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Leila Davis

@leiladavis1.bsky.social
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Economist at Umass Boston. Wisconsinite.

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Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM) @fmm-macro.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Day 3 of the FMM Summer School: Marc Lavoie discussed “Money and Macro”, focusing on money, credit and central banks from a Post-Keynesian perspective. Then, @leiladavis1.bsky.social explored financialization and market power. Now the study groups are presenting their findings.
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Journal of Stratification Economics @jsecon.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Harry Konstantinidis presenting "Rates of Return and Racial Stratification of Business Ownership in the United States" at #JSE2026 @leiladavis1.bsky.social @umassamherst.bsky.social @sbs-umass.bsky.social @umassboston.bsky.social
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Journal of Stratification Economics @jsecon.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The agenda is set! Ready to hear and learn from @jwickslim.bsky.social @shahramazhar.bsky.social @ihsaanbassier.bsky.social @dont-d.bsky.social @profcew.bsky.social @kdoc-writes.bsky.social @leiladavis1.bsky.social and many more scholars #JSE2026 Register here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
excited to share that I am *officially running* to represent Massachusetts state employees on the MA public pension board! I'm running because public pensions are *ours* and should serve the interests of state workers and our communities I'm endorsed by @massteacher.bsky.social www.mapension.com
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 06/11/2025
Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate This streak dies tomorrow Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months This blind spot will remain forever
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I never would have imagined that a state Surgeon General, in 2025, would vow to end all vaccine mandates. Florida is an international tourist destination. This will not end well for any of us.
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
My new Politico Op Ed is live! Will send it out to my email list after I pick up lunch. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Opinion | Why Markets Aren’t Freaking Out Over Trump’s Attack on the Fed
And why that’s a big mistake.
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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
I think it's a mistake to think of the firing of Lisa Cook primarily in terms of Central Bank Independence, and its impact on the inflation rate. The most significant issue is also more basic: it's the rule of law.
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
This is the make or break moment for Powell's @federalreserve.gov. If they do not defend Lisa Cook and treat her as still on the Board, the fight over the Fed as an independent agency will officially be over. see my Friday piece. www.crisesnotes.com/trump-vs-pow...
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Trump Vs. Powell: The Big Takeaways from Trump’s Assault on the Federal Reserve
Support Notes on the Crises! Hello readers; I’m long overdue for major updates across a whole range of issues. I have continued to work full time on Notes on the Crises but the work of setting...
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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Just received this statement from Lisa Cook: "President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022."
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
“It is inconceivable that the United States is once again building concentration camps, denying the lessons learned 80 years ago,” Ann Burroughs, president and CEO of the Japanese American National Museum, said in a statement to HuffPost. www.huffpost.com/entry/former...
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Former WWII Internment Camp Turned Into Immigrant Detention Center Sparks Outrage From Activists
"It is inconceivable that the United States is once again building concentration camps, denying the lessons learned 80 years ago," Ann Burroughs said.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
YES to the expanded service and YES to this framing for it: "We're doing this to ensure that the people that need to use the system can use the system. We're a public transit agency. We do it to provide a public service." www.wbur.org/news/2025/08...
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MBTA will again experiment with late-night service
As part of a new schedule that takes effect Aug. 24, the T plans to extend evening service by almost an hour on all four subway lines on Friday and Saturday nights and on a handful of bus routes, incl...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/08/2025
we all know that the proof for the administration that an institution is not implementing affirmative action will be the percentage of nonwhite admits. the lower the better. any more than a smattering of black and Hispanic students will be evidence of illegal discrimination (against whites)
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I am increasingly convinced that the economic impact of tariffs is most likely to show up as a fall in business profits, a collapse investment spending, and a recession - deflation, not inflation.
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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Regardless of politics, economists should make clear: we do not condone reckless attacks on our statistical agencies, including by our fellow economists. The staff at these agencies work painstakingly to collect the data our democracy and economy depend on.
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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 04/08/2025
Important to remember that because of the incredible work of government statisticians, initial BLS employment estimates have become MORE accurate. Its revisions are now smaller than those from years past excellent figure from @ernietedeschi.bsky.social
Figure from Ernie Tedeschi titled nonfarm payroll employment percent revisions
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Why do the jobs numbers get revised? our markets and policymakers want data NOW but employer data dribbles in over months 1st estimate is based on the 75% of employers who respond promptly Updates occur as more data rolls in: 95% response rate by final revision 1/N www.bls.gov/opub/btn/vol...
