Ethics, politics, & policy. Philosopher of the American Dream. Just Work for All! https://teapaw.org/t.co/L6HDZIjLob Public Policy & PPE at UNC Chapel Hill. #firstgen
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Review of Just Work for All in @PoPpublicsphere. A few excerpts: "In debates between liberal egalitarians and libertarians, realism and idealism, and 'capitalism' and 'socialism,' we have lost sight of just work in contemporary political theorizing."
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Half a million workers in Pennsylvania still make less than $15 an hour — you can’t live off of that in 2026.
Now, we’re finally able to change that.
The very first bill that I will sign into law with our new Democratic majority this January will be to raise our minimum wage — and make sure every Pennsylvania worker has a livable wage. It’s long overdue.
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The Texas Rio Grande Valley went from Trump +4.5 in 2024 to D+44.9 in the Senate count. A 49 point swing and almost 5 points bluer than Clinton ‘16, the previous Dem peak.
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Talarico: "I'm not interested in retribution. The people of Texas did not elect me last night for retribution. They elected me to deliver for them to make their lives easier and better and less stressful and that's what I plan to do, and I plan to do it even for the Texans who didn't vote for me."
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Second minimum wage study coauthored by me that has been successfully replicated, and extended to new data, showing results hold up.
This week on LivingScience, we are featuring Minimum Wage Effects Across State Borders by @arindube @TBillTheProf and Michael Reich
Do minimum wage increases destroy low-wage jobs? This paper compared each county with its neighbor across a state line, in 1,181 pairs from 1990 to 2006. A higher minimum raised restaurant pay but did not reduce restaurant employment. We rebuilt their analysis and extended to 2026.
Higher minimums still do not cost restaurant jobs, even when the differences are much larger. In the paper's years, the higher minimum wage in a pair of neighboring counties was about 7 to 20 percent above the lower one. By 2026 the average difference is about 62 percent, and Washington's $17.13 now faces Idaho's $7.25. Where the difference grew largest, restaurant jobs did not fall. A 10 percent higher minimum goes with about 0.2 percent fewer restaurant jobs, too small to tell apart from zero. Restaurant pay did go up, by about 1.2 percent for each 10 percent rise in the minimum. So the higher minimums raised pay without cutting jobs.
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North Carolina — I’m grateful for your trust.
We have more in common than divides us. Here’s to building better days ahead!
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QUINTANILLA: Real average hourly earnings down 0.7% on the month. That's the sixth straight month
CRAMER: Look, rich people are making a lot of money. God, I sound like Marx. I really don't want to sound like Marx. It's just, I'm looking at the data
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Here is a replication of the graph followed by a different version of it that, rather than plotting absolute levels, plots what share of the national wealth those levels represented at that time. Very different picture.
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Dear followers,
I’m delighted to share this interview with 60 minutes on AI and jobs. Thank you
Nobel Prize-winning MIT economist Daron Acemoglu fears unemployment could triple over the next decade if nothing is done and we stay on our current course. cbsn.ws/4zzQZlF
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There is NOTHING conservative about a no holds barred embrace of new technologies. A conservative will always be on the lookout for what "progress" might destroy that is precious and in need of protection. This is so basic I am embarrassed to state it.
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Bill Gates on why we should tax A.I. work: “If you’ve let go of a worker and hired a robot to do that job, why are you so incentivizing the trade-off against the human labor that you don’t ask the robot to also pay into the pension fund? What is it? Is it that the pro-robot union has gotten the tax laws to say: No, if you’re not flesh, then let pensions go bankrupt?”
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Jake Sullivan calls for a Strategic Investment Fund: "Loans and guarantees would stretch each public dollar and crowd in private capital, and convertible and equity-like instruments could give taxpayers a share of upside when investments succeed."
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Speaking as head of the Center for Study of Public Choice, the capture story for an AI pause doesn't fit. Reg capture is what you attempt when you're losing. Anthropic is about to have the biggest IPO in history. Winners don't lobby for regulation.
