Rob McClelland
rob-mcclelland.bsky.social
Rob McClelland
@rob-mcclelland.bsky.social
Senior Fellow Tax Policy Center. Previously chief Price and Index Number Division, BLS; Senior analyst CBO. Opinions my own.
From US ITC: through end of May collections were $70 billion. May alone was $24 billion, so $30 billion for June is plausible, which would make the total $100 billion through June.
July 8, 2025 at 5:19 PM
When I worked at BLS, I vetted applications for this program. There was some very high quality research conducted eg eml.berkeley.edu/~enakamura/p...

Future research will now be lost and we will all be poorer for it.
eml.berkeley.edu
June 9, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Reposted by Rob McClelland
Mathematica. Urban. Child trends. Abt. Among many others Are getting smashed. As are government analysts who often have phd or masters. The whole field is likely to get smashed. And u say will take decades to rebuild. :(. And ironically its very bipartisan. For decades. Until now.
March 5, 2025 at 9:55 PM
This is very, very bad
March 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
"It hurts to understand that at Woodstock or Altamont a woman could be declared uptight or a poor sport if she didn’t want to be raped. "
March 2, 2025 at 2:38 PM
This is a biting overview, written at the time, of the fantastic amount of misogyny women experienced. medium.com/@julien.ribe...
“Goodbye to All That,” by Robin Morgan (1970)
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Rat, was one of the leading counterculture / New Left newspapers in New York City. In January 1970, a…
medium.com
March 2, 2025 at 2:32 PM