Getting that celebrity treatment with a shout-out from Christopher Clarke! I have much to learn still on the art of the short-form econ video. Keep your eyes on this space. I should have some more interesting work on wages coming soon...

In the latest from EIG’s American Worker Project, Pavel Brendler and Moritz Kuhn model how the Retirement Savings for Americans Act (RSAA) can help bring retirement security to millions of workers. Read more: eig.org/wp-content/upl…

Wealth-to-income ratios unsurprisingly rise with higher incomes (high-earning workers accumulate more wealth *per dollar of income*). In our new guest essay for The American Worker Project, economists Pavel Brendler and Moritz Kuhn look at which factor accounts for the trend. [1/4]

In a new letter to Congress penned by Economic Innovation Group, a bipartisan group of more than 80 economists have called for proper funding and modernization of the U.S. statistical agencies.

You can guess why I am re-upping this today...

But the chart attracted attention primarily for computer engineering and CS unemployment rates. Using broader categories, we can increase our precision a bit. Doing that, we do see unemployment for young computer and information science majors jumped in 2023. 6/

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