The impact of the pandemic on community college enrollment was large! This 🧵/paper by Diane Schanzenbach & Sarah Turner takes a deep dive into describing who was impacted the most & why. There will be lasting repercussions from this….

Happy 5th birthday to EconoFactOrg! Congrats to Michael W. Klein and the great Miriam Wasserman on building such a useful resource for non-partisan, incisive analysis on timely, important economic issues.

Could not agree more.

Happy 4th! Who could benefit from PSLF waiver? As many as 3.5 million government and nonprofit workers are potentially eligible for immediate relief of student loans if they file the PSLF waiver (before 10/31/22). Distributional impact depends critically on take-up!

Nearly 3 years ago, executive & then Congressional action paused payments on most federal student loans at start of the pandemic. What started as emergency response is now tethered to WH proposed loan forgiveness. What is cost? Who benefits?

TODAY: Join us at 3:30 p.m. for an in-person talk in Global Hub’s White Auditorium by Harvard University prof. and Opportunity Insights co-director Raj Chetty on "Creating Equality of Opportunity in America: New Insights from Big Data." See the link to register: spr.ly/60173qvZN

Derek, labor economics and Barcelona, sounds like a winning combo!

"[P]erhaps the primary reason the EITC enjoys such widespread support is because it functions as a generous handout to corporations. Among the loudest champions of the EITC have been multinational businesses..." An extraordinary claim in Matthew Desmond's Poverty, by America. A🧵