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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 1d

1. Yesterday, the press gave Gavin Newsom favorable coverage for signing pro-LGBTQ+ bills.

Little noticed, however, was that he vetoed one of the most important ones: a bill allowing trans people 12 month HRT stockpiles, protecting them from federal threats.

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Gavin Newsom Vetoes Important HRT Stockpiling Bill For Trans Californians, Signs Other Pro-LGBTQ+ Bills

The bill would have allowed transgender people to maintain a safe supply of medication in the era of government crackdowns on care.

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Society of Government Economists @sgeecon.bsky.social · 1d

Brookings panel, The Importance of Credible Government Economic Data to Business.
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The importance of credible government economic data to business

YouTube video by Brookings Institution

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Society of Government Economists @sgeecon.bsky.social · 1d

American Statistical Association project on Modernizing the Federal Statistical System
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Modernizing the Federal Statistical System

The American Statistical Association is the world’s largest community of statisticians, the “Big Tent for Statistics.

www.amstat.org

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Society of Government Economists @sgeecon.bsky.social · 1d

AEA panel at the ASSA meetings, The State of Economic Statistics
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American Economic Association

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Society of Government Economists @sgeecon.bsky.social · 1d

🎙️Webinars on government statistics:
NBER webinar, Advancing Economics Measurement
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Advancing Economic Measurement, Fall 2025

www.nber.org

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2d

These are mostly indigenous communities in Alaska that have been slammed by the storm.

The local manager of a small airline fleet says he is the only one doing evacuations right now!

Defund FEMA and people are abandoned. Defund public media and no-one knows.

FYI, today is Indigenous Peoples Day.

Flooding seen with water up to the crash barriers of local roads

Sheds and debris lie scattered in the storm

A small blue house has been blown onto its roof

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COPAFS @copafs.bsky.social · 2d

The #FriendsofBLS will hold a webinar on Oct 23 at noon. Former Commissioners Erica Groshen, William Beach, and Erika McEntarfer will offer updates, describe strategies, and offer a menu of concrete ways for interested members to engage with Friends of BLS.

us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Friends of BLS Member Webinar. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 3d

Happy to have this paper with @loismiller.bsky.social @camilantmorales.bsky.social and Kalena Cortes accepted at Econ of Ed Review!

And honored it will be in the special issue in memory of Rodney Andrews. ❤️

Paul Bruno @paul-bruno.com · 3d

Distance to degrees: How college proximity shapes students’ enrollment choices and attainment across race-ethnicity and socioeconomic status www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Distance to degrees: How college proximity shapes students’ enrollment choices and attainment across race-ethnicity and socioeconomic status

Leveraging rich data on the universe of Texas high school graduates, we estimate how the relationship between geographic access to public two- and fou…

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d

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Screenshot of a list that reads: Office of Communications and Outreach (OCO):
State and Local Engagement

Office of Post Secondary Education (OPE):
Student Support Services (TRIO)
Institutional Service (HBCUs, HSIs, Tribal Colleges, ANAPISI)

Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS):

Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP)
Rehabilitation Services Administration (RSA)

Office of Civil Rights (OCR)
Enforcement Offices

Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development (OPEPD)
Budget Seryice

Screenshot of list that reads: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
OESE):

Office of Innovation and Early Learning
Office of School Community Improvement Programs
Well Rounded Education Division (Arts Education)
Charter Schools Program
Office of Safe and Supportive Schools
Program and Grantee Support Services
Comprehensive Literacy State Development
JAVITS (Gifted and Talented)
School Support and Accountability
Office of Formula Grants
Office of Migrant Education
Effective Educator Development Program
Innovation and Early Learning Programs
Effective Development Division
Program and Grantee Support Services

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The Quarterly Journal of Economics @qjeharvard.bsky.social · 3d

Recently accepted by #QJE, “The Price of Housing in the United States, 1890–2006,” by Lyons (@ronanlyons), Shertzer (@econhist-allday), Gray (@econhistoryorbust), and Agorastos: doi-org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/10.1093/qje/...

Shibboleth Authentication Request

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Dani Sandler @dismalscientist86.bsky.social · 3d

These jeans are too comfy, you'll have to find another pair #caturday

Black cat snuggled into a pair of jeans on a bed

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Riley Acton @riacton.bsky.social · 3d

"An ED staffer told USA TODAY the agency laid off just about every employee who works to administer funding for the IDEA, the primary federal law supporting students with disabilities. He was unsure how those programs will exist moving forward."

An absolute disaster for this nation's children.

Honesty for Ohio Education @honesty4ohioed.bsky.social · 3d

WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Education fired nearly everyone in the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services in a wave of new layoffs that began Friday, according to the union representing the agency's employees.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...

Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says

The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.

www.usatoday.com

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 4d

For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health.

Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.

rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...

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Dani Sandler @dismalscientist86.bsky.social · 10d

Rosie is doing her groundhog routine #Caturday

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Dani Sandler @dismalscientist86.bsky.social · 11d

Seen at the local Spirit Halloween

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Mirya R. Holman @mirya.bsky.social · 11d

"Full-day kindergarten expansions were responsible for as much as 24 percent of the growth in employment of mothers with kindergartenaged children in this time frame."

AEA Journals @aeajournals.bsky.social · 12d

Forthcoming in AEJ: Economic Policy: "A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families" by Chloe R. Gibbs, Jocelyn Wikle, and Riley Wilson. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

A Matter of Time? Measuring Effects of Public Schooling Expansions on Families

(Forthcoming Article) - We leverage pronounced changes in the availability of public schooling for young children— through duration expansions to the kindergarten day—to better understand how an impli...

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Corey Sparks @coreysparks1.bsky.social · 12d

For those of you interested in accessing U.S. Census Bureau data from data.census.gov during the government shutdown, the Census APIs are still working.

Here is an example of how to access the Census API using both #Rstats and #Python

coreysparks.quarto.pub/accessing-th...

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 17d

Cannot be repeated enough: this was not a voluntary resignation program. Workers were told they were more valuable in the private sector, that they might be fired from their jobs, that they could expect no reasonable work accommodations, that they would work for leaders who were undermining services

Michael Sainato @msainato.bsky.social · 17d

I spoke with federal workers who took the deferred resignation program set to take effect on September 30

"I was forced to" one worker said "through fear and intimidation."

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

US set for largest mass resignation in history as Trump continues deep cuts

Federal workers say they have little choice but to depart, with 100,000 leaving under deferred resignation program

www.theguardian.com

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Dani Sandler @dismalscientist86.bsky.social · 17d

It's a good #Caturday when the sunshine hits the dresser drawer

Grey and white chat sitting in a white dresser drawer under a lofted bed

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Jason Wight @astrowright.bsky.social · 20d

She basically invented astrophysics.
She proved the laws of chemistry, quantum mechanics, and statistical mechanics, not just gravity, applied universally.
She determined the composition of the sun and primacy of hydrogen in the universe.
She advised the PhDs of Frank Drake and Frank Kameny.

Elise Cutts @elisecutts.bsky.social · 21d

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪

Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students.

I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

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Shelly Lundberg @shellyjlundberg.bsky.social · 21d

New CSWEP newsletter focused on visibility in the economics profession:
Christine Exley on self-promotion,
Olga Stoddard on professional visibility,
Corinne Low on public scholarship and how to write and publish a trade press book,
Khoa Vu on social media and its professional uses.

CSWEP @aeacswep.bsky.social · 21d

The 2025 @aeacswep.bsky.social News Issue III “Focus on Visibility and Voice in the Economics Profession” by Olga Shurchkov is now available at: www.aeaweb.org/content/file...

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Dani Sandler @dismalscientist86.bsky.social · 25d

Sleepy #Caturday means I need to wait to wash the sheets

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Hansi Lo Wang (he/him) @hansilowang.bsky.social · 25d

SCOOP: The Trump administration has installed a new acting director of the Census Bureau, @npr.org has learned. George Cook takes over the federal government’s largest statistical agency after it's been thrust into the middle of a renewed attempt by President Trump to alter the national head count

The Census Bureau is now headed by a Trump official in an acting position

George Cook is the Trump administration's new acting director of the Census Bureau, which has been thrust into the middle of a renewed attempt by President Trump to alter the national head count.

www.npr.org

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Dani Sandler @dismalscientist86.bsky.social · 25d

This one hits a little close to home

The Onion @theonion.com · 26d

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/

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Erika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · Sep 9

The big story here is of an agency of dedicated statisticians and public servants working tirelessly to improve economic data in a climate of budgetary cuts to data collection. They have been very innovative in meeting that mandate. But we should also just fund our economic infrastructure.

Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · Sep 9

Important to remember that thanks to the dedicated public servants at BLS, employment estimates have become MORE accurate over time

And the final version of the preliminary revision reported today will probably be smaller when it is incorporated early next year

Ernie Tedeschi @ernietedeschi.bsky.social · Sep 9

The preliminary benchmark revision of -911K amounts to -0.6% to March 2025 payroll employment. Combined with 2-month revisions, recent total revisions are big but hardly unprecedented, & smoothed over the business cycle the payroll survey has gotten more accurate over time.

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