Jessica Fulton
@jessicajfulton.bsky.social
Analyzing economic policy, advancing racial equity, and making progress on my TBR pile Micah 6:8
It’s been fun the past few years, having people lie or be useful idiots about how Anti DEI is just about merit and not a backdoor whites only policy and then insist those of us who saw that clearly are shrill or paranoid
The way that government works behind the scenes, making our everyday experiences better (or, in this case, doesn’t work and makes it worse) is truly fascinating www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/o...
Opinion | This Is Why Flying Is So Awful
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Somebody sneezes or coughs at any point in the next week: Black people: IT’S BECAUSE OF THAT TEMPERATURE GOING BACK AND FORTH!
Paying taxes is a good thing! How else is society supposed to function?!?
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Our database paints a detailed financial picture for President Donald Trump and hundreds of his political appointees, some of whom have ties to the industries they regulate. The disclosures include their recent employers, assets and debts.
Explore Financial Disclosures From President Trump and 1,500 of His Appointees - ProPublica
Use this database to explore potential conflicts of interest for President Donald Trump and his team. The documents disclose positions officials have held outside government, their assets and their de...
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As an economic justice girlie who began my career on the south side of Chicago, I am so incredibly grateful Rev. Jackson's activism and commitment to building a better America www.youtube.com/live/mqxgKJV...
LIVE: Presidents Biden, Obama, Clinton speak at Rev. Jesse Jackson Memorial
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Terminating union contracts while facing a talent shortage is certainly a choice... apnews.com/article/trea...
Treasury Department terminates union contracts for IRS and Bureau of the Fiscal Service workers
The Treasury Department says it has ended its collective bargaining agreement with unionized workers employed at the Internal Revenue Service.
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Researchers found that "surface acting", faking emotional (or non-emotional) responses at work is exhausting for workers. Of course, now I'm curious how much that exhaustion compounds when workers code switch because of cultural differences/expectations www.inc.com/bruce-crumle...
Scientists Identified a Hidden Cause of Workplace Burnout—and Most Employees Do It Daily
Sometimes following the unwritten rules and expectations of the office is the least helpful thing to do.
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Back in 2024, the @wsj.com published a story on the challenges facing white workers as manufacturing plants closed in southern illinois. The upshot was that Black workers weren't as affected, mostly because they had been locked out of those well paying manufacturing jobs. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...
America’s Role Reversal: Working-Class Blacks Make Gains While Whites Fall Back
The loss of manufacturing jobs in one Illinois county points to a key factor in the narrowing income gap.
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She is saying it loud but this is what they mean when they say oh this is not the country I am used to
That Black unemployment rates are so high is frustrating. That so many Black women have been unemployed for so long is maddening. Watching these trends worsen in the data as well as in my friendship circles is devastating. I spoke with @19thnews.org about the impact. 19thnews.org/2026/01/blac...
Black women's unemployment has skyrocketed. Here’s what happened.
The rate is now equivalent to White women’s during the bleakest moments of the Great Recession.
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Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 6mo agoLet us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.
Walmart said their “cheaper” Thanksgiving basket proves prices are down. What they didn’t say is that it has fewer items & cheaper substitutes. Thanksgiving dinner is up 10% this year and some staples are up nearly 60%! New report from @groundwork.bsky.social, @tcfdotorg.bsky.social, & @aft.org.
The disparagement of Dr. Cook angered me more than many of the other awful things that have happened during this administration. I guess I expected a lot of the larger-scale policy changes, but to make up claims and denigrate this woman's name?! www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...
Lisa Cook's bank documents appear to contradict Trump administration's mortgage fraud allegations
President Donald Trump is seeking to remove Cook, a Federal Reserve board member, over claims that she falsified financial forms regarding a secondary home.
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Economic growth can elude America's rural communities, even as the national economy expands. @gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social of @centeronbudget.bsky.social offers insights on why policymakers need a strategy to foster economic growth in rural areas. equitablegrowth.org/a-place-base... #EGEssaySeries
A place-based economic development strategy to foster rural U.S. prosperity
How a three-pronged, place-based strategy to spur economic growth in rural communities across the country boasts proven success.
