Amalie Zinn
@amaliezinn.bsky.social
Housing finance + racial wealth equity research | public policy doctoral student at @priceschool.usc.edu | formerly at @urbaninstitute.bsky.social
Views (including WBB takes 🏀) my own.
Views (including WBB takes 🏀) my own.
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
A’ja Wilson is RIDICULOUS!!! Truly another level of basketball 🤩
October 9, 2025 at 2:36 AM
A’ja Wilson is RIDICULOUS!!! Truly another level of basketball 🤩
Got to attend this event last night and it was BEYOND fantastic. @itsafronomics.bsky.social is absolutely electric and infectious - not only did she get people out on a Sunday night to talk about economics, but she had people lined up after to talk to her (myself included). Go buy #TheDoubleTax !!
LAST U.S. STOP IS LOS ANGELES!!!!!!!!!!
I AM SO EXCITED TO SHARE THAT I'LL BE IN CONVERSATION WITH ANNA MALAIKA TUBBS- NYT Bestselling author of Three Mothers and Erased at the Rep Club in LA on October 5 at 7 PM PST!
Tickets are sold here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-event... #la #booksky #blacksky
I AM SO EXCITED TO SHARE THAT I'LL BE IN CONVERSATION WITH ANNA MALAIKA TUBBS- NYT Bestselling author of Three Mothers and Erased at the Rep Club in LA on October 5 at 7 PM PST!
Tickets are sold here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-event... #la #booksky #blacksky
October 6, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Got to attend this event last night and it was BEYOND fantastic. @itsafronomics.bsky.social is absolutely electric and infectious - not only did she get people out on a Sunday night to talk about economics, but she had people lined up after to talk to her (myself included). Go buy #TheDoubleTax !!
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Amazing time at Reparations Club tonight, listening to Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman (@itsafronomics.bsky.social) talk about her extraordinary book #TheDoubleTax. Everyone should pick up this book! Very important reading for EVERYONE. Also Anna is hilarious.
October 6, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Amazing time at Reparations Club tonight, listening to Anna Gifty Opoku-Agyeman (@itsafronomics.bsky.social) talk about her extraordinary book #TheDoubleTax. Everyone should pick up this book! Very important reading for EVERYONE. Also Anna is hilarious.
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I am reading Dr. Wilson's work and several Black women economists like Dr. Ofronama Biu to prep for a couple interviews this week where I hope to tie these numbers back to #TheDoubleTax!!! This is another plea to please invite these incredible women to your platforms!
www.urban.org/research/pub...
www.urban.org/research/pub...
Black Women and Vulnerable Work
This study examines the representation of Black women in potentially vulnerable occupations, considering factors such as pay, benefits, hours, and alternativ…
www.urban.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I am reading Dr. Wilson's work and several Black women economists like Dr. Ofronama Biu to prep for a couple interviews this week where I hope to tie these numbers back to #TheDoubleTax!!! This is another plea to please invite these incredible women to your platforms!
www.urban.org/research/pub...
www.urban.org/research/pub...
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The Wealth of Two Nations, which documents the evolution of the racial wealth gap, is one of the most important papers in THE CENTURY.
August 23, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The Wealth of Two Nations, which documents the evolution of the racial wealth gap, is one of the most important papers in THE CENTURY.
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Jackson, Mississippi, has the nation's highest homicide rate, more than 3 times the rate in DC
Mississippi becomes the fourth state to deploy National Guard troops to Washington, DC. governorreeves.ms.gov/governor-ree...
Governor Reeves Statement On Mississippi National Guard Deployment to Washington, D.C.
Governor Tate Reeves today released the following statement on approving the deployment of approximately 200 Mississippi National Guard Soldiers to Washington , D.C.:
governorreeves.ms.gov
August 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Jackson, Mississippi, has the nation's highest homicide rate, more than 3 times the rate in DC
This week, I’ve been driving across the country as I am moving from my hometown of DC to LA to begin my PhD @priceschool.usc.edu. While I’ve been taking in the sights on my road trip, I’ve also been following along as Trump sics federal forces on the city I grew up in.
August 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
This week, I’ve been driving across the country as I am moving from my hometown of DC to LA to begin my PhD @priceschool.usc.edu. While I’ve been taking in the sights on my road trip, I’ve also been following along as Trump sics federal forces on the city I grew up in.
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Grossly irresponsible of the Times to have this ludicrous credulous spin as the top story the morning after a president who rules by fiat proclaims a totally specious emergency to militarize the capital - an editorial insult to our intelligence and our democracy.
August 12, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Grossly irresponsible of the Times to have this ludicrous credulous spin as the top story the morning after a president who rules by fiat proclaims a totally specious emergency to militarize the capital - an editorial insult to our intelligence and our democracy.
