New feature story today about the infamous economics website EJMR and the pervasiveness of sexism and racism in the field. With Chris Beam
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Our follow up on the IZA news, with Zoe Schneeweiss

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600+ economists have signed a letter opposing the appointment of Armin Falk to head of the IZA. See our coverage here w/Alexander Weber
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Posts on econ site EJMR, known for racist, sexist language, originated at some of the country's top research institutions, a new paper from Florian Ederer Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham and 🅚🅨🅛🅔🄹🄴🄽🅂🄴🄽 shows
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Texas Republicans lost Latino voters support in election setback buff.ly/3X32wHE

Lil SCOOP from Lizette Chapman dozens of Texas startups have signed a petition against the state's abortion ban. Notably absent, though, Big Tech.

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SCOOP: SF Fed won't hand over documents requested by Sen. Toomey in his investigation of the reserve bank's research into climate change and racial justice. with Craig Torres bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Not much has changed in 18 years -- job applicants with “Black-sounding” names are still less likely to get call backs, according to new research from economists Patrick Kline, Evan Rose & Christopher Walters
From Payne Lubbers:
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Half of the people who applied for regular unemployment benefits in the last year were denied or never paid. An expansive look at how the system failed 9 million Americans. From Reade Pickert and Shawn Donnan bloomberg.com/news/features/…

As a lifelong Lego nerd, I was pretty excited to see them used by the Fed bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Following up on may thread yesterday on Wednesday's #FOMC meeting. When you start seeing quotes like this, especially from a level-headed economist like Erik, you know that the Fed messed it up. From a BBG story by Catarina Saraiva and Craig Torres.
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Happy birthday to the OG millennials, who turn 40 this year. Many, though, aren't enjoying the trappings of middle age that their parents and grandparents did and it's holding back their ability to build wealth. With Olivia Rockeman bloomberg.com/features/2021-…

”I don’t want to front run the committee discussions. You would hear that first from the chair and he has signaled that we’re not ready to start talking about talking about these types of things.”
--Mary C. Daly, San Francisco Fed bloomberg.com/news/articles/… via Catarina Saraiva Bloomberg Economics

So honored that SABEW recognized the incredible series that I was able to work alongside Catarina Saraiva peyton forte and Millie Munshi with an honorable mention in feature writing. So glad we were able to tell this story

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165k women out of the workforce, employment of women down 83k in April. There's a long road ahead yet.