Martha Gimbel @marthagimbel Twitter profile

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Martha Gimbel

@marthagimbel

4 years

Update: I am very excited to be working as a Senior Adviser at the Council of Economic Advisers

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@marthagimbel

6 years

The Economic Report of the President has revealed that the quality of interns at CEA is much better than it was when I was there....we never got cool ones like Steve Rogers, Bruce Wayne, Peter Parker, Aunt May, and John Cleese

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I just want to state for the record that in my college corporate finance class I was docked class participation points for saying that it was possible to have negative interest rates and yes I am the kind of student who 10 years later wants my points back

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4 years

Whatever your policy views/differences, I have never understood the Elizabeth Warren is “unlikable” narrative. Every time she talks I just want to go get drinks with her and debate policy until 2am

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3 years

My husband just won a Tony award and I am so fucking proud of him

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4 months

Autocrat math

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4 years

I am signing off before I say anything out of anger, sadness, and fear I can't take back. Millions are barreling towards long-term unemployment. There are things we can do about this, both to stop it and ameliorate it. This. Does. Not. Have. To. Happen.

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@marthagimbel

5 years

I am deeply concerned that all this social distancing will finally cause my ex to realize that I am still using his HBOGo subscription

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@marthagimbel

4 years

Economics grad students! Aspiring research assistants! Reminder that the Council of Economic Advisers hires junior staff on the academic year schedule - you can apply by emailing recruiting @cea .eop.gov. Resume/writing sample/code sample would be great.

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@marthagimbel

4 years

Today I got to marry @LeemourSeymour just the two of us and can neither confirm nor deny that I sobbed hysterically during the entire ceremony

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@marthagimbel

4 years

I still maintain the most important policy question right now is which "error" would you rather make: someone who doesn't "need" money gets it, or someone who desperately needs it gets the money they need

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@JStein_WaPo

4 years

Post tonight from Georgia on r/unemployment

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4 years

I am so sorry, but I am going to make all of you look at a brief selection of wedding photos

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4 years

The economists have been incredibly clear on this: the shutdowns aren't killing the economy, the virus is

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4 years

What my husband considers to be a reasonable number of Girl Scout cookies for two people

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5 years

DOES THIS MEAN INFRASTRUCTURE WEEK IS DEAD

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5 years

White House is threatening to shut down all major legislation after House Democrats announced an impeachment inquiry

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4 years

I am so incredibly excited that @gbenga_ajilore is going to be a Senior Advisor at @USDA ! This is amazing news for USDA, for rural communities, and for Gbenga Fans (aka me) 1/

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4 years

This is a bad number, and is way too low. We have a problem.

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@marthagimbel

8 months

I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of the 60 percent statistic until our country’s representatives understand economic data

Dean Phillips

@deanbphillips

8 months

Kudos to the Biden Administration for strong macro economic growth. I’ll focus on ensuring more of that growth accrues to the 60% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck and 40% with < $400 in the bank. ➡️American Dream Accounts, Nat’l Health Insurance, Debt Free Education,

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6 months

So excited to announce that @natasharsarin and @dannyyagan and I are launching @the_budget_lab at Yale Law School. Budget scoring is an incredibly important part of the policy process and our hope is to bring a new perspective, with a focus on innovation and transparency. 1/

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3 years

This is what my sister gave Cappy for Christmas

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3 years

Tony nominee and date

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5 years

So I've been trying to come up with a sassy joke about household formation, but in conclusion, @LeemourSeymour and I are engaged.

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@marthagimbel

5 years

@Nicole_Cliffe My 4 yr old sister was worried about divorce(friends’ parents were divorcing): my mom tried the “we love each other” thing to no avail, so she opened up the cabinets & said “do you see all this?If we got divorced we would have to clean and deal with it” & my sister went “ok cool”

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8 months

The labor market finds your lack of faith disturbing

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@Nicole_Cliffe My mother once left my three year old sister alone in a hotel room for 30 seconds and came back to her calmly saying into the phone “Chocolate syrup please!”

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Martha Gimbel

@marthagimbel

6 years

Today the long-term unemployed are 21% of the unemployed. In 1969 (the last time the unemployment rate was at 3.7%), they were 4.7% of the unemployed. Another reminder that the unemployment rate is really not telling us everything about the labor market right now.

