Ismael Cid Martínez
@icidmartinez.bsky.social
Latino | Runner | Economist | DC/NYC Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy (PREE), Economic Policy Institute (EPI) Views are my own. Engagement with content does not equal endorsement.
This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org
According to NYT, Pentagon officials told Congress that the first 6 days of the war had cost the U.S. at least $11.3 billion. But we can't seem to expand nutritional assistance programs to help families avoid food insecurity, which is worse today than it was in 2019!!!
And now for a bit of good news: 🎉 Congratulations to EPI Senior Policy & Economic Analyst (and absolute legend) Chandra Childers who was honored with a Progressive Women's Voices IMPACT Award last week at the Women's Media Center's 21st Anniversary Awards. #WomensHistoryMonth
A workplace that reflects the workforce is not “reverse racism.” The Trump EEOC’s frivolous justification for a serious federal investigation is another signal of the rise of white supremacy within our government & diverts attention + resources from the systemic discrimination that still occurs.
A more diverse workforce isn’t ‘DEI-motivated discrimination’—it’s just demographic change: How Trump is weaponizing the EEOC against the workers it was built to protect
Key takeaways: Trump has weaponized the EEOC to go after employers with diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, accusing them of “reverse racism” against white workers—but nothing in the EEOC...
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maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living
Max Berger@maxberger.bsky.social · 5mo agoX is a fascist propaganda website.
Today's jobs report was much weaker than expected. Payroll jobs fell 92k in Feb, and revisions to Dec data show a loss of 17k jobs. Average job growth over the last 3 months now under 6k. Household survey population controls indicate a significant drop in the labor force. #NumbersDay #EconSky
Here's the point to remember about the brutal negative revisions in today's job market report: They aren't saying the labor market showed green shoots that withered. It's saying that there never were any green shoots. They were an illusion.
We've been here before: White supremacy has always been used to usher in massive economic inequality #EconSky by @kdoc-writes.bsky.social @epi.org
We’ve been here before, and we know what comes next: White supremacy has always been used to usher in massive economic inequality
We’re a little over a year into the second Trump presidency. That second term began with the establishment of “The Department of Governmental Efficiency” (DOGE), a sustained campaign to discredit and ...
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Many workers have missed shifts without jobs being destroyed making it challenging to measure labor impacts with conventional sources. We use real-time daily data from Homebase to measure impacts. Thanks to UChicago and Homebase for making the data available. #EconSky #NumbersDay
Aaron Rosenthal@aaronrosenthal.bsky.social · 5mo agoNew research with @aaronsojourner.org of the @upjohninstitute.bsky.social posted on @northstarpolicy.org's blog. We find that Operation Metro Surge caused declines in employees working, hours worked, and businesses open, leading to an estimated $106 million wage loss for Twin Cities workers.
Today's #JobsReport highlights: - payroll job growth 130k in January, but benchmark revisions show 2025 much weaker than originally reported - unemployment rate at 4.3%, up from 4.0% last January - federal government continues to lose jobs #EconSky @epi.org #NumbersDay
"The immortal words of Coretta Scott King capture the true spirit of the civil rights era and expose Trump’s hypocrisy: 'Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.'"
Ismael Cid Martínez@icidmartinez.bsky.social · 7mo agoThe Trump-Vance administration attacked MLK’s legacy and more than half a century of progress toward racial and economic justice in 2025. The emboldened assertion of white supremacy in our political economy demands a renewed commitment to Dr. King’s legacy of racial and economic justice. @epi.org
The Trump-Vance administration attacked MLK’s legacy and more than half a century of progress toward racial and economic justice in 2025. The emboldened assertion of white supremacy in our political economy demands a renewed commitment to Dr. King’s legacy of racial and economic justice. @epi.org
Six ways the Trump administration tried to erase MLK’s legacy in 2025
More than 60 years ago, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and other leaders of the Civil Rights Movement helped generate the moral impetus and political will for U.S. lawmakers to pass sweeping legislation ...
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A deportation plan that wreaks havoc on every level, hurting immigrant and U.S.-born workers.
Immigration crackdown threatens U.S. domestic workforce
Since arriving in the United States, Margarita has been a live-in home care worker, caring for disabled young people and adults. Now, as Trump threatens to crackdown even further on immigration, Marga...
