Christian Weller
Christian Weller
@profcew.bsky.social
Economist at UMass Boston and Center for American Progress; focus on racial wealth inequality, retirement savings and economic policy. Center on data driven policy development. Skeets are all my own opinions.
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Attention Utahns: Unless you are in the military or overseas, today is the LAST DAY you can request a mail-in ballot. (And officials say if you do, you should take it to a dropbox instead of mailing it back) That and more important midterms info here.
Rode DC's metro last week to meetings. Makes the @mbta.com look so much worse.
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A 2025 Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, Omar Yaghi is the son of Palestinian refugees who grew up in Jordan. He just left the US to move to China after raising concerns about rising anti-immigrant sentiment, like the kind shown here. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/china-than...
RFK: "There's five hundred million Arabs in the world. And yet they don't produce science. They don't win the Nobel Prize. They don't win the Fields Prize. They don't win the Wolf Prize. They don't produce literature."
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4 postdoc openings at the University of Milan with @brunoarpino.bsky.social on aging, digital technologies, and social relationships. Open to PhD holders in sociology, demography, pol sci among others. sites.google.com/site/brunoar...
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President Trump’s approval rating on the economy has nearly halved since the start of his presidency. Meanwhile, Democrats have gained an edge over Republicans on the economy. (Ipsos) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/261025
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Check out how easy this is.
Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”
Whenever someone who doesn't understand research and research funding says we don't need the government to take the long risks to make life better for everyone, we need to show them this thread.
The 5-year cancer survival rate is up to 70% SIDS deaths have decreased by over 50% 89% decline in tornado deaths All thanks to federal investment in science and OUR tax dollars at work!
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Who’ll stand with us? Our union-endorsed candidates! Union family - the @dropkickmurphys.com! ✊
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Probably not a strategic vision. He/govt already own AI company shares. They need to force AI down our throats b/c gap between outlays and profits is large.
Donald Trump took to Truth Social early Wednesday to press for more data centers to be built at a time when it has become a highly contentious issue with Republican Party candidates.
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It's also a vision of a very boring country. Having people from many different cultures, places and backgrounds living together is a lot of fun, as I am regularly reminded in my community
El-Sayed: "People like Vance think America is too small for some of us. I think America is big enough. America has been big enough include people whose families came, were here before anybody else showed up, or who were brought here despite themselves. His view of America is small -- small like him"
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This is about the study to deny newborns a vaccine as an experiment in a very poor country.
This "study" is unethical & deadly - and it's not the first time they have tried it. In March we sent an investigator out to Guinea-Bissau and got the initial trial cancelled. It was shelved, and now they are bringing it back. 🧵
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ACA Premiums Will Rise by Double Digits for the Second Year in a Row The health insurance costs won’t spike as badly as last year but will still rise 11%, per documents provided to The Washington Sun www.washingtonsun.com/health/aca-p...
It also means that Paxton is for sale, right?
Talarico: "We just found out that [Elon Musk] is almost single-handedly bankrolling this effort to install Ken Paxton in the U.S. Senate and defeat this movement...Elon Musk wants our land. He wants our water. He wants his very own personal United States senator. He is trying to buy Texas."
This is such a heart breaking article. All of the suffering is the desired result from cruel policymakers who don't want to help those who need care. I am angry at Rs who don't see health care as a human right.
At a Last-Hope Health Clinic, Desperation, Kindness and Fear for What’s Next - The New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/u...
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Not sure about the color choice on rising interest rates. But, those are not a good economic indicator (and people feel higher interest rates in so many different ways).
KERNEN: You have never seen Americans so sour on the economy HASSETT: The thing about the sour -- when you look at surveys, Dems think we're in the Great Depression. Republicans think things are fine. So surveys have lost their value. It's a very very strong economy, one of the strongest we've seen
This should help people feel better about their utility bills. He started a war he can't end, his tariffs and deportations are raising prices, ICE is ripping families and communities apart... But, the president is focused on redoing what was a nice public golf course. Priorities.
Trump: "The Department of Interior wants to take a terrible and very unsafe golf course, and make it into a great, safe, and prestigious golf course ... They do not need an approval. Work is scheduled to begin IMMEDIATELY!"
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"Ukraine did not receive a warning from the US about an impending Russian missile attack on Sunday evening, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said, reviving concerns that Washington is withholding intelligence in order to bully Kyiv into capitulating to Moscow." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o...
"America Is Now an Ally of Russia. Donald Trump has abandoned the Western order." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...
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OUT OF THE 2.2 MILLION OVERSEAS CITIZENS ELIGIBLE TO VOTE, 11% VOTED IN 2024 Speak to your friends abroad. There’s a decent chance they need help voting!
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“Disapproval of the job Trump is doing has reached 77% on inflation, 70% on the economy, 69% on tariffs, and 64% on foreign policy… Trump’s overall job approval is 36%, his lowest ever in a Fox News survey for either term” www.foxnews.com/politics/fox...
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Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...
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The AEA Committee on the Job Market has posted a webinar on the job market for Ph.D. economists, which includes data on the # of job listings from JOE, data on outcomes from the job candidate surveys, and advice. Good luck to all of this year's job candidates! www.aeaweb.org/joe/communic...