Michele Evermore
@micheleevermore.bsky.social
I care about worker rights and our safety nets, especially unemployment insurance. I've worked for unions, think tanks, universities, a couple of presidential administrations, and Congress. Views my own.
Here is my collaboration with Will Raderman @niskanencenter.bsky.social to look into states that have adopted enhanced wage records and how that data can help UI agencies, as well as training and education efforts for workers. www.niskanencenter.org/the-case-for...
The case for enhanced wage records: Lessons from states - Niