Amy M. Traub
@amymtraub.bsky.social
Research for a more just and equitable economy. Currently focused on unemployment insurance policy.
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Amy M. Traub
@amymtraub.bsky.social
· Apr 24
The Unemployed Worker Study - National Employment Law Project
As analysts warn of the risk of recession, strengthening unemployment insurance should be an urgent priority for policymakers.
www.nelp.org
Amid warnings of a looming recession, my new research with @awhf.bsky.social and Sanjay Pinto (and via @nelp.org) exposes major deficiencies in the unemployment insurance system that millions of workers will rely on if they lose their jobs. 🧵 www.nelp.org/insights-res...
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I refuse to stay silent while Secretary Noem breaks the rule of law and terrorizes our communities. I am introducing Articles of Impeachment against her for violating the public trust, obstructing Congress, and self-dealing. Read my full statement: robinkelly.house.gov/media-center...
Rep. Kelly announces plans to impeach Secretary Kristi Noem
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Robin Kelly (IL-02) announced plans to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem following the fatal shooting by an ICE officer in Minneapolis.
robinkelly.house.gov
January 8, 2026 at 12:00 AM
I refuse to stay silent while Secretary Noem breaks the rule of law and terrorizes our communities. I am introducing Articles of Impeachment against her for violating the public trust, obstructing Congress, and self-dealing. Read my full statement: robinkelly.house.gov/media-center...
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What ICE was up to in Minnesota before they murdered a woman
January 7, 2026 at 10:01 PM
What ICE was up to in Minnesota before they murdered a woman
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Sending fierce love and solidarity from NYC to Minneapolis, and to every city, town, and neighborhood being occupied and terrorized by ICE & CBP.
Stay loud. Form a crowd. Don't let go of anyone's hand.
Stay loud. Form a crowd. Don't let go of anyone's hand.
January 7, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Sending fierce love and solidarity from NYC to Minneapolis, and to every city, town, and neighborhood being occupied and terrorized by ICE & CBP.
Stay loud. Form a crowd. Don't let go of anyone's hand.
Stay loud. Form a crowd. Don't let go of anyone's hand.
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NEW ANALYSIS: Federal regulatory agencies charged with enforcing wage and workplace safety conditions are taking drastically fewer actions against companies, and proposed rule changes by the administration will give workers even fewer protections. 🧵
goodjobsfirst.org/worker-prote...
goodjobsfirst.org/worker-prote...
Worker Protections in Freefall: The Collapse of Federal Labor Enforcement under the Second Trump Administration - Good Jobs First
Worker Protections in Freefall: The Collapse of Federal Labor Enforcement under the Second Trump Administration - Good Jobs First
goodjobsfirst.org
December 16, 2025 at 3:18 PM
NEW ANALYSIS: Federal regulatory agencies charged with enforcing wage and workplace safety conditions are taking drastically fewer actions against companies, and proposed rule changes by the administration will give workers even fewer protections. 🧵
goodjobsfirst.org/worker-prote...
goodjobsfirst.org/worker-prote...
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We now live in the country the Jan. 6 attackers and coup plotters hoped to create.
January 6, 2026 at 1:05 PM
We now live in the country the Jan. 6 attackers and coup plotters hoped to create.
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The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.
January 5, 2026 at 1:10 AM
The end goal of Grok sexual harassment is to make women afraid to be visible. It’s a punishment for daring to exist in a way the perpetrators can’t control. There’s no one solution to this, because the problem isn’t just technological. It’s cultural. It’s misogyny. This is just one expression of it.
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Trump's foreign policy is Thucydides' "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."
January 4, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Trump's foreign policy is Thucydides' "the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must."
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Anti-war march in NYC, organized overnight. Happening right now, 8th Ave.
People care.
People care.
January 3, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Anti-war march in NYC, organized overnight. Happening right now, 8th Ave.
People care.
People care.
