Michele Evermore
@micheleevermore.bsky.social
I care about worker rights and our safety nets, especially unemployment insurance. I've worked for unions, think tanks, universities, a couple of presidential administrations, and Congress. Views my own.
Bidenomics were good, actually?
FOX: How would you right now describe the labor market?
LORI CHAVEZ DeREMER: Well I can yell you when the president took office, there was so much consumer confidence from what we inherited in the Biden administration ... with the delay in dropping the Fed rate, it has caused some more uncertainty
LORI CHAVEZ DeREMER: Well I can yell you when the president took office, there was so much consumer confidence from what we inherited in the Biden administration ... with the delay in dropping the Fed rate, it has caused some more uncertainty
November 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Bidenomics were good, actually?
I wonder how DOGE feels not getting paid right now.
October 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I wonder how DOGE feels not getting paid right now.
What's different than what has been explored before? “When DOGE is tweeting about UI data, that’s not good stewardship of [personally identifiable information],” Evermore said.
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
Labor Department looks to pilot intaking unemployment claims for states
The effort follows the department’s notice that it may create a national claims database, a move critics say raises cybersecurity, privacy and surveillance risks.
www.nextgov.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
What's different than what has been explored before? “When DOGE is tweeting about UI data, that’s not good stewardship of [personally identifiable information],” Evermore said.
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
Thank you, @epi.org for the number of workers in each state and district page! I've been using it all day helping to explain the shutdown and unemployment for federal workers. (Link in replies.)
September 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Thank you, @epi.org for the number of workers in each state and district page! I've been using it all day helping to explain the shutdown and unemployment for federal workers. (Link in replies.)
Tomorrow is going to be a big day for unemployment agencies even if the government doesn't shut down, because all the deferred resignation people will be trying to figure out if they are eligble.
September 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Tomorrow is going to be a big day for unemployment agencies even if the government doesn't shut down, because all the deferred resignation people will be trying to figure out if they are eligble.
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This article ran one day ago.
September 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
This article ran one day ago.
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in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments.
that fox news host still has his job.
that fox news host still has his job.
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments.
that fox news host still has his job.
that fox news host still has his job.
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Pay attention. Something dark might be coming.
The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent.
1/ Here's what's happening.
The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent.
1/ Here's what's happening.
Stephen Miller: "The last message that Charlie Kirk gave to me before he joined his creator in heaven was he said that we have to dismantle and take on the radical left organizations in this country that are fomenting violence. That was the last message that he sent me ... we are gonna do that."
September 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Pay attention. Something dark might be coming.
The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent.
1/ Here's what's happening.
The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent.
1/ Here's what's happening.
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Today, The Century Foundation published a new report from three of the nation's leading experts on unemployment insurance: Sec. @juliesulabor.bsky.social, and @aimstettner.bsky.social and @micheleevermore.bsky.social—leaders of DOL’s Office of UI Modernization during the pandemic: go.tcf.org/ui
September 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Today, The Century Foundation published a new report from three of the nation's leading experts on unemployment insurance: Sec. @juliesulabor.bsky.social, and @aimstettner.bsky.social and @micheleevermore.bsky.social—leaders of DOL’s Office of UI Modernization during the pandemic: go.tcf.org/ui
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Trump's Labor Dept. wants to create a national database of unemployment insurance claims. Expert @micheleevermore.bsky.social warns this will drain state budgets, expose workers' private wage data, and make fraud easier by centralizing all records in one system. news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/punching...
Punching In: Trump’s Crackdown on UI Fraud Brings New Fraud Risk
The Department of Labor is creating a national database of unemployment insurance claims to crack down on fraud in the jobless aid system and a group is continuing its challenge of the EEOC’s pregnanc...
news.bloomberglaw.com
September 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Trump's Labor Dept. wants to create a national database of unemployment insurance claims. Expert @micheleevermore.bsky.social warns this will drain state budgets, expose workers' private wage data, and make fraud easier by centralizing all records in one system. news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/punching...
All of the alarm numbers that I look for in a jobs report are flashing red right now: Black unemployment is up nearly a point and a half from last year, marginally attached is up, U6 climbing, youth unemployment is 10.6% and Black youth unemployment is a stunning 24.8%. RAGE and tariffs are bad.
September 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
All of the alarm numbers that I look for in a jobs report are flashing red right now: Black unemployment is up nearly a point and a half from last year, marginally attached is up, U6 climbing, youth unemployment is 10.6% and Black youth unemployment is a stunning 24.8%. RAGE and tariffs are bad.
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🚨 Join our next rally on September 5, the 143rd anniversary of Labor Day, to stand up for workers!
September 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
🚨 Join our next rally on September 5, the 143rd anniversary of Labor Day, to stand up for workers!
