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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.

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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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Waiting for an economic disaster to bring comeuppance is magical thinking of the worst kind, bc the absence of a "disaster" will be seen as evidence that the critics were wrong.
November 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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New from HCEO member Janet Currie et al: use of an affordable housing tax credit program improves long-term health outcomes for women and their children. www.nber.org/papers/w34464
Affordable Housing During Childhood Improves Long-term Outcomes of Women and their Children
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Anyone interested in attending the LERA May 2026 conference in Minneapolis & doing work on homecare? I'm maybe putting together a panel proposal.
www.leraweb.org/call-2026-minn
November 10, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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BREAKING: We won!

Today the 3rd Circuit Court ordered the @post-gazette.com to restore our contract it illegally tore up 5 years ago. That’s our health care, PTO, right to a 40-hr. work week, short-term disability and so much more we’ve struck for 3+ years.

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A yellow bridge in front of a city background with three banners reading "POST-GAZETTE STRIKERS WILL WIN".
November 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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That $21 trillion must still be in the mail. 🤡

(via @mikezaccardi.bsky.social)
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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A growing number of Democrats appeared to be ready to debate legislation to end the government shutdown. But Minnesota’s two Democratic senators were not among them.
Minnesota’s U.S. senators call potential shutdown deal ‘a mistake’
A growing number of Democrats appeared to be ready to debate legislation to end the government shutdown. But Minnesota’s two Democratic senators were not among them.
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November 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
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I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly.

A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.

U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
November 10, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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who are these divas go.bsky.app/LF5T4cY
November 19, 2024 at 5:52 PM
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If he thinks that bad, wait til he sees how few people file claims for auto, fire, and flood insurance.
crampell.bsky.social Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 4h
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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"I want you to understand, regardless of your politics, the historical danger of a secret police. What happens when a militia is deployed in our neighborhoods and against our own people. Left unchecked their mandate will grow; the boundaries of acceptable identity and speech will shrink."
I want you to understand, regardless of your politics, the historical danger of a secret police. What happens when a militia is deployed in our neighborhoods and against our own people. Left unchecked their mandate will grow; the boundaries of acceptable identity and speech will shrink. I want you to think about elections in this future. I want you to understand that every issue you care about—any hope of participatory democracy—is downstream of this. I want you to understand what it is to love Chicago. To see your neighbors make the heartbreaking choice between showing up for work or staying safe. To march two miles long, calling out: “This is what Chicago sounds like!” To see your representatives put their bodies on the line and their voices in the fight. To form patrols to walk kids safely to school. To join rapid-response networks to document and alert your neighbors to immigration attacks. For mutual aid networks to deliver groceries and buy out street vendors so they can go home safe. To see your local journalists take the federal government to court. To talk to neighbor after neighbor, friend after friend, and hear yes, yes, it’s all hands on deck.
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.
bgrueskin.bsky.social Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 22h
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Promise Net 2025 is kicking off in Kalamazoo! Several of the Upjohn Institute’s own will be speaking today alongside other experts and leaders in the promise movement. #Promisenet2025 #Yourpathyourpromise
A rising sun over two hills. The text reads “Promise Net Kalamazoo Michigan 2025”.
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Literal LOL
November 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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cohodes.bsky.social Sarah Cohodes @cohodes.bsky.social · 5h
📣 New NBER Working Paper out today 📣

"The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct"
Sarah Cohodes & Katherine Leu
Screenshot of working paper: The Consequences of Faculty Sexual Misconduct
November 10, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Today

"After the ACA’s major provisions were implemented in 2014... displaced workers were more likely to have public coverage before job loss and less likely to lose coverage afterward."
The Virtual Economics of Poverty and Policy Seminar (VEPPS) continues next week. Date & time: Monday, November 17th at 2pm Eastern To register to receive the Zoom link: https://smith.zoom.us/meeting/register/NM_RCYTVQbC7bqoYKcLMVg Presenter: Mariana Zerpa (University of Chile) Paper Title: "Job loss and health insurance before and after the ACA" Abstract: We examine how the Affordable Care Act (ACA) altered the effects of involuntary job loss on health insurance coverage. Using matched event study models estimated on panel survey data, we document substantial declines in coverage following job loss prior to the ACA especially among middle-income workers. After the ACA’s major provisions were implemented in 2014, these losses were sharply reduced: displaced workers were more likely to have public coverage before job loss and less likely to lose coverage afterward. Heterogeneity by pre-displacement income reveals that the ACA closed gaps in baseline coverage and smoothed post-loss trajectories, particularly for middle-income individuals. Our findings highlight the ACA’s role in strengthening the insurance safety net for displaced workers.
November 10, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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November 10, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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“.. Cybertruck sales in the third quarter .. a 63% year-over-year decrease, with year-to-date sales down 38%.”

@barrons.com $TSLA
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November 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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“.. As the raids have continued, consumers have started to question whether the company’s silence makes it an accomplice to the sweeps rather than merely the backdrop. .. A backlash is coming for the company.”

@bloomberg.com $HD
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November 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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Pessimism sets in for Minnesota factories as many fear stagnant growth
www.startribune.com/minnesota-fa...
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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GOP's One Big Beautiful Bill tax law will increase U.S. debt-to-GDP ratio from 154% three decades after without it to 183% with it, per Auerbach & @billgale.bsky.social.
www.nber.org/papers/w34455
November 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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New evidence on how ICE is affecting student learning

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1erU5Oe0vJYdVjuqQi4sfhUGxS0BGjWl8/view?usp=drivesdk
November 10, 2025 at 10:40 AM
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rfberlin.bsky.social ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin @rfberlin.bsky.social · 10d
Join RFBerlin as a Postdoctoral Fellow!
✔️ Leading faculty and global network
✔️ Vibrant group of junior researchers
✔️ Mentoring opportunities
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✔️ No teaching obligations
Apply now: econjobmarket.org/positions/11...
Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics
The ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin) invites applications for postdoctoral fellow positions in economics. The initial contract is for two years, with the possibility of renewal for up to six year...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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georgweizsaecker.bsky.social Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 12h
🚨Very Strong Job Market Candidates

#EconSky

The Berlin School of Economics is a unique cooperation of 9 institutions - together we do research and train PhDs/Postdocs.

This year: fantastic people in applied micro, behavioral/experimental, and macro. 👇🏻

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November 10, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Less drinking = better grades. Students subject to stricter MLDA rules scored 4% higher on PISA exams—about two extra months of learning 📈✏️
5/N
December 4, 2024 at 6:17 PM
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usiidep.bsky.social USI Lugano - Department of Economics @usiidep.bsky.social · 9h
📢Meet the 2025-26 @usiidep.bsky.social Job Market Candidates!

We are proud to introduce our #JMC: Tai Lo Yeung and Flora Marchioro. In the coming posts, we will share more about their profiles and research.

Explore our candidates and their #JMPs here: idep.usi.ch/job-market

#EconJobMarket
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 AM