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What to make of POTUS's attempt to fire the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)?
Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...
Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...
August 1, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What to make of POTUS's attempt to fire the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)?
Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...
Let's run down what knowledgable people are saying...
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The very clear message is that the BLS head will be fired if they do not produce numbers that meet Trump's approval.
In related news, these are the last set of BLS job numbers we can assume have not been doctored.
In related news, these are the last set of BLS job numbers we can assume have not been doctored.
August 1, 2025 at 6:39 PM
The very clear message is that the BLS head will be fired if they do not produce numbers that meet Trump's approval.
In related news, these are the last set of BLS job numbers we can assume have not been doctored.
In related news, these are the last set of BLS job numbers we can assume have not been doctored.
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"This order does nothing to lower the cost of housing or help people make ends meet. The safest communities are those with the most housing and resources, not those that make it a crime to be poor or sick."
Full statement at homelesslaw.org/statement724...
Full statement at homelesslaw.org/statement724...
July 24, 2025 at 9:55 PM
"This order does nothing to lower the cost of housing or help people make ends meet. The safest communities are those with the most housing and resources, not those that make it a crime to be poor or sick."
Full statement at homelesslaw.org/statement724...
Full statement at homelesslaw.org/statement724...
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There is considerable evidence that housing first is the best way to address homelessness housingmatters.urban.org/feature/hous...
Trump admin is already proposing massive cuts to HUD’s housing programs; now it wants to use an executive order to sweep people off the streets—but not give them homes.
Trump admin is already proposing massive cuts to HUD’s housing programs; now it wants to use an executive order to sweep people off the streets—but not give them homes.
Trump’s order “seeks to shift federal funding away from longtime policies that sought to get unhoused people into housing first, and then offer treatment. Instead, it calls for prioritizing money for programs that require sobriety and treatment, and for cities that enforce homeless camping bans.”
Trump signs an executive order making it easier to remove homeless people from streets
The White House directive calls for prioritizing money for programs that require sobriety and treatment, and for cities that enforce homeless camping bans.
www.npr.org
July 24, 2025 at 9:21 PM
There is considerable evidence that housing first is the best way to address homelessness housingmatters.urban.org/feature/hous...
Trump admin is already proposing massive cuts to HUD’s housing programs; now it wants to use an executive order to sweep people off the streets—but not give them homes.
Trump admin is already proposing massive cuts to HUD’s housing programs; now it wants to use an executive order to sweep people off the streets—but not give them homes.
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⚠️ New timely WP ⚠️ Rising wealth inequality and democratic backsliding at the US state-level #EconSky #Sociology #PolicySky
@stone-lis.bsky.social WP here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
@stone-lis.bsky.social WP here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
July 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
⚠️ New timely WP ⚠️ Rising wealth inequality and democratic backsliding at the US state-level #EconSky #Sociology #PolicySky
@stone-lis.bsky.social WP here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
@stone-lis.bsky.social WP here: doi.org/10.31235/osf...
Please for the love of god get A’ja Wilson some help!!!
July 4, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Please for the love of god get A’ja Wilson some help!!!
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GOP reconciliation bill's effects:
—Poorest 1/5 of earners: *declining* after-tax incomes
—Those making >$3 m/year gain $118,000
—12 m people become uninsured
—3.2 m people lose food stamps
—US stops its efforts to combat climate change
—$122 billion spent on deportation & concentration camps
—Poorest 1/5 of earners: *declining* after-tax incomes
—Those making >$3 m/year gain $118,000
—12 m people become uninsured
—3.2 m people lose food stamps
—US stops its efforts to combat climate change
—$122 billion spent on deportation & concentration camps
NEW: The just-passed Senate Republican package is much better for the rich than the poor. Any gains from lower taxes may be wiped out from the loss of Medicaid, food stamps and more. Some Republicans looked to exempt their own states from the cuts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/01/b...
Poorest Americans Dealt Biggest Blow Under Senate Republican Tax Package
www.nytimes.com
July 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
GOP reconciliation bill's effects:
—Poorest 1/5 of earners: *declining* after-tax incomes
—Those making >$3 m/year gain $118,000
—12 m people become uninsured
—3.2 m people lose food stamps
—US stops its efforts to combat climate change
—$122 billion spent on deportation & concentration camps
—Poorest 1/5 of earners: *declining* after-tax incomes
—Those making >$3 m/year gain $118,000
—12 m people become uninsured
—3.2 m people lose food stamps
—US stops its efforts to combat climate change
—$122 billion spent on deportation & concentration camps
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"The minutiae of the Medicaid policy" - 16-17 million people will lose health insurance in a country where health care costs are ruinous. Many of these are exactly the people Vance claims to represent. But erecting a police state to deport foreigners is more important, I guess.
