Dave Cooper

Director of @EARNetwork | Researcher @economicpolicy.

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[Heidi Shierholz @hshierholz]

Trump’s claim that he would exempt overtime from taxes is deeply unserious. This policy would be incredibly easy to game. How? 1/

[Dave Cooper @metaCoop]

For anyone planning to attend EARNCon 2024, please be aware that due to tropical storm Francine, we have cancelled all in-person events. DO NOT TRAVEL TO NOLA for EARNCon. Details on virtual offerings are being shared via email. #EARNCON2024

[Elise Gould @eliselgould]

Solid labor market report out this morning: https://t.co/x7clGP0al4.
- Payroll employment rose 142,000, in line with recent trends
- Unemployment ticked down as the prime-age employment-to-population ratio remains at record high
- Temporary layoffs declined sharply

[Dave Cooper @metaCoop]

@talmonsmith Let's make #JobsQuake a thing!

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: The Florida House just passed a bill that lets bosses schedule 16-year-olds more than 30 hours a week and six straight days during the school year.

The bill also kills mandatory breaks for these kids, and GOP lawmakers voted down sexual harassment protections.

[Dave Cooper @metaCoop]

@JStein_WaPo @LaurenKGurley And the organizing rights...

[Heidi Shierholz @hshierholz]

Wondering how to square January’s very strong job growth (+353,000) with all the talk of high-profile layoffs? NORMAL CHURN. That 353,000 is a *net* number. It was likely the result of something like 6.2 million hires, 1.55 million layoffs, and 4.3 million quits.

[Dave Cooper @metaCoop]

@JamesxMyall Congrats, James. Nice to see we're still attracting the world's best and brightest!

[Kathryn Anne Edwards @keds_economist]

Sen. Kennedy praised affordable childcare as a goal but was skeptical of costs.

“Fair question is: where’s the money gonna come from? Doc?”

(I’m doc) My response is that tax cuts can’t achieve social policy, and they’ve had twenty years and trillions of dollars to prove it.

[Florida Policy Institute @FloridaPolicy]

The Florida Timeline is an ongoing initiative to draw awareness to the systemic racism that has permeated historical laws in Florida and continues to reverberate in modern-day policy. Learn more 👇👇 #sayfie

https://t.co/vuAInyp1bQ

[Amy Hanauer @amyhanauer]

I met my husband and became a mother in WI.
But I grew up in Jersey and know what to do when interrupted, even by a Senator. #TaxTheRich

[talmon joseph smith @talmonsmith]

"This is not to discount the costs of the inflationary surge itself. Real wages were exposed to gyrations along the way. But, as Dube points out, for the vast majority of American workers, real wages are now above their December 2019 levels"--@adam_tooze on the work of @arindube

[Dave Cooper @metaCoop]

Curious to see how long until these links are blocked. Follow me at...um... this other place: https://t.co/52AEXQ1pQ2

[Pitchfork Economics @PitchforkEcon]

You may have read that Instant Brands, the company behind the Instant Pot and Pyrex filed for bankruptcy.

How can a business that manufactures two of the most successful cooking brands in the world fail so badly that it winds up going bankrupt? (THREAD)

[Dave Cooper @metaCoop]

@mcuban I've tried to use your @costplusdrugs service twice (2 months apart.) Both times, I get charged, then 3 days later am told Rx is out of stock and order is cancelled. Gotta get doc to send the Rx elsewhere again. Probably shouldn't market the drug if they can't fill it.

[Dave Cooper @metaCoop]

@drvolts Been extremely pleased with our RAV4 Prime. Had it for 6 months. Made one medium-short road trip. Otherwise just short city trips a few times a week. We charge once or twice a week. Still on our first tank of gas.

[Dave Cooper @metaCoop]

@Nationals are you going to postpone today's game? Really would prefer to not waste time and money traveling to the park only to have it called off.

[Ask a Manager @AskAManager]

Until now, in 16 years of writing Ask a Manager, I've never had a flood of people from one specific field write to me to ask about how to leave their field. But it's happening now with teaching -- every day I have another letter from a teacher who's trying to get out

[Dave Cooper @metaCoop]

@golrizshoai You don't! That's part of the glory. Bragging rights for all those slides into base.

[Heather Long @byHeatherLong]

This deserves more attention: Low-wage US workers have benefitted a lot from the strong job market.

18 million workers rose above $15/hr pay since 2019.

16 million rose above $20/hr.

Raising the minimum wage would help lock in these gains.
https://t.co/fPl7kdVKrC