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Scoop: White House ballroom to be built with foreign steel ArcelorMittal is donating tens of millions of dollars of steel made in Europe for the ballroom project with @lukebroadwater nytimes.com/2026/04/08/us/…

My new paper details how the Trump Admin is pushing policies that 1) take assistance away while making housing *less*affordable and 2) punish people who become homeless because they can’t afford rent. cbpp.org/research/housi…

Fascinating!

The United States has spent EIGHT TRILLION DOLLARS fighting and policing in the Middle East. Thousands of our Great Soldiers have died or been badly wounded. Millions of people have died on the other side. GOING INTO THE MIDDLE EAST IS THE WORST DECISION EVER MADE.....

Studying how cash transfers affect work and health, from @myklebest, @FelipeLobel, and Valdemar Pinho Neto nber.org/papers/w35006

We are deeply disappointed by President Trump's Fiscal Year 2027 budget request to Congress today. The president's proposal would be a giant step backward for American health and innovation. "From cutting biomedical research at NIH to slashing other STEM funding at NSF, this budget would make our 250th year one of restricting, rather than realizing, our full potential." - Research!America President and CEO Mary Woolley Read our full statement for more details. researchamerica.org/press-releases…

The ultra rich are hiding away colossal wealth in offshore accounts. Oxfam's 2026 investigation shows untaxed wealth by the richest 0.1% exceeds the entire wealth of the poorest half of humanity (4.1 billion people)--more than the GDP of France downtoearth.org.in/governance/unt…

Trump’s “reciprocal” tariffs were explicitly imposed to reduce the US trade deficit, but it reached an all-time high (in real terms) in 2025. Check out the new analysis from Cato Institute scholars. ow.ly/OxWi50YCvKw

The ICE Enforcement Tracker has been updated up to mid-March with the new data from the Deportation Data Project. Check it out: hannahjliu.github.io/ICEtracker

Declining upward job mobility reduced annual real wage growth in the US by 0.68 percentage points, roughly one-third of the post-1980 slowdown, from Niklas Engbom, @Anikbak, and @danicaratelli nber.org/papers/w34981

House lawmakers are considering an anti-immigrant bill (H. R. 1958) that would put people with lawful immigration statuses at risk of deportation - potentially resulting in separation from their loved ones—due to a mistake and/or confusion related to public benefit processes.

Analysis of NYC data shows that resource augmentation policies (such as closures) generate larger achievement gains than reallocation policies that change student/school matching, from Atila Abdulkadiroglu, @prof_parag, and @c_r_walt nber.org/papers/w34936

Anthropic’s forced removal from the U.S. government is threatening critical AI nuclear safety research  ift.tt/FKE9TUO #sales #sellmybusiness

85 people have paid the $100,000 H-1B fee so far, totaling $8.5 million in revenue. But fee revenue from H-1B apps abroad is down $28 million. So the fee — justified by a paper claiming the revenue-maximizing fee was >$100,000! — appears to have lost the government $20 million.

The pipeline that drives discovery - new knowledge and treatments for diseases that affect us all - is collapsing in the United States. New NIH funding opportunities are down 91% this fiscal year.

Health care in the US is unaffordable. We - the Health Care Affordability Lab at Yale - are a new initiative trying to change that. You can learn more about our work here: lnkd.in/eAQSq2-9 We're pairing amazing policy, communications, and political talent with rigorous scholarship in order to make evidence-based change happen. Join us. If you’re a policymaker, tell us about the challenges you face, and we’ll help track down the best evidence to solve those problems. If you're a researcher, share your work. We want to see world class scholarship get out into the world and make a difference in people's lives.

It was great to see my friend Elizabeth Wilkins last week at @rooseveltinst.   As we fight for housing justice, public power and dignity on the job, we need bold ideas rooted in the tradition of FDR -- an economy that works for working people, not billionaires.

As expected, the more unwelcoming & precarious the US makes life for foreign students (an #AmericaLast policy), the more rational US institutions will provide their services in other countries, which does less to strengthen the U.S. GreekReporter.com share.google/O8YTPxUg7aiRHM…

Studying how the Affordable Care Act changed the insurance risks of job loss finds that coverage drops shrank sharply after 2014—especially for middle-income displaced workers, from @JessamynSchall1 and @marianazerpa nber.org/papers/w34874

One large study found that when a major daily newspaper covering a federal judicial district disappears, corruption cases there—bribery, embezzlement, fraud—rise by more than 7%. The researchers suggest officials feel emboldened when no one's looking. cjr.org/analysis/local…