I’ve warned about the nativist mind virus for many years. They’d destroy the economy, bankrupt the government, shred the Constitution, trample our freedoms, and imprison their own people to get what they want: not just mass deportation, but something more like ethnic cleansing
July 1, 2025 at 1:16 PM
"The minutiae of the Medicaid policy" - 16-17 million people will lose health insurance in a country where health care costs are ruinous. Many of these are exactly the people Vance claims to represent. But erecting a police state to deport foreigners is more important, I guess.
Increasing taxes on those likely struggling to make ends meet, all while stripping away the social safety net of Medicaid and SNAP. Inequitable, inefficient, bad economics, and just plain cruel. But hey, that tax cut for millionaires is going to drive growth, right? 🥴
The Joint Committee on Taxation is up late and busts out this striking distributional analysis of the Senate bill on taxes:
July 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Increasing taxes on those likely struggling to make ends meet, all while stripping away the social safety net of Medicaid and SNAP. Inequitable, inefficient, bad economics, and just plain cruel. But hey, that tax cut for millionaires is going to drive growth, right? 🥴
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the Mystics freaking rock
June 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
the Mystics freaking rock
Exciting to be starting new research with the @financialequity.bsky.social on trust in banking! Stay tuned…nore updates and details to come.
Our Director of Research and Membership Engagement Jason Andrade met up with @amaliezinn.bsky.social, research analyst at @urbaninstitute.bsky.social at the recent @cfefund.bsky.social Bank On National Conference in DC.
June 13, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Exciting to be starting new research with the @financialequity.bsky.social on trust in banking! Stay tuned…nore updates and details to come.
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So...yesterday, I found out that my #PhD funding from the government was terminated so money for survival is now in jeopardy. 🙃
If you know of ANY sources of funding, please let me know.
#academicsky #academia #research #blackademics #econsky
If you know of ANY sources of funding, please let me know.
#academicsky #academia #research #blackademics #econsky
June 11, 2025 at 1:43 PM
So...yesterday, I found out that my #PhD funding from the government was terminated so money for survival is now in jeopardy. 🙃
If you know of ANY sources of funding, please let me know.
#academicsky #academia #research #blackademics #econsky
If you know of ANY sources of funding, please let me know.
#academicsky #academia #research #blackademics #econsky
Watching SGA play basketball just brings me so much joy. The way he moves on the floor 🤩🤧
June 9, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Watching SGA play basketball just brings me so much joy. The way he moves on the floor 🤩🤧
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Scoop: The federal government has lost so many lawyers at HUD that the housing agency is at risk of fraud, abuse and litigation, according to an internal report.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
US Housing Agency Vulnerable to Fraud After DOGE Cuts, Documents Warn
Departures of hundreds of lawyers put mortgage insurance claims, apartment building sales and other critical agency functions at risk, according to an internal memo.
www.bloomberg.com
June 5, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Scoop: The federal government has lost so many lawyers at HUD that the housing agency is at risk of fraud, abuse and litigation, according to an internal report.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
The House reconciliation bill would create tax-advantaged investment accounts for American children. The goal is to give more people a stake in financial markets, a key wealth-building mechanism. But there are some problems that the Senate could address in markups 🧵: www.urban.org/urban-wire/w...
Without Clear Guidelines, Trump Accounts Would Mostly Benefit Already Wealthy Families
A Republican proposal to create $1,000 investment accounts for all American children born between 2025 and 2028 intends to help the next generation build wealth but would primarily benefit wealthy fam...
www.urban.org
May 27, 2025 at 9:49 PM
The House reconciliation bill would create tax-advantaged investment accounts for American children. The goal is to give more people a stake in financial markets, a key wealth-building mechanism. But there are some problems that the Senate could address in markups 🧵: www.urban.org/urban-wire/w...
Last week, Trump said he was considering taking Fannie and Freddie out of conservatorship. Luckily, Laurie Goodman has been ahead of the game. So if you’re newly curious about recapitalizing the GSEs, check out her assessment (+ some great webinars in related content): www.urban.org/research/pub...
Recapitalizing the GSEs through Administrative Action
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, collectively known as the government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs), have been in conservatorship since 2008. There was a movement during the first Trump administration to gi...
www.urban.org
May 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Last week, Trump said he was considering taking Fannie and Freddie out of conservatorship. Luckily, Laurie Goodman has been ahead of the game. So if you’re newly curious about recapitalizing the GSEs, check out her assessment (+ some great webinars in related content): www.urban.org/research/pub...