Luke Pardue

Policy Director @AspenEcon. Labor Markets, Entrepreneurship, Evidence-Based Policy. Philly - South Bend - DC

[Luke Pardue @parduel]

Join us at the Aspen Institute’s DC offices for a talk with @MikeGeruso and Dean Spears on their forthcoming book “After the Spike,” which makes the case for why we should care about global population decline.

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Join the AESG on July 9th at 9:30am ET for a conversation w/ @MikeGeruso & Dean Spears on their book, "After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People." Register here:
https://t.co/uGrJVcnCRD

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@ThomasHochman I’ll be there

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@ThomasHochman Can I get on this too?

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Incredibly proud to announce this year’s new and returning members of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group (@AspenEcon) today.

I’m excited to work with this bipartisan group to advance evidence-based economic policy.

https://t.co/ZwjbE04kmd

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Jens Ludwig and Jonathan Guryan @UChiUrbanLabs highlight High-Dosage Tutoring in particular as an evidence-based path to get students back on track:

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The data out in today’s @NAEP_NCES Nation’s Report Card paints a dire picture of educational progress among America’s young students.

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

The 67% of eighth-graders who scored at a basic or better reading level in 2024 was the lowest share since testing began in 1992 https://t.co/L99BMQdHlW

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On a hopeful note, there are evidence-based solutions to address pandemic-induced learning loss:

https://t.co/QylZTA3AEr

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@colbyLsmith @nytimes @FT Congratulations, Colby!

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From @ProfDavidDeming and @LHSummers @AspenEcon paper “Technological Disruption in the US Labor Market”

https://t.co/oYwTPTrn0S

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

America is replacing bad jobs with good jobs.

From 2016 to 2022, high-skilled jobs soared while low-skill and mid-skill jobs vanished. Overall employment rates went up. Americans are moving from bad jobs to good jobs.

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Today, the @WhiteHouseCEA released the 2025 Economic Report of the President. Chapter 7 of the report references AESG Policy Director @parduel's IN BRIEF on rising worker productivity in the US: “The CEA estimates that mean real weekly wages paid to college-educated workers who were not K-12 teachers rose by 15.4 percent between 2000 and 2023 as worker productivity also rose, in part due to technological innovation in other sectors of the economy.”
https://t.co/5iDEBE6rnl

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In his new @WSJ op-ed, @jasonfurman stresses the importance of considering tradeoffs in economic policymaking. At our recent policy volume launch, he applied this framework to the case of rebuilding America's chip industry. Watch here:

[Edward Wong @ewong]

Rare criticism of Trump from Blinken: He said Trump's idea to have the US take Greenland from Denmark was "obviously not a good one." He and the French foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, pointed to potential strains in alliances as Trump returns: https://t.co/oNm0Zyb07b

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Check out my quick 2024 job market recap/2025 here:

https://t.co/lv715e79Yq

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Noticed something interesting while taking stock of the job market in 2024:

The FOMC’s projections for Q4 unemployment rate moved around quite a bit this year (down to 4% in March, up to 4.4% in June) but they almost nailed it with the median forecast of 4.1% last December!

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Where do they project it will be this time next year? Not too far from where it is now - median projection is 4.3%

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@jenniferdoleac’s passage on technology from her paper

https://t.co/5wI5y4itau

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This @wsj article highlights a high-profile example of a point @jenniferdoleac makes in her recent @AspenEcon paper: investing in technology to detect and apprehend criminals (being mindful of privacy costs) is a proven way to make communities safer

https://t.co/viERpWVOYe

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And here is Zach’s @AspenEcon paper:

State Capacity for Building Infrastructure

https://t.co/F7HgrsGge9

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3pm TODAY!

@AspenEcon is cohosting a webinar with @NiskanenCenter on how the US can get better at building infrastructure (like roads/bridges, chips factories, energy transmission lines). @ZLiscow will discuss his new AESG paper with @pahlkadot and @makosloff

Link below:

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New foundations for American infrastructure

https://t.co/EwcmNbjSJL