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🚨 The unemployment rate for Black Americans jumped to 7.5%, the highest rate since Oct. 2021. On @cnn.com, watch Joint Center Senior Fellow @jessicajfulton.bsky.social explain why so many Black workers are being affected and how this is concerning for all workers. jointcenter.org/joint-center...
Joint Center Senior Fellow Appears on CNN Newsroom with Fredricka Whitfield - Joint Center
Former Joint Center Senior Fellow Jessica Fulton appeared on CNN Newsroom with Fredricka Whitfield to discuss the recent jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. During the discussion, Fulton…
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The GOP used its tax bill as an opportunity to make changes to the social safety net. Cutting access to food and healthcare supports will have devastating effects for Black households, especially at a moment when the labor market is weakening for Black workers. jointcenter.org/budget-recon...
Budget Reconciliation Cuts to the Social Safety Net and their Impact on Black Households - Joint Center
In July 2025, congressional Republicans passed, and President Donald Trump signed, a partisan budget reconciliation package that will reshape the American economy and further erode the social safety n...
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Stop asking billionaires questions, recording their answers and sharing their uninformed and/or racist and/or otherwise bigoted and nonsense ideas as journalism. It’s ridiculous. They are the most boring people. Oh wah I am a white man who has more money than I can spend and I’m so mad about it!
Unemployment for Black women is rising. "Black workers, and particularly Black women, show up as a canary in the coal mine, giving a picture of what may happen to everyone else later..." - @jessicajfulton.bsky.social 19thnews.org/2025/07/blac...
Black women’s unemployment is rising. Economists say it’s a warning sign.
New data released Thursday from the Bureau of Labor Statistics marked the third straight month of high unemployment rates for Black women.
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Also: the OBBBA would accelerate both Social Security & Medicare's trust fund reserve depletion by a year. They are touching Social Security, Medicare, AND Medicaid. www.crfb.org/blogs/obbba-...
OBBBA Would Accelerate Social Security & Medicare Insolvency | Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
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Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · last yr.A+. Perfect. No notes.
Very frustrated that people keep talking positively about the tiny, temporary, and terribly designed benefits for some workers in this terrible bill. The tiny benefits SOME working class folks get disappear after Trump leaves office, while he & other wealthy folks will continue to get tax breaks.
Jenn Taylor-Skinner@jtaylorskinner.bsky.social · last yr.ICYMI: Listen to my entire conversation with @econspeakers.bsky.social expert Jessica Fulton @jessicajfulton.bsky.social on how the GOP's tax bill would further concentrate wealth at the top while offering little to no meaningful help for working families, especially Black households bit.ly/3T78AxV
On @electorette.bsky.social with @jtaylorskinner.bsky.social, expert @jessicajfulton.bsky.social examines how the GOP's tax bill would further concentrate wealth at the top while offering little to no meaningful help for working families, especially Black households: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrde...
One notable way Senate Republicans made the SNAP cuts even worse: the bill would now take food assistance away from 270,000 low-income people who are veterans, experiencing homelessness, or who recently aged out of foster care.
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities@centeronbudget.bsky.social · last yr.Senate Republicans saw the impacts of the House bill and chose to double down. ⬇️⬇️⬇️
Republicans are now suddenly planning to TAX renewable energy, transforming the repeal of the IRA from a challenge to a full-blown crisis for American solar and wind. I spent the last 24 hours putting this story together to explain why. Please share! This is really important!!! @heatmap.news
How the Senate GOP’s New Tax on Renewables Could ‘Kill’ the Industry
As bad as previous drafts of the reconciliation bill have been, this one is worse.
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This entire legislative effort is wicked. Taking away healthcare and food from people who can't afford to pay for it, while making sure that the richest among us don't have to pitch in to support our society, is truly immoral and cold-hearted.
