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@swinshi

Resident Scholar and Director of Poverty Studies . Previously Executive Director, Joint Economic Committee. Late-blooming Beatles fanatic. Personal account

Washington DC, United States
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    Oct 31

    This is actually a piece about reducing poverty and expanding opportunity. There'd be a lot of poverty if zombies shut down the economy, and more SNAP or "stimulus" wouldn't be the answer.

    Could-be-happier Halloween from me. "Twenty years on from the 20th century, the state of the union resembles nothing so much as a less fully conceived, less ambitious version of The Walking Dead. A virus menaces the populace..."
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  2. 8 hours ago

    (We can all agree that the 2020 recession was his fault though. Somehow.)

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  3. 8 hours ago

    Too many conservative analysts ding Obama both ways -- he gets blamed for slow growth at the beginning of his first term (though the recession started a year before he took office), and he doesn't get credit for the expansion that started during his first term.

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  4. 8 hours ago

    Basically, whenever you see someone cite economic changes over a presidency, you have to think about the business cycle, and when an expansion starts under someone else's watch, well... Similarly, when a recession starts under someone else's watch...

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  5. 8 hours ago

    Ramesh makes an important point here about the limited extent to which presidents can take credit for income growth. TCJA (and deregulatory stuff) was important at the margins, but the trade stuff probably went the other way. Who knows how immigration changes affected growth?

    The data and the "Zombie Reaganites."
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  6. 18 hours ago

    Just now. I learned it just now. Blame the 17-year-old.

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  7. 18 hours ago

    TIL, you can ask Alexa to set a timer, at the end of which farting sounds commence until you stop it send tweet

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    20 hours ago

    Our daily update is published. States reported 1.8 million tests, 225k cases, and 2,563 deaths. There are 101,276 people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 in the US. Both case and hospitalization counts surpassed yesterday's all-time highs.

    4 bar charts showing key COVID-19 metrics for the US over time. Today, states reported 1.8M tests, 225k cases (record), 101,276 currently hospitalized (record), and 2,563 deaths.
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    20 hours ago

    Well.....

    The distribution of one million Z values. HT
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    23 hours ago

    All star line up (including and ) for an important paper on race, place, and opportunity

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  11. 22 hours ago

    I play chess between periods of drug and alcohol abuse

    You are now cursed with the job that the main character has in the last movie/TV show you watched. What's your new profession?
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    Dec 4

    🗓️ Tuesday, December 8: joins to discuss the Social Capital Project, followed by a panel with , , and , moderated by

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    Dec 3

    if you'd like a podcast that strengthens your mind I can't recommend from enough and yes I'm an objective observer why do you ask. particularly recommend this fascinating talk b/w and

    As casual look at the growing number of mindless podcasts suggests such an exemption covers about 40% of the public.
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  14. Dec 3

    Nice writeup of parental leave and child care issues during the pandemic by , using results from an AEI-commissioned survey

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    Dec 3
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    And childcare was provided by TANF. In fact the law specifically prohibited "workfare" if no childcare was in place.

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  16. Dec 2

    She blocks me, but this is an uninformed dismissal. Food problems, for instance, declined by more among single mother families than it did among married parent families. That's not what we'd see if child care expenses increased more than earnings. Also see

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  17. Dec 2

    "Alexa, next," he said to the car radio playing his Spotify.

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  18. Dec 1

    And my intersectionality comes through in misspelling Coen. Thx

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  19. Dec 1

    I thought it was meh but not terrible, but I grew up in rural Maine and now like Cohen Brothers movies.

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  20. Dec 1

    Polarized reaction to Hillbilly Elegy The Movie has little to do w/ politics, everything to do w/ highbrow v mass audience. Is Ron Howard making films for you? If yes, you probably liked it. Are you into Cohen Brothers? You probably didn't. Rorschach test for Vance-style populism

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  21. Dec 1

    This is not sarcasm. Steinbaum accusing someone of toxicity is self-parody.

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