Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 29/09/2026youtube.comEllora Derenoncourt | 2026 MacArthur FellowYouTube video by macfound 021
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 29/09/2026Huge congrats to the brilliant economist and historian Ellora Derenoncourt, one of this year's MacArthur Fellows! 1328
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 27/09/2026Art of the Deal, Chapter 8: Once they have the canopy and bay door, the rest of the plane sells itself 030
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 · 25/09/2026you may be confused about this, and so was the judgesportico.comLSU’s Tiger Tale Gets Hearing in Oregon State Players Union BidRoy Haggerty testified last week about what drove his departure from LSU. But what does that have to do with Beaver athletes' employee statuses? 040
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 25/09/2026also incredible we're only learning this because Oregon State brought it up to fight its women's basketball players' union bid, arguing that <checks notes> bringing a tiger on a football field is, uh .... <checks notes again> "what it looks like when an athletics program runs a university" 141
Reposted by Ben ZippererMike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I knew but still am amazed at how bad these numbers are, 10th percentile having a worse time of it than peak 10% inflation in 2022. 28124
Reposted by Ben ZippererBen 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 · 24/09/2026ifo.deThe Early Impacts of AI on Employment Among Recent College Graduates | ifo Institute | CESifo 061
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
Reposted by Ben ZippererMatt Darling @besttrousers.bsky.social · 23/09/2026"Prioritizing high-pressure labor markets—those identified by extended periods of low unemployment—is key to providing lower- and middle-wage workers the leverage to bid up their wages." 3639
Reposted by Ben ZippererDave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Huge finding. ICE activity was NOT correlated with immigrant density. It WAS correlated with Black and brown neighborhoods. Shocked, shocked. 211235
Reposted by Ben ZippererEzra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Quite a thing to hear from someone who oversaw massive Medicare fraud during his time running a company. 2279
Reposted by Ben ZippererElise Gould @elisegould.bsky.social · 17/09/2026New data alert 🚨 - CEO pay surged in 2025, rising 14% to an average $27.9 million - CEOs are paid 325 times as much as the typical worker in their industry - Between 1978 and 2025, top CEO pay rose 1,316% compared to only a 28% increase for typical workers www.epi.org/blog/ceo-pay... #EconSkyepi.orgCEO pay surged in 2025: CEOs are paid 325 times as much as the typical workerKey findings: CEO pay at the top 350 U.S. firms rose 14.0% in 2025 to an average of $27.9 million. CEOs made 325 times as much as the typical worker in 2025. It hasn’t always been this way. In 1965, C... 28441
Reposted by Ben ZippererJed Kolko @jedkolko.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The 2025 American Community Survey should have come out today. But it has been delayed because of unusual political encroachment at Census. ACS drives business and policy decisions, especially in local communities, and is the primary input to Census’s immigration estimates. 118280
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 15/09/2026yes, but upper tail continued to age until more recently 010
Reposted by Ben ZippererElise Gould @elisegould.bsky.social · 15/09/2026This morning, the Census Bureau is releasing the latest data on Income, Poverty and Health Insurance! Note: these data are for 2025 and will not reflect changes in the labor market, rising inflation, and attacks on vital safety net policies, hitting families in 2026. www.epi.org/blog/2025-ce...epi.org2025 Census data preview: Key measures of earnings, income, and poverty may show early signs of a softer labor market and weaker safety netThe 2025 Census data may show how the Trump administration’s policy choices were starting to impact the economic well-being of workers and their families last year. 12715
Reposted by Ben ZippererBen 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 · 13/09/2026the new city playground is pretty sweet #publicparksrule 180
Reposted by Ben ZippererAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 12/09/2026Unionization reduces deaths of despair. "Right to work" laws kill. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 27023
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 11/09/2026imo poking around in scripts, sending lines to console, etc. still incredibly valuable for thorough data analysis. glad people are still building for that. 021
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
Reposted by Ben ZippererAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Great idea for FOIAs! 221260305
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 10/09/2026This was awesome. Check it out if you can!cvillerightnow.comSpace station visible in Virginia Wednesday night - Cville Right NowThe International Space Station will be visible around 8:30 p.m. as it travels from the southwest to the northeast. 111
Reposted by Ben ZippererJesse Rothstein @jrothst.bsky.social · 08/09/2026New paper alert! “Heritability and social interaction in labor market outcomes: Evidence from the population of twins in the United States,” with David Card and Moises Yi, out today in PNAS. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...pnas.orgPNASProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans... 43716
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 08/09/2026Obviously I have no idea what really happened, but it's not clear this is the issue and instead it's the possibility that a year or so of work entered into Codex was somehow used by OpenAI 010
