#UnEmployment

Andy Slavitt 🇺🇸💉

ASlavitt

COVID. Update October 25: We already had the pandemic...but we didn’t have to have.... People who gave up on our lives... People suppressed all dissent within the government... People who

Glenn Kessler

GlennKesslerWP

Line from Trump's State of the Union address that did not age well: "“Incredibly, the average unemployment rate under my administration is lower than any administration in the history of

Heather Boushey

HBoushey

Amidst the upheaval & grief, I wanted to make sure we shine some light on a perhaps behind-the-scenes econ policy debate so here's a quick thread on “return-to-work” bonuses. WH,

AnnElizabeth Konkel

AE_Konkel

Personal income and outlays release! July data shows gov’t transfers make a difference. Without them, income would be below its pre-COVID level. 1/ Looking at the two transfer programs that

Lucy

L_u_cy

Trying to apply for unemployment payments for self-employment in TX is a bunch of paper work, proving one has been in biz for several years, sending in business license, tax

S. Alexander Reed #BLM

industrial_book

Beware:• postponing the election• sudden changes to safety/security• last-minute candidate switches• "I beat this! I'm a hero"• "I beat this. Buy my vaccine!"• "I've learned so much these two wee

🗽 Caissie “Pretty Scared, You?” St.Onge

Caissie

I’m not gonna watch this, but let’s try to write some of the jokes we think might be in it. I’ll start. “I feel bad for Covid-19. As someone who

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree

chelliepingree

JUST PASSED: Heroes Act 2.0. This compromise bill provides desperately needed help to schools, small businesses, restaurants, performance spaces, and local governments.Our bill also renews federal unemployment payments through next

Frank Sowa

FrankSowa1

BREAKING - DeJoy plans on cutting 34% of all union postal jobs between now & the end of this year!At least 105,000 military VETERANS (incl many w disabilities from the

Danika Dragomir

NikaDragomira

Sentimental Saturday. April, 1932: when Britain's two biggest island colonies had had enough, and took to the streets to riot for rights.It's a bit odd that both riots had involved

California Policy Lab

CAPolicyLab

Today is the 1 year anniversary of CPL's 1st UI Report, released April 29th, 2020. Since then, our team (@alexbellecon @TJ_Hedin Roozbeh Moghadam, Geoff Schnorr, & @TillvonWachter) has written 15

TONY™️

CAMO__17

Anyone who says President @realDonaldTrump is racist has not been paying attention to what he’s accomplished for people of color. Let’s take a look at some of the things he

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

September was the 7th month of the COVID crisis in the U.S. labor market, and the situation is dire. We added 661,000 jobs in Sept, but the labor market remains

Jon Walker

JonWalkerDC

It is possible for some countries to sorta turn their economy off and back on with modest pain. Not possible here. We don't have a working health care system, unemployment

Sounds like noodles

Chuudles

Hey everyone, especially those hit by unemployment in this time, could you link your art commissions below? I'd like to get a look, commission, and hopefully signal boost if I

balajis.com

balajis

Why didn't the Spanish Flu lockdowns cause unprecedented unemployment?This strikes me as a critically important question.We know why the economy of 1918 was more robust to, say, an electromagnetic pulse.Why