1/ “An important milestone: household incomes are now down year-over-year. American households had more money to spend in April of 2025.”
EG Visiting Fellow Austin Clemens notes that BEA’s latest GDP and income data show weakening incomes are already slowing spending.
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For #InConversation, @ShaynaLStrom sits down with @CostaSamaras of @CMUenergy to discuss:
📍The relationship between energy demands, the growth of AI, and equitable growth
📍The coordination of AI deployment amid a clean energy transition, and more!
🔗: https://t.co/ov41CL7pn7
Welcome to our 2026 @AEAInformation Summer Training Program Scholar! 🥳
Diana Jimenez is a recent honors graduate of political science and economics from @CUBoulder.
Her research interests include labor economics and the economics of education.
More ➡️ https://t.co/WGqhyGcXBL
Welcome to our 2026 @AEAInformation Summer Economics Fellow @anna_frnch@WPCareySchool! 🥳
Her research explores the intersection of environment, macroeconomics & spatial economics, focusing on how policy uncertainty shapes the green energy transition.
https://t.co/89jARybREZ
In a new @LATimes op-ed, Equitable Growth nonresident scholar Carlos Fernando Avenancio-Leon draws on his new housing research to argue that access alone isn’t enough in the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act.
Read more🔗: https://t.co/JGsOQ7qWFk
5/ Interested in learning more about how economic growth is shared across the income distribution?
Check out the U.S. Inequality Tracker, our interactive tool showing how components of personal income have contributed to inequality over time.
https://t.co/gSO8qZm8iV
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1/ “An important milestone: household incomes are now down year-over-year. American households had more money to spend in April of 2025.”
EG Visiting Fellow Austin Clemens notes that BEA’s latest GDP and income data show weakening incomes are already slowing spending.
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4/ Clemens' estimates for the bottom 50% households are an extrapolation from BEA's 2023 data on the distribution of personal income.
"Trump's OBBBA is starting to hit these households hard because of its impact on ACA subsidies and other transfers."
As we prepare to close out #AANHPIHeritageMonth, we take a look back at this 2021 analysis from @LipstickEcon and @CSanchezCumming, highlighting the variation in wage outcomes among AANHPI women and the structural factors that shape these divides.
More🔗:
https://t.co/A8htexv9hr
Real personal income is now falling year-over-year, and for bottom 50% households it’s down even more sharply, per @equitablegrowth.
One straightforward place to start reversing that: raise the federal minimum wage, which has been stuck at $7.25 for 17 years.
What does “top 1 percent” really mean? This factsheet walks through how researchers identify who falls into the top income and wealth groups. It explains the data sources and why these details matter for understanding economic inequality.
Read more 🔗: https://t.co/cSarexWdo2
Policymakers often rely on top income and wealth thresholds, like the top 1 percent and top 0.1 percent to study inequality.
A new report from Austin Clemens breaks down how these benchmarks are constructed and how they shape tax policy analysis.
More:
https://t.co/yFfqGOR6mC
(1/3) Very excited to share that @equitablegrowth just launched a new interactive database to help researchers, funders, policymakers, and journalists navigate the available research on AI’s impact on work, workers, and the labor market. https://t.co/MOPJ1IBt2h
3/ Interested in learning more about how AI is reshaping the U.S. economy?
Keep up with the latest in AI research and policy implications by signing up for our new quarterly newsletter, “Equitable Growth Insights: AI, Tech & the Economy.”
🔗: https://t.co/8AQIZZTI6J
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1/ AI is changing how work is organized and how workers experience the labor market.
New EG research reviews the current evidence on AI’s effects on jobs, wages, and job quality. It also identifies important gaps that future research should address.
https://t.co/Jp1wYJlmFe
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2/ Understanding how AI is changing the economy means keeping up with a growing body of research.
EG's brand new AI research database makes it easier to track findings on AI's impact on work, wages, productivity, and economic inequality.
Check it out ➡️https://t.co/U3PYdBvqqb
AI and the energy transition are reshaping the economy. Join EG and experts on June 10 to discuss how these factors influence growth and interact with climate change and regional development.
Feat @CostaSamaras, @HBoushey, @JigarShahDC@ProfNeilT
RSVP➡️
https://t.co/DUJPCgNj9b