🚨This is a HUGE act of solidarity.🚨

The WNBA's players union, WNBPA, is standing in support with the UNITE HERE Philly Aramark Corporation concession workers on strike at the Wells Fargo Center, where #NBAPlayoffs games are currently being played.

🚨The FTC is finalizing a rule banning noncompete clauses for *all workers* regardless of income or industry. It will increase pay, new business formation, innovation -- and cut health care costs. It's one of the most important things the Biden Administration has done.

THIS IS AMAZING. FTC just banned noncompete agreements! epi.org/282187 via @economicpolicy

This is a really big deal—Biden administration just published a rule giving new overtime protections to 4.3 million workers! epi.org/press/epi-pres…

Mike Pence's NYT op-ed is a perfect example of why I publish Abortion, Every Day: His column uses pretty much every language trick I've warned about for the last two years.

He also repeats debunked lies about abortion that I sort of can't believe made it past a fact-checker…

Nonprofit + funder peeps: I did a little math on how inflation has impacted the value of grants. It's not pretty...

Labradors - double coated, waterproofed & insulated - were bred from St John’s Water Dogs, carefully selected to retrieve fish from the semi-arctic waters of Newfoundland and Labrador for their fishermen owners.

Here are 3 of them, begging to get inside to escape light drizzle.

In a historic victory, an overwhelming majority of Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, have voted to join the UAW.

uaw.org/in-historic-br…

On the UAW win today in Tennessee: “Together, these union wins have helped raise wages and demonstrate once again that the middle-class built America and that unions are still building and expanding the middle class for all workers.” ⁦President Biden⁩ whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…

It's important to give the VW workers & Shawn Fain HUGE CREDIT for the UAW's HISTORIC LANDSLIDE WIN in Tennessee

It's the FIRST TIME a union has unionized a foreign-owned auto plant in the South

It's a breakthrough & will no doubt inspire non-union auto workers across the South

BREAKING: Over 4,000 Volkswagen workers in Tennessee just joined the UAW in a landslide.

They’re the first American workers to win a union at a non-union car company in decades.

This historic victory will change the auto industry, and the future of American labor.

Breaking: UAW has won the Volkswagen Tennessee union election, union says bloomberg.com/news/articles/… A huge breakthrough that could help spur many more wins bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

For obvious reasons, this song has been going through my head all night: open.spotify.com/track/7zKN6w7s…

Do Firms Have an Incentive to Comply with the US Federal Minimum Wage?

A thread 🧵, w/ results from my updated WP (with newly-FOIA-ed data on liquidated damages and hot good violations, for all the enforcement nerds out there).

docs.iza.org/dp16882.pdf

Homicides are plummeting.

In all 10 cities with the most 2023 homicides—for which we have data—homicides are falling. The pandemic crime wave is crashing hard.

If these percentage decline numbers were percentage growth numbers, it would be the lede of every cable news show—>

What a smart and valuable initiative. And if Martha Gimbel is involved, you can be sure it will be done well and everyone will have a lot of fun. Looking forward to seeing the impact The Budget Lab will have.

✨Delighted to share 1st in my new @brookingsmetro series featuring workers in jobs disrupted by #GenAI .

I profile 5 Hollywood writers, document their remarkable Writers Guild of America West victory securing AI protections, and analyze what it means for other workers.

brookings.edu/articles/holly…

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So excited to announce that @natasharsarin and Danny Yagan and I are launching @the_budget_lab at Yale Law School. Budget scoring is an incredibly important part of the policy process and our hope is to bring a new perspective, with a focus on innovation and transparency. 1/

A lot of attention on CPI today, but multiple series point to slower wage growth.

Hard to have sustained high inflation if wage growth is going back to normal.