Why is the White House embedding social media teams with FBI arrest teams? They wouldn't do that to go after undocumented cooks or teenage hooligans. (Link to story in comments.) Who are they going to arrest with the social media teams in tow?
August 19, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Why is the White House embedding social media teams with FBI arrest teams? They wouldn't do that to go after undocumented cooks or teenage hooligans. (Link to story in comments.) Who are they going to arrest with the social media teams in tow?
West Virginia is sending 300-400 national guard to DC, South Carolina is sending 200, Ohio is sending 150. What's the plan here? Is there a resistance or what?
August 17, 2025 at 2:06 AM
West Virginia is sending 300-400 national guard to DC, South Carolina is sending 200, Ohio is sending 150. What's the plan here? Is there a resistance or what?
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Justice for sandwich bro!
August 12, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Justice for sandwich bro!
Tech friends: What kind of coding issue conveniently deletes parts of the Constitution that the current president is trying to work around? I'm not a coder, I need some help here.
Article I Sections 9 & 10 of the U.S. Constitution—which limit presidential power over tariffs and protect habeas corpus—have disappeared from Congress’s website. They claim a coding error is to blame.
Sections of the U.S. Constitution Missing from Government Website
Articles I, Sections 9 and 10 are inaccessible on Congress-run portal, raising concerns over transparency and public access.
meidasnews.com
August 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Tech friends: What kind of coding issue conveniently deletes parts of the Constitution that the current president is trying to work around? I'm not a coder, I need some help here.
Would we still be talking about past month's revisions in the monthly jobs report if he hadn't fired Commissioner McEntarfer? He Streisand Effect-ed the jobs numbers.
August 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Would we still be talking about past month's revisions in the monthly jobs report if he hadn't fired Commissioner McEntarfer? He Streisand Effect-ed the jobs numbers.
24 hours later, what I think the normal people are missing about what's happening at BLS is that they think this is about numbers. Behind those numbers are human beings who lost their jobs. The president isn't just trying to demand fudged numbers, it is actually the erasure of unemployed people.
August 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
24 hours later, what I think the normal people are missing about what's happening at BLS is that they think this is about numbers. Behind those numbers are human beings who lost their jobs. The president isn't just trying to demand fudged numbers, it is actually the erasure of unemployed people.
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What to make of POTUS's attempt to fire the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)?
Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...
Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...
August 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What to make of POTUS's attempt to fire the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)?
Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...
Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...
In addition to everything everyone else is saying about firing Commissioner McEntarfer, if we start cooking unemployment numbers, what happens in the red states with less than 26 weeks of UI until the unemployment rate increases? How about extended benefits?
August 1, 2025 at 9:42 PM
In addition to everything everyone else is saying about firing Commissioner McEntarfer, if we start cooking unemployment numbers, what happens in the red states with less than 26 weeks of UI until the unemployment rate increases? How about extended benefits?
Elon's departure has not changed the pace of the data grab in this administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/u...
States Have More Data About You Than the Feds Do. Trump Wants to See It.
www.nytimes.com
August 1, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Elon's departure has not changed the pace of the data grab in this administration. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/u...
Check out this super helpful brief on improper denials in unemployment insurance by @nelp.org's Flannery O'Rourke: www.nelp.org/insights-res...
Workers Denied: How to Diagnose and Prevent Improper Unemployment Insurance Denials - National Employment Law Project
Each year many workers who apply for unemployment insurance benefits are improperly denied.
www.nelp.org
August 1, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Check out this super helpful brief on improper denials in unemployment insurance by @nelp.org's Flannery O'Rourke: www.nelp.org/insights-res...
Buying this president is like buying a new car these days. He won’t keep working for you if you don’t keep paying the subscription fees.
Q: Would you deport Elon Musk?
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I think we'll have to take a look.
He gets a lot of subsidies...
PRESIDENT TRUMP: I think we'll have to take a look.
He gets a lot of subsidies...
July 2, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Buying this president is like buying a new car these days. He won’t keep working for you if you don’t keep paying the subscription fees.
Great news! Massive lawsuit on grants rescinded across government. The section on the unemployment insurance modernization grants starts on page 43 of the lawsuit: portal.ct.gov/-/media/ag/p...
June 24, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Great news! Massive lawsuit on grants rescinded across government. The section on the unemployment insurance modernization grants starts on page 43 of the lawsuit: portal.ct.gov/-/media/ag/p...
I just spoke to one of the wonderful unemployment/workforce navigator people, for whom the Trump administration just ended funding. Their latest wave of clients has been people who were detained so long they lost their jobs, and they are scared to go back to the government for their earned benefits.
June 24, 2025 at 1:56 AM
I just spoke to one of the wonderful unemployment/workforce navigator people, for whom the Trump administration just ended funding. Their latest wave of clients has been people who were detained so long they lost their jobs, and they are scared to go back to the government for their earned benefits.