to reclaim its dignity and take on corporate America.Since the Great Recession, recent college grads hav...
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 23d
Some of that is the fact that there are just more college grads today than 10 years ago. But a chunk of it is demand. I link to a number of papers in their documenting the dropoff in demand for college grads.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 23d
Here's a chart we did for the story. College grads have gone from about 20% of the long-term unemployed a decade ago to about 1/3 today.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 23d
The latest sign that the job market for college grads has weakened in the last few years: they account for a pretty rapidly rising share of the long-term unemployed. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...
The Newest Face of Long-Term Unemployment? College Grads.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · 23d
Important piece from the WSJ www.wsj.com/business/air...
Toxic Fumes Are Leaking Into Airplanes, Sickening Crews and Passengers
Doctors compare brain effects to concussions in NFL players. A Wall Street Journal investigation shows such incidents are increasingly common.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · Aug 28
NEWS: Hundreds of developers who work on the video game Diablo have just voted to unionize with CWA. The union trend in the industry started a few years ago with quality assurance testers but has now blown up to include all job categories.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · Aug 28
I obviously don't know why ESPN made the decision, but as my story explains, she always felt her position there to be very precarious.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · Aug 28
It looks like Doris Burke is being removed from ESPN's lead NBA broadcast crew. This is something she basically foresaw when I spoke to her back in 2018. www.nytimes.com/2018/04/28/b...
Doris Burke Has Game (Published 2018)
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · Aug 28
And a Gallup poll out today finds continued strong support for unions--68% of Americans approve, about in line with the post-pandemic average, and higher than any other period since the 1960s. news.gallup.com/poll/694472/...
Labor Union Approval Relatively Steady at 68% in U.S.
Public approval of labor unions remains historically strong at 68%, marking the fifth consecutive year with nearly 70% support.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · Aug 28
A few interesting polls from gallup this week: A poll on Trump's performance finds his overall approval rating at 40%, in line with his 1st-term average and up from a bit July. But his approval on the economy is 37%, 15 points below his 1st-term avg. news.gallup.com/poll/694370/...
Trump Ratings and U.S. Mood Stay Tepid in August
Americans haven't changed their minds about President Trump or the economy over the past month, with ratings of both holding at less-than-optimal levels.
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · Aug 27
And here’s the NYT piece where I first explored some of these ideas www.nytimes.com/2022/04/28/b...
The Revolt of the College-Educated Working Class (Published 2022)
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Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social · Aug 27
As I explain in the book, the origins of the college-educated working class date back to the Great Recession, but the pandemic radicalized a lot of these workers. And the last few years of rising unemployment for recent grads, along with the proliferation of AI, has only added fuel to the fire.
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