Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 02/10/2026Just a public service announcement: some of the tastiest pastries in the southeast are at USA Bakelava in Manassas, VA 1120
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 01/10/2026Even if you've never been a union member, the attacks on unions have cost you money. The typical worker would be earning $5,000 more a year if unions were as strong today as they were five decades ago 412647
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 29/09/2026Huge congrats to the brilliant economist and historian Ellora Derenoncourt, one of this year's MacArthur Fellows! 1359
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 27/09/202610 years! Our babysitter was only *kinda* high, so everyone is having a good time 050
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 24/09/2026Did AI increase unemployment among recent college grads this summer? Probably not. Summer of 2026 was pretty normal compared to earlier years. new research from Robert Fairlie and Jane Wu 37619
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 15/09/2026yes, but upper tail continued to age until more recently 010
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 13/09/2026the new city playground is pretty sweet #publicparksrule 180
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 11/09/2026Thanks to Trump's war, workers' pay buys less than it did a year ago. Five months and counting... 03317
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 04/09/2026Trump's mass deportations were sold as a major jobs program, but they're still failing to help U.S.-born workers 11913
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 01/09/2026I don't recall getting this couch for our dog but I suppose that's what happened 130
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 31/08/2026The latest administrative data show the BLS payroll survey got 2025 job growth right, but this appears to have escaped the dude running the Department of Labor, who still points to revisions as evidence the agency can't be trusted. Maybe the credibility problem isn't the agency's? 090
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 27/08/2026also see this figure: Wisconsin teachers had no gender pay gap until Scott Walker and Act 10 eliminated collective bargaining over pay. Men pulled ahead, women fell behind, and the gap opened where there was a male superintendent/principal 02114
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 26/08/2026here's how I bind breakerofchains::break_chain() to a keyboard shortcut in Positron 020
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 25/08/2026Teachers educate 50 million kids a year, but in every state they're paid far less than comparable college graduates. New estimates from Sylvia Allegretto @epi.org @ceprdc.bsky.social 1207
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 22/08/2026Raleigh, NC taxpayers are spending $3,000 each -- $521 million total -- on Trump's mass deportations. What's your town paying? What could it fund instead? www.epi.org/deportation-... 11610
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 14/08/2026Time to check in on how Trump's deportations are helping US-born workers... 12910
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 13/08/2026Tired out from the usual dinner of kibble, plus an entire bag of potato chips she snatched from the pantry 091
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 12/08/2026Bad news for paychecks: higher inflation from Trump's Iran war and slowing nominal wage growth are pushing down real wages 03615
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 12/08/2026very useful tool for looking up BLS series ids, from @prestonmui.bsky.social prestonmui.github.io/bls-series-l... 0111
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 10/08/2026Seattle taxpayers are spending $1.4 billion ($4,200 each!) on Trump's deportation regime 12413
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 07/08/2026If there is some selection bias here you might be able to (eventually) compare places where data centers went through relative to places where they were attempted but local opposition stopped them, like @jcwetcoast.bsky.social 's cool paper on Walmart 020
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 05/08/2026You're paying $2,358 in federal taxes for Trump's mass deportations. @epi.org 's new calculator shows what your community could have instead www.epi.org/deportation-... 12555287
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 02/08/2026Terence Tao argues AI brings a new "crisis in the foundations of mathematical values and practices" that could ultimately leave the field stronger, like the foundational upheaval a century ago teorth.github.io/tao-web/slid... 0101
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 30/07/2026New @epi.org data through 2026 Q1: workers are nearly twice as productive as they were in 1979, but their pay hasn't come close to keeping up. That divergence, redistributed to profits and executives, has cost a full-time median-wage worker over $23,000 a year 1139
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 27/07/2026who just ate a bag of gummy bears and a loaf of bread and then knocked over their water bowl 080
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 24/07/2026a new project launcher for the #Rstats prefab package starting a new project with your preferred scaffolding is now only a keyboard shortcut away in #Positron 1112
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 22/07/2026so when I tried this, it definitely insisted that zero days of the week contain the word poop. But then I reminded it about how days of the week have "fish" in them, and it got back on track 050
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 17/07/2026We found that Trump's deportation agenda could destroy up to 400,000 home based care jobs, forcing family members to scramble for informal arrangements to support relatives 33012
