Martha Starr
@martha-starr.bsky.social
Washington DC representative of the American Economic Association. Longtime DC economist, deeply interested in economic statistics
Not Americans, White House
November 27, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Not Americans, White House
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Also anyone who thinks BLS is consulting an FOMC calendar while bringing the entire machinery of data collection, curation, and dissemination back online is sorely mistaken.
November 19, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Also anyone who thinks BLS is consulting an FOMC calendar while bringing the entire machinery of data collection, curation, and dissemination back online is sorely mistaken.
The lack of allies is sobering, but is this due to conflation of “higher education” with elite schools like Harvard, Columbia, and Yale? ~1% of undergrads at 4 yr institutions attend top 15 schools. Yes, they have outsized influence - but they’re not the ones educating tomorrow’s workforce.
March 21, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The lack of allies is sobering, but is this due to conflation of “higher education” with elite schools like Harvard, Columbia, and Yale? ~1% of undergrads at 4 yr institutions attend top 15 schools. Yes, they have outsized influence - but they’re not the ones educating tomorrow’s workforce.
Shocking Senator Warner. Would we “celebrate” a mass murderer if they helped an older person across the street ?
March 5, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Shocking Senator Warner. Would we “celebrate” a mass murderer if they helped an older person across the street ?
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(4/4) For more on principles for tax policy in the coming tax debate, including avoiding gimmicks (principle #8!) see my recent piece from @piie.com
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Eight principles for the 2025 tax policy debate (that Republicans and Democrats should be able to agree on)
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, which Congress passed in 2017, came with a built-in policy time bomb—several of the more popular provisions are set to expire on the last day of 2025. These tax cut expirati...
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March 1, 2025 at 11:42 PM
(4/4) For more on principles for tax policy in the coming tax debate, including avoiding gimmicks (principle #8!) see my recent piece from @piie.com
www.piie.com/publications...
www.piie.com/publications...
It’s mostly not Frances Oldham Kelsey level contributions, but it tried to help illuminate all the ways in which our lives are better because of the hard work people in public service do
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Frances O. Kelsey
Women pioneers at FDA
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February 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
It’s mostly not Frances Oldham Kelsey level contributions, but it tried to help illuminate all the ways in which our lives are better because of the hard work people in public service do
www.fda.gov/about-fda/fd...
www.fda.gov/about-fda/fd...
Last year Michael Lewis spearheaded an effort to call attention to the unsung contributions of the federal work force
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Opinion | Directions to a journalistic gold mine
Michael Lewis on the “Who is government?” Post Opinions series.
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February 23, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Last year Michael Lewis spearheaded an effort to call attention to the unsung contributions of the federal work force
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This is shocking
February 23, 2025 at 10:24 PM
This is shocking
Excellent reporting. Judge Bates has called DOGE a “Goldilocks entity: not an agency when it’s burdensome but an agency when it’s convenient.”
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Musk's DOGE team: Judges to consider barring it from US government systems
Two federal judges will consider on Friday whether Elon Musk's government cost-cutting team known as DOGE will have access to Treasury Department payment systems and potentially sensitive data at U.S. health, consumer protection and labor agencies.
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February 20, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Excellent reporting. Judge Bates has called DOGE a “Goldilocks entity: not an agency when it’s burdensome but an agency when it’s convenient.”
www.reuters.com/legal/judges...
www.reuters.com/legal/judges...