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This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)
#1: Reuters
#1: Reuters
January 2, 2026 at 8:02 PM
This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc)
#1: Reuters
#1: Reuters
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BREAKING: Today, NYSNA nurses at 12 NYC private sector hospitals and 3 Long Island Northwell Health hospitals delivered 10-day notices to strike. NYSNA will continue to bargain between now and January 12th in the hopes of reaching agreements.
January 2, 2026 at 5:44 PM
BREAKING: Today, NYSNA nurses at 12 NYC private sector hospitals and 3 Long Island Northwell Health hospitals delivered 10-day notices to strike. NYSNA will continue to bargain between now and January 12th in the hopes of reaching agreements.
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The childcare voucher program POTUS trying to freeze serves 1.4 million children with low-income, working parents
GOP has supported bcz parents must work (or do related activity) & care market based, not publicly produced. Grew from 1990s welfare reform
Freeze'd destroy jobs & destabilize families
GOP has supported bcz parents must work (or do related activity) & care market based, not publicly produced. Grew from 1990s welfare reform
Freeze'd destroy jobs & destabilize families
January 2, 2026 at 2:57 PM
The childcare voucher program POTUS trying to freeze serves 1.4 million children with low-income, working parents
GOP has supported bcz parents must work (or do related activity) & care market based, not publicly produced. Grew from 1990s welfare reform
Freeze'd destroy jobs & destabilize families
GOP has supported bcz parents must work (or do related activity) & care market based, not publicly produced. Grew from 1990s welfare reform
Freeze'd destroy jobs & destabilize families
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I've seen a couple of people asking if the three main campaign promises are achievable. And the answer is yes.
1. Freeze the Rent - The Mayor controls the Rent Guidelines Board, which votes every year on how much rents go up for over 2.4 million rent stabilized tenants.
1. Freeze the Rent - The Mayor controls the Rent Guidelines Board, which votes every year on how much rents go up for over 2.4 million rent stabilized tenants.
January 1, 2026 at 9:26 PM
I've seen a couple of people asking if the three main campaign promises are achievable. And the answer is yes.
1. Freeze the Rent - The Mayor controls the Rent Guidelines Board, which votes every year on how much rents go up for over 2.4 million rent stabilized tenants.
1. Freeze the Rent - The Mayor controls the Rent Guidelines Board, which votes every year on how much rents go up for over 2.4 million rent stabilized tenants.
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December 31, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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Over 97% of NYC private-sector nurses voted to authorize a strike, not because they want to, but because hospitals won’t commit to safe staffing.
Stand with NYC nurses fighting for fair contracts and safe patient care for every New Yorker.
Sign the pledge: www.nursescareforny.org
Stand with NYC nurses fighting for fair contracts and safe patient care for every New Yorker.
Sign the pledge: www.nursescareforny.org
December 27, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Over 97% of NYC private-sector nurses voted to authorize a strike, not because they want to, but because hospitals won’t commit to safe staffing.
Stand with NYC nurses fighting for fair contracts and safe patient care for every New Yorker.
Sign the pledge: www.nursescareforny.org
Stand with NYC nurses fighting for fair contracts and safe patient care for every New Yorker.
Sign the pledge: www.nursescareforny.org
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NY is having a bad flu season. More hospitalizations last week than any week on record.
Health authorities are encouraging everyone aged 6mo+ to get the flu vax (it's not too late).
Find a provider here: on.nyc.gov/getvaccinated. You can filter for sites where there's no cost for the uninsured.
Health authorities are encouraging everyone aged 6mo+ to get the flu vax (it's not too late).
Find a provider here: on.nyc.gov/getvaccinated. You can filter for sites where there's no cost for the uninsured.
December 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
NY is having a bad flu season. More hospitalizations last week than any week on record.
Health authorities are encouraging everyone aged 6mo+ to get the flu vax (it's not too late).
Find a provider here: on.nyc.gov/getvaccinated. You can filter for sites where there's no cost for the uninsured.
Health authorities are encouraging everyone aged 6mo+ to get the flu vax (it's not too late).
