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Watch in the coming years for the drumbeat to turn SNAP into a block grant, and remember what happened to TANF.
Same pattern: add so many administrative burdens that states say it would be easier to just take cash, and then fail to deliver that cash to the poor.

William ‘Sandy’ Darity insists federal dollars are the only path to full reparations - Andscape Advocates for Black equality call many things “reparations” – educational programs, housing assistance, health care clinics, even efforts to foster reconciliation between the races. But there is a sch...

Y'all, @sandydarity.bsky.social is on #bluesky!

Dr. Sandy Darity is one the top experts on the racial wealth gap for Black Americans. Alongside Dr. Kristen Mullen, they find that giving every Black American a direct payment of $267,000 would help close the racial wealth gap. #blacksky

FAQs for This Weekend’s Bad Bunny Concert Featuring Football What time is kickoff? The Bad Bunny concert kicks off around 8:00 or 8:30 p.m., but there will be pre-concert entertainment starting at 6:30 p.m. f...

Q: What time is kickoff?

A: The Bad Bunny concert kicks off around 8:00 or 8:30 p.m., but there will be pre-concert entertainment starting at 6:30 p.m. from one group called the “New England Patriots” and another called the “Seattle Seahawks.”

Will other states follow Oklahoma's lead?? We'll be watching...

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

This is a great chart by the @economist.com summing up Kevin Warsh using LLMs and over 200 speeches/op-eds. I did a similar exercise showing same result (Warsh v FOMC) but with less data

www.economist.com/finance-and-...

YouTube video by Tymofiy Mylovanov Update from KSE

#EconSky: Tymofiy Mylovanov from the Kyiv School of Economics is a simply a hero.

While Trump is busy allying with Putin, Tymofiy is out in the cold working for his students and his country.

I will match all donations to KSE, up to $1K total (link below).

www.youtube.com/shorts/RgDXI...

Trump promises Schumer funding for NY tunnel project — if Penn Station and Dulles Airport are renamed after him | CNN Politics President Donald Trump told Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer last month that he was finally prepared to drop his freeze on billions of dollars in funding for a major New York infrastructure projec...

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨

Trump promises Schumer funding for NY tunnel project if Penn Station and Dulles Airport are renamed after him

The startling offer, which was described by two people familiar with the conversation, was swiftly rejected by Schumer.

www.cnn.com/2026/02/05/p...

Leader of Paul Weiss Resigns Over Epstein Ties Newly released files show Brad Karp exchanged emails about a client with convicted sex offender.

MOAR
www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Lol thank you R/Bitcoin. Here is a crypto investor walking towards the light. Next he will discover the fundamental price of Bitcoin is $0 (or at least whatever the demand for organised crime use can sustain)

Private after school tutoring centers have tripled in number over the last 25-30 years.

Thrilled to see EFP Takeaways' excellent summary of this, one of my best-titled papers ("Kumon In").

aefpweb.org/files/Kim_Su...

YouTube video by INI Seminar Room 1 Prof. Cyrus Samii | Inference for Group Interaction Experiments

My talk on "Inference for group interaction experiments" from the Foundations of Causal Inference workshop at the Isaac Newton Institute is available via their Youtube channel: youtu.be/3hh-bM8YNSc?...

The Criminal Justice team at Arnold Ventures now has a Slack channel up and running, to share research ideas and opporutunities we see in the policy/practice space, with academic scholars. All researchers are welcome! Email me for the link. jdoleac@arnoldventures.org

Democrat wins special election for red Texas Senate seat With ballots tallied from all but a handful of voting centers, Rehmet had 57% of the vote, besting the 43% for his GOP opponent, Leigh Wambsganss, who had a massive spending advantage.

Breaking: Democrat Taylor Rehmet wins solidly red Texas Senate seat in stunning special election upset.

X Posts about London Crime - large growth in number of likes after monetisation introduced

Wowsers look at what happened to posts on Twitter/X about London crime after monetisation of posts was introduced…
economist.com/britain/2026...

Federal Agents Arrest Don Lemon Over Minnesota Church Protest

I thought this was fake, but apparently, they've arrested Don Lemon for reporting from Minneapolis.

I'm not a huge Don Lemon fan, but this is totalitarian nonsense meant to threaten anyone who reports on the regime's horrors.

What is the impact of AI on productivity? Reconciling the micro and the macro evidence

New post: What is the impact of AI on productivity?

I review all of the studies and data that I can find and try to provide a synthesis.

A disagreement emerges: micro studies find positive benefits but these benefits are yet to show up in the macro data.

aleximas.substack.com/p/what-is-th... 🧵

Another source of vendor capture in safety net systems is the building of the digital infrastructure. Here, Deloitte dominates. Its a lot of money. Georgia's work requirements reforms spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and admin costs as on healthcare for people.

I really appreciate that @bestofecontwitter.bsky.social helps me keep up without having to give that site clicks.

One act of resistance: Cancel your reservation and share why.

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence:

"Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

Fantastic conference on field experiments in economics and business!

Insightful point from @gregsargent.bsky.social

📣 Thrilled to announce our 5th Workshop on Field Experiments in Economics and Business, 7-8 Sept 2026, @tum.de, Campus Heilbronn.

Keynotes: @peterbergman.bsky.social (University of Texas at Austin) & Esther Duflo (@mit.edu, University of Zurich) 🫶🏻

Submission deadline May 15, 2026 🚨

#EconSky

Evidently Austin PD plays a deeply villainous role in this terrible story

New measurement opportunity for the value of a statiscal life.

📢 Call for papers:

CESifo Area Conference on Economics of Education
co-organized w/ Eric Hanushek (Stanford)

🏛️ 11-12 Sept 2026, Munich

🧑‍🏫 Keynote: John List (Chicago) @johnlist.bsky.social

👉 www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/ev...

⏰ Deadline: 11 May 2026

🖼️ Past programs:
sites.google.com/view/woessma...

Haven’t seen logistics this amazing since we brought snacks and drinks to my kid’s baseball game 🤯

STATEMENT FROM THE NATIONAL BASKETBALL PLAYERS ASSOCIATION (NBPA) AND ITS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ON THE FATAL SHOOTING IN MINNEAPOLIS BY ICE