Women are getting the worst of this recession
But it turns out there’s a huge marriage story we’ve been missing

Married women lost almost 1 million jobs last month.
(single men gained 1.2 million)

fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=wrfK

1/ In fact, ALL of women's job gains since June have been from single women

fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=wrfK

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It was only a matter of time til my doom chart passions merged:

State & local government budgets are burning

Women's labor market outcomes are brutal

These are not independent!

[threadlet] State & local Govs dominate public employment
They dominate public job cuts this recession.
They employ women disproportionately:

Last year women held > 13 million of 22.6 million government jobs

~ 1/3 of gov't jobs are in local education

fred.stlouisfed.org/release/tables…

It's often overlooked, but the biggest economic improvement since Trump took office is more government spending.

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https://twitter.com/jimtankersley/status/1153478467184484352

This is even more true once you account for state & local fiscal policy.

You can look at measures of overall spending, like the Hutchins' fiscal impact measure, or...

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