Felipe Juan

The Washington Post Fired Me — But My Voice Will Not Be Silenced. I spoke out against hatred and violence in America — and it cost me my job.

Some personal news:

I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.

Thread incoming.

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Congratulations, Anna! Well deserved!

We’re excited to share our latest issue of the Hispanic Economic Outlook!

You can access the Spring 2025 issue here:

asheweb.org/wp-content/u...

A special thanks to the HEO committee Alejandro Gutierrez-Li (Chair), Fernando Lozano, Alfredo Romero, and Camila Morales.

#EconSky

Black federal workers by state Among the most harmful actions taken by the Trump Administration have been DOGE’s illegal and arbitrary cuts to the federal workforce. Though much of the attention has been on D.C.-based federal worke...

Cuts to the federal workforce are a huge hit to Black workers, who are disproportionately concentrated in federal govt jobs.

Here are the numbers: www.epi.org/publication/...

Lemme explain why this set of Trump tariff are -- literally -- going to be fifty times more painful than those he imposed in his first term.

Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline

Hey all, I created a starter pack with a list of Black economists and academics for an easily accessible list of folks doing research that we can all follow and cite #Blacksky #AddtoBlacksky #Econsky: go.bsky.app/RyKSzcb

Economists when someone made a causal comment with a time series plot:

Econ leading and not in a good way, sigh pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/...

I think my frustration is when those same people just assume that it’s commonplace. Maybe it is, but there’s still some number of people who can’t receive that type of help.

Hi #econsky

I’m Felipe, a 5th year economics PhD candidate at Howard University. My main focus is in labor economics. Specifically, I explore equitable access to unemployment insurance and look at how to make web3 more economically equitable.

Excited to connect with everyone on this new space!