It's not due to *minimum* wages going up (not all that much movement there recently).

But it is partially due to *wages* going up, in part because of specific policy decisions made to prioritize full employment and better bargaining power for workers.

When you totally aren’t just racist/xenophobic toward Asian immigrants

These 'Move to Ohio' billboards in LA are seriously getting weird.

It's my opinion that Cameron Murray has the most sophisticated set of anti-YIMBY arguments. I'm sure his new book explains them well.

But what it also does is make a bunch of bad faith snipes & character attacks.

IMO these degrade his argument & debase his credibility.

Super late on this, but I thought it might be interesting to go through the arguments against LVT offered by CalTax in their letter opposing Alex Lee 李天明's AB 362.
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my heart is a cruise missile on its way to tel aviv. my kidneys are napalm bombs en route to saigon. my spleen is a nuclear warhead approaching hiroshima. my bladder

Important new paper. State & local candidates are like 'unlike those fatcats in DC, I'm close to the people' but lower level elections have the most unrepresentative electorates & donors, lowest info, and are most influenced by money.

ungated: sites.bu.edu/kleinstein/fil…

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California used to dominate US tech industry employment, but began falling behind at the start of the pandemic

Now, the Golden State is losing tech workers outright—and its share of total US tech jobs has hit the lowest level in a decade
apricitas.io/p/california-i…

Fresh from my appearance on This American Life, I caught a total asshole in Midtown with a quartet of crimes: illegal plate covers, placard corruption, massive number of camera violations, parked in a bike lane. Hey NYCourts and NYS Court Officer, will you act?

Pretty funny of Iran to put out a tweet saying 'heyheyheyyy c'maahn I'm a little guy, I'm just a little guyy, noo, it's also my birthday, I'm a little birthday boyyyyy' while their missiles are literally still in the air.

Blue states talk a big game on clean energy goals while Texas just goes and builds it.

Jane Altoids We toss around this phrase 'log off' and I assume it's euphemistic because I have literally never one single time actually logged out of Twitter

Transit system quality is directly related to where it can take you. BART’s top and average speed is very high but it served 48 million trips last year. The Frankfurt S-Bahn seems to serve 3 times that.

I regret to inform you all that the median voter's politics is asending to levels that are both unprecedented and horrifying

Biden versus Trump is a tough choice, because I love them both so much. It's a real greater of two goods election.

There are many good reasons for the policies but I still think it's funny that wikipedia will let you upload extremely disturbing pictures of like mangled limbs but will not tolerate the slightest bit of copyright ambiguity

Got to work with NYC Planning on a series of watercolor illustrations for their #CityOfYes Housing Opportunity guide to proposed zoning changes to make it possible to build more homes in New York! Link in the quote!