Justin Fox

The way to vote against Mamdani is to vote for Mamdani

Great job, Daryl!

Fonzie lost in immigration court. Now Alabama father will move to a country he knows nothing about “There’s nothing about this kid that’s not American,” said a former Blountsville Town Council member.

They're deporting the Fonz www.al.com/news/2025/10...

First-year US law school enrollment since 1963, with some annotations I thought might be helpful www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Chart showing number of law school applicants each year since 1989. The number is up 18% for the 2025 enrollment year but still well below the highs of 2010, 2004 and 1991.

Law school is back (it's not shown in the chart because it's so early and the numbers so volatile, but as of yesterday the number of applicants for next year was up another 28%).

From new column, with gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

🚨🎃 for my fellow NYC halloween voters and sticker obsessives: there are a total of FOUR items available to you today — ask your poll worker!

1. halloween voting sticker
2. halloween **temporary tattoo**
3. borough-specific early voting sticker
4. regular early voting sticker

gotta catch ‘em all 🗳️

I think yes because his name is actually Bill DeBlasio bsky.app/profile/zach...

Frank Bisignano Ducks $300 Million Fiserv Loss With Move to Trump Role Social Security Administration Commissioner Frank Bisignano’s move into government couldn’t have been better timed, helping the former Fiserv Inc. chief avoid hundreds of millions of dollars in losses...

Frank Bisignano's move to the Social Security Administration has enhanced at least one person's retirement security www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Part of page 36 of the March 2, 1968 New York Times, showing the headlines "M.T.A. Takes Over Transit Network" and "Subway System for Washington and Its Suburbs Wins Approval"

It was a big day for transit (all relegated to page 36)

M.T.A. TAKES OVER TRANSIT NETWORK; Moses Will Be Kept On as Consultant to Agency (Published 1968)

Interesting headline encountered while looking for something else entirely
www.nytimes.com/1968/03/02/a...

The 55 and older LFP number is down because there has been an LFP decline among those 65 and older and almost all the boomers are now 65 and older (and there aren't as many Gen Xers) so the 55 and older group skews older than it did a few years ago.

55-64 labor force participation has generally been higher over the past couple of years than before pandemic. It's definitely dropped lately, but these numbers are (1) not seasonally adjusted and (2) pretty noisy

I’ve mainly seen the animated one and the Richard Buery/Wellington Chen one

NYC Charter Revision Commission 2025 The Charter Revision Commission has proposed five revisions to the New York City Charter on the 2025 ballot.

Ok here they all are: youtube.com/@nyccharterr...

As long as you didn't say anything bad about *prime-age* Epop, which would of course be career-ending

Chart showing percentage of Americans ages 62, 63 and 64 receiving Social Security retired-worker benefits, from mid-2006 to mid-2025. There's been an increase over the past couple of years after a decade of declines, but it's quite small.

The share of people claiming Social Security benefits as early as possible — when they turn 62 — is up this year but only slightly, and the inflection point after years of declines seems to have been a couple of years ago. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The Social Security Fairness Act Is a Bad Idea

The Social Security Fairness Act is the Orwellian name for a bipartisan bill overturning earlier laws aimed at preventing double-dipping by state and local government workers whose main jobs weren't covered by Social Security but had some Social Security income as well crr.bc.edu/the-social-s...

agreed (my next post links to my column about that)

I experienced that recently with my parents-in-law, and the SSA grabbed the money out of the bank so quickly after their deaths that they've had to return some of it.

Why So Many People Signed Up for Social Security This Year Remember when Elon Musk and President Donald Trump were saying that tens of millions of dead people received Social Security benefits?

Is Musk to blame for the increase in Social Security signups? Some of it, sure, as people alarmed by the chaos he unleashed rushed to sign up before it was too late. But the bigger driver seems to have been the Social Security Fairness Act signed by Biden on Jan. 5 www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Chart showing the 12-month percentage change in the number of US Social Security beneficiaries, which has increased from 2.7% late last year to 3.8% as of August

Hey, remember when Elon Musk was going save hundreds of billions of dollars by revoking Social Security benefits for dead people? Didn't happen, because hardly any dead people were getting Social Security. Instead, there's been a big *increase* in Social Security recipients since Musk's DC stint.

I'm not sure that will work — they just come up as interruptions in the middle of a video and then go away — but I will try.

I've seen ads on YouTube

High-quality economics posting

Reupping this morning because Blueskyers seem to be weirdly (and gratifyingly) interested in Clement Clarke Moore

Sorry, it doesn’t seem broken for me. Maybe copy and paste into a browser?

One big revision I would make is that I’m now 99% sure he wrote the poem. I had a computational linguist run a bunch of tests on the poem and a lot of other early 19th century New York poetry and they almost all pointed to Moore

Case (Almost) Closed on Who Wrote ‘The Night Before Christmas’ A new textual analysis should put to rest a long-running debate about whether Clement Clarke Moore was truly the poem’s author.

One big revision I would make is that unlike in 2021 I'm now 99% certain that Moore wrote "A Visit From St. Nicholas" www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Yes, it can be done, although it has gotten harder over time.

A Gift for America's Christmas Poet: Rehabilitation. Did the scholar and father of Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood own slaves? Probably not. Did he really write “The Night Before Christmas”? Well ...

Since @jamellebouie.net has got people talking tonight about Clement Clarke Moore's 1804 critique of Thomas Jefferson's racism, here's my epic 2021 examination of Moore's complicated ties to and attitudes about slavery, with gift link: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...