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Liz Ananat

@lizananat.bsky.social
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Mallya Professor of Women & Economics at Barnard College, Columbia University. Co-convener for Policies & Inequalities, Columbia Population Center. Obama CEA alum. Views=own. She/her.

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Liz Ananat @lizananat.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Many of them are seeking full-time work but cannot find it. This is tracked via what is called the involuntary part-time rate, which has been rising: www.frbsf.org/research-and...
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Signs of Cyclical Weakness in Part-Time Employment? - San Francisco Fed
Involuntary part-time employment—the share of people who work less than 35 hours per week but want and are available to work full-time—has increased since 2023. While this contrasts with steady declin...
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Liz Ananat @lizananat.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
As we discuss in the piece, workers are trying to work more hours; employers aren't giving them the hours they seek.
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Liz Ananat @lizananat.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Very helpful framing, thank you!!
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Liz Ananat @lizananat.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
New with @agpines.bsky.social: on Can We Still Govern, we show how OBBBA's new work requirements will deny benefits to families due to volatile hours and employment in the service industry--which is caused by bosses, not workers
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🗽LOLGOP🗽 @lolgop.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Going to die on the hill (sorry, @bcdreyer.social) that we should call this BS red tape a “Job Loss Penalty,” as @matthewcort.land suggests.
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How ‘Job Loss Penalty’ Reframes the Fight for Medicaid
Republicans are using deceptive framing to push massive Medicaid cuts—but the right frame could help turn the tide and protect millions.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
This is also why states will struggle to reduce their SNAP error rates (no, washington post, it's not fraud). Eligibility and benefit determination is already *really* complicated. States will lose ~$160 billion in SNAP funding b/c of the complexity--not because of fraud.
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Tatyana Deryugina @tderyugina.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Update: we are at 379 signatures in support of Lisa Cook and Fed independence! The letter be open for signatures through Sun. (Link to sign at the top). If you are on X or listservs, please spread the word there! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Open letter
Click here to add your signature. An Open Letter from Economists in Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence To the President, Members of Congress, and the American public: We wr...
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
I signed an open letter from economists supporting Fed independence & Governor Lisa Cook Letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Add your name by Monday: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Open letter
Click here to add your signature. An Open Letter from Economists in Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence To the President, Members of Congress, and the American public: We wr...
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
I signed an open letter from economists supporting Fed independence & Gov. Lisa Cook. Add your name by Monday: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... | Letter: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Signature page for Open Letter of Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence
By filling out the form below, you are asking your signature to be added to this open letter.
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Lauren Bauer @laurenhlb.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
@tmmcmillan.bsky.social has a new must-read piece on SNAP and work requirements. While her characterization of the evidence is both accurate and awesome, her story and the stories of other participants matter more. Let's all act in good faith. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/o...
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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Watch me scramble in real time as I try to find the economic angle on the Musk-Trump tiff. (I think I found one, and the issues it highlights are terrifyingly important.)
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Jay Shambaugh @jaycshambaugh.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Seems like if we want to increase a culture of work etc etc, this might be more promising than taking food benefits away from 60 year olds or parents of 9 year olds. Of course funding things like this wouldn’t open up budgetary space for tax cuts for rich people.
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Jacob Wallace @jacobwswallace.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Ok folks, we know work requirements reduce benefits without increasing work (cc: @chloeneast.bsky.social) But who loses benefits and what happens if work requirements are reversed? New evidence from linked SNAP-Medicaid data and a natural experiment in CT tell a concerning story... Thread below 👇
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SNAP work requirements have biggest effect on those least able to work
Most people pushed out of SNAP in Connecticut didn’t find their way back in, even when work requirements were later reversed.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
New from @chloeneast.bsky.social at Can We Still Govern: AEI cited her work to make the case for SNAP work requirements. Chloe explains that her and other research show that work requirements reduce SNAP access while doing nothing for employment outcomes. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-aei-g...
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What AEI Gets Wrong about SNAP Work Requirements
They cited my research, so let me respond!
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
The recurring theme of work requirements is that they hurt people who are working or looking for work. Worse, the requirements make it impossible for some workers, such as those in the service sector with irregular hours. From @lizananat.bsky.social www.hamiltonproject.org/publication/...
chart showing that service workers have more irregular hours inconsistent with work reporting requirements
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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
I respond to AEI’s mischaracterization of three of my papers AND discuss the clear evidence that work requirements don’t increase work, but do reduce food assistance for households that need it.
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The Hamilton Project @hamiltonproject.org · 28/05/2025
Who do work requirements penalize? @lizananat.bsky.social‬, ‪@agpines.bsky.social‬, and Olivia Howard offer findings on low-income service sector workers whose unpredictable work hours are largely driven by their employers and not by choice. www.brookings.edu/articles/wor...
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
As @lizananat.bsky.social shows here, work requirements are unrelated to the jobs poor families depend on to survive. The result: one third of eligible service workers would get kicked off of programs with work requirements because of high volatility in the number of hours worked in service jobs.
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Critical point: The legislation is designed to kick people off Medicaid because it ignores the reality that low-wage jobs have highly variable hours--and they can't control that.
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Liz Ananat @lizananat.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Inspired by your great work on hours volatility! www.brookings.edu/articles/low...
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Low-income workers experience—by far—the most earnings and work hours instability
Instability is a defining characteristic of low-income workers’ earnings and work hours.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Work requirements will trip some people up because they struggle with paperwork, but will by design hurt other people who work a lot but have unstable hours (thread)
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Liz Ananat @lizananat.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Combined, these sources of volatility mean that nearly 1 in 3 service workers in households with children *who meet or exceed 80 work hours/month* over the course of the year would fall short of the work requirement in at least one month–and get kicked off basic needs programs: 8/8
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Liz Ananat @lizananat.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Turnover is also high in the service sector–and the bill does not allow work search by those between jobs to count as work effort: 7/n
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Liz Ananat @lizananat.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
This volatility means that even someone who works on average throughout the year at well above the 80 hours/month required by the law is highly likely to have a “short” month and get kicked off basic needs programs: 6/n
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Liz Ananat @lizananat.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
That’s despite how hard it is to raise a family on this type of work. Hours fluctuate enormously in these jobs–driven overwhelmingly by employers’ focus on meeting fluctuating customer demand with the lowest possible labor costs, not by workers’ preferences: 5/n
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Liz Ananat @lizananat.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
And those aren’t just casual jobs held by young men who spend the rest of their time “playing video games”--in fact, service work has become more common for low-income families with school-age children than for any other group. 4/n
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Liz Ananat @lizananat.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
That’s bc Congress fails to understand low-wage work today: The bill is designed as if low-wage workers are still pulling fixed shifts at a factory &should just sign up for more shifts–but in reality, low-wage workers are increasingly in jobs in the service sector (retail, food service, health) 3/n
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Liz Ananat @lizananat.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Each year, the bill would kick off 1 in 3 parents who work 80+ hours per month in the most common low-wage jobs *even if they manage to fill out the paperwork*, our new research with w/Olivia Howard @hamiltonproject.org finds: www.brookings.edu/articles/wor... 2/n
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Work requirements penalize workers in volatile occupations
Elizabeth Ananat, Anna Gassman-Pines, and Olivia Howard warn that work requirements, such as those Congress is currently considering adding or expanding in means-tested programs, penalize low-income w...
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Liz Ananat @lizananat.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
New research from me&@agpines.bsky.social Congress is pushing work requirements for Medicaid&SNAP. You’ve heard these kick eligible folks off (@pamherd.bsky.social @donmoyn.bsky.social), don't increase work&cause hunger (@laurenhlb.bsky.social @chloeneast.bsky.social). But wait there's more! 1/n
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 23/05/2025
#priorities It really is just that simple.
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Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics @umichstonecid.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
ICYMI: Check out @lizananat.bsky.social Elizabeth Ananat’s, Mallya Professor of Women and Economics, Barnard College, presentation, “Schedule Volatility in Hourly Service Work: Evidence and Implications for Federal Income-Support Policies.” #academicsky www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqwG...
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Elizabeth Ananat: Schedule Volatility in Hourly Service Work
YouTube video by Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics
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The Hamilton Project @hamiltonproject.org · 22/05/2025
Congress is considering adding or expanding work requirements for Medicaid and SNAP. But work requirements penalize low-income workers and families, who—not by choice—often experience volatility in employment and work hours. @lizananat.bsky.social, ‪@agpines.bsky.social‬, and Olivia Howard explain:
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Work requirements penalize workers in volatile occupations
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Lauren Bauer @laurenhlb.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
New @hamiltonproject.org research by @lizananat.bsky.social @agpines.bsky.social & Olivia Howard finds that work requirements penalize low-income workers for something they can’t control: employer-driven volatility in employment and hours. www.brookings.edu/articles/wor...
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Work requirements penalize workers in volatile occupations
Elizabeth Ananat, Anna Gassman-Pines, and Olivia Howard warn that work requirements, such as those Congress is currently considering adding or expanding in means-tested programs, penalize low-income w...
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Aviva Aron-Dine @avivaaron-dine.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
A striking admission in Trump officials’ work requirements NYT op-ed: many working ppl who “work inconsistently throughout the year” will lose Medicaid & SNAP New @hamiltonproject.org‬ ‬‬ brief by @lizananat.bsky.social‬, @agpines.bsky.social‬, Olivia Howard shows this is true - and why 1/
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 29/04/2025
The administration is moving the rule. Official public (that's us!!) comment period is open. Friends of BLS has resources making it super easy & efficient for you to: 1) submit evidence to the official record & 2) communicate to your federal reps #econsky www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2025...
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Corinne Low @corinnelow.com · 29/04/2025
Economists who use BLS data-- submit a public comment to defend its integrity!! See Aaron's thread!! #econsky
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Svasti Haricharan @svasti.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
This can't be said enough. The narrative is quickly becoming but universities need fed funds, when it should be that the fed govt needs universities. NCI/NIGMS funding to Harvard/MIT supported research that led to the discovery of Herceptin, a cancer drug that has saved 3 million lives to date! 🧪
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.
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Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH
The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 03/04/2025
The problem is: they've mistaken correlation for causation. They think their parents and grandparents had a good life *because* of manufacturing jobs. When, in reality, their parents and grandparents had a good life *despite* manufacturing jobs, because of unions, high taxes, and social policies.
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NBER @nber.org · 06/04/2025
The child mental health crisis has existed for decades, but the link between poor mental health and youth suicide is mediated by policy and can be broken, from Janet Currie www.nber.org/papers/w33632
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Triangle Blog Blog @triangleblogblog.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Hello! We are a scrappy three-year-old civics blog based in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, NC. We just updated thegriffinlist.com, which contains detailed instructions for 65,000 NC voters whose votes might be thrown out in the state Supreme Court race. Please share!
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The Griffin List
A list of 60,273 North Carolina voters – these are registered voters who showed ID to early vote in the November 2024 election – whose votes Jefferson Griffin wants to not be counted. ...
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Dr. Judith Scott-Clayton @jscottclayton.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Thank you, @aefpweb.bsky.social, IHEP, and @publiccitizen.bsky.social for challenging the recent devastation at IES. Proud to be an AEFP member today (and every day).
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Liz Ananat @lizananat.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Amazing energy in NYC today!
5th Avenue packed with peaceful protesters holding signs including "Hands Off! My Future" and "Hands Off! Our Life-Saving Research"
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Dr. Judith Scott-Clayton @jscottclayton.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
The NYC protest was both massive and intimate. Old and young. Sophisticated and crass. Angry and joyful. Signs were high art, quilted, scribbled, streaked with rain. Here are just a few.
Huge, dramatic, hand-painted sign depicting Elon Musk’s face in black, gray, and white, with green eyes, against a bright red background. The words “STOP THE STEAL” are painted in red over Musk’s face with “STOP the” on his forehead and “STEAL” across his closed mouth.Woman at a protest holds a large, bright red quilt with black quilted letters, which she handmade herself, reading “YOUR BALLS ARE NEXT” In front of the NY Public Library of 5th ave, an older man sits on his walker, holding a protest sign reading “FIGHT AND PROTECT *OUR* DEMOCRACY & RULE OF LAW - JOIN US”NYC protest scene with rain-drizzled sign reading “SAVE OUR CIVIL SERVICE - SAVE THE NATION” in the center
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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Some of the stats in here are really striking. Per one paper, federal investments in R&D account for at least a fifth of all productivity gains in the U.S. economy since World War II. And the societal return for every $1 invested in the sciences is *conservatively* estimated at $5.
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Ben Casselman @bencasselman.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Tariffs get all the attention, but ask economists what they're really worried about and many will point to the Trump administration's cuts to federal support for the sciences, including canceling grants and revoking student visas. #EconSky www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/b...
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Trump’s Science Policies Pose Long-Term Risk, Economists Warn (Gift Article)
Since World War II, U.S. research funding has led to discoveries that fueled economic gains. Now cutbacks are seen as putting that legacy in jeopardy.
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Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics @umichstonecid.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Next week! Don’t miss @lizananat.bsky.social as she joins us to present, “Schedule Volatility in Hourly Service Work: Evidence and Implications for Federal Income-Support Policies.” Learn more and save your seat: inequality.umich.edu/elizabeth-an... #academicsky #polisky
Elizabeth Ananat will present “Schedule Volatility in Hourly Service Work: Evidence and Implications for Federal Income-Support Policies” on Tuesday, Mach 25 at 10:30 a.m. EST
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 18/03/2025
A gulag but offshore.
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WIRED @wired.com · 18/03/2025
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
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Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Every so often I look at the paper of record to see if it is quickly communicating to readers that they are living through a constitutional crisis, and the answer consistently is "no." They are covering the topics, but in the name of journalistic balance, not conveying the alarm.
front page of the NY Times
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