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 08/09/2026incredibly on brand that when confronted about this becoming public knowledge they responded "why would you ruin *your* career" 0100
Reposted by Ben ZippererCaitlin Patler @caitlinpatler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 Chloe East (CU Boulder Econ) & I are hiring a postdoc to work on causal research on impacts of imm policy on immigrant children & families + rapid response descriptive work. Please share & encourage qualified candidates to apply! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05505aprecruit.berkeley.eduPostDoctoral Scholar Employee - Goldman School of Public PolicyUniversity of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now! 14345
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
Reposted by Ben ZippererJed Kolko @jedkolko.bsky.social · 01/09/2026New from me: Political meddling at the Census Bureau damages the entire US statistical system www.piie.com/blogs/realti...piie.comPolitical meddling at the Census Bureau damages the entire US statistical systemThis summer marks the worst period for US statistical integrity since President Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics last August. Two different and seemingly uncoordinated eve... 01713
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 01/09/2026I don't recall getting this couch for our dog but I suppose that's what happened 130
Reposted by Ben ZippererEconomic Policy Institute @epi.org · 01/09/2026So-called right-to-work (RTW) laws undermine workers’ ability to form unions. Unionization rates are clearly lower in RTW states—and since unions raise wages, that suppression lowers pay. The latest from @elisegould.bsky.social and Emma Cohn examines the economic impact of RTW 👇 1/7 #econskyepi.orgWages are lower in “right-to-work” states: These states have lower unionization rates and more anti-worker policiesKey takeaways: So-called right-to-work (RTW) laws undermine workers’ ability to form unions. Unionization rates are clearly lower in RTW states—and since unions raise wages, that suppression lowers pa... 41865438
Reposted by Ben ZippererTom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 01/09/2026“A Haitian immigrant who had grown increasingly distraught after losing his protection from deportation and being outfitted with an ankle monitor was run over and killed Monday in what his family believes was a suicide.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...washingtonpost.comHaitian immigrant in Ohio takes his own life after losing temporary protected status, family saysPierre Damas Bel’s family said he felt humiliated by an ankle monitor ICE officers placed on him after the Trump administration canceled protections for thousands of Haitian immigrants. 581179558
Reposted by Ben ZippererErika McEntarfer @erikamcentarfer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This change grants Commerce political appointees veto power over data and research releases by scientists and statisticians at NOAA, NIST, Census, and BEA. 8287185
Reposted by Ben ZippererKatie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Between July 2025 & June 2026, SNAP enrollment in Louisiana fell by 21%. Almost half of the roughly 170,000 Louisianans who lost food assistance were children. www.cbpp.org/research/foo...cbpp.orgSNAP Tracker: People Are Losing Food Assistance as the Harmful 2025 Republican Reconciliation Law Is ImplementedSNAP participation nationwide fell by roughly 5 million people (12 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and May 2026, based on the latest month of data. 02216
Reposted by Ben ZippererGabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 31/08/2026“The youngest person aboard the ICE Air flight was a 3-year-old born in the U.S., according to information shared with the Miami Herald after the passenger arrived.” #AbuseofPowerWatch www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...miamiherald.comICE sends second deportation flight to Haiti in a week. There are kids aboardLast month, U.S. officials warned Haitian authorities to expect an increase in deportations following the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision to allow President Donald Trump to end Haiti’s Temporary Protecte... 713292
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 · 29/08/2026Would definitely eat the Hmong corndog with kua txob and also the Chinese sausage and cheese poppers 030
Reposted by Ben ZippererJohn Carl Baker @johncarlbaker.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This is a machine to ethnically cleanse the country - and anyone who pretends otherwise is kidding themselves 3325311151
Reposted by Ben ZippererBen 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 · 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
Reposted by Ben ZippererAlex @purplechrain.bsky.social · 26/08/2026On the subject of Dolly’s union/working class solidarity, her 9 to 5 LP included Woody Guthrie’s ´Deportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)’, a protest song about the racist mistreatment & media coverage of exploited Mexican farm workers who died when the plane deporting them crashed in 1948.youtu.beDeportee (Plane Wreck at Los Gatos)YouTube video by Dolly Parton - Topic 4654255
Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 25/08/2026relatedly, you may be interested in my absolute favorite, most-used R package, for inspecting the middle of a piped chain in interactive developmentmilesmcbain.r-universe.devbreakerofchains: Break Chained Expressions and Run Them with Printed OutputRun an infix operator expression chain up to the line your cursor is on, printing the output, and ignoring any result assignment step. This facilitates easier interactive debugging of chained code. Co... 121
