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.
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:
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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.
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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
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.
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.”
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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:
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
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!
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
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: