Aaron Sojourner

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#Labor #economics @upjohninstitute.bsky.social • Brookings nonresident fellow • former senior economist for labor at White House CEA • living in Minneapolis. Views mine.

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first cohort of the American Climate Corps has been sworn in. 9,000 people will be deployed in the coming weeks to restore landscapes, erect solar panels, and work on environmental projects across America. #ShareGoodNewsToo grist.org/solutions/am...

The American Climate Corps officially kicks offgrist.org This month, 9,000 people will be deployed to restore landscapes and erect solar panels, helping guide the country toward a greener future.

Amtrak's new Twin Cities-Chicago route through Milwaukee turns a profit in first 11 days www.bizjournals.com/milwaukee/ne...

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The U.S. now has more manufacturing: - jobs now than anytime in the last 18 years, since 2008. - job openings than anytime from 2000 to 2021.

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Not to be corny but I do think the ongoing aspiration to make America a pluralist democracy of equals is righteous, beautiful, and worth honoring, even if it has more often been the struggle of minorities & dissenters than the policy of the government. 🇺🇸

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*UK LABOUR PROJECTED TO WIN 410 SEATS OUT OF 650: EXIT POLL

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Seems good, is good

Happy birthday, USA. Learn more abt new investments happening in your community & across the country at invest.gov In the last 3.5 years, companies decided to invest over $875 billion in U.S. semiconductor & electronic manufacturing, clean energy, biotech, & other sectors. But wait there's more...

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The answer to political anxiety is political organizing.

French center & left uniting against white supremacy.

"At least 200 candidates from both the left-wing alliance and President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist coalition pulled out of the contest...in order to unite behind those remaining contenders with the best chance of beating Le Pen’s nationalists" www.politico.eu/article/fren...

French election: Rivals unite against Le Pen’s far rightwww.politico.eu Hundreds of candidates from Macron’s camp and the left-wing alliance withdraw in an effort to keep the National Rally out.

Want to help renovate American democracy? Welcome to Democracy, Refreshed. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Want to help renovate American democracy? Welcome to Democracy, Refreshed.www.washingtonpost.com Sign up for a newsletter series on how to renovate the republic.

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“A Conservative Farm Town Went Green Without Really Trying Tiny Morris, Minn., adopted wind turbines, solar panels and composting to save money, not the planet—and now it has become a model for other rural towns” www.wsj.com/us-news/clim...

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On Independence Day, note our progress towards energy independence & a sustainable future for generations ahead. Thanks to 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure & 2022 Inflation Reduction laws, U.S. companies are accelerating in grid batteries to make solar+wind scalable. That's not all...

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The Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority didn't happen overnight. This is the inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that reshaped the American judiciary and legal system.

We Don’t Talk About Leonard: The Man Behind the Right’s Supreme Court Supermajoritywww.propublica.org The inside story of how Leonard Leo built a machine that remade the American legal system — and what he plans to do next.

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How every new federal rule making will go from now on. *FTC BAN ON WORKER NONCOMPETE AGREEMENTS DELAYED BY JUDGE

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I wrote for More Perfect Union about the Biden administrations proposal to implement new protections for workers who are agonizing under extreme heat.

Biden Proposes Protecting Workers from Extreme Heat and Their Own State Governmentssubstack.perfectunion.us “This regulation will save lives,” one union leader said.

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Official act. Immune.

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The New York Times refuses to let the data on rising real wages interfere with its bad economy story cepr.net/nyt-finds-at...

NYT Finds Atypical Low-Wage Worker to Tell Bad Economy Storycepr.net Low wage workers have seen large real wage gains since the pandemic, so naturally as we come to the July 4th holiday the New York Times gives us a piece telling us how they are hurting. The piece is h...

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remarkable how little this has been featured in the news

Companies decided to sink billions of dollars of new investment into manufacturing plants in the U.S. after the CHIPS and Inflation Reduction Act boosted incentives for U.S. production, Check out that spike in manufacturing plant construction. It dwarfs all prior increases. 📉📈 #️⃣#️⃣

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Can't get back to the 1950s with data I'm familiar with, but Census Construction Spending extends to 1964. Here's 1964Q1-2024Q1 in 2023 dollars. Quarterly values are the sum of NSA monthly values. Data - Table 3: www.census.gov/construction... Monthly, NSA Total: www.census.gov/construction...

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can you spot the trump tax cuts that were meant to do the same?

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i.e., the UCMJ tells members of the armed forces that they are empowered to disobey illegal orders given by commanding officers, up to and including the president.

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Turkish inflation cools for first time in 8 months https://www.ft.com/content/cb3beb0c-96d4-43e5-a13b-2fb1eee51bc9

Turkish inflation cools for first time in 8 monthswww.ft.com Consumer prices increase 71.6% in June in sign that Ankara’s pivot away from unconventional monetary policy is working

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Frustrated with journals, editors, reviewers? Ideas on how things can be done better? The AEA, EEA, ES, and RES are listening -- today is the last day to complete the survey and share your ideas. Speak now or forever hold your peace (or at least hold it for a few days😉). 📉📈

We all know there are plenty of problems with the publication process in econ, but which ones matter most and how to address them? Please share your views with a joint AEA-EEA-ES-RES committee that will try to suggest solutions. Link to member survey: harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... 📉📈

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The Helsinki library is like the apotheosis of Library As Useful Public Space. I am in awe.

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'We'll kill you if you try to stop us' is terrorism.

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org

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I already invite people on X to join us here weekly. But thanks to this analysis, I've decided to re-create my "scientists who do climate" list here this summer, and manually invite each of the 3,000 members on X to join us. If you're still on X, pls consider inviting your followers to join us too!

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"During the Elizabethan era, for example, people were rarely asked to prove they were not a robot."

Employee Lost Like Sailor In Maelstrom After HR Fails To Send Out Quarterly Company Updatewww.theonion.com CLEVELAND—Lacking a North Star to guide him through his workday, local office worker Evan Pullman was reportedly lost like a sailor in a maelstrom Tuesday after the human resources department at Edgem...

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"the only person under campaign finance law who would be able to seamlessly continue to use [Biden's] money for the general election is his ticket mate, Kamala Harris." prospect.org/power/2024-0...

Campaign Finance Laws Give Harris Big Boost in Biden Dropout Scenarioprospect.org If Biden were to withdraw his candidacy, only Kamala Harris could seamlessly use funds raised by the Biden-Harris campaign committee.

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Me: "Mr President, I'd like to give you a bribe and commit some treason together." President: "Hold on, lets move this conversation to the Oval Office and bring in some White House aids so we are sure all this gets immunity."

My first read: If a president commits crimes unrelated to him being the most powerful person in the world, he can be prosecuted. But if explicitly uses his powers to commit crimes, he is at least presumptively, and probably absolutely immune from prosecution. I mean, holy shit.