Joshua W Mitchell

Principal Economist, U.S. Census Bureau. Research on retirement, income distribution, and poverty. Views expressed are my own. RT does not imply endorsement.

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Our latest working paper on measuring retirement income in household surveys (joint with Adam Bee, Irena Dushi and Brad Trenkamp is now available: https://t.co/UHtEjdHH7Y

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@GreenPlusAnE @realDailyWire Our problems today are not as large as in 1776, actually.

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@CoreyWriting Remember when people were complaining Biden supposedly delayed a bulldozer? And Harris said she saw some maps?

[Jed Kolko @JedKolko]

@EconBerger @AdpResearch Looks like the downloadable file on ADP was corrected so there is no longer a huge dip in late March. Hopefully @stlouisfed will update this in FRED!

[BEA News @BEA_News]

Statistics on the distribution of personal income have been updated with national data for 2024 and a nowcast for 2025. A new data exploration tool is also available.

https://t.co/5aVVlWGuwX

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The No Surprises Act protects patients from unexpected charges from out-of-network health care providers. CBO is seeking research that evaluates the law's effects on health care prices and network participation. https://t.co/mqhcNYzUbV

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@wwwojtekk Less turnover to other literatures.

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@FAHayekSays Now THAT’s envy.

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@NadavPollak Certain low quality Democrats.

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@bungarsargon The answer right now to all three questions is very clearly yes.

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Remember, this Iran fumble was the direct result of sending the entire fleet to Venezuela for the critical mission of replacing its President with its Vice President. That’s when the protests and slaughter happened.

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@Markzandi Prominent economic commentators still saying job market is “soft” despite all evidence to the contrary.

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Cut through all the noise of job revisions and seasonal adjustments and look at prime age epop for May. We are very close to 25-year highs and it has been that way since 2023.

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@mdubowitz I’ve been more confident!

[ד״ר עינת וילף Dr. Einat Wilf @EinatWilf]

If you want to be optimistic - remember that the U.S. conceded Vietnam and still won the Cold War - or Eisenhower tried to appease the Arab world, but Israel went on to win the Six-Day War.

If you want to be pessimistic, this certainly looks like “peace in our time.”

TBD.

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@ForbesTutt10128 @sowelleconomics Unemployment wasn’t officially measured until it was no longer a problem.

[Ernie Tedeschi @ernietedeschi]

Rising real net worth for people over their lifetime is par for the course. The typical Baby Boomer is indeed doing better than prior generations at the same age.
But, so too is the typical Millennial and Gen-Xer.

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@bungarsargon Only an English PhD could come up with this.

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@havivrettiggur @hahussain Have they found any actual journalists who died yet? Let alone any who were targeted?

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@MiltonFriedmanW This is mostly false. Replacement rates much higher for low lifetime earners actually. Life expectancy does undo some of this but it’s still pretty flat. And that’s just the retirement part of the program. Disability part is very progressive.

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@sowelleconomics Ironic that he is saying inequality is the question not poverty.