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@marthagimbel

2 years

A brief jobs day announcement: today is my last day @WhiteHouseCEA 1/

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@marthagimbel

7 months

Fun fact: soon after we started at the WH @ernietedeschi and I had to sit the comms team down and go “so there’s this thing called the chief neoliberal shill and sometimes it gets very heated on twitter but just a heads up” and I’ve never gotten so many blank stares in my life

New Liberals 🌐🇺🇦

@CNLiberalism

7 months

(8) Former campaign finance hack @Blake_Allen13 vs. (9) Research Scholar at Yale Law School @marthagimbel

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"Employment in food services and drinking places rose by 61,000 over the month and has returned to its pre-pandemic February 2020 level." Congrats everyone, we did the hard work of going out to eat and it paid off

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@marthagimbel

10 months

Average job growth in 2019 was 163,000, a fact I plan on repeating ad nauseum for the next few months (last 12 months was 243,000)

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@marthagimbel

4 years

(Before you all ask, yes I asked if the Biden CEA account could tweet Fire Elmos. The consummate comms professionals are so far unmoved by my plea)

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@marthagimbel

4 years

The number of conclusions economists have come to incorrectly this year partly because they don't understand selection in private-sector datasets is...baffling

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@marthagimbel

4 years

Given the millions of people who filed for unemployment insurance AGAIN this week, a quick thread on work disincentives 1/

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@marthagimbel

2 months

Hi, markets expert here! This is not funny, markets only do this when they’re in extreme distress.

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@TheStalwart

2 months

Markets now pricing in a 16% chance of 75 bps worth of cuts by the September meeting

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@marthagimbel

4 years

Honestly I might as well hand in my notice now, nothing will ever top this

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4 years

@WhiteHouseCEA

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@marthagimbel

4 years

Everyone likes to debate whether or not macro should be a required course for econ grad students, but no one is engaging with the real issue, which is a course on making graphs that make sense to laypeople

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4 years

We are so willing in this country to cause suffering for millions because a few people might get more money than is "optimal". That is insane. It is simply insane. 9/

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4 years

If one more person who has not focused on unemployment insurance before this crisis says that it isn’t a big deal to replace the $600 with a % of earnings, I will not be held responsible for my actions

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@marthagimbel

1 year

I don't think there is any labor market stat that people misunderstand more than multiple jobholding

Catherine Rampell

@crampell

1 year

Lots of people asserting that the job growth is just people taking on 2nd or 3rd jobs. Doesn't seem to be the case. Multiple job holders as a share of total employed is around 5%, about where it was pre-pandemic.

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4 years

Earlier today I was in an article about the black-white unemployment gap saying "I can't believe I have to say this but it's not skills" and immediately got a ton of incoming from people saying "but but but" and I would just like to reiterate my previous statement

melissa young (she/her)

@_Melissa_Young

4 years

New @BrennanCenter report: “A white person with a criminal conviction earns more annually than a Black person who has never been convicted of a crime.” @RobinHoodNYC

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5 years

Exposure to lead increases the risk of ALS by 50%. I cannot even begin to express how angry it makes me that we are letting this happen.

Occupational Exposures and Neurodegenerative Diseases-A Systematic Literature Review and Meta-Ana...

Objectives: To carry out an integrated and stratified meta-analysis on occupational exposure to electromagnetic fields (EMFs), metals and pesticides and its effects on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

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@marthagimbel

4 years

WHO WILL BRING ME THIS PUMPKIN (Ht @juliaonjobs )

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4 years

elmo pumpkin for 2020

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When you have a newborn everything feels very surreal...which is just to say that this is a very weird week to have welcomed a new human into the world

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@marthagimbel

4 years

*whispers* apologies to everyone who followed me not realizing that this entirely a labor market graphs/Fire Elmo account

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@marthagimbel

4 years

One does hate to dunk on people who didn't read the whole assignment, but the text that you cut off at the end of this section says that in the second half of 2020 the $600 would stimulate the economy

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@marthagimbel

4 years

I lied when I said I was staying off Twitter until the election was decided and I lied an hour ago when I said I was going to bed

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@marthagimbel

3 years

Stop dragging Excel into this you fiends

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4 years

Two weeks ago I said to Lee “oooo you know what we should do on Jan 1?” And he immediately responded “I am not spending New Year’s Day prepping tax return materials Martha”

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@marthagimbel

6 years

Has anyone tried turning the universe off, waiting 30 seconds, and turning it back on again?

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6 years

WSJ SCOOP: The FBI is conducting a criminal investigation of a company with ties to acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker (who will now oversee the FBI) via @WSJ

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@marthagimbel

3 years

Someday I will finally memorize the state fips codes and my productivity will increase 1000% but today is not that day

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@marthagimbel

4 years

Economists have spent a lot of time debating the exact right way to structure stimulus packages right now. We have spent almost no time on the most important part of any stimulus package: ability to actually deliver the money to people.

