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Raj Nayak

@rdnayak.bsky.social
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Personal account. Views my own. Likes aren’t necessarily endorsements. Over here, I’m not even sure if they’re likes?

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Center for Labor and a Just Economy | HLS @cljeharvard.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Our nation’s labor laws are broken. There are strategies that worker advocates and lawmakers in pro-worker and even anti-worker states can employ to fill gaps left by federal labor law. Read the latest from @sharblock.bsky.social and @rdnayak.bsky.social clje.law.harvard.edu/leveraging-t...
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Leveraging the Laboratories of Democracy to Empower Workers - Center for Labor and a Just Economy
Our nation’s labor laws are broken. A record number of Americans approve of unions, but there’s a tremendous gap between…
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Raj Nayak @rdnayak.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Not unrelated -- here's a short pitch on why prevailing wages are good for the abundance agenda: onlabor.org/why-prevaili...
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Why Prevailing Wages Matter for Abundance ✦ OnLabor
We’ve seen some important post-mortems of the Biden administration’s Investing in America agenda, a massive industrial policy effort aimed at leveraging public and private-sector investments to expand...
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Raj Nayak @rdnayak.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Love this report on the importance of worker power to the abundance agenda! @awhf.bsky.social and Kate have been so compelling on this intersection.
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Raj Nayak @rdnayak.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
I for one love this metaphor! More pie is good!
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Center for Labor and a Just Economy | HLS @cljeharvard.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Find CLJE Fellow @rdnayak.bsky.social and Executive Director @sharblock.bsky.social in @harvardsalata.bsky.social’s new interdisciplinary white paper on how extreme heat is reshaping life and livelihoods across India ⬇️ salatainstitute.harvard.edu/rethinking-h...
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Rethinking how India adapts to extreme heat - The Salata Institute
A new white paper brings together multiple disciplines to examine how extreme heat is reshaping life and livelihoods across India.
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AFL-CIO @aflcio.org · 07/03/2026
The Trump admin has harmed workers, unions and our economy by using violent immigration enforcement tactics as a distraction while they gutted worker protections, health care and good union jobs. Read our new report, Workers’ Rights ICE-d Out: aflcio.org/reports/workers-rights-i…
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The States Forum @statesforum.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The checks and balances we were taught to trust? They’re not holding. Courts get overruled. Congress is standing down. The Supreme Court is concentrating its own power. @sarahrknight.bsky.social But how can states fix it? Let us explain: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Raj Nayak @rdnayak.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Thanks to Democracy Journal for publishing my new piece on abundance—and why empowering communities can help build more and faster than before. (And thanks to all who gave me feedback along the way!) democracyjournal.org/arguments/a-...
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A More Progressive Abundance
There’s a deal abundists and community leaders can strike that could let the two sides work together.
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David S. Mitchell @dsmitch28.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Critics say distributional weighting in benefit-cost analysis is impractical But Dan Acland @goldmanschool.bsky.social proves otherwise—showing how weighting can overcome bias against low income & bridge divide b/w equity & efficiency equitablegrowth.org/research-pap... @equitablegrowth.bsky.social
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Distributional weighting in benefit-cost analysis is practical and effective at assessing government rulemaking without bias against low-income individuals
Distributional weighting is feasible for many federal agencies and nonprofit organizations and is a tool for overcoming bias against lower-income individuals.
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Raj Nayak @rdnayak.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
This report is a tour de force and worth reading closely. This is one of my favorite sections, which captures an important lesson: if your risk tolerance is too low, you'll get a lot less done. That's not a reason to be reckless or act illegally, but at least to err on the side of action.
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Raj Nayak @rdnayak.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I love @dougbloch.bsky.social, Sameera Fazili, and Pronita Gupta making the case for the stabilizing impacts of community bargaining agreements! www.utilitydive.com/news/communi...
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How community benefits agreements can reduce project delivery risk
Working with communities to develop energy or other projects can help developers deliver on-time and on-budget, and with a strong foundation of local support.
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Raj Nayak @rdnayak.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Fantastic report by the SHIFT Project team + @profsheenalives.bsky.social and @juliesulabor.bsky.social
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Amazon Drives Low Wages: The Unraveling of Workplace Protections for Delivery Drivers - The Shift Project
Read the Full Article Amazon has revolutionized shopping and challenged traditional brick-and-mortar retail. But at the heart of this logistics […]
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Raj Nayak @rdnayak.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Great op-ed from Seema Nanda on the DOL's attack on the homecare workers -- stripping wages from workers in one of the hardest jobs out there.
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Kathryn Anne Edwards @kedseconomist.com · 06/08/2025
🚨Panel tomorrow🚨 Honored to join fellow panelists Julie Su and and Daniel Hornung. The BLS is vital to our economy, plain and simple. Join tomorrow to hear more about the agency, what it does, and why we need it. groundworkcollaborative.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Trump’s Attacks on BLS: A Threat to Our Economy and Working Families. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Last week, President Trump announced on Truth Social that he had fired Commissioner Erika McEntarfer, the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), only hours after a government report showed hiri...
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Michael R Strain @michaelrstrain.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Dr. Erika McEntarfer has devoted her career to public service. She has conducted herself as BLS Commissioner with great integrity. There is no evidence whatsoever that BLS data are politically biased. #econsky
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Trump firing Commissioner of Labor Statistics Dr. Erika McEntarfer is completely consistent with how he behaves when presented with data he doesn’t like. He did this with the sharpie hurricane and he did it with the pandemic. Data are not political, they are data.
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Elizabeth Wilkins @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I have spent most of my life making government work for people. But the institutions I love have been losing faith with the public for a long time. If we love government, then when we rebuild it we’ll have to be willing to break some glass to make it deliver like FDR did.
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Raj Nayak @rdnayak.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Very thoughtful piece by @elizabethwwilkins.bsky.social and Hannah Garden-Monheit on what it will take to rebuild the federal government -- which will include thinking big. thehill.com/opinion/whit...
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Justice Connection @justiceconnection.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Justice Connection sent a letter signed by 900+ former DOJ attorneys urging the Senate Judiciary Committee to rigorously examine Emil Bove’s assault on the department and rule of law before voting on a lifetime judicial appointment. Our full letter: bit.ly/3Ul58Ac
More Than 900 Former Justice Department Attorneys Express Alarm Over Emil Bove’s Third Circuit Nomination
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National Employment Law Project @nelp.org · 15/07/2025
Bossware is on the rise—and it’s threatening #WorkersRights. Our policy agenda examines how unchecked workplace surveillance is degrading job quality & highlights worker-led solutions that use tech to empower, not exploit. It's time for lawmakers to follow their lead: www.nelp.org/insights-res...
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When 'Bossware' Manages Workers: A Policy Agenda to Stop Digital Surveillance and Automated-Decision-System Abuses - National Employment Law Project
Our report highlights the problems posed by employers’ excessive and inappropriate use of technology to monitor and manage workers.
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Raj Nayak @rdnayak.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I was excited to write this piece for Democracy Journal with my @cljeharvard.bsky.social colleauges @sharblock.bsky.social and Seema Nanda – explaining the attack on the National Labor Relations Act, and the stakes for workers and our democracy.
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Terri Gerstein @terrigerstein.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
As Team Trump takes a bat to workers' rights, it's a “Which side are you on?” moment. Some Democratic leaders are waffling or worse. Instead they should unambiguously stand for workers every chance they get. My latest in @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1972...
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Democratic Governors, Why Are You Turning Your Backs on Workers?
Oregon’s Tina Kotek did the right thing this week. But other Democratic governors and leaders are opposing measures that would unambiguously help workers. Shame on them.
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David Weil @profsheenalives.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
The sad and preventable return of black lung. And Trump just paused enforcement of a rule that would address it. A friend of coal miners? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w... @jbarab.bsky.social @aflcio.org @rdnayak.bsky.social
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How Black Lung Came Roaring Back to Coal Country
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Raj Nayak @rdnayak.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
This great analysis by Sam Berger explains how the Republican Tax Bill makes it harder for families to access services and costs them benefits even if they qualify. www.cbpp.org/research/fed...
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House Republican Tax Bill Would Create Costly Red Tape for Millions of Families | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The goal is not to improve program efficiency, but to pay for tax cuts for the very wealthy by denying people benefits through frustrating, pointless paperwork.
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Joey Fishkin @fishkin.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Sometimes I feel like the Trump era has presented a kind of trolling, darkly humorous test to American liberals: * Everything you have been skeptical of since the 1960s—or since you became a politically conscious person, with a sensibility shaped by that era—you will now be forced to _defend_. *
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Administrative burdens: policymaking by other means
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Kind of baffled by this passage. Starts off saying the funds were "wasted" on "equity projects". Then says that by equity she means making the system easier to use and more accessible, which sounds like a good thing to do. Then she says that didn't count as bad DEI.
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Lynn Rhinehart @lynnrhinehart.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Check out my new piece on the dangers of the Supreme Court giving Trump the power to control independent agencies- scary, radical stuff.
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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Friendly reminder that the most important things for most businesses to make decisions and investments are the rule of law and regulatory certainty.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
New, from me: Quick explainer on why the Supreme Court (likely) decision to overturn Humphrey's Executor and move toward unitary executive theory will undermine any future efforts to rebuild state capacity. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/why-the-su...
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Why the Supreme Court decision on firing independent agency heads is a big deal
The demise of Humphrey's Executor and the rise of unitary executive theory
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Read for yourself this provision of the reconciliation bill, which is the current text just released by the House Rules Committee. Then read: Dean Erwin Chemerinsky's essay this morning in @justsecurity.org. Chemerinsky's essay is titled: "A Terrible Idea" www.justsecurity.org/113529/terri...
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Our best chance to stop this thing is in the House. Rs are trying to pass it though Budget tonight, through Rules Wednesday, and then through the full chamber on Friday. It would kick millions off Medicaid and take food assistance away from households with kids as young as 7. Please help stop it.
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Democracy Forward @democracyforward.org · 10/05/2025
BREAKING: Judge blocks President Trump’s unconstitutional campaign to radically restructure and dismantle the federal government. This ruling is one of many that prove Elon Musk, DOGE, and even the president himself are not above the rule of law and the will of the American people.
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Raj Nayak @rdnayak.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
This is a fantastic opporutnity to fund research on the Inflation Reduction Act, and a positive vision for creating jobs all around the nation!
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 30/04/2025
A LOT of people do not want to hear it but in the United States at least, food has never been safer to eat, not to mention tastier
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Raj Nayak @rdnayak.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
No taxes on overtime just isn't the same without overtime rights. Will President Trump fight for them? (From my former Biden DOL colleagues Seema Nanda and Jessica Looman.) otherwords.org/biden-gave-m...
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Biden Gave Millions of Overtime Workers a Raise. Will Trump Kill It? - OtherWords
Raises for four million workers ride on just one federal rule.
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Raj Nayak @rdnayak.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Great look at key indicators from @aimstettner.bsky.social and @tcfdotorg.bsky.social .
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100 Days of Chaos: Rising Prices, Falling Markets, and Suffering Families
President Trump came into office with a promise to boost the economy and lower prices for families, pledging that “A vote for Trump means your groceries
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Raj Nayak @rdnayak.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
DOGE is counting on fired federal workers being unable to afford the lawyers they need to understand and protect their rights. Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network is connecting thousands of lawyers with federal workers for free legal support. WorkersLegalDefense.org/
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Rise Up: Federal Workers Legal Defense Network
Connecting federal workers to free legal support through a network of pro bono attorneys. Lawyer training and a library of resources to assist workers in need of support. If you're a lawyer looking to...
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Raj Nayak @rdnayak.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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The Simpsons - Bart Quits Smoking
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Raj Nayak @rdnayak.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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New Lawsuit Challenges President Trump's Unlawful Removal of EEOC Commissioner Jocelyn Samuels - Democracy Forward
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Raj Nayak @rdnayak.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
How does this square with cuts to mine safety? x.com/jmain_joe/st...
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Deep fear in coal country: DOGE cuts put region's miners and families on edge
For federal safety inspectors, the urgent call to their sprawling mining office near Pittsburgh was bleak: Man crushed in the rubble of an aging mine in...
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Randi Weingarten 🖇️📚✊🇺🇸 @rweingarten.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Strategic tariffs & investments can grow an economy. But Trump's sledgehammer tariffs, combined with attacks on collective bargaining & mass worker layoffs, leave consumers afraid to spend money & investors looking elsewhere. This endangers economic prosperity. www.cnn.com/2025/04/03/i...
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Trump’s massive tariffs shake markets, spark recession fears | CNN Business
Global markets on Thursday were severely rattled by President Donald Trump’s historic tariff announcement, which threatens to throw the US and the rest of the world into a recession.
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Raj Nayak @rdnayak.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Smart tariffs can be a useful tool. Strategic restructuring can make government work better for the people. But the last 73 days have been all chainsaws, no scalpels, and the potential impacts are alarming.
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Raj Nayak @rdnayak.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
This is a fantastic opporutnity to fund research on the Inflation Reduction Act, and a positive vision for creating jobs all around the nation!
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Debbie Berkowitz @debbieberkowitz.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
A FU to workers. Stripping away a tiny agency that made such a difference in making sure workers don’t get killed on the job. www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-...
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RFK Jr.'s layoffs expected to gut worker safety agency NIOSH, officials say
More than 800 employees at the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health are expected to be cut.
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Koh: I think if this is a president who really wanted to empower workers, he wouldn't have just stripped 700,000 people of their collective bargaining rights..
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Raj Nayak @rdnayak.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
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Global Working Conditions Matter for American Workers
The Trump administration has cut programs that help prevent forced labor and child labor. This will suppress wages everywhere, including the U.S.
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Center for Labor and a Just Economy | HLS @cljeharvard.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Building climate resilience must be a collaborative and interdisciplinary effort and we need multiple voices at the table in order to shape effective policy. Read more from @sharblock.bsky.social and @rdnayak.bsky.social as they return from #India2047 salatainstitute.harvard.edu/how-work-and...
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How work, and workers, can influence heat action plans - The Salata Institute
Experts from Harvard Law School share lessons from international and interdisciplinary perspectives on heat adaptation and the climate crisis.
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Center for Labor and a Just Economy | HLS @cljeharvard.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
@sharblock.bsky.social and @rdnayak.bsky.social presented on the hazard of extreme heat on workers in the U.S. & India at #India2047, hosted by @harvardsalata.bsky.social and The Mittal Institute. Experts from various fields addressed challenges for living a decent life when temperatures are rising.
Sharon Block moderating a panel on the effects of extreme heat on workers at India 2047. Sharon Block and Rajesh Nayak on a panel about the effects of extreme heat on workers at India 2047. Sharon Block and Rajesh Nayak on a panel about the effects of extreme heat on workers at India 2047.
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