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BLS report for Apr: bls.gov/news.release/e… Strong payroll growth (+177K); but declines in fed govt (-9), retail (-1.8) and in parts of prof svcs and pvt ed, plus falling vac rate, suggest that DOGE, tariffs and uncertainty are starting to have effects

My BLS jobs report column in Forbes: forbes.com/sites/harryhol…

My new report on how race, place and achievement affect workforce development enrollments and outcomes at community colleges in Chicago: air.org/sites/default/…

Ruy Teixeira: Dems at a fork in the road - mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbo…

VE Day 2025: Remembering my mom's liberation from a concentration camp at Terezin 80 years ago today. And sad for the dismantling of alliances and institutions that benefited US and the world for 80 years: en.as.com/latest_news/mi…

Just how bad is the current House tax/spending bill? Really really bad, according to Matthew Yglesias: mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbo…

My comments at a press conference on Tuesday on the House bill to cut taxes as well as SNAP and Medicaid:

3/ Mr. Trump’s trade war remains an astonishing act of self-sabotage that will slow growth and increase unemployment. Avoiding a recession is a perverse and tragic metric of success. ft.com/content/c0ae00…

27 years of ups/downs in government service; yet always w/the interests/well being of this Republic top of mind. A virtue-less and selfish president is decimating a corps of public servants w/knowledge and expertise. It may take a generation to repair. washingtonpost.com/business/2025/…

Michael Spence on the long-term and irreversible damage to the US from Trump's economic and foreign agenda: project-syndicate.org/commentary/sho…

Barry Eichengreen on the decay of the advantages that made the US economy powerful under Trump: project-syndicate.org/commentary/tru…

I just finished meeting with one of our amazing international students who is graduating and was reflecting on their experience here. And then open this. What a horrible, horrendous thing to do—I hope it can be stopped quickly.

Another terrible precedent set by Trump in fighing Harvard: unilaterally stripping their legal right to enroll foreign students - will further lower willingness of such students to enter the US and eventually our labor market, which needs such talent: washingtonpost.com/education/2025…

Carl Bildt's article on the damage to a stable and prosperous world from Trump's withdrawal of the US from international trade and defense obligations: project-syndicate.org/commentary/tru…

Thankful today for the ultimate sacrifice made by hundreds of thousands of young men and women over many generations in service to our country. May their memories be a blessing...

Why the Abundance Agenda is ripping the Democratic Party's wonk class apart theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

AEI's Desmond Lachman on how the bond market could melt down over fiscal damage of the Big Beautiful Bill: aei.org/op-eds/the-ret…

Warm support for President Alan Garber and his fight against Trump at Harvard's commencement today: cnn.com/2025/05/29/us/…