Jeff Stein

@JStein_WaPo

4 years

Complete strangers cheering each other on for getting unemployment benefits after months of delay

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@marthagimbel

6 years

@econwonk I mean honestly, since I keep telling @CardiffGarcia that my team is the Avengers of labor market data I'm a bit annoyed that Steve Rogers jumped ship without telling me

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@marthagimbel

3 years

Today Cappy signaled that she wanted to go for a walk by jumping up on the kitchen counter, grabbing a mask, and bringing it to me. A true pandemic puppy.

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Martha Gimbel

@marthagimbel

4 years

Hello! As some of you know, Lee and I got in a car accident on Thursday. (Car is totaled, we are alive). Anyway, if I'm slow to respond right now, it is because I am lying in a dark room and silently cursing Henry Ford. (I'm sure buggies never crashed into each other)

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@marthagimbel

4 years

Me and Ernie about to go make a bunch of economics charts

Ernie Tedeschi

@ernietedeschi

4 years

Speaking of jobs day, some professional news. Beginning March 15, I'll be joining @WhiteHouseCEA as a Senior Policy Economist. I am thrilled, humbled, & privileged to get to work with @CeciliaERouse , @hboushey46 , @econjared46 , @marthagimbel , and so many other brilliant people.

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The unemployment rate for those with a college degree is currently 5.3%. This is higher than the peak during the Great Recession of 5%. Compare to those with less than a high school degree (at 12.6%). During the Great Recession it hit 15.8%...and was still at 12.6% in 2012.

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@marthagimbel

3 years

Thoughts and prayers to the EconTwitter and economics reporter community at this difficult time (and obviously huge congrats and excitement for @JedKolko on his nomination!)

President Biden Announces 10 Key Nominations | The White House

WASHINGTON – Today, President Joe Biden announced his intent to nominate the following ten individuals to serve in key roles: Rostin Behnam, Nominee for

www.whitehouse.gov

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@marthagimbel

3 years

Lee just came into my office (at 935am, when it is safe to speak to me again) and went "Martha! The jobs numbers! But also the revisions!!!" He is officially one of us.

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4 years

I just want to point out that the universal response of UI experts seems to be “we don’t know what the fuck is going on” which is not necessarily the best beginning

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@marthagimbel

4 years

@samsanders Anxiety Pancake which tbh is a great horse name

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3 years

In case anyone was wondering what working @WhiteHouseCEA is like, @ernietedeschi and I are currently humming songs from Chicago at each other

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@marthagimbel

5 years

Anytime any academic economist makes a comment about how something makes sense and has broad support and so shouldn’t be too difficult to pass legislatively I just kind of sigh and want to pat them softly and offer cookies

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@marthagimbel

2 years

Since it’s the time of year when many @WhiteHouseCEA staff turnover, and I’m still processing people’s departures, here is a thread on some of the amazing junior staff who recently did a tour at @WhiteHouseCEA :

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@marthagimbel

3 years

My phone just autocorrected “life” to “office”

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@marthagimbel

5 years

Increase in UI claims officially faster than it was during the depths of the Great Recession

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@marthagimbel

5 years

We truly do not appreciate enough everything @BLS_gov does for us

BLS-Labor Statistics

@BLS_gov

5 years

Finding a place to eat on National Taco Day #NationalTacoDay #BLSdata

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6 years

I choose not to invest my money with people who don’t understand statistics

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This is terrifying from an economic perspective and also a reminder that in many ways we’re reliant on data from companies right now to find out what’s happening in the economy

Jake Vigdor

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5 years

Data from @OpenTable on restaurant demand in Seattle. Stunning trend break the day the first #covid_19 death was announced. We held steady around -30% for about a week. It's all downhill since.

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@marthagimbel

4 years

Any time anyone tries to claim robots are coming to take our jobs I ask them how well their printer works and that usually ends the conversation

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4 years

after years of stubbornly holding out, i might be ready to admit that we need a alsdjfa;sdlkjf;aldkj PRINTER IN THE HOME please tell me the one that will cause the least annoyance in my life. no it does not to be "good" or "high quality" it just needs to not break w/in 9 months

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5 years

Very excited to start my first day as Manager of Economic Research @SchmidtFutures !