The initial estimate of job change for a month is based on the growth or loss of jobs at the businesses that have reported their data. Generally, BLS assumes that the employment situation at businesses that had reported is representative of the situation at those that had not yet reported. BLS continues to collect outstanding reports from the
businesses in the sample as it prepares a second and then a third estimate for the month. With each subsequent estimate, more businesses have provided their information. In 2012, the average collection rate at the time of the third estimate for a month was 94.6 percent. (See chart 1.)
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
The media coverage of the dismissal of the BLS commissioner as another “wild time in Trumpland” shows that the media is more committed to entertainment than news. Any reputable news organization should report what the BLS does, why it is important, and why its work should not be politicized.
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Elise Gould @elisegould.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Big news in today's #jobs report are the revisions. The labor market is much weaker than originally reported the last two months. While payrolls grew 73k in July, May and June data were revised down a total of 258k to 19k and 14k, respectively, bringing 3-month average growth down to 35k. #EconSky
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
New federal data shows that vaccination rates among American children entering kindergarten fell during the 2024-25 school year, extending a worrying trend that began during the Covid-19 pandemic. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/h...
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Childhood Vaccination Rates Have Dropped Again, C.D.C. Data Shows
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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Indiana is 1 of 6 red states that banned purchases of sugary drinks & candy with SNAP funding. Will this make SNAP so complex that smaller stores won't take it? Does restricting SNAP make sense without healthier options? @emmarjanssen.bsky.social traveled to Gary & E.Chicago for this great feature.
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Do SNAP Food Restrictions Help Health, or Punish Poor People?
Indiana is among several states restricting the purchase of sugary foods with nutrition assistance funds.
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
This footage of Trump and Federal Reserve chairman Powell at the Federal Reserve construction site is absolutely amazing. What a time to be alive.
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JW Mason @jwmason.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
The government of Israel is exterminating every man, woman and child in Gaza. And our governments, and most leaders of liberal institutions in "the West" - parties both left and right, the press, universities - are doing all they can to support this. This is the central political fact of our time.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Final CBO score of the "big beautiful bill" is out Largest Medicaid cuts ever - in fact, at least 4 times the size of the previous largest; $894-$990 bn cut Kicks 10 million off health insurance Largest SNAP cuts ever, $197 bn cut Still increases the deficit by $3.4 trillion from huge tax cuts
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Edward Harrison @edwardnh.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Top quintile driving growth: "much of the so-called resilience of the American consumer over the past few years has been propped up by those at the top, while the majority of households have been quietly tightening their belts." www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
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Who’s Really Been Driving Retail Spending
The unbearable slightness of aggregate economic data.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
"A top Boston immigration official testified in federal court Tuesday that supervisors instructed him to prioritize the arrest of Tufts PhD student Rümeysa Öztürk, the first time he’s ever received such a directive from ICE in his career working at the agency." www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/15/m...
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In court testimony, Boston ICE official recalls pressure from above to arrest Rümeysa Öztürk - The Boston Globe
"I can’t recall a time that its come top down like this with a visa revocation," the ICE official said in Boston court on Tuesday.
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Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
this was a fun @moreperfectunion.bsky.social video to be a part of
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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Since April 4, #SCOTUS has issued 15 rulings on 17 emergency applications filed by Trump (three birthright citizenship apps were consolidated). It has granted relief to Trump ... in all 15 rulings. It has written majority opinions in only 3. Today's order is the 7th with no explanation *at all.*
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Groundwork Collaborative @groundwork.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Do higher taxes on the wealthy encourage them to move? No. After New Jersey increased their tax rate for the very wealthy, “a total of 37 millionaires Ieft. In that same year, the millionaire population of NJ increased by more than 3,000 individuals,” said @lindsayowens.bsky.social to @usatoday.com.
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Would Mamdani's 'millionaire tax' chase the rich out of New York City?
Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist, is a leading candidate for mayor of New York. He wants to tax the rich. Business interests are panicking.
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Private Equity Stakeholder Project @pestakeholder.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Updated research from PESP and MHAction shows Michigan has a disproportionate share of private equity-owned manufactured housing: private equity firms own more than 25% of manufactured homes in Michigan.
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Updated research shows over 25% of manufactured homes in Michigan owned by private equity, similar entities
The Private Equity Stakeholder Project (PESP) and Manufactured Housing Action (MHAction) have released an update to the Private Equity Manufactured Housing Tracker.
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Louis-Philippe Rochon @lprochon.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Well see what I got today ????? We worked so hard with all the authors to produce a great book. Thank you @ElgarPublishing and @Elgar_Economics for your support You can order it here for yourself or assign it to your students in the Fall or winter. www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/int...
