The Mizzou library collection of price and wage data is a treasure trove for economic historians. I needed to find wages for particular years, states, and occupations. Problem solved! I just donated in gratitude, and I hope you do too. libraryguides.missouri.edu/pricesandwag...

OUT TODAY, the AAUP just released the first comprehensive account of how the Trump administration has taken the same playbook it's used on law firms & foreign governments & turned it on American universities. US higher ed has, in effect, become a target of a massive extortion racket. 🧵

New Report on Extorted Compliance Charges “Massive Extortion Racket” Against Higher Ed

A new AAUP report, "Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance," exposes how the Trump administration has extended its pay-to-play approach to gov...

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Love employment research and policy? We do too! @upjohninstitute.bsky.social is hiring a full-time research analyst. Our current RAs' degrees range from BA to PhD, so give the opening a look. #econ_ra #EconSky #sociology #policysky

Hey, #EconSky! The administration is trying to cut NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate. Click below to contact your representatives and urge them to save it. Tell your friends. Our research matters and is worth funding! www.congressweb.com/COSSA/58?fra...

Tell Congress to Save NSF's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate!

On April 3, the Trump Administration released its budget request for fiscal year (FY) 2027. In it, the Administration states its intent to dismantle the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Social, Beh...

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🎉🏫New paper! 🏫🎉 "High Schools and the Uneven Rise in American Opportunity" by myself, Alison Doxey, and Ezra Karger (@ezrakarger.bsky.social) www.peternencka.com/assets/high_... www.nber.org/papers/w35068

Happy to have contributed to this along w/ @karenguzzo.bsky.social @marthajbailey.bsky.social & Melissa Kearney. My favorite from Karen: “We spent decades shaming women 4 having kids under the wrong circumstances, 4 not having their ducks in a row. Now they are holding up their end of the bargain.”

The Birthrate Is Plunging. Why Some Say That’s a Good Thing.

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Fantastic lineup of speakers at the Virtual Economic History Workshop this Spring! Join the mailing list here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

New at Can We Still Govern? "I am writing as an ordinary citizen of Minneapolis/St Paul...to share with the outside world what is really going on ─ the terror being inflicted upon a U.S. city and state by our federal government." Please read, share, help. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...

Dispatch from the occupation

What life is like in Minneapolis now

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Turn your anger into action. Call your rep tonight and leave a voicemail demanding impeachment and removal of Noem and her criminal.boss, Trump. ☎️(202) 224-3121 Then email your rep the same message. Make them encounter full email and voicemail inboxes tomorrow.

In the light of ICE's unjustifiable murder of Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis, AAUP President Todd Wolfson has released a statement urging that ICE should suspend all operation in American cities. Read full statement at link below 👇 and at the graphic in this thread 🧵 #AbolishICE #AcademicSky

AAUP President Todd Wolfson: ICE Should Suspend All Operation in American Cities

The AAUP stands in solidarity with the family of Renee Nicole Good and all communities that have suffered under ICE occupation.

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#FundSocSci #Sociology #PolicySky #PoliSky

Upjohn Institute@upjohninstitute.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Funding Opportunity! We are now taking applications for our Early Career Research Awards. These awards provide support to recent PhD earners researching policy and employment issues. Those working in economics, sociology, public policy, political science, and related fields may apply. #Econsky

Missed Leah Boustan's AEA Distinguished Lecture at the conference? Watch it here: www.aeaweb.org/webcasts/202... Her new findings on recent immigrant assimilation patterns across Europe show some similarities, but also some critical differences compared to the US.

📢CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS | Virtual Economic History Workshop for early-career researchers The workshop turns 3 in January! 🎉🎉🎉 Presenters have come from 15 universities in 3 countries (list below) Sign up to present: forms.gle/vt21XRe4KA4J... Join the mailing list: forms.gle/tVWH2TPYaRuD... 1/

Excited to present at #ASSA2026 tomorrow! Come to the Marriott a few minutes before the AEA Distinguished Lecture, and I'll explore how imperfect skill transferability (think: taxi-driving doctors) might explain some of the patterns shown by Leah Boustan and her colleagues

📢CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS | Virtual Economic History Workshop for early-career researchers The workshop turns 3 in January! 🎉🎉🎉 Presenters have come from 15 universities in 3 countries (list below) Sign up to present: forms.gle/vt21XRe4KA4J... Join the mailing list: forms.gle/tVWH2TPYaRuD... 1/

Haley Wilbert @hwilbert.bsky.social is an applied microeconomist with interests in demography, health, history, and labor. Her JMP is "After the Cut: Cesarean Delivery and Subsequent Fertility." She also has a publication in Explorations in Economic History. sites.google.com/view/haleywi...

