John Schmitt
@jschmittwdc.bsky.social
Economist, Washington DC
Labor, social policy
Formerly: @epi.org, @ceprdc.bsky.social, @equitablegrowth.bsky.social, @cep-lse.bsky.social, UN Peacekeeping
(Very old picture.)
Labor, social policy
Formerly: @epi.org, @ceprdc.bsky.social, @equitablegrowth.bsky.social, @cep-lse.bsky.social, UN Peacekeeping
(Very old picture.)
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Journalists speaking to any Administration official have a simple question to ask:
Please define “remigration”.
It’s now been officially and repeatedly stated as policy by DHS. So the American public has a right to know what that policy is.
Please define “remigration”.
It’s now been officially and repeatedly stated as policy by DHS. So the American public has a right to know what that policy is.
November 29, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Journalists speaking to any Administration official have a simple question to ask:
Please define “remigration”.
It’s now been officially and repeatedly stated as policy by DHS. So the American public has a right to know what that policy is.
Please define “remigration”.
It’s now been officially and repeatedly stated as policy by DHS. So the American public has a right to know what that policy is.
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Trump says he plans to pardon a former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, who’s serving a decades-long US sentence for cocaine trafficking.
Trump to Pardon Ex-Honduras Leader Convicted of Drug Trafficking
President Donald Trump said he plans to pardon a former president of Honduras who’s serving a decades-long US sentence for cocaine trafficking, two days before the nation’s election.
bloom.bg
November 29, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Trump says he plans to pardon a former president of Honduras, Juan Orlando Hernandez, who’s serving a decades-long US sentence for cocaine trafficking.
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Background on "remigration" in great replacement theory, European far right, etc, and State Dept plans to create an Office of Remigration from earlier this year:
November 28, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Background on "remigration" in great replacement theory, European far right, etc, and State Dept plans to create an Office of Remigration from earlier this year:
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Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
Mercedes Sosa
Silvio Rodriguez
Pablo Milanes
Ibrahim Ferrer
Cecilia Toussaint
Mercedes Sosa
Silvio Rodriguez
Pablo Milanes
Ibrahim Ferrer
Cecilia Toussaint
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen
Weird Al Yankovic
G3 (Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Kenny Wayne Shepherd)
Ben Folds (Five) (x5)
Nine Inch Nails
Regina Spektor
Weird Al Yankovic
G3 (Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Kenny Wayne Shepherd)
Ben Folds (Five) (x5)
Nine Inch Nails
Regina Spektor
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you’ve seen
B.B. King
James McMurtry
Aerosmith
Judas Priest
Bonnie Raitt
B.B. King
James McMurtry
Aerosmith
Judas Priest
Bonnie Raitt
November 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen
Mercedes Sosa
Silvio Rodriguez
Pablo Milanes
Ibrahim Ferrer
Cecilia Toussaint
Mercedes Sosa
Silvio Rodriguez
Pablo Milanes
Ibrahim Ferrer
Cecilia Toussaint
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Immigration secretary police even going after the people whose ancestors were here before a single European set foot in the Americas. Via Seattle Times.
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Immigration secretary police even going after the people whose ancestors were here before a single European set foot in the Americas. Via Seattle Times.
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Trump’s new H-2A wage rule will radically cut the wages of all farmworkers - and that appears to be the administration's explicit intention: New estimates from @benzipperer.org & me at @epi.org show farmworkers stand to lose $4.4 to $5.4 billion annually under DOL’s updated Adverse Effect Wage Rate
Trump’s new H-2A wage rule will radically cut the wages of all farmworkers: New estimates show farmworkers stand to lose $4.4 to $5.4 billion annually under DOL’s updated Adverse Effect Wage Rate
The Trump administration will cut the pay of all farmworkers by reducing the minimum wages paid to workers filling seasonal agricultural jobs in the H-2A visa program. By lowering wage rates implement...
www.epi.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Trump’s new H-2A wage rule will radically cut the wages of all farmworkers - and that appears to be the administration's explicit intention: New estimates from @benzipperer.org & me at @epi.org show farmworkers stand to lose $4.4 to $5.4 billion annually under DOL’s updated Adverse Effect Wage Rate
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Social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools — now being turned on Americans by ICE to target protesters. bit.ly/3Kq348R
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
www.brennancenter.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools — now being turned on Americans by ICE to target protesters. bit.ly/3Kq348R
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November 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Thread by Rutger Bregman (@rutgerbregman.com) on the BBC editing the transcript of his recent Reith Lecture.
The BBC dropped Bregman referring to Trump as "the most openly corrupt president in American history."
The BBC dropped Bregman referring to Trump as "the most openly corrupt president in American history."
Here's the transcript. When I say ‘we had a convicted reality star’, you can add ‘who now rules as the most openly corrupt president in American history’ in your head.
downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith...
downloads.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith...
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Thread by Rutger Bregman (@rutgerbregman.com) on the BBC editing the transcript of his recent Reith Lecture.
The BBC dropped Bregman referring to Trump as "the most openly corrupt president in American history."
The BBC dropped Bregman referring to Trump as "the most openly corrupt president in American history."
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Thousands of Starbucks workers are on strike for a living wage and better working conditions. Stand with them by boycotting Starbucks until it can strike a fair contract. sbworkersunited.org
@sbworkersunited.org
@sbworkersunited.org
Zohran Mamdani has called for a boycott of Starbucks until the company can bargain a fair contract with its striking workers. We joined members of the mayor-elect's team on the Starbucks picket line in NYC.