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Economic Policy Institute@epi.org · 8mo agoTrump’s deportation plan would wipe out 394,000 direct care jobs, hurting immigrant AND U.S.-born workers. Families would lose vital home care. States like NY could lose nearly half their care workforce. Mass deportations = a care crisis. New from @benzipperer.org @domesticworkers.bsky.social
Our former guest and @epi.org President @hshierholz.bsky.social is teaming up with Josh Bivens, Valerie Wilson, and Sam Sanders for a conversation about what the affordability debate gets wrong — and what actually needs to change. 🗓 Thursday, Jan 22 ⏰ 3–4 PM ET Register here: buff.ly/KJ7GHQq
Last year, Sebastian Martinez Hickey and @icidmartinez.bsky.social wrote about why low-wage work fails to shelter workers from economic insecurity and poverty. Increasing the minimum wage boosts earnings and reduces poverty. 2/
The federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage in 2025
In 2025, the federal minimum wage is officially a “poverty wage.” The annual earnings of a single adult working full-time, year-round at $7.25 an hour now fall below the poverty threshold of $15,650 (...
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BREAKING: The federal minimum wage remains an official poverty wage in 2026. 😵 The annual earnings of a single adult working full-time, year-round at $7.25/hour falls below the newly released poverty threshold for any household of any size. 1/
Across New York, some renters — especially those in the city’s poorest neighborhoods – are frequently left without heat or hot water during the winter, leading them to bundle up in layers of clothing or risk fires by using space heaters. trib.al/so6w76W
Renee Nicole Good was murdered. Marimar Martinez was shot. Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and jailed. The next could be you. What’s at stake isn’t just American democracy. It’s also your safety and security and that of your loved ones. This is personal — to every one of us.
Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died. She was 86. Her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement. n.pr/4bhqaK7
Claudette Colvin, who refused to move seats on a bus at start of civil rights movement, dies
Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died. She was 86. Her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement.
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Powell‘s words are clear and chilling. The Fed can’t defend itself from the White House. The Senate and the courts will have to step up. Will they?
Claudia Sahm @claudia-sahm.bsky.social · 7mo ago"This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."
🚩 🚨🚨🚨 🚩 AG Bondi & POTUS are threatening the Fed with criminal indictment in order to try to force its leaders to corrupt economic policy. Watch this. #NumbersDay #EconSky
Federal Reserve@federalreserve.gov · 7mo agoVideo message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
The Hispanic unemployment rate (UR) closed '25 (at 4.9%) nearly how it started (4.8% in Jan). The '25 UR was similar to that in '24 (5.1%). The Latino UR did worse than in '24, and closed '25 slightly higher (4.3%) than it started (4.1% in Jan). The Latina UR started & ended '25 at 4.5%. #JobsDay
Today's #JobsReport tells us the economy is decidedly weaker than a year ago: -unemployment rate is 4.4%, up from 4.1% last Dec -payroll employment up 50k; total gain this year only 585k compared to 2.0 million in 2024 -federal employment is down 277k since Jan, a loss of 9.2% federal jobs #EconSky
What an achievement 🤣🤦🏻♂️
The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · 7mo agoGeorge Borjas, a Cuba-born Harvard University economist who prefers a lower profile, provided the intellectual underpinnings of President Trump’s sweeping policy changes until he left the White House on Friday. https://wapo.st/4q8bLEn
Billionaires have pledged millions to the new Trump Accounts that fail to account for the scope of child poverty and inequity in the US. This voluntary savings vehicle overlooks the root causes of these issues, framing them as the result of insufficient savings. From @icidmartinez.bsky.social 1/
Billionaire-funded Trump Accounts won’t end child poverty: But they will widen structural inequities in the U.S. economy
In recent months, uber-rich families and companies have pledged millions of dollars to support a new savings program for children, known as Trump Accounts. In early December, for example, Dell Founder...
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SNAP benefits help workers find and keep jobs: "None of us really show up into an economy on our own." Ismael Cid-Martinez @epi.org
A look at how Trump-era work requirements could impact people who receive public benefits
The Trump administration made work requirements for low-income people receiving government assistance a priority in 2025.
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