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Larry Mishel

@larrymishel.bsky.social
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Former president, Economic Policy Institute. Dad (4), husband, grandpa (7), Bella & Amos (pure mutts). Economist. Progressive. Eagles/Phillies fan. Passionate and happy. Not with EPI now.

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Katha Pollitt @kathapollitt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Subscribe to my substack -- it's free! the latest :Tradwives aren't Traditional. kathapollitt.substack.com/p/tradwives-...
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Tradwives aren’t Traditional
my latest Nation column
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Larry Mishel @larrymishel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Reporting on Israel's self-inflicted wounds in its Syrian occupation www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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The Israeli occupation is a ticking time bomb. This time, in Syria
Nighttime raids, unwarranted arrests and farmers barred from their land. Syrians who once welcomed Israeli aid now fear its troops, and experts warn that occupation creates the very threats it was mea...
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Hadar Susskind @hadarsusskind.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
New op-ed dropped in @thenation.com "The fundamental problem is not the name of the prime minister, but rather the actions of the Israeli government and the urgent issues that need to be addressed." www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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Israel’s Election Can’t Fix What Netanyahu Broke
The fundamental problem is not the name of the prime minister, but rather the actions of the Israeli government and the urgent issues that need to be addressed.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Your dad would be proud as hell of you, my man.
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Larry Mishel @larrymishel.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Read Richard Rothstein's review of Supremacy, what to do about Supreme Court: newrepublic.com/article/2151...
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The Making of a Judicial Coup
Nikolas Bowie and Daphna Renan’s new book reminds readers that the Supreme Court’s power to determine a law’s validity has no basis in the Constitution.
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Charlie Sykes @sykescharlie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Even amidst the usual zone-flooding guano of the news cycle, we need to pause on this. Let’s not gloss over the fact that Trump is (once again) marking the solemn anniversary of 9/11 by lying about himself. charliesykes.substack.com/p/trumps-911...
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Trump’s 9/11 Stolen Valor
Lies, damn lies, and the honor that Trump defames.
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Larry Mishel @larrymishel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
welcomed intervention. Anti-(illegal) occupation, not anti-Israel (relitigating 1948)
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Matt Gelb @mattgelb.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Phillies 1, Braves 0. A 109-pitch shutout for Jesús Luzardo. It's their first 1-0 CG shutout win since Roy Halladay did it Sept. 14, 2011.
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Larry Mishel @larrymishel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Nicely done @mikepod.bsky.social
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Souplady @souplady.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
"CEOs paid 281 times as much as typical workers"
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Scott Littlehale @slittlehale.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
from the executive summary:
Though these employer-friendly laws were on the books in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, it was not until the 1970s that employers began to take full advantage of their power. Several key sources set the stage for this 1970s unraveling of workers' bargaining power under the law. First, a Republican Congress largely neutered workers' leverage in passing the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act over President Truman's veto. Second, Taft-Hartley forced the NLRB to prioritize litigation against unions for engaging in so-called secondary activity over all other cases, including cases involving illegal firings of union supporters. Third, the law's ineffective remedies became obvious, and the NLRB's efforts to hold employers accountable for violating the law were stymied in the courts. Fourth, employers increasingly found an ally in the U.S. Supreme Court, which issued a series of decisions restricting workers' rights and limiting employers' bargaining obligations. Finally, employers started making greater use of replacement workers during strikes -a trend that grew in the 1970s and 1980s and significantly undermined workers' right to strike. The cumulative impact of these factors meant that by the 1970s the law did not effectively protect workers' bargaining power and gave employers a wealth of tools to resist unionization.
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Larry Mishel @larrymishel.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
why did unions decline? Answer: www.epi.org/unequalpower...
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Explaining the erosion of private-sector unions: How corporate practices and legal changes have undercut the ability of workers to organize and bargain
Larry Mishel, Economic Policy Institute, Lynn Rhinehart, Economic Policy Institute, and Lane Windham, Georgetown University A full appreciation of the need for comprehensive labor law reform requires...
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Jordan Barab @jbarab.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Labor Day: A Celebration of Working People—and the Movement That Made It Possible jordanbarab.com/confinedspac...
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Labor Day: A Celebration of Working People—and the Movement That Made It Possible - Confined Space
Labor Day is about recognizing the people who work: honoring the struggles that made decent work possible. And that every worker deserves to go home safe, earn a decent living, have a voice on the job...