Haley Wilbert

Email: hwilbert@nd.edu

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One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.

Judge bars Trump from immediately cutting funding to the University of California | CNN Politics

The Trump administration cannot immediately cut federal funding to the University of California or issue fines against the school system over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimina...

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The Friends of BLS are currently seeking organizational and individual support for our FY26 BLS Endorsement Letter and hope you will join us by signing on as an organization or individual. #EconSky #NumbersDay

The Cornell AAUP chapter has consistently stated that any deal with the Trump administration would be strategically unwise and a betrayal of Cornell’s principles. This remains the case. At best, we can say that this deal could have been worse. Read our full statement here:

Statement on Cornell’s agreement with federal government

The Cornell AAUP chapter has consistently stated that any deal with the Trump administration would be strategically unwise and a betrayal of Cornell’s principles. This remains the case. We ar…

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Disappointed in Cornell's announcement today. Despite finding no violations of the law, Cornell will make a direct $30 million direct payment "as a condition for ending pending claims."

An agreement to restore Cornell’s federal research funding | University Statements | Cornell University

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Hi all, please spread the word and we hope everyone can make good use of this new data drop: cmfdata.org The full surviving establishment-level Census of Manufactures manuscripts and digitized data from 1850, 1860, 1870, and 1880!

Also check out #EconJMP. I will repost job market candidates' threads there. bsky.app/profile/aaro...

Aaron Sojourner@aaronsojourner.org · 2y ago

Econ job market candidate intros. Candidates, communicate: 1) your name, program, & fields, 2) image of JMP title & abstract + Alt Text, 3) #EconJMP, & 4) a link to your website. Employers, browse & interact respectfully. Everyone else, shhhh. 📉📈

🧵 This thread is a summary of what’s happened in the Chicago area in recent weeks as the Trump regime uses masked, armed immigration agents to terrorize Chicagoans. 🧵 / A federal agent shot a Presbyterian minister in the head with a pepper ball at an ICE facility in a Chicago suburb.

There's a job posting for a Grok "AI tutor" on the American Economics Association website. No salary, benefits, or job security. It's gig work for PhDs. Are we really doing this? @aeainformation.bsky.social #EconJobMarket #EconSky

We're RT'ing the BEST #CensusData and #govtstats insights, news, etc. Recent tweets from SDCs, affiliates in: CA, CO, CT, DC, GA, IN, MA, MD, MN, NC, NY, OR, PR, TN, TX and UT. Follow us on 🟦@censussdc.bsky.social – also 🐘sciences.social/@censusSDC

Did you hear the USDA plans to cease data collection for the CPS Food Security supplement? We have a blog post to give you more information. If you want to sign a letter asking for data collection to continue, see the threaded opportunities below. blog.popdata.org/food-securit...

The scenes out of Chicago should outrage us all. These federal agents are out of control, committing senseless acts of violence & putting everyone at risk.   American citizens are being detained & brutalized.   This kind of immigration "enforcement" shouldn't be acceptable to anyone.

Immigration agents become increasingly aggressive in Chicago

Activists, residents and elected leaders say increasingly combative tactics used by federal immigration agents are sparking violence and fueling neighborhood tensions in the nation’s third-largest cit...

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We need to keep talking about this.

ICE Zip-Ties Children in Horrific Raid on Chicago Apartment Building

ICE agents forced everyone out of a Chicago apartment building in the dead of night.

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Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Chicago, Illinois, 2025: "They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van." "They was bringing the kids down, had them zip-tied to each other." "I kept asking, 'What is the morality?' One of them laughed. He said, 'Fuck them kids.'" abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

What a week.

We should be horrified that a live news broadcaster is calling for murdering homeless people. But this is just another blip in the barrage of violence and dehumanization against many groups including... 1/

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 11mo ago

Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."