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Aaron Sojourner
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Labor econ @upjohninstitute.bsky.social & @IZA.org. Formerly senior economist for labor at White House CEA, UMinn prof, union organizer, bike courier, house painter, dishwasher... Minneapolis. Views mine. aaronsojourner.org Be kind • Work hard • Have fun .. more

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Aaron Sojourner is an American economist and senior researcher at the Upjohn Institute for Employment Research. He was formerly an associate professor of economics at the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management and senior economist for the Council of Economic Advisers. His work has been widely covered by the media, particularly on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labor market in the United States. .. more

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Sep 11
For Bluesky-Curious Econ Lovers, a Quick Start guide to plugging into the economics community here.

It aims to lower the costs & boost the benefits for folks to engage here.

If it seems useful, please share it here & especially on X.
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For Bluesky-Curious Econ Lovers - Aaron Sojourner
This Quick Start guide aims to help econ lovers easily join Bluesky’s growing economics community. The Bluesky User FAQ covers generic basics, like how to start an account. This guide orients you to e...
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 4h
Self-inflicted wound
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · May 30
No words
America’s brain drain
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Consumer outlook for household finances falls to lowest in over a decade: Survey
The University of Michigan’s monthly consumer sentiment survey showed households feel glum amid concerns about unemployment and inflation.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 5h
Administration: trust us every time we use the military to blow up a civilian boat & kill everyone aboard without first sending anyone in person to intercept & investigate it. We are flawless & would never make a mistake.

Also:
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 5h
You're fired!

Oops, please come back!
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Mike Madden @mikemadden.bsky.social · 6h
CDC lays off, then rapidly un-lays off, the people in charge of responding to measles www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 5h
You're fired!

Oops, please come back!
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Mike Madden @mikemadden.bsky.social · 6h
CDC lays off, then rapidly un-lays off, the people in charge of responding to measles www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
More than 1,000 CDC staff receive layoff notices during government shutdown
Another round of mass layoffs has struck CDC. The agency had already been cut during a reorganization this year, and more employees are now being shed amid the government shutdown.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 6h
IL Sec of State Alexi Giannoulias is a sharp, creative leader. I am optimistic that he makes himself useful in this moment.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 6h
#KavanaughStop
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Michael Derby @michaelsderby.bsky.social · 6h
“The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.”
Federal immigration officers wear masks, no name tags — now some drive cars without license plates
The Sun-Times has documented four unmarked cars carrying federal officers without required plates, offering another way to shield their identities. Federal officials say they’re meeting regulations.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 8h
New work @gsgoda.bsky.social & co-authors
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Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 16h
“Workers continued to see elevated health-related absences linked to COVID-19…

[which] has likely raised the value to workers of paid-leave policies & existing social safety net programs.

Measures to reduce COVID-19 transmission in the workplace may also mitigate these new exposure risks”
Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market
This cohort study examines the extent to which COVID-19 continues to generate work absences and decrease labor force participation beyond the pandemic period in the US.
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Filipe Campante @filipecampante.bsky.social · 8h
Every single paragraph in this article is shocking. I had been quite pessimistic all along, but could not have imagined the speed and depth of the collapse.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 14h
Amazing work by viruses' lobbyists.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16h
Dozens of employees at the CDC — including “disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists and the entire Washington office — were notified late Friday that they were losing their jobs as part of the Trump administration’s latest round of federal layoffs.
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
“Disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists, the entire Washington office and the staff of a weekly public health journal were among those who learned late Friday that they would lose their jobs.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 14h
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Feb 14
What the administration is doing: fighting for bird flu.
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Lewis Kamb @lewiskamb.bsky.social · Feb 14
CDC source:

“We just had word that all our fellows and post doc staff are laid off effective immediately. The famous Epidemic Intelligence Service, aka the Disease Detectives, is no more. That’s 1260 staff.

They are calling this ‘Phase 1’.”

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grand theft eigenvalue 🔆 @akhilrao.bsky.social · 15h
Be Loud. Create Large Residuals.
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grand theft eigenvalue 🔆 @akhilrao.bsky.social · 15h
"be rational" is how They tell You to Take Up Less Space
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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 16h
lol gentle reminder that DEI is not illegal. Supporting marginalized groups is not illegal. Anyone reneging on support is making a CHOICE to do so.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 16h
Dozens of employees at the CDC — including “disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists and the entire Washington office — were notified late Friday that they were losing their jobs as part of the Trump administration’s latest round of federal layoffs.
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
“Disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists, the entire Washington office and the staff of a weekly public health journal were among those who learned late Friday that they would lose their jobs.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 16h
Neo-Confederacy making moves
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17h
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UNC ends Black Student Movement's 52-year 'co-ownership' of Upendo Lounge
BSM President Adam Sherif said administrators cited new federal guidelines that instruct all federally funded entities to ensure they are not engaging in "discriminatory practices, including those lab...
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 16h
Neo-Confederacy making moves.
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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 17h
HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts
Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.
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☠️deadward niedermurder☠️ @niedermeyer.online · 6d
The rain has soaked through everything. Your socks just sprouted a mushroom. You haven't smelled decent BBQ since your last night in Texas, before mustering. Suddenly, a metallic creak echoes through the fog. They were coming again. The naked cyclists. "Just four weeks a year," you mutter.
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Julia Raifman, ScD @juliaraifman.bsky.social · 16h
“Workers continued to see elevated health-related absences linked to COVID-19…

[which] has likely raised the value to workers of paid-leave policies & existing social safety net programs.

Measures to reduce COVID-19 transmission in the workplace may also mitigate these new exposure risks”
Enduring Outcomes of COVID-19 Work Absences on the US Labor Market
This cohort study examines the extent to which COVID-19 continues to generate work absences and decrease labor force participation beyond the pandemic period in the US.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 16h
#KavanaughStop
Aside from the main issues, imagine if we staffed classrooms as intensively as we staff DHS
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CollinCountyDems @collincountydems.bsky.social · 2d
This is terrifying!

ICE breaks into this woman’s car in the pick-up line at West Loop Elementary school in Chicago and detains her before she can pick her kids up from school. (They were eventually let go after showing their documents)

This is Trump’s America.
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◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 17h
HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts
Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.
www.bloomberg.com
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17h
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UNC ends Black Student Movement's 52-year 'co-ownership' of Upendo Lounge
BSM President Adam Sherif said administrators cited new federal guidelines that instruct all federally funded entities to ensure they are not engaging in "discriminatory practices, including those lab...
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 21h
#EconConf
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Jakob Schneebacher @jschneebacher.bsky.social · 5d
Interested in productivity, business dynamism and market power? Come to this year's CMA-Durham workshop on 20-21 November!

We open with a keynote by Jonathan Haskel (Imperial), followed by two days worth of sessions on technology diffusion, market frictions,market power and more.

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20-21 November, 2025 Productivity, Business Dynamism and Market Power The Competition and Market Authority’s (CMA) Microeconomics Unit, the Department of Economics at Durham University Business School...
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21h
Don’t fall for the authoritarian hype – Reform and the hard right can be stopped in their tracks | Gordon Brown
Don’t fall for the authoritarian hype – Reform and the hard right can be stopped in their tracks | Gordon Brown
From the US to Europe and Asia, grievances are being exploited to gain power. But moderate voices are still in tune with the majority, says former prime minister Gordon Brown
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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 1d
Military families on day 9 of the shutdown lining up at the food bank
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 1d
The new Trump administration is making an unprecedented effort to PREVENT science from informing policy
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 1d
Pulling every dumb dangerous lever in reach
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 1d
Ask ChatGPT
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d
policy idea: something good for once, anything really
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