Natalie Foster

“They get the green lights while you get the red lights,” she said at a Wednesday press conference, adding: “No one would think this is fair. No one would think this is good.”

“Imagine the internet is a toll road everyone must use. Then, one day, the toll road decides to start its own trucking company. That’s what massive online platforms like Google and Apple are doing, said @TeriOlle with @ESP_Action” courthousenews.com/california-sen…

Think about the last time you Googled something— a flight, a product, anything. You likely assumed the top results were the best ones. You didn't get the best answer. You got Google's preferred answer. That’s self-preferencing. Google isn’t the only tech giant who uses their dominance to cheat. Apple, Amazon, and Meta do, too. We’re proud to co-sponsor @Scott_Wiener’s #SB1074 with tech incubator @ycombinator to ban self-preferencing by trillion-dollar big tech platforms to protect startups and consumers. Read more about the BASED Act here: economicsecurity.us/news/ban-self-…  And watch today's press conference here: youtube.com/live/Yr9mHKxOk…

@Noahpinion Small biz creation also due to money in people’s pockets during the pandemic - stimmies, child tax credit checks, UI. People could take risks and invest in themselves

Small business is probably the future of employment, more than people realize

Brilliant allure.com/story/planned-…

👉 Read the full brief at EconomicSecurityProject.org #GuaranteedIncome #EconomicSecurity #Workforce #Policy #DataDriven

✨ Bottom Line: Guaranteed income isn’t a work disincentive — it functions as real employment infrastructure, giving people the financial stability to seek better work, invest in skills, and participate more fully in the labor market.

📈 Cash increases financial resilience and agency In Los Angeles’ BIG:LEAP, participants who could cover a $400 emergency doubled after a year of GI. In Stockton, participants experienced less income volatility, helping enable consistent employment and better long-term planning.

• attend job interviews • take time for training or internships • shift toward careers with better benefits • even start their own businesses — up to five times more often than control groups.

💡 A fresh brief from @EconomicSecurityProj shows what the evidence is actually telling us about guaranteed income (GI) and work — and it debunks common myths with real data from California’s pilots: economicsecurityproject.org/resource/guara…

💼 GI is employment infrastructure Rather than discouraging work, direct cash gives people the stability and flexibility to:

📊 Guaranteed income increases employment and job quality Across California’s largest pilots — including Stockton, Los Angeles (BIG:LEAP), and Oakland, GI Program participants obtained full-time jobs at up to double the rate of control groups — and pursued higher-quality jobs.

@arpitrage 😂…😩

California has reinvented feudalism from first principles wsj.com/economy/housin…

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@robkhenderson This was quite a read 🤯

"In New York, all the advertising on the streets and on the subway assumes that you, the person reading, are an ambiently depressed 28-year-old office worker whose main interests are listening to podcasts, ordering delivery, and voting for the Democrats." harpers.org/archive/2026/0…

1/ Congress is constitutionally responsible for governing AI. But it has no dedicated office to help Members and staff actually understand or use it. Today we at @popvoxfdn are publishing a proposal to fix that. Meet C-TECH. 🧵 popvox.org/blog/c-tech

Lunar New Year, Ramadan and Lent converge this week npr.org/2026/02/17/nx-…

The State of the Union is in less than 2 weeks. The president will claim he’s lowered costs—but his policies have done the opposite. As we approach #SOTU, we’ll be comparing this admin’s rhetoric against the reforms our economy needs for a #GoodLife. 🧵rooseveltinstitute.org/publications/t…