November 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Thousands of Starbucks workers are on strike for a living wage and better working conditions. Stand with them by boycotting Starbucks until it can strike a fair contract. sbworkersunited.org
@sbworkersunited.org
@sbworkersunited.org
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Scoop: Park Service staff at 24 parks and offices are petitioning to unionize. Federal employees at a dozen including Grand Canyon filed for an election today, following staff at a dozen others including Joshua Tree who recently did same www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Parks Service Union Movement Spreads to Grand Canyon, Joshua Tree
Employees in dozens of park units are organizing to fight attempts by the Trump administration to downsize the agency.
www.bloomberg.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Scoop: Park Service staff at 24 parks and offices are petitioning to unionize. Federal employees at a dozen including Grand Canyon filed for an election today, following staff at a dozen others including Joshua Tree who recently did same www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Going to war as "a favor to our oil companies" used to be something Republicans vigorously denied.
Rep. Salazar: "We're gonna be doing a favor to us, to our children, to our economy, to our oil companies to be able to liberate. And to Venezuelans who wants to be free."
November 24, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Going to war as "a favor to our oil companies" used to be something Republicans vigorously denied.
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WaPo headline: “Pentagon says it will investigate Sen. Mark Kelly after controversial video”
So it’s now “controversial” to tell people to disobey illegal orders?
So it’s now “controversial” to tell people to disobey illegal orders?
November 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
WaPo headline: “Pentagon says it will investigate Sen. Mark Kelly after controversial video”
So it’s now “controversial” to tell people to disobey illegal orders?
So it’s now “controversial” to tell people to disobey illegal orders?
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Hello new followers! I waste a lot of time on here, but when I'm not doing that I sometimes write books. My new one is called Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists (out in January, orderable now), and it has all you need to prevent ... oh no
cup.columbia.edu/book/citizen...
cup.columbia.edu/book/citizen...
November 14, 2024 at 2:41 PM
Hello new followers! I waste a lot of time on here, but when I'm not doing that I sometimes write books. My new one is called Citizen Scholar: Public Engagement for Social Scientists (out in January, orderable now), and it has all you need to prevent ... oh no
cup.columbia.edu/book/citizen...
cup.columbia.edu/book/citizen...
Give this guy the Fields Medal.
A modest proposal for celebrity academics: The Epstein Number.
Epstein Number 1: You are named in the Epstein files.*
Epstein Number 2: You have co-written an op-ed or co-signed an open letter with someone with an Epstein number of 1.
And so on.
* Epstein Number 0: you are Jeffrey Epstein.
Epstein Number 1: You are named in the Epstein files.*
Epstein Number 2: You have co-written an op-ed or co-signed an open letter with someone with an Epstein number of 1.
And so on.
* Epstein Number 0: you are Jeffrey Epstein.
November 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Give this guy the Fields Medal.
"Alan Blinder contributed reporting" to this story about the most recent hits to Larry Summers' public reputation.
Not *that* Alan Blinder.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Not *that* Alan Blinder.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Lawrence Summers Came Back From Scandals. Will Epstein Emails Prevent That?
www.nytimes.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
"Alan Blinder contributed reporting" to this story about the most recent hits to Larry Summers' public reputation.
Not *that* Alan Blinder.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
Not *that* Alan Blinder.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/u...
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Checking in with the latest employment data to see how the Trump administration is helping US-born workers...
November 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Checking in with the latest employment data to see how the Trump administration is helping US-born workers...
A very useful list of alternative economic indicators from @epi.org.
Some are good proxies for existing government data releases. Others provide useful information without a direct federal analog.
All in one place with nice graphics and accompanying notes.
www.epi.org/publication/...
Some are good proxies for existing government data releases. Others provide useful information without a direct federal analog.
All in one place with nice graphics and accompanying notes.
www.epi.org/publication/...
Data accountability dashboard
Federal statistical agencies (FSAs) produce the gold standard economic data that employers, investors, job seekers, workers, and policymakers rely on to assess the health of the U.S. economy. Today, F...
www.epi.org
November 19, 2025 at 7:15 PM
A very useful list of alternative economic indicators from @epi.org.
Some are good proxies for existing government data releases. Others provide useful information without a direct federal analog.
All in one place with nice graphics and accompanying notes.
www.epi.org/publication/...
Some are good proxies for existing government data releases. Others provide useful information without a direct federal analog.
All in one place with nice graphics and accompanying notes.
www.epi.org/publication/...
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Elsevier has a 38% profit margin, and the other journal publishers aren't far behind.
"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."
November 18, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Elsevier has a 38% profit margin, and the other journal publishers aren't far behind.
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Man of the people tells McDonald’s franchise owners to fight minimum wage increases.
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
Trump, 79, Rambles Through Speech to McDonald’s Executives
“Has nothing to do with McDonald’s, but maybe it does,” Trump said at one point, pointing his index finger at his temple and making a circular motion.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Man of the people tells McDonald’s franchise owners to fight minimum wage increases.
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
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Are you aware that Quarto 1.8 includes built-in accessibility checks for HTML documents using the industry-standard axe-core engine?
quarto.org/docs/output-...
#Quarto #accessibility
quarto.org/docs/output-...
#Quarto #accessibility
HTML Accessibility Checks – Quarto
quarto.org
November 17, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Are you aware that Quarto 1.8 includes built-in accessibility checks for HTML documents using the industry-standard axe-core engine?
quarto.org/docs/output-...
#Quarto #accessibility
quarto.org/docs/output-...
#Quarto #accessibility
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SNAP is a lifeline for workers in low-wage jobs.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
November 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
SNAP is a lifeline for workers in low-wage jobs.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker.
Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps.
Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.
How to raise taxes on the rich, via @joshbivens-econ.bsky.social @epi.org
www.epi.org/publication/...
www.epi.org/publication/...
November 17, 2025 at 4:20 PM
How to raise taxes on the rich, via @joshbivens-econ.bsky.social @epi.org
www.epi.org/publication/...
www.epi.org/publication/...