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Lizrosej @lizrosej.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Happy Birthday Metro! anneschwartz.substack.com/p/happy-birt...
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Happy Birthday Metro!
Sing a song of celebration for rapid transit
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Larry Mishel @larrymishel.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
@sbagen.bsky.social is a friend and has enormous credibility, to me.
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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
The most offensive thing about Piker is how dumb he is.
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Larry Mishel @larrymishel.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Amen!
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
USPS’s job is to deliver the mail even if some mailed ballots genuinely are fake, illegal, fraudulent, or otherwise invalid. It’s on election administrators to catch and reject those, and they do. USPS has no role in it and the very idea mucks up the systems we actually have for election integrity.
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HuffPost Union @huffpostunion.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
A statement from the HuffPost Union @wgaeast.bsky.social on today's layoffs.
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Jared Bernstein @jaredb-econ.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Those of us tracking the reliability of gov't statistics have not heretofore seen anything like this. It's a remarkable and deeply worrisome encroachment: econjared.substack.com/p/the-govern...
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The Government Report That Made Me Stop Trusting Our Statistical Agencies
I’ve waved people off this degree of mistrust. I no longer can do so.
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Jesse Rothstein @jrothst.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
A great article by the always-excllent @mattbarnum.bsky.social about my new study with @zbleemer.bsky.social on the "meritocratic consensus" in higher education: www.chalkbeat.org/2026/08/18/s...
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How American higher education helps the rich get richer
Higher education’s admissions hierarchy is also a spending hierarchy. The students who arrive with the most advantages often receive the most resources.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“Socialism is a scareword they have hurled at every advance the people have made… socialism is their name for most anything that helps the people. 1952. Truman. This is how stale their desperate fearmongering is. cc: @MarshaBlackburn
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Larry Mishel @larrymishel.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Wokeism 1.0 on campus ttps://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/09/elite-academia-leadership-hypocrisy/687969/?gift=hs-p4lz-H9AbTXqz7K5VvtetnYTRRsrFhUld0aVp0sg
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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Tyranny's Mouthpiece In other words, Syrian government propaganda is almost perfectly aligned with the arguments Blumenthal and Khalek have been making for years quillette.com/2019/10/26/t...
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Tyranny's Mouthpiece | Matt Johnson | Quillette
In other words, Syrian government propaganda is almost perfectly aligned with the arguments Blumenthal and Khalek have been making for years.
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Larry Mishel @larrymishel.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
oh yeah! @theradr.bsky.social
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Onice upon a time, they did this same shtick with Italians and Jews
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Larry Mishel @larrymishel.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
This is good/fair: forward.com/opinion/8436...
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5 important questions for Abdul El-Sayed
His answers can help calm justifiable Jewish concerns
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Larry Mishel @larrymishel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I found this insightful, comforting. Jay Michaelson. AES is right about the future of Israel and Palestinians: The Michigan Senate nominee’s vision of self-determination for all provides a coherent alternative to the one-state partisans on both the left and right. forward.com/opinion/8432...
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Abdul El-Sayed is right about the future of Israel and Palestinians
The Michigan Senate nominee’s vision of self-determination for all provides a coherent alternative to the one-state partisans on both the left and right.
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Larry Mishel @larrymishel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Bidenomics Was More Successful Than People Think
Conventional wisdom holds that Joe Biden’s bet on climate investment was a bust. The data suggest otherwise.
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Larry Mishel @larrymishel.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
How long can the AG be an 'acting AG'?
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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 30/07/2026
New @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
line graph titled "The gap between productivity and a typical worker’s compensation has increased dramatically since 1979; Productivity growth and hourly compensation growth, 1948–2026"
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Larry Mishel @larrymishel.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I'm definitely not in the El-Sayed wing of the Democratic party www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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Abdul El-Sayed Fuses Together Two Toxic Ideologies
The Michigan candidate for U.S. Senate has a profound weakness for conspiracism.
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Larry Mishel @larrymishel.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Fascinating review of historical and DNA evidence of genealogic origins of Palestinians and Jews--kinda the same! eliezeraryeh.substack.com/p/shtuyot-wh...?
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Larry Mishel @larrymishel.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
marvelous reporting on Israel and Gadi Eisenkot www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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How Netanyahu’s Top General Became His Strongest Challenger
Amid settler violence and Gaza’s devastation, Benjamin Netanyahu’s leading challenger is his former top general, who promises to heal Israel’s divisions and restore its liberal democracy.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 26/07/2026
Sectoral bargaining curious? @epi.org's got you. www.epi.org/publication/...
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Sectoral bargaining FAQ: Collective bargaining, sectoral wage and standards boards, and worker power
A note about terminology Topics covered in this FAQ often involve specialized uses of language, reflecting both legally defined concepts and/ or “terms of art” typically used by practitioners. For def...
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New Jewish Narrative @newjewishnarrative.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Important reporting from Peace Now: Before the current government, there were no settlement outposts in Area B of the West Bank. Over the past two and a half years, settlers have established at least 21 such outposts. Read more: peacenow.org.il/en/outposts-in-area-b (1/3)
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Israel Allows the Expansion and Entrenchment ... | Peace Now
Over the past two and a half years, settlers have established at least 21 outposts in Area B of the West Bank. While ...
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Larry Mishel @larrymishel.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
www.nytimes.com/2026/07/19/o...
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Opinion | Don’t Let This Useless Debate Distract You, Democrats
A battle over idealized economic systems doesn’t help Democratic candidates.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Trump’s GOP is trying to remake the wnba over into wwe’s image. Racist stereotypes, symbolic race wars, and everyday eugenics. it’s a sign of how popular the sport is and how captured everything is. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...
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Republicans ask WNBA to protect Caitlin Clark from possible ‘racially motivated’ attacks
Eleven Republican politicians have written to the WNBA asking the league to protect Indiana Fever star Caitlin Clark from ‘multiple attacks’ on court
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Larry Mishel @larrymishel.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Read Jo-Ann Mort's reporting on the settler violence on the West Bank. joannmort.substack.com/p/in-the-heb...?
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IN THE HEBRON HILLS
Resilience and resistance in Umm El-Khair
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Larry Mishel @larrymishel.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
They were the Messis and Ronaldos of their time. And their fellow countrymen murdered them. David Bolchover’s brutal new book recounts how the Nazis destroyed the lives and legacies of 11 Jewish soccer superstars forward.com/news/sports/...
forward.com
They were the Messis and Ronaldos of their time. And their fellow countrymen murdered them.
David Bolchover's brutal new book recounts how the Nazis destroyed the lives and legacies of 11 Jewish soccer superstars
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Larry Mishel @larrymishel.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Makes me happy! www.nytimes.com/athletic/742...
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Folarin Balogun available for USMNT vs. Belgium as red card ban suspended
Balogun was set to be suspended for Monday's game at Lumen Field in Seattle but is now free to be selected.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”
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John Shirley @johnshirley2024.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
“He could use the presidency to enrich himself and his family. He could send troops into American cities to terrorize and even kill American citizens, all to distract from the fact that he’s friends with a pedophile!” Larry says.
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Rob Reiner Gets the ‘Last Laugh’ Against Trump in Secret Final Role as George Washington in Larry David’s HBO Show
Rob Reiner filmed his surprise final role as George Washington in Larry David's HBO show 'Life, Larry and the Pursuit of Unhappiness.'
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Jordan Barab @jbarab.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The MAGA truth squad must have missed this woke plaque at Glen Echo Park.
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Liz Shuler @lizshuler.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a culmination of the efforts of the civil rights and labor movements fighting for dignity, equality and fairness for all. 62 years later, we’re ready to keep organizing to protect and expand our civil rights and create a more just country.
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Hadar Susskind @hadarsusskind.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Just like we #SaidNoToSmo when he came to DC, we’re now organizing a (non)welcome for Ben-Gvir in NYC. If you’re around, come on out!
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Saturn @saturn0000.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
As much as the weirdo tradcaths claim its about Latin mass I am absolutely convinced its primarily about the Catholic Church no longer collectively blaming Jews for something that the Roman Empire did
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Pitchfork Economics @pitchforkeconomics.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
More than 361,000 workers are getting a raise this summer because Alaska, Oregon, and D.C. are raising their minimum wages. That’s $221M+ in higher earnings going to workers, families, and circulating through local economies.
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Seventeen states and localities are increasing their minimum wage this July
On July 1, the minimum wage will increase in Alaska, Oregon, and Washington, D.C.—lifting wages for more than 361,000 workers and collectively raising their earnings by more than $221 million (see Fig...
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Larry Mishel @larrymishel.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I have a close relative with Gaucher's disease. It is manageable, though very costly, takes two pills daily. used to get infusions.
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