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10 months

I often feel like who am I to be sending out tweets/putting out graphs about economic data? I get things wrong all the time! And then I see what other people feel extremely confident saying with as far as I can tell no understanding whatsoever and I return to my graphs

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@marthagimbel

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1) this is not great 2) this is what happens when you don’t fund the statistical agencies

Bloomberg Markets

@markets

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics is reducing the sample size of the household survey in the monthly jobs report due to budget constraints.

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Since she is too modest to tweet: I am also incredibly excited that @SaharraGriffin has joined the front office at @WhiteHouseCEA

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4 years

Come on Google, we both know that when I type “SEC” I am not looking for anything to do with football it’s like you don’t know me at all

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This feels like a good morning to say that when I was at CEA, our chief of staff had to run by White House Counsel whether or not my working at a spin studio in return for spin classes was an ethics violation.

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@marthagimbel

3 years

Happy Jobs Day from Cappy who thanks everyone @BLS_gov for their hard work trying to figure out data in a pandemic

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@marthagimbel

4 years

I (like everyone else) am so excited that @janellecj @AngelaHanks @rdnayak @awh @JesseLawder @meeshrose130 are joining Department of Labor leadership!

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@EmilyG_DC @LipstickEcon @gregleiserson OH MY GOD I ABSOLUTELY DID NOT CATCH THAT THAT WAS WHO JT HUTT WAS

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3 years

Merry Christmas!

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4 years

I am so excited that @EvermoreMichele is joining the Department of Labor - the entire unemployment insurance policy community would not have been able to get throw this past year without her and tbh the idea of having to do anything on UI without her in the room gives me hives

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@marthagimbel

3 years

Come for the graphs, stay for the Econ Twitter appendix

Council of Economic Advisers

@WhiteHouseCEA

3 years

Appendix for twitter: often people look at the percentage point change in the employment-population ratio. Using that measure, men and women's drop in employment during the pandemic has looked somewhat similar.

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Giving that this is CEA's last tweet thread of the year, I just want to say how much I have loved working with the CEA staff over the last year. It's an amazing group of smart, dedicated, and incredibly kind people and I feel incredibly lucky.

Council of Economic Advisers

@WhiteHouseCEA

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Personal income rose by 0.4 percent in November, reflecting solid growth in compensation. 1/

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As the government shutdown drags on, Federal workers who aren't getting paid are increasingly looking for work. And it looks like even workers at some funded agencies are starting to consider their future in government. 1/

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4 years

Apple, it has not even been 24 hours, calm down

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@Nicole_Cliffe Refusing to be soothed with expressions of emotion and only being calmed by a clear expression of process barriers is VERY on brand for my family

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My favorite thing is introducing a new person to how insane the unemployment insurance system actually is in practice and watching them become One of Us

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5 years

Reminder that according to @BLS_gov , less than 30% of workers are able to work from home

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2 months

Could someone please leak the VP pick, some of us have to feed a baby at 4am

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1 year

Lee just came into my office and goes “so the numbers are good…which is great…but does that mean everyone’s going to be mad and freak out? I hate economics” and walked out again

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Please meet Cappy

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A farewell thread re: the @WhiteHouseCEA junior staff who are the absolute best and you should follow all of them (except for the ones who are too smart to be on twitter): 1/

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The outside of @ernietedeschi and my office yesterday

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“Children cannot smooth their eating over the year,” Ms. Ananat said. “Families that do not have access to credit cannot smooth their food, their electricity, any of their necessities.”

Ben Casselman

@bencasselman

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The $600 a week in extra unemployment benefits ran out in July. Congress and the president can’t agree on how to replace them. For many Americans, it may already be too late to prevent lasting financial harm. With @gillianreporter

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BLS it is a Saturday night and the people want to party, why are your servers down

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4 years

I think we've crossed beyond Fire Elmo's powers, for the record

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I just apologized for "micro-splaining" something to my macroeconomist friend, so #ASSA2019 is off to a great start

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4 years

I am aware of the Gritty for Treasury Secretary tweet, thank you all

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The savings rate was 14 perfect...seems like more fuel for @econjared theory that the average savings rate is being pulled up by higher-income people saving a LOT, not people able to save huge chunks of their UI benefits

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Come be a junior staffer at CEA! I promise @ernietedeschi and I won’t sing showtunes at you all the time* *this is a lie, but I can promise awesome graphs

Council of Economic Advisers

@WhiteHouseCEA

3 years

The Council of Economic Advisers is hiring Staff Economists and Research Assistants for the upcoming year (starting in summer of 2022). Please visit our website to learn more or apply:

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I just told my mother “many jobs, much wow” so officially time for me to take a walk around the block and lie down

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