Find a provider here: on.nyc.gov/getvaccinated. You can filter for sites where there's no cost for the uninsured.
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Modern day slave catchers, which has a disgusting parity with America's gross history around human trafficking/enslavement.
10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them. by @sambiddle.com
theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...
theintercept.com/2025/12/23/i...
10 Companies Have Already Made $1 Million as ICE Bounty Hunters. We Found Them.
And they stand to make millions more in cash bonuses for surveilling and tracking immigrants in service of ICE’s deportation machine.
theintercept.com
December 24, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Modern day slave catchers, which has a disgusting parity with America's gross history around human trafficking/enslavement.
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Big Tech’s rollout of algorithmic surveillance tools have made app-based workers’ ability to afford to live #NewYorkCity even more precarious.
Policymakers in #NYC can fight back against this latest instance of corporate greed by banning surveillance wage-setting: www.nelp.org/to-make-new-...
Policymakers in #NYC can fight back against this latest instance of corporate greed by banning surveillance wage-setting: www.nelp.org/to-make-new-...
To Make New York More Affordable the Next Mayor Should Ban “Surveillance” Pay and Price Setting - National Employment Law Project
Mayor-elect Mamdani can promote higher pay and lower consumer prices is by halting the rapid growth of individualized “surveillance” wage and price setting.
www.nelp.org
December 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Big Tech’s rollout of algorithmic surveillance tools have made app-based workers’ ability to afford to live #NewYorkCity even more precarious.
Policymakers in #NYC can fight back against this latest instance of corporate greed by banning surveillance wage-setting: www.nelp.org/to-make-new-...
Policymakers in #NYC can fight back against this latest instance of corporate greed by banning surveillance wage-setting: www.nelp.org/to-make-new-...
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So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
December 22, 2025 at 3:05 AM
So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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What would be great is if Dem members in multiple states showed up at multiple ICE facilities at 10 a.m. tomorrow armed with this injunction.
NEW: Judge blocks Trump administration's attempt to limit lawmakers' access to immigration jails. Advance notice no longer required & detention facilities at field offices are open to Congress. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/12...
Judge lifts Trump administration limits on lawmaker visits to ICE jails
A federal judge ruled that ICE cannot enforce newly adopted policies that require lawmakers to provide seven days notice before visiting detention facilities.
www.politico.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:50 AM
What would be great is if Dem members in multiple states showed up at multiple ICE facilities at 10 a.m. tomorrow armed with this injunction.
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📢 “New York City needs to… ensure that no #worker loses their livelihood at the whims of an unaccountable robot boss. 🤖”
@danocampo.bsky.social explains why the #NYCCouncil must pass legislation to protect app-based ridehail 🚗& delivery workers 🚴 from unfair firings. www.nelp.org/why-nyc-must...
@danocampo.bsky.social explains why the #NYCCouncil must pass legislation to protect app-based ridehail 🚗& delivery workers 🚴 from unfair firings. www.nelp.org/why-nyc-must...
Why NYC Must Extend Just Cause Protections to App-Based Workers - National Employment Law Project
NELP's Dan Ocampo lays out why NYC must extend just cause protections to app-based ridehail and delivery workers.
www.nelp.org
December 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
📢 “New York City needs to… ensure that no #worker loses their livelihood at the whims of an unaccountable robot boss. 🤖”
@danocampo.bsky.social explains why the #NYCCouncil must pass legislation to protect app-based ridehail 🚗& delivery workers 🚴 from unfair firings. www.nelp.org/why-nyc-must...
@danocampo.bsky.social explains why the #NYCCouncil must pass legislation to protect app-based ridehail 🚗& delivery workers 🚴 from unfair firings. www.nelp.org/why-nyc-must...
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This wouldn't just be a national tragedy but a global one. Just mind-boggling vandalism.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 2:16 AM
This wouldn't just be a national tragedy but a global one. Just mind-boggling vandalism.