Julie Siwicki

Household finance & economic mobility
@AtlantaFed via @AspenFSP @USFDStudy
Determined to grow veggies
Distracted by #beagle twitter
Opinions mine
she/her

[Rohit Chopra @ChopraUSA]

Across the economy, junk fees are making life worse for families on a budget.

After a successful legal battle, the @CFPB is distributing $1.8 billion in illegal junk fees to 4.3 million Americans harmed by Lexington Law and https://t.co/QdwEPGFIrU.
https://t.co/xvivSAp9t4

[Adam Grant @AdamMGrant]

My new favorite word: sonder.

It's the profound awareness that every person you encounter has experienced a lifetime of hopes, fears, loves, and heartaches that you'll never know.

Each moment of sonder is a reminder to appreciate how little we truly grasp about others' lives.

[TJ Adams-Falconer @tommyjusa]

This junk science has its own Parks & Rec episode and remains highly relevant:

"There are no consequences, nothing bad can happen to me! I'm like a white male U.S. senator."

[Tara Raghuveer @taraghuveer]

Day 18 of the rent strike, as of Thursday the longest in Kansas City history. Damn shame that the regulators are talking to everyone except tenants like Steve, who they’re supposed to protect. Let’s see that change.

[Brian Goldstone @brian_goldstone]

In the US today, more and more people with full-time jobs are being pushed into homelessness.

Low-wage workers can't afford rent.

My book explores the staggering rise of America's working homeless, told through the lives of five families in Atlanta.

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https://t.co/4EteMk2Nih

[Hadas Weiss @weiss_hadas]

ever since i was a little girl i wanted to fill a gap in the literature

[Fed Communities @FedCommunities]

Today's the day. Our conversation on community development practitioners and policymakers recognizing the value of conducting research with communities as partners through community-engaged research (CER) will be starting shortly.

[Council of Economic Advisers Archived @WHCEA46Archive]

Marking the 60th anniversary of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, a new CEA Issue Brief summarizes research on the continued prevalence of discrimination by race in a variety of economic domains & presents new analysis on racial discrimination and racial bias. 1/
https://t.co/ST0ph6kEpj

[Brian Goldstone @brian_goldstone]

The corporate landlord is based in Atlanta, where, as @matthewstoller points out, rents are up 80% since 2016. "What seems to have happened is that a bunch of landlords started using RealPage pricing recommendations."

This map of Atlanta landlords using RealPage is astonishing:

[Darrick Hamilton @DarrickHamilton]

The Problem Isn’t Financial Literacy, It’s Financial Fairness https://t.co/Duwi3jDW5v

[Housing Justice League ATL @HJL_Atlanta]

Peoplestown needs a job incubation center, NOT more luxury apartments! We demand resources over predatory development & displacement! Help us take the power back! Sign the Petition:
https://t.co/3qoPPWZp9B

[Susan Glasser @sbg1]

I Listened to Trump’s Rambling, Unhinged, Vituperative Georgia Rally—and So Should You

My new column is up ⁦@NewYorker⁩: https://t.co/5yd6SuUesK

[Atlanta Community Press Collective @atlanta_press]

CORRECTION: At this point, only one individual is believed to be arrested. Two others have been detained.

[New Georgia Project Action Fund @ngpaction]

✍🏽 AN OPEN LETTER URGING ATLANTA LEADERS TO PASS REFERENDUM LEGISLATION:

Signed,
GA’s leading voter rights orgs including @fairfightaction @AsianAAF @BlackVotersMtr @GAMVP @AAAJ_Atlanta @CommunityMvt @GLAHR_ @WfpGeorgia @PoderLatinx @DisabledSouth @georgiayouthco + more

[Rohit Chopra @ChopraUSA]

@CFPB Because overdraft is so lucrative, the @CFPB has caught many financial giants breaking the law by reordering transactions and deceiving customers in order to push up their profits further.

One CEO of a lawbreaking bank even named his boat Overdraft. https://t.co/rxBEmUw0Sj

[Julie Siwicki @jsiwicks]

A public recreational trail FYI

[Defend the Atlanta Forest/Stop Cop City @defendATLforest]

Riot police have barricaded the tunnel entrance to the forest, so the crowd is now taking the scenic route around the tunnel

#BlockCopCity

[Julie Siwicki @jsiwicks]

@britnumbers @austinlouisray @RIPMedicalDebt This may help w that math: https://t.co/useDRIO0xb
@urbaninstitute @SMMcKernan @TheaGaron

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

🧵 “…The King Center joins the hundreds of community leaders & organizers in Atlanta — including students, community advocates & environmental scientists —  to insist that construction of the Public Safety Training Center be put to a democratic vote by residents of Atlanta.”

[Sir Jaguar @arr0wsheart]

“Aliens are real” yeah I know, lower the cost of living

[Julie Siwicki @jsiwicks]

Spoiler - “It’s less of a mystery if you pay attention to the differences across households”

[Claudia Sahm @Claudia_Sahm]

Despite elevated inflation and interest rates, real consumer spending among Americans rose a strong 2.3% in April from a year earlier. And that has been a pattern for several months, with some calling it a mystery.

It's no mystery. my new @opinion piece: https://t.co/y5ZrlkTSdn