Zach Levin
@zachlevin.bsky.social
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Economist @ Federal Trade Commission (all opinions my own!) • Passionate about dogs, hospitals, and jorts • 🏳️‍🌈 www.zacharylevin.me
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Had a claim denied by Aetna but joke’s on them because I’m a health economist on furlough. Bet they’ve never seen an appeal with a “methods” section before.
Hey, I've heard of this program!
Maybe Highmark now offers reanimation benefits!
Time to see my PCP (primary care pastry)
"Forgive me father, for I have put ketchup on a hot dog"
Deep dish communion wafers.
It's true but my posts are for the ill-informed masses.
A Chicago Pope means we're getting deep dish communion wafers!
Must be an Ohio State fan.
A nice by-product of tariff discourse has been discovering one of my favorite undergrad economics professors is on this site (the incomparably brilliant @kclausing.bsky.social).
Ugh so sorry! I’ll let you know if I hear of anything!
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AOL warned us of the dangers of logging on. It would play for us the screams of the damned. But we didn’t listen. We didn’t listen.
“The kind of majority achieved only by Ozempic”
Twitch but for memes!
Hearing a lot about TikTok lately, thinking of finally downloading it and signing up for an account.
There are also provisions in the list of items to increase taxation of university endowments!
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More detailed list of reconciliation policy options here from Punchbowll (h/t @zachlevin.bsky.social)

punchbowl.news/reconciliati...

ACA proposals include repealing APTC eligibility for DACA recipients, reintroducing the family glitch, and lifting income-based limits on APTC clawback
Senators in rural states would definitely get their phone lines lit up on this.
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🚨new paper alert!!!🚨

My newest piece (and first solo-author pub!) is out at the Journal of Criminal Justice!

I use daily jail roster data from 20 rural/suburban jails to study the impacts of Illinois' ban on cash bail on actual incarceration patterns.

doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...
It was pretty cool to meet the Big Boss, FTC Chair Khan today!
You have reply with a … well it’s more a comment than a question.
I think very different than 2012 techno but obviously not as good as 2010.