After ten years on twitter, I’m finally ready to start tweeting. Follow me for insights into unemployment, employment, and economic inequality. Be warned, I plan on speeding up the pace from one tweet/decade. Links to sources are in replies.

RT @business: Americans may not like paying higher taxes, but they'd gladly do so if it means keeping Congress from cutting Social Security…

Great explainer in The Verge on tariffs, which I was really happy to help with. “We don’t get to go back in time,” Edwards says. “Wasn’t it great in the ’50s when all men had unionized jobs and everybody was fine? But we don’t get to go backwards.”

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The term 'undocumented immigrant' is inaccurate. Immigrants without permission to be here participate in our economy and society. The new slash-and-burn immigration policy risks so much more than the presence of people. My latest:

Stay with this logic: In order to promote meritocracy, the State Department is not going to celebrate Black History Month. Because Black History Month was a funnel to hiring? O k a y s u r e

"The 'biological reality of sex' is the stated motivator of the executive order, but it’s the economic reality of gender that will determine its consequences." My essay on power, bargaining, and how Trump's EO will hurt ciswomen:

RT @business: Donald Trump's Day 1 declaration on the “biological reality of sex” tilts the balance of power further away from women. The d…

My latest newsletter is a reaffirmation of my optimism, even after a rough week one of presidency. Policy is possible, even in the face of all this.

I’m not surprised. I can’t imagine anyone Trump would hate more than independent investigators who are supposed to monitor civil servants. Remember, this is about ending meritocracy and installing political loyalty. Step one: dismantle accountability.

@uncriticalsimon I don’t think he cares much about what the constitution says.

RT @BloombergTV: President Trump sees immigration enforcement as a way to boost domestic workers, but the economics suggest otherwise. @cud…

@Mytiararules It runs through "Schedule F" and here's a good explainer.

Retribution towards federal employees is designed to make them quit. His goal is to replace meritocratic civil service with political loyalists. Fed fam, stay strong. This is proof of how important your job is and how threatened he is by your independence.

This came up in a call with a reporter today. Remember in 2016 when Trump was going to save coal?

Really interesting write-up of the immigration raids in Bakersfield. It's harvest season, and they put out a dragnet to grab immigrants on the way to work.

RT @boes_: Return-to-office mandates are a sign of a soft labor market in which worker bargaining power has evaporated, says @keds_economis…

I've been asked so many times to make predictions on the Trump economy, and there's only one that I feel confident about: The employment of constitutional lawyers will buck whatever other trend is going on in the economy.

Somehow I doubt that raising the minimum wage, getting all workers sick days and paid leave, reducing workplace injury, or enforcing child labor law was discussed.