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Caity Weaver @caity.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

MAJOR UPDATE: I found the best free restaurant bread in the United States www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

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I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America

Thirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf.

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Julian Reif @julianreif.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

"Among patients already admitted to the hospital when a ransomware attack begins, in-hospital mortality increases by 34–38 percent."

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National Tax Association @natltax.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

What environmental taxation career opportunities are available? Join us for an hour-long virtual discussion with four panelists whose career paths include substantial work on environmental tax issues. Register 👉 us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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ArXiv Paperboy (Stat.ME+Econ.EM) @paperposterbot.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

link 📈🤖 Monotone Ecological Inference (Elzayn, Goldin, Guage et al) We study monotone ecological inference, a partial identification approach to ecological inference. The approach exploits information about one or both of the following conditional associations: (1) outcome differences between gro

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Barnes & Noble is running ANOTHER pre-order sale for LAWLESS (out May 13!!!!!!!)! It's 25% off (with code PREORDER25) if you're a B&N Rewards OR Premium Member - & you can sign up to be a Rewards Member FOR FREE! @barnesandnoble.com Here's the link: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lawless-le...

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Lily Batchelder @lilybatch.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

In responses to attempted abuses in the Nixon admin, overwhelming bipartisan majorities enacted laws making it a crime for the President or any political appointee in the WH to directly or indirectly interfere in IRS audits or investigations of taxpayers. The President has done just this. 2/3

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Understanding the Tax System’s Protections Against Political Interference in the Tax Code

By: The Tax Law Center

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Upjohn Institute @upjohninstitute.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

We’re pleased to announce this year’s slate of Upjohn Institute Early Career Research Awards. Ten awardees receive $7,500 apiece to carry out policy-relevant research on labor market issues. #Econsky #ECRA

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Upjohn Institute announces 2025 Early Career Research Awards

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Anisha Steephen @asteephen.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

This is terrifying. Tax data is strictly protected by law—using it for anything beyond tax administration is a dangerous breach of trust. This is just the tip of the iceberg of how IRS info can be weaponized against people in this country. 🚨 #IRS #DOGE www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/20...

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IRS nears deal with ICE to share addresses of suspected undocumented immigrants

The move toward information-sharing comes as President Donald Trump pushes his administration to use every resource to conduct what he hopes will be the largest mass deportation of immigrants in U.S. ...

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Ben Lockwood @benlockwood.com · 13/03/2025

A bright spot in recent tax policy has been the success of the IRS's in-house Direct File program, which allows many taxpayers to file taxes for free online through a simple interface, even on their phones. Let me tell you why I think so, and why Direct File’s future is at a crossroads. #EconSky

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A government program made tax filing free and more efficient. Musk and DOGE may get rid of it anyway

The fate of the IRS Direct File program is unclear as Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency cleave their way through the federal bureaucracy. Republicans and commercial tax preparation...

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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

1/ Firing some half of the IRS staff to “reduce fraud” would be like trying to catch more fish by ripping your net in half. And it’d be lawless. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/u...

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Trump Administration Pushes to Slash I.R.S. Work Force in Half

Losing half of its employees would severely strap the I.R.S., meaning Americans may have to wait longer to receive tax refunds.

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Chye-Ching Huang @dashching.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

1/ Treasury Secretary Bessent’s decision (home.treasury.gov/news/press-r...) to not enforce most of the Corporate Transparency Act on a permanent basis will encourage financial crimes using shell companies, including money laundering, terrorism, sanctions evasion, and tax evasion.

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Lily Batchelder @lilybatch.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Former IRS Commissioners serving under every President going back to Reagan, including Trump: The mass, indiscriminate firings at the IRS will increase deficits, risk filing season disruptions, and shift tax burdens from tax cheats on to honest taxpayers. 1/4 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/o...

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Opinion | Trump Just Fired 6,700 I.R.S. Workers in the Middle of Tax Season. That’s a Huge Mistake.

The Trump administration’s decision to fire over 6,000 I.R.S. workers will make the government less effective and less efficient, not more.

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Matt Unrath @mattunrath.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

What Census research is now unavailable? All CES papers are down: www.census.gov/library/work... All SEHSD, CED, ADEP, POP working papers published before 2024 appear to be down: www.census.gov/library/work... Some 2024 and 2025 papers are still up.

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Alexander Berger @albrgr.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Thousands of people, mostly kids, will die for no reason because of this www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/...

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Jacob Goldin @jacobsgoldin.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

yeah from the outside Australia seems lights years ahead on this stuff

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Jacob Goldin @jacobsgoldin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Congrats to the hardworking employees at IRS for making this possible

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Jacob Goldin @jacobsgoldin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

There’s still room to grow (DirectFile is in 25 states and is limited to taxpayers with relatively simple returns) but this is amazing progress for the program’s second year.

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Jacob Goldin @jacobsgoldin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

One of the worst part of doing your taxes is worrying you missed a form or typed something in wrong. This year the IRS Direct File program is starting to let you import some forms automatically.

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Jacob Goldin @jacobsgoldin.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Today is a big day for US tax policy - it’s the first time you can start your tax return using information the IRS already has about you: directfile.irs.gov This is government efficiency in action

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Peter Bergman @peterbergman.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Just had our data access rescinded for a projected using federal microdata to study and reduce disparate impact in housing markets.

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Dylan.FM @dylan.thefm.club · 19/01/2025

Ok this is incredible. How can you listen to this and hate AI? youtu.be/fE_hSLOaf5s?...

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Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited- FULL ALBUM - If it was made in Motown!

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

This paper is a great example of solid evidence of systemic discrimination: "Black taxpayers are audited at 2.9 to 4.7 times the rate of non-Black taxpayers." This reflects a series of choices built into the IRS audit algorithm: focus on the EITC, and overclaiming of credits.

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Jacob Goldin @jacobsgoldin.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

In particular, a narrow focus on EITC compliance leads to over-auditing Black Americans. Cutting agency resources makes unfair outcomes like this more likely bsky.app/profile/qjeh... (4/4)

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Jacob Goldin @jacobsgoldin.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Without funding, the IRS faces pressure to focus on the lowest-cost audits, like challenging low-income taxpayers who claim the EITC instead of high-income taxpayers who evade taxes on their business income. (3/4)

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Jacob Goldin @jacobsgoldin.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

IRS funding has a big bang-for-the-buck as far as revenue collection. Cutting IRS funding is massively expensive from a budgetary perspective bsky.app/profile/qjeh... ... (2/4)

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Jacob Goldin @jacobsgoldin.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Whether you care about fairness or fiscal responsibility, cutting the IRS’s enforcement budget (as many Republicans have proposed) would be an absolute disaster. New evidence from back-to-back studies in the latest @qjeharvard.bsky.social ... (1/4)

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Zach Liscow @zliscow.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Come work with me @Yale! I'm hiring a full-time RA to start in summer 2025, to work on understanding how to tax the super-rich and what drives sky-high US infrastructure construction costs. tobin.yale.edu/programs/pre...

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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 25/10/2023

More news this morning that economic hardship increased from 2021 to 2022. This time measured as food insecurity from USDA 13.4 million kids without enough food in 2022, 3.7 million more than 2021 This is a policy choice we are making

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

There is a way that we talk about systemic racism that makes it sound hopeless. But there is an example with the IRS that shows them asking for evidence on racialized burdens, and then acting on that to reduce disparate impact in audits. It's a small example of how attention to the problem matters.

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