Emma Ockerman

many of the brightest minds of my generation are preoccupied with the Chevy Volt…

@marthagimbel ahh thank you for this reading list. I’ve been reading about the arts and crafts movement as a response to industrialization for…fun I guess?

Gift link here: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

We don’t have the data we need to know exactly what disruption looked like during the Industrial Revolution, and we certainly can’t know with confidence what’s going to happen to us over the coming years. 13/

@DeItaone who are you walter bloomberg and why don't you link to anything

AI COULD AUTOMATE 93% OF U.S. JOB TASKS A new study finds AI could handle parts of 93% of U.S. jobs, potentially shifting $4.5 trillion in labor costs. Researchers analyzed 18,000+ tasks across 1,000 jobs, with software development, finance, management, legal, and office roles most affected. Cognizant CTO Babak Hodjat notes adoption is uneven, but rapid AI breakthroughs—like multimodal and agentic AI—are accelerating automation. Some physical and care jobs, like construction and healthcare support, see smaller but growing AI impact. Impact doesn’t mean job loss: AI augments human work, improving efficiency and output. Globally, AI could influence $15 trillion in labor value, with its capabilities expanding fast.

good reporting via @thebeaconKC on data centers and the jobs they bring — and can't bring — in a labor market subject to the whims of AI. thebeaconnews.org/stories/2026/0…

us consumers taking all the matcha and ube!!

Consumer spending is soldiering on. Business investment continues to grow. And the economy's expanding. So where are the jobs? finance.yahoo.com/news/the-econo…

between gdp and tariffs and that gd monkey i'm barely holding on

@rrpre @AustinFrerick alive with the glory of economic insights

Last month @EOckerman and I hosted the second edition of the Supply Chain Book Club featuring a dynamic group of capitalists, communists, and centrists. We greatly enjoyed Barons by @AustinFrerick. Next month we will discuss mining.

@gabydvj Bring it back I’m ready!!

@EOckerman for their sake i hope we’ve moved on 😭

this generation of incoming journalists deserves to know what it was like to blog like your life depended on it for Vice News

This is being treated as a “future of greater journalism” thing in this column. It’s really a labor thing. Reporters are being expected to sacrifice craft, colleagues and pay — and we know these attributes don’t easily return once they’re taken away!

Fascinating chart on who can afford big families in New York open.substack.com/pub/biggerappl…

like if it's july and I'm in NYC I'd like to know my blueberries come from New Jersey and will pay for that

The prepared food aspect of these stores is its own thing— people love to not roast their own broccoli — but perhaps the "authenticity" trend also includes consumers wanting to know who grows their food and makes their clothes, which these stores can do wsj.com/style/luxury-g…

kirsten serving tumblr-era 1975 superfan as her bff dies of cholera

The economy added 130,000 jobs last month ... and 181,000 for all of last year. finance.yahoo.com/news/january-j…

Job openings in health care, the source of nearly all employment growth in the U.S. in 2025, are now below pre-pandemic levels as a share of employment, according to BLS data out this morning (bloomberg.com/news/articles/…)

miss you ssense

A no-good morning for labor market data. finance.yahoo.com/news/job-openi…

It was a dream to report for the Washington Post. I’m heartbroken to be among those laid off today. This profile was one of my last bylines. I want to keep telling stories that matter. If you’re hiring, DM me or email: esilverman11(@)gmail(dot)com washingtonpost.com/investigations…