Director of @EARNetwork | Researcher @economicpolicy. More likely to find me here: https://xitter.gq/t.co/uO0H7ZhkmX
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Dave Cooper retweeted
Trump’s claim that he would exempt overtime from taxes is deeply unserious. This policy would be incredibly easy to game. How? 1/
For anyone planning to attend EARNCon 2024, please be aware that due to tropical storm Francine, we have cancelled all in-person events. DO NOT TRAVEL TO NOLA for EARNCon. Details on virtual offerings are being shared via email. #EARNCON2024
Dave Cooper retweeted
Solid labor market report out this morning: bls.gov/news.release/pdf/emp….
- Payroll employment rose 142,000, in line with recent trends
- Unemployment ticked down as the prime-age employment-to-population ratio remains at record high
- Temporary layoffs declined sharply
Dave Cooper retweeted
BREAKING: The Florida House just passed a bill that lets bosses schedule 16-year-olds more than 30 hours a week and six straight days during the school year.
The bill also kills mandatory breaks for these kids, and GOP lawmakers voted down sexual harassment protections.
Dave Cooper retweeted
Wondering how to square January’s very strong job growth (+353,000) with all the talk of high-profile layoffs? NORMAL CHURN. That 353,000 is a *net* number. It was likely the result of something like 6.2 million hires, 1.55 million layoffs, and 4.3 million quits.
Dave Cooper retweeted
Sen. Kennedy praised affordable childcare as a goal but was skeptical of costs.
“Fair question is: where’s the money gonna come from? Doc?”
(I’m doc) My response is that tax cuts can’t achieve social policy, and they’ve had twenty years and trillions of dollars to prove it.
Dave Cooper retweeted
The Florida Timeline is an ongoing initiative to draw awareness to the systemic racism that has permeated historical laws in Florida and continues to reverberate in modern-day policy. Learn more 👇👇 #sayfie
floridatimeline.org/
Dave Cooper retweeted
I met my husband and became a mother in WI.
But I grew up in Jersey and know what to do when interrupted, even by a Senator. #TaxTheRich
Dave Cooper retweeted
"This is not to discount the costs of the inflationary surge itself. Real wages were exposed to gyrations along the way. But, as Dube points out, for the vast majority of American workers, real wages are now above their December 2019 levels"--@adam_tooze on the work of @arindube
Curious to see how long until these links are blocked. Follow me at...um... this other place: threads.net/@metacoop
Dave Cooper retweeted
You may have read that Instant Brands, the company behind the Instant Pot and Pyrex filed for bankruptcy.
How can a business that manufactures two of the most successful cooking brands in the world fail so badly that it winds up going bankrupt? (THREAD)
Dave Cooper retweeted
Until now, in 16 years of writing Ask a Manager, I've never had a flood of people from one specific field write to me to ask about how to leave their field. But it's happening now with teaching -- every day I have another letter from a teacher who's trying to get out
Dave Cooper retweeted
This deserves more attention: Low-wage US workers have benefitted a lot from the strong job market.
18 million workers rose above $15/hr pay since 2019.
16 million rose above $20/hr.
Raising the minimum wage would help lock in these gains.
washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
Dave Cooper retweeted
Jennifer Sherer from @EconomicPolicy is here in Senate Labor committee presenting on new analysis of how worker suppression laws have devastated Michigan's workers, wages, and workplace safety standards. #RestoreWorkerFreedom
epi.org/blog/why-right-to-wo…
Dave Cooper retweeted
The House Education Committee is meeting now to talk about the shortage of teachers in the commonwealth.
Among many factors, falling teacher pay and worsening benefits have contributed to the problem. Teachers' paychecks fell an inflation-adjusted 5% last year alone.
Stories like this one illustrate just how dire the losses in state and local public sector employment have become. washingtonpost.com/education…
With the release of Dec. state jobs numbers, @EconomicPolicy's Nina Mast and @Dannperr break down how bad the losses have been across states and the lagging recovery in many states (including MS.) epi.org/blog/historic-job-gr…
Dave Cooper retweeted
Check out this article "America's Vast Pay Inequality Is a Story of Unequal Power" by @EconomicPolicy Senior Researcher and @EARNetwork Director @metaCoop and @EconomicPolicy Former President @LarryMishel, in Vol. 48, No. 2 of our Human Rights Magazine. americanbar.org/groups/crsj/…
Thrilled and honored to be a part of the latest @ABA_CRSJ Human Rights Magazine, explaining w/ @LarryMishel how America's vast pay inequality is a story of unequal power americanbar.org/groups/crsj/…
Lots more on this topic available @EconomicPolicy's Unequal Power Project epi.org/unequalpower/
