Professional economist, amateur bassoonist, and 26x half-marathon runner.
Gbenga Ajilore
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White supremacy explains a lot of apparent contradictions.
Actually, everyone knows and has known we've been taking out millions of barrels of oil.
That isn't a mystery.
CBPP's Brendan Duke posted a thread to X on House Labor-HHS funding cuts that could undermine health care affordability, education funding, and workforce development programs. x.com/Brendan_Duke...
All of human history is trade-offs. There’s nothing about planting gardens that automatically leads to mass immiseration; building a dense agricultural society where it’s either starve or live in close proximity to sources of infection while eating a suboptimal diet came thousands of years later.
CBPP Chief Economist @gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social provides insights and analysis on today's jobs report numbers with a focus on Black unemployment data.
Unbelievably, Secretary Rollins just claimed that "no one has been kicked off SNAP."
Under H.R. 1, low-income people are losing food assistance at the fastest rate in decades — even as the economy hasn't improved & grocery prices are rising.
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Gbenga Ajilore
So Maurice White (of Earth, Wind, & Fire fame) was the drummer in the Ramsey Lewis Trio? 🤯
Reminds me of the first time I saw Karen Carpenter drum.
May CPI.
Victor Ray
Q: Are you concerned about the latest inflation numbers that came out this morning?
TRUMP: No, I love it. I love the inflation. You know why? Because as soon as this war is over -- do you know we've been taking out millions of barrels of oil? You know who doesn't know? Iran until right now.
It's not every day your FIRST academic publication lands a @forbes.com FEATURE! Absolutely WILD. 🤯
Thank you to Dr. Gassam Asare for interviewing @emmarackstraw.bsky.social and I about our new study where we show why Black supervisors matter in the workplace and beyond. #blacksky #econsky #news
A different take on that statement from an archaeologist 💯💯💯🎯
Gbenga Ajilore
Gbenga Ajilore
Katie Bergh
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
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Patrick Wyman
"The Court’s behavior in the Louisiana and Alabama cases over the past six weeks can’t be reconciled with or explained by any coherent understanding of what Purcell supposedly stands for. ... The overall pattern reveals justices behaving in a way that has no obvious explanation other than politics."
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Aaron Rupar
New research reveals that when a Black supervisor is watching, it can shift workplace bias and change how Black workers are seen at work.
There is no coherent defense of the "Purcell principle" that can be rationalized with the Supreme Court's recent behavior in the AL and LA redistricting cases.
