Heidi Shierholz

@hshierholz

President, . Former Chief Economist at the US Dept of Labor. Bike commuter, backyard beekeeper. Tweets my own. She/her.

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  1. 17 hours ago

    This is really important. If you win a union, you must then bargain a contract to actually get the benefits of a union—but employers often pull out all the stops to keep that from happening. (There are provisions in the PRO Act that would prevent this!)

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  2. Dec 15

    ICYMI: The top 1% (and particularly the top 0.1%) saw huge, disproportionate wage increases in 2020. Inequality is marching on in this pandemic, and we need policies like the PRO Act to halt and reverse these trends.

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    Dec 10

    TIL a new form of wage theft: compelling employees to "donate" their wages

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  4. Dec 11

    Find Lila

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    Dec 11

    So I'm reading that Elon Musk, who founded Tesla in 2003 and first had a profitable year in 2020, is concerned that Build Back Better might, for a while, add modestly to the budget deficit while it invests in children and the environment

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    Dec 10

    Economist: To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to consider the effect of X on... Sociologists:

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    Dec 10

    Inflation as measured by CPI increased 0.8 percent month-over-month in November—a slight deceleration from October but above the monthly rates in July, August, and September. Price increases were relatively broad-based. 1/

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    Dec 9

    BREAKING: Starbucks location on Elmwood Avenue in Buffalo has voted to become Starbucks' first unionized store in the U.S., by vote of 19-8. Here was the moment workers realized they had enough votes.

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  9. Dec 9

    My timeline is blowing up over this and it is amazing

    BREAKING >> BIG UNION VICTORY -- With the NLRB counting ballots in a union vote at 3 Starbucks in the Buffalo area, the NLRB count shows that the union won at the first cafe counted, making it the first of the 8,900 company-operated Starbucks in the U.S. to be unionized
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  10. Dec 9

    A huge amount of relief dollars have gone out the door to state and local governments. They should be using those $’s to hire back workers. Instead, they’re often using them to do things like fill in their UI trust funds. This is wrong wrong wrong. 7/

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  11. Dec 9

    The hires-to-job-openings ratio is below pre-COVID levels in state and local government jobs, suggesting some unusual difficulty hiring for posted jobs—though the drop is substantially less than in the private sector. 6/

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  12. Dec 9

    Quits, interestingly enough, are split. In state and local education, quits are a little bit below pre-COVID levels, but in state and local non-education jobs, quits are elevated. 5/

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  13. Dec 9

    In state and local govt non-education jobs, hiring is about where it was pre-COVID (which is a huge problem because of how many jobs there are to make up). In education jobs it’s even worse—hiring is a bit *lower* than it was pre-COVID. Layoffs, at least, are way down in both. 4/

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  14. Dec 9

    I looked at the data released yesterday to get a better sense of the dynamics underlying the lack of job growth in state and local governments right now, both within education and outside of it. Here’s what I found… 3/

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  15. Dec 9

    Further, the majority of the gap in state and local government jobs is in education. We are down 584,000 jobs in state and local education—and most of that gap is public sector K-12 jobs. This is a disaster on many levels. 2/

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  16. Dec 9

    We are in an extremely fast recovery (over 6 million jobs added so far in 2021), but one huge concern is the lack of job growth in state and local governments. We have actually *lost* S&L govt jobs in recent months, and there is still a gap of 951,000 jobs in this sector. 1/

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    Dec 8

    Job openings edged up in October, while hires were little changed and quits fell, according to the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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    Dec 7

    As legislators contemplate 's highly progressive tax agenda to (fully) offset the cost of BBB, it's always useful to be mindful of the U.S.'s ranking in international taxation re revs/GDP.

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    Dec 6

    This is a legal admission by DoorDash and I am surprised their legal team is allowing it. It shows how much faith they have in their lobbying and lack of regulatory enforcement. They have two teams essentially doing the same thing—treating some as ICs and others as EEs.

    DoorDash will directly employ couriers for this new service, but stresses that it will continue to consider 'Dashers' independent contractors.
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    Dec 3

    The Omnicron variant is just another example of how COVID will be prolonged if rich nations and Big Pharma keep blocking vaccine distribution.

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