Affiliated Scholar with Urban Institute; Write on inequality and social class; follow politics and international affairs. Tweets my own.
Washington, DC
Joined July 2015
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My new paper on Wh Wkg Class Men--shows how their position has declined--bit.ly/2siqq5D See comments here wapo.st/2sulSsE
new blog on why Trump's promise to be bring coal jobs is just for show and has no chance of being meaningful bit.ly/2kNlJed
New paper--how many BAs overqualified for their jobs--it is not as common as many say (25% in 2014 and 24% in 1980) urbn.is/2kxAUu6
two new pieces; Trump voters being middle class and above bit.ly/2j8UI3F and review of Gordon's growth book bit.ly/2k8oHwQ
New definition of Chutzpah-an FBI director willing to change the world to maintain his own sense of honor.
For Labor Day, Urban rereleased a blog of mine on why we wouldn't have a future of just lousy jobs-- urbn.is/1GBd71d #LaborDay
new 2015 Piketty/Saez incomes available. Top 1% incs are $200,000 below 2007--which equals 44% of all losses. Many avoid this comparison.
See Samuelson's take on my new work on growth and divide across the income ladder -- wapo.st/28V6vyv also wapo.st/28KOVQx
Things are changing too fast for many people--more people of color, gay marriage, decline in religion--and people are trying to yell "halt."
With Brexit and Trump, poor economics play some role but many are angry at an elite that dictates and talks down to the rest of population.
My new paper on growing size and economic importance of upper middle class with shift from modest to luxury goods. urbn.is/28QWcwo
new piece-Sanders and Trump talk how bad the economy based on too rosy a picture on how the economy used to be bit.ly/1Sfzlgz
My piece on trade in Wash Monthly takes on Trump/Sanders for overplaying negatives and misunderstanding mfg decline bit.ly/1nX1Pxn
My take on triumph of the 'triumph of untested' and the sources of political rage--bit.ly/1KcbPxF
New Pew poll of parents-pewrsr.ch/1QviDbf shows 93% very or mostly satisfied with their life. Rebuts theme that everyone is miserable.
In a new post, urbn.is/1YntOlq, I criticize new Pew study pewrsr.ch/1jOE9Jz on Middle Class losing ground as overly negative.
A new piece from me showing that red states have been subsidized by blue states for decades. Who really are takers?
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Just published a blog arguing that the prediction of robots leading to massive unemployment is wrong--bit.ly/1OEhVad
This talk about wage stagnation; yet women's yearly earnings grew by 52% from 1979-2013 using CPI and w benes 61% with CPI 78% with PCE.
3 of 3NY Times thinks wrkrs take no gain lying down. CBO reports real income gains of 36%.see my comments bit.ly/1irDgqc