Raj Nayak

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.

I love @dougbloch.bsky.social, Sameera Fazili, and Pronita Gupta making the case for the stabilizing impacts of community bargaining agreements!

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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 […]

Fantastic report by the SHIFT Project team + @profsheenalives.bsky.social and @juliesulabor.bsky.social

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.

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...

🚨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.

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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

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.

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.

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...

More Than 900 Former Justice Department Attorneys Express Alarm Over Emil Bove’s Third Circuit Nomination

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

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

How Black Lung Came Roaring Back to Coal Country

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

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.

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.

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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_. *

Administrative burdens: policymaking by other means

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.

Check out my new piece on the dangers of the Supreme Court giving Trump the power to control independent agencies- scary, radical stuff.

Friendly reminder that the most important things for most businesses to make decisions and investments are the rule of law and regulatory certainty.

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

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.
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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"
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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.

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.

This is a fantastic opporutnity to fund research on the Inflation Reduction Act, and a positive vision for creating jobs all around the nation!

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

Biden Gave Millions of Overtime Workers a Raise. Will Trump Kill It? - OtherWords Raises for four million workers ride on just one federal rule.

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.)

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Great look at key indicators from @aimstettner.bsky.social and @tcfdotorg.bsky.social .

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...

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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