Childcare in US is terribly expensive compared to other advanced economies. via Tomasz Zatoń

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NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got. My column: enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/75e5e3d… And some utterly damning charts. 1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.

Here’s another way of showing the same thing: Beyond age 70, US mortality/survival rates are very similar to other rich countries. But between teenage years and early middle age there is a vast gulf.

Less than 24 hours after a jury found an Army sergeant guilty of shooting and killing a protester, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced that he would pardon the convicted killer as soon as a request "hits my desk" statesman.com/story/news/loc…

Every detail of the way the classified Pentagon leaks were shared by Jack Teixeira on Discord server Thug Shaker Central and made public months later would get rejected as too ridiculous and hard to believe if it'd been offered as a spy film script to a major Hollywood studio.

Captures the dynamic fairly well...

I find the juxtaposition of these two graphs extremely puzzling.

The United States has the lowest inflation rate in the G-7.

Today, all major sectors have now finally seen employment fully recover from COVID!!

🧵Schumer: Palestinian civilians do not deserve to suffer for the sins of Hamas, and Israel has a moral obligation to do better. The United States has an obligation to do better. I believe the United States must…pressure the Israelis to let more of it get through

If unemployment is under 4%, and you still want to force people to do jobs that can be done by self-service kiosks, I'm not sure what kind of world you want. Automating boring, routinized low-paying jobs while keeping unemployment low is a good having/eating cake situation.

Inflation Reduction Act + 23 months My students at Wellesley College and I are tracking investments in the US electric vehicle supply chain. Here is our post-I.R.A. tally for the US since 8/16/22: 121 new projects $94.2B in planned investments 60,597 new jobs A short🧵 1/9

My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best

Joe Biden has served our country with honor and dignity. As the first president to ever walk on a picket line with striking workers, he has been the most pro-working class president in modern American history. Thank you, Mr. President, for all you’ve done.

Completely agree. I've had the same experience.

Losing $500 billion in revenue by crippling the IRS doesn’t seem good if you’re interested in reducing the deficit and making government more efficient. Important reporting via The Washington Post (((Jacob Bogage)))

Every defense of the Trump tariffs is at odds with the actual underlying policy. Like, how do you go into office thinking "We must build a durable and dependable supply chain that reduces our reliance on China, a geopolitical adversary" and then - attack the CHIPS and Science

The bottom 80% will be poorer as a result of OBBA + tariffs. Grateful to (((Jacob Bogage))) for this great visualization of our latest The Budget Lab analysis.