Lee Badgett
lbadgett.bsky.social
Lee Badgett
@lbadgett.bsky.social
Chief economist of Koppa LGBTI+ Economic Power Lab; recovering academic and professor emeritx at UMass Amherst.
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1/5: Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that $$:

Purchased HIV treatment from U.S. pharma companies to keep 1M pp alive for 1 year. Tell Congress to https://buff.ly/3Qbvz9F #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID
Save Foreign Aid
Elon Musk reportedly spent $40 million dollars on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here are just a few ways we would’ve spent $40M:🏈Purchased life-sa...
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February 9, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Elon Musk reportedly spent $40M on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here’s how we would’ve spent that: Tell Congress to #saveforeignaid #standwithUSAID

🏈Shipped the 29K metric tons of American food on American ships instead of letting it rot
in a Texas warehouse. youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8
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February 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
What a joy to work with @sansoneecon.bsky.social and Kitt Carpenter and Maxine Lee on this new paper. The marriage equality issue may soon be back on the front burner—we found it had lots of good effects and no bad ones!
January 8, 2025 at 2:25 AM
It’s good to be back in a space among actual friends instead of fiends and ads!
November 27, 2024 at 8:10 PM