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Leila Davis @leiladavis1.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Thanks to @edwardnh.bsky.social for covering my presentation on the growing share of financially fragile US corporations at June's @levyecon.bsky.social Conference. By 2024 more than 1/3 of US listed firms fall into Minsky’s category of Ponzi–unable to cover their obligations with current cash flows
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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 08/07/2025
New ICE deportation data just dropped: on average ICE deported 1100 people every day last month, a huge escalation Although less than half the pace needed for Trump's goal of one million annual deportations, Congress gave them their funding, and we should expect this rate to rise
Line plot showing average daily ICE removals in 2025. The title of the plot is "Trump is deporting more than 1,000 people every day"
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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
July 4th, 2025
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Here is what the NY Times says about using anonymous sources generally, which reflects concerns about motivation and reliability, as well as the trust of the reader. So why were they set aside in the Mamdani case? donmoynihan.substack.com/p/whos-afrai...
What we consider before using anonymous sources:
• How do they know the information?
• What's their motivation for telling us?
• Have they proved reliable in the past?
• Can we corroborate the information they provide?
Because using anonymous sources puts great strain on our most valuable asset: our readers' trust, the reporter and at least one editor is required to know the identity of the source. A senior newsroom editor must also approve the use of the information the source provides.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
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Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 28/06/2025
How grotesque. The Republican reconciliation bill cuts nutrition programs for hungry kids in order to give tax breaks to billionaires. Good luck to my Republican colleagues in explaining the morality of that to their constituents.
New York Times: Senate Republicans Reprise Push to Pay for Tax Cuts by Slashing Food Stamps
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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 01/07/2025
Zohran Mamdani received more first-round votes (432,305) than Andrew Cuomo received total votes after ranked choice voting (428,530). That means more people ranked Zohran first than ranked Cuomo anywhere on their ballot (without ranking Zohran above him).
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
It's very clear that to meet extreme quotas, ICE agents are actively targeting the people who have checked in regularly for years because they are easiest to find. A truly evil weaponization of the immigration system and demonstration of its brokenness. apnews.com/article/iran...
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After decades in the US, Iranians arrested in Trump’s deportation drive
Some Iranians are getting arrested by immigration authorities after living decades in the United States.
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 29/06/2025
Just a reminder of the main effects of the big GOP bill ... www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Trump’s Big Bill Would Be More Regressive Than Any Major Law in Decades
Estimates from the Congressional Budget Office, released Thursday, offer a detailed view into the effects on income groups.
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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 27/06/2025
ICE arrests have skyrocketed in recent days as they go after people who are not convicted of any crimes You can't have mass deportations without arresting ordinary working people
Chart of ICE arrests by criminal history, showing a huge increase in recent weeks, the bulk of which are people with no criminal convictions. The title of the chart is "Most ICE arrests are of people convicted of no crimes"
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Lenore Palladino @lenorepalladino.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
not me, I have never assumed that
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Always striking to see the gap between Democratic voters and Democratic politicians. There is strong opposition among Democratic voters (as well as unaffiliated voters!) to war with Iran, but far too many Democratic electeds are excited about it. thehill.com/policy/defen...
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Most disapprove of Trump strikes on Iran: Survey
Most Americans say they disapprove of U.S. strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend, according to a new survey. In the CBS News/YouGov poll, conducted in the three days followin…
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 24/06/2025
The Trump administration said on Monday that it would open up 58 million acres of back country in national forests to road construction and development, removing protections that had been in place for a quarter century. trib.al/VQXR96o
A view from high ground looking downhill over forest land toward a body of water dotted with islands. Text reads: Trump Administration to End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests. Photo credit: Christopher Miller for The New York Times
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23/06/2025
ICE has imprisoned the wife of a Marine veteran who was still breastfeeding a 3-month-old baby because her *mother* failed to attend a hearing in 2018 apnews.com/article/ice-...
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ICE detains Marine Corps veteran's wife who was still breastfeeding their baby
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers detained the wife of a Marine Corps veteran in Louisiana during a routine immigration appointment in New Orleans.
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Stone Cold Jane Austen @abbyhiggs.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this
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Ezra Levin ❌👑 @ezralevin.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I am looking for congressional leaders to come out quickly and forcefully against this. We need unequivocal opposition. We need theatric demonstrations of defiance. We need to see leadership. Trump will steamroll us all if we display weakness. Where are our leaders?
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NPR @npr.org · 21/06/2025
JUST IN: Khalil left the Louisiana detention center where he's been since March, when ICE agents arrested him over his pro-Palestinian activism. A federal judge ruled the government could no longer detain him.
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Columbia activist Mahmoud Khalil released on bail
Khalil left the Louisiana detention center where he's been since March, when ICE agents arrested him over his pro-Palestinian activism. A federal judge ruled the government could no longer detain him.
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Leila Davis @leiladavis1.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
In the words of Colbert: “am I living in a nightmare?”
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