If there's "strong consensus" among economists "about lack of employment effects," that would seem to be news to economists themselves. There is a lot of uncertainty and disagreement about this question within the profession! E.g.: igmchicago.org/surveys/the-us…
Even if you look at just the labor economists on the IGM Panel, they don't have consensus either. Asked if $15 min wage would reduce low-wage employment in some states, Altonji, Hoxby, & Shimer say yes. Autor says no. Bertrand, Hoynes say uncertain.
If anything, plurality on IGM panel overall said $15 min would reduce employment. Maybe you think they're wrong. Maybe any disemployment effects wd be small, less important than other good effects of the policy -- but don't pretend there's a "consensus" on labor effects
This lit-review is from January. economics.uci.edu/~dneumark/MW%2…
It includes a list of dozens of min wage papers published in the past decade, including some that find negative employment effects. You may not agree with them - but they definitely exist!
As I wrote, I'm inclined to think disemployment effects will be small, given gradual phase-in of this design. But silly to pretend there's zero risk here, or that economists know for certain what'll happen - given both mixed literature & very weird econ conditions we face today
"no economist disagrees on this issue" is a strange claim to make about a hot-button issue that's the subject of high-profile and sometimes vicious disagreement -- here on #econtwitter, in academic journals, and in IRL
Next you will tell me there's no disagreement on R vs Stata!
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.@Public_Citizen says it has uncovered more than a dozen last-minute Trump regulatory rollbacks that were not properly submitted to Congress in a timely manner, violating Congressional Review Act--meaning Biden admin can more easily take them off the books citizen.org/article/rollin…
these are "regulatory roll backs that remove protections for consumers, workers, immigrants, women’s health, LGTBQ communities, small farmers, and the environment, but which never took legal effect, or did so after [Biden's] January 20 regulatory 'freeze” memo.'"
among Trump's last-minute rules that were never submitted to Congress, as CRA requires, and therefore never legally went into effect: regs allowing less energy-efficient products, such as showerheads, dishwashers, washer-dryers. This was a feature of Trump rally speeches
Lotta Republicans insisting on Sunday shows that GOP "policies" are quite popular/Trump CPAC comments will be focused on those "policies."
Strange claims from a party that literally abandoned any attempt to produce a policy platform last year -- just said it was pro-Trump
So...what "policies" are they referring to? The only policy the GOP seems to reliably support is tax cuts (not even all that reliably, given Trump raised tariffs, which are taxes). The party's 2017 tax cut overhaul has been viewed unfavorably on net realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/t…
Someday I'm going to create a scrapbook of all the times people wrote me calling me a stuped moran or whatever. They are the best genre of #readermail
E.g.:
I have been wondering if people will go back to wearing uncomfortable business clothes once the pandemic ends, or if we've been forever spoiled by a year dressing as slobs.
Apparently there is a compromise:
Similarly, been wondering if longer, shaggier hair will become more normalized/trendier (especially on men) or it will become trendy to crop hair short and sharp as a signal of finally being able to consume services outside the home and break with the covid era.
maybe there will be a compromise on hair, as with the business pajamas, and mullets will be back in fashion
Where is the "personal responsibility" we've so often heard Republicans prattle on about?
People like Hawley aided and abetted this president. They helped brain-poison the GOP base, lying to them about election conspiracies. They fomented this armed insurrection. Own it.
Seriously. For today's seditious acts, egged on by Trump + GOP leadership, Ted Cruz bizarrely blames Beto O'Rouke. Sarah Palin & Fox anchors blame Antifa. Republican survey respondents blame Joe Biden.
TAKE SOME DAMN RESPONSIBILITY FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE.
Trump told us, and you, that he'd do this. He literally said "there won’t be a transfer" of power. He said only way he could lose would be if election were rigged against him.
Republicans asked about these comments often refused to directly condemn them. washingtonpost.com/politics/trump…