Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyJake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 4hNew working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854 4833851480
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyYael Schacher @yaelschacher.bsky.social · 6hI am in Cap Haitien interviewing people deported from the United States. I have been doing this kind of work for almost a decade and it literally does not get more dire than this. People have lost everything they built in the U.S. and are terrified and have no place to go or way to live. 12938434
Jeremy Barofsky @jbarofsky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026assisting U.S. service members in Afghanistan." These are people who played by the rules and faced significant trauma, some in direct support of the U.S. abroad. They deserve better. The richest country in the history of the world certainly could provide this bare minimum of support. 000
Jeremy Barofsky @jbarofsky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026chilling effects among eligible immigrants and their children. The Oct 1 changes mean *legal* immigrants lost coverage. People who were, per KFF, "previously eligible include refugees of war, asylees who fled persecution, victims of sex trafficking, and interpreters who risked their lives ... 110
Jeremy Barofsky @jbarofsky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026OBBA's effects mostly take effect starting Jan 1. Already, 6.3 million people, including 2.5 million children have lost Medicaid coverage since Jan 2025. Reasons include expiration of waivers that alleviated burdens for eligible people to get coverage and ccf.georgetown.edu/feature/stat...ccf.georgetown.eduState by State Medicaid and CHIP Enrollment DataThis tracker shows enrollment data for Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in all 50 states and DC, from January 2025 to the most recent month available. Data include total Med... 110
Jeremy Barofsky @jbarofsky.bsky.social · 03/10/2026As of yesterday, the first eligibility changes from the so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" in Medicaid took effect. Estimates vary, but 9 states and DC report that more than 280,000 people lost health care access (177k in FL alone). These loses are a 'canary in the coal mine' for Medicaid sincekffhealthnews.orgUS Poised To Boot Legal Immigrants From Medicaid, Including Refugees and Sex-Trafficking Victims - KFF Health NewsThe Congressional Budget Office estimated 100,000 more immigrants will be uninsured by 2034 because of Medicaid eligibility changes under President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act that take effect ... 110
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyNPR @npr.org · 01/10/2026Starting Oct. 1, many immigrants who are here legally lose their Medicaid coverage because of the Republican budget bill passed last year. n.pr/4z0FPpqn.pr'It's a nightmare.' Former refugee, professor on Trump's new Medicaid policyStarting Oct. 1, many immigrants who are here legally lose their Medicaid coverage because of the Republican budget bill passed last year. 14345201
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyEdwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 23/09/2026From @brucelesley.bsky.social a comprehensive dismantling of the Paragon Institute's attempt to explain away a well over 2 million decline in #Medicaid and CHIP enrollment among children since the start of the Trump Administration even before most of H.R. 1's massive Medicaid cuts take effect. 095
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyKathleen Romig @kathleenromig.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The Social Security data SCOTUS just cleared the Trump Admin to use is known to have outdated and missing information on citizenship. Using it will almost certainly disenfranchise eligible citizen voters in the midterms. www.cbpp.org/research/fed...cbpp.orgTrump Administration Doubles Down on Using Flawed Data to Restrict Voting AccessSeptember 10, 2026: In September, the Trump Administration asked the Supreme Court to overturn a lower-court ruling blocking the use of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’s Systematic Alien Ver... 03117
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 11/09/2026He's on stage to demonstrate that, as long as you are in the president's political coalition, you are above the law. 48823
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyThe Author, Séamas O'Reilly @seamas.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...nature.comThe political effects of X’s feed algorithm - NatureAmong users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared... 4239591780
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyCaitlin 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! 14346
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyMigration Policy Institute @migrationpolicy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Tomorrow is the scheduled expiration of US Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for El Salvador Many Salvadorans have held TPS for more than 2 decades Here’s what to know about the ending of many TPS designations: bit.ly/TrumpTPS 013
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyMigration Policy Institute @migrationpolicy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026🩺More than 1/5 of U.S. immigrant workers from Haiti are in the health-care sector. Here’s how that compares to other groups: bit.ly/HaitianImmigrantStats 031
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social · 02/09/2026We've updated our Health Coverage Tracker with the latest Medicaid enrollment data. As of May 2026, 4.8 million fewer people had Medicaid than a year earlier. Explore the latest national and state data: www.cbpp.org/research/hea...cbpp.orgHealth Coverage Tracker: Millions of People Are Losing Coverage Following 2025 Republican Policy ChangesThis tool tracks declines in the number of people enrolled in the ACA marketplaces and Medicaid: two sources of coverage that have been crucial to delivering affordable health care to people with low ... 066
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyDani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 01/09/2026While everyone fixates on manufacturing and re-industrialization, it is services that is experiencing a productivity revolution. The revolution is global and taking place in some of the most labor-intensive sectors. My latest www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/s...project-syndicate.orgThe Quiet Revolution in ServicesDani Rodrik explains why strong productivity growth in the sector is as welcome as it is unexpected. 13112
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Texas hospitals expect to lose $27 million a day in Medicaid funding starting Tuesday www.texastribune.org/2026/08/31/t...texastribune.orgTexas hospitals to lose $27 million in Medicaid funding dailyStarting Sept. 1, the Trump administration will withhold about $9.8 billion in extra annual funding that helps hospitals cover the difference between Medicaid payments and the actual cost of services. 29438217
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyKatie Bergh @katiebergh.bsky.social · 27/08/2026New state-reported data on SNAP participation in July 2026 shows the number of Nebraskans receiving SNAP plummeted by roughly 22% in the year after these cuts were enacted. 0138
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyCarl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 31/08/2026IMO @cbo.bsky.social is doing some of the most important work in complex systems today. He understands that context is everything. Take a look. 212739
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Arkansas enacted another income tax cut that primarily benefits the state's highest-income households, even as communities face growing health care challenges and mounting fiscal pressures www.cbpp.org/research/sta...cbpp.orgWhile Arkansans Struggle to Access Health Care, State Leaders Insist on More Tax Cuts for the WealthyAugust 24, 2026: In May, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed the state’s fourth income tax cut in four years, continuing a march toward her stated goal of complete elimination of Arkansas’... 042
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyRebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Once again in case somebody here missed the message (unlikely on BlueSky perhaps!). Crypto is at best a speculative asset: you buy it because you think a bigger fool will buy it from you for more. Its main "use case" is paying ransoms and buying drugs, weapons etc. 67827
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyGil Durán @gilduran.com · 15/08/2026First I was banned from X/Twitter. Then Facebook banned my newsletter. Then X/Twitter banned me permanently. Now YouTube disables my channel the week of my book launch. Was it something I said? 👉 www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne... 572146758
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyMichael Clemens @mclem.org · 12/08/2026Incredible. When E—n M—k & his crew obliterated USAID in a weekend, they deleted a vast trove of publicly-funded knowledge: the Development Experience Clearinghouse. A Canadian high school student (!) happened to have downloaded the entire thing for a project. AidData has now posted it for all.aiddata.orgBefore reimagining development data, remember what we’ve learnedWhy we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports. 374402808
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyPhil Rocco @philiprocco.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Totally irresponsible for columnists, journalists, and electeds to keep parroting this nonsense. See Young et al. “The most striking finding of this research is how little elites seem willing to move to exploit tax advantages across state lines in the United States.” www.jstor.org/stable/24756...jstor.orgMillionaire Migration and Taxation of the Elite: Evidence from Administrative Data | JSTORCristobal Young, Charles Varner, Ithai Z. Lurie, Richard Prisinzano, Millionaire Migration and Taxation of the Elite: Evidence from Administrative Data, American Sociological Review, Vol. 81, No. 3, J... 29531
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyElizabeth Wilkins @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Last fall I was horrified to hear from a Roosevelt Network alum and Detroit public servant about the fight Detroit is putting up against RealToken to protect its tenants from crypto-fueled greed. Now @wsj.com has investigated the full scope of the harm. 295
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyArin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 11/06/2026We've been running an unprecedented natural experiment running for a decade and half. 30 states have raised their minimum wages. 20 have not. What happened to pay? What happened to jobs? The good news is that it's pretty easy to figure out now. substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comA Minimum Wage Natural Experiment Has Been Running for Over a DecadeWhen 30 States Raised Minimum Wages, What Happened to Pay and Jobs? 19138
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Very excited for this new essay at "Can We Still Govern?": The key claim is that planning for a progressive future cannot just focus on new policies. It also has to include - to start with - political power. What does a power-shifting perspective look like? 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/rebuilding...donmoynihan.substack.comRebuilding Democracy Requires Rebalancing PowerWhat does a power-shifting agenda look like? 721376
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyAdam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 31/07/2026We’re starving millions of Americans so musk and bezos can get tax cuts and trump can collect bribes www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...theatlantic.comThe Coming Food-Stamp CrisisA looming deadline may force some states to end SNAP next year. 361888759
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyIsabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 31/07/2026(1/3) The IMF finds “China is backing strategic businesses, like green tech, while the west props up old sectors with political clout, like agriculture.” In the West, capital disciplines the state to prop up high profits in old industries. 110244
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyTimothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 30/07/2026HAPPY BIRTHDAY Medicare and Medicaid! 61 years ago President Johnson signed the Medicare/Medicaid legislation in Independence, MO, the hometown of President Harry Truman. For decades Medicare and Medicaid has provided crucial access to affordable coverage to those needing it. 25219
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyJonathan Horowitz @jonathanhorowi1.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Other people have made this point, but it's crazy that universities haven't been supporting development of open-weight LLMs and forking over cash to the big players. I would trust LLMs way, way more if there was something that had the decentralized, open-source and repository-based structure of R. 1145
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyDon Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 28/07/2026When journalists asked me about where we would see the effects of DOGE, my answer was a) during crises and b) for the big services that interact with the public like SSA, VA and IRS. So lets check in on the IRS: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...motherjones.comThe IRS is imploding.The CEO says the agency is proving it's possible to have “less people and better results.” 10473160
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyCatherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 27/07/2026TPS for Haitians officially expires tomorrow. ICE is planning big operations, with Springfield, Ohio among the targets www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-hai...cbsnews.comICE plans to target Haitians as Temporary Protected Status is set to end, sources sayThe plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate. 20926371785
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyAaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 27/07/2026Ethnic cleansing of 100s of 1000s of people who have lived in the USA as legal, productive neighbors for over a decade Will harm them & the communities they've helped keep vital White supremacist ideologues want white Americans to believe this will help us It's a dirty, harmful lie 7773271
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyMike Masnick @masnick.com · 24/07/2026Some interesting provocations here... 03013
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyApoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 23/07/2026The Trump administration’s cuts to the largest global HIV program last year resulted in sharp drops in both prevention efforts and treatment for the people most at risk from the disease. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/h...nytimes.com1,700 H.I.V. Treatment Sites Closed After Trump Aid Cuts, a Study Finds (Gift Article)New research also shows that children and high-risk adult populations have been particularly affected. 8267161
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyOmar Wasow @owasow.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Why has DSA grown? One argument from this research: not just ideology, but organization. Strong membership plus ongoing and continuous participation in social movements creates credibility, committed volunteers, political skills, and durable electoral capacity. www.niskanencenter.org/inside-the-d...niskanencenter.orgInside the Democratic Socialist uprising - Niskanen CenterCandidates affiliated with (or sympathetic to) the Democratic Socialists of America (the DSA) have recently won several Democratic primaries. 35917188
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyTravis Roach @troach.bsky.social · 21/07/2026We know that hot days lead to worsening health outcomes. Surprisingly, we have very little info on the fiscal impact these hot days have on government programs like Medicaid. In this new paper, we match over a million Medicaid records across nearly 16,000 U.S. ZIP codes to daily temperature data (🧵)static.klipy.comWhy? Scrubs SceneALT: Why? Scrubs Scene 15123
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyElizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 20/07/2026New working paper from Ritikaa Khanna, @rourkeobrien.bsky.social, @astokespop.bsky.social, @atheendar.bsky.social, & me We apply a new lens to the great (non-Covid) debate of US mortality studies: What's up w the 2010s? It emphasizes that US longevity worsened against a background of increasing $$nber.orgThe U.S. Mortality Crisis as a Preston Curve ReversalFounded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an... 31713
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyBryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 21/07/2026This is really, really, really bad. I spoke to two mothers who lost food stamps who are eating less in order to feed their kids and still struggling to give their kids enough nutritious food www.thenation.com/article/econ...thenation.comThe Trump Administration Is Making It Nearly Impossible to Get Food StampsNew work requirements and restrictions on SNAP have kicked millions off the benefit rolls, with more reductions to come. 8282166
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyEric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Andy Kim suggests a new health care policy: -Enroll every child in Medicaid until the age of 26 www.notus.org/healthcare/a...notus.orgAndy Kim’s Big Health Care Pitch: Enroll Every Kid in MedicaidThe New Jersey senator takes a unique, long-game approach to a top Democratic goal. 901468296
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyTom Hearden @followtheh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Two weeks ago today, after Nasdaq willingly rigged the rules, somewhere btw $7-10 bil of passive money was forced to buy SpaceX at $160.42 Today, 10 trading days later, it closed at $119.85 It’s an unprecedented forced loss (at least $2b) for passive investors and our financial media is 🦗 712821960
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyAmy Maxmen, PhD @amymaxmen.bsky.social · 17/07/2026DOGE axed the CDC team that tracks cyclospora. Now 1000s are sick, restaurants & hospitals scrambling. What's next? “Cyclospora is just one piece. It's making the news right now, but there are other, more dangerous pathogens.” By @emilymullin.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...wired.comThe CDC Has a Cyclospora Lab. DOGE Downsized It Last Year“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED. 1374189
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyBat 🦇 Borus @matthewborus.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Public charge regulations have been backward and eugenicist from the start. (And yes, eugenicist is the term here--the archives make no secret of that.) And the Trump administration's new public charge rule is pure cruelty, designed to scare immigrant families away from vital safety net programs.pifcoalition.orgTrump “Public Charge” Policy Means Chaos, Bias, Harm Advocates Warn - Protecting Immigrant FamiliesEL PASO, TEXAS — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released final regulations Thursday concerning administration of federal immigration law’s “public charge” provision, which applies to m... 021
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyLuke Farrell @lukef.bsky.social · 13/07/2026We’ve got big plans for NYC! Mayor Mamdani is serious about delivering on affordability and the PIT Crew is the team that will help get it done 🏎️🏁 171
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyAsjad Naqvi @asjadnaqvi.bsky.social · 07/07/2026The #DiD page has been updated after two years! The site has been substantially cleaned up: code is now better documented, resources have been expanded, list of Stata/Python/R/Julia packages updated, and all Stata code has been revalidated. Check it out: asjadnaqvi.github.io/DiD/ 0289
Reposted by Jeremy BarofskyRosanna Landis Weaver @landisweaver.bsky.social · 02/07/2026This news must somehow reach Trump voters, though I very much doubt it will. 12111