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Lee Badgett

@lbadgett.bsky.social

Chief economist of Koppa LGBTI+ Economic Power Lab; recovering academic and professor emeritx at UMass Amherst.

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Save Foreign Aid Elon Musk reportedly spent $40 million dollars on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here are just a few ways we wouldโ€™ve spent $40M:๐ŸˆPurchased life-sa...

1/5: Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Hereโ€™s how we wouldโ€™ve spent that $$:

Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year. Tell Congress to https://buff.ly/3Qbvz9F #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID

09.02.2025 22:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Hereโ€™s how we wouldโ€™ve spent that: Tell Congress to #saveforeignaid #standwithUSAID

๐ŸˆShipped the 29K metric tons of American food on American ships instead of letting it rot
in a Texas warehouse. youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8

09.02.2025 22:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

What a joy to work with @sansoneecon.bsky.social and Kitt Carpenter and Maxine Lee on this new paper. The marriage equality issue may soon be back on the front burnerโ€”we found it had lots of good effects and no bad ones!

08.01.2025 02:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Itโ€™s good to be back in a space among actual friends instead of fiends and ads!

27.11.2024 20:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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