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  1. Weekly GDP Nowcast: Q4 2019 → 1.2% Q1 2020 → 1.5%

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  2. Did you miss our discussion yesterday on inequality? Catch up here →

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  3. ICYMI: Hot off the presses! 👾🗞️ Check out our latest comic book 'The Story of Monetary Policy' →

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  4. TEACHERS: Register NOW for the High School Fed Challenge and give your students the opportunity to take on the role of monetary policymakers. Student orientation sessions are soon.

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  5. Retweeted
    Jan 30

    See this thread covering our event today.

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  6. We need you to be in conversation with us... thank you for coming. - David Erickson, SVP & Head of Outreach & Education

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  7. It's much harder to hide the problem [today]. We can use research and data to push the conversation forward. - ,

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  8. [How optimistic are you young Americans can live the American dream?] I don't like the odds right now... The big problem I worry about is the question of what kinds are we creating and what are they paying? - ,

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  9. Young whites own homes at 2x the rates as young black and Latinos. - Marissa Muñoz,

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  10. There is a 7% change to live the "raise yourself up by your bootstraps narrative" in America. In Canada, it's almost double that. - ,

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  11. Retweeted
    Jan 30

    Great to see our members highlighted at . ’s Marissa Muñoz points to fact that many NYC students graduate w/ high student debt & low social capital & work experience; emphasizes efforts w to connect students to these

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  13. Community colleges are a linchpin of our higher education system... meanwhile they are one of the least-resourced parts of our higher education system. - ,

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  14. [Children from] black high-income families are more likely to grow up to be low-income than [children from] white high-income families... Housing policy is the most concrete mechanism to tackle [short and long term outcomes]. - ,

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  15. NYC student borrowers owe about $90 billion... the purchasing power of Pell [grants] has been decreasing... students are taking out loans to cover the high cost of living, such as food, rent and metro cards. - Marissa Muñoz,

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  16. 2/3 of low wage workers are between the ages of 25-54. 1/2 of these were the sole earner or contributing substantial to family income. (44% of American workers) - ,

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  17. Retweeted
    Jan 30

    Jaison Abel notes growth & investment in skilled labor has slowed tremendously since 80s. Combined w/ increased demand for skilled labor = high inequality among labor force. Policy rec - grow investment in community colleges & b/c hyper local & impactful

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  18. Stay tuned for more series and events upcoming on labor market inequalities and debt/credit markets inequalities.

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  19. You can find more information on these topics at

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  20. [There are] large racial gaps in life expectancy, but these gaps have been recently evolving. Black and hispanic life expectancy has been rising while white life expectancy has been stagnant or falling in some places. - Maxim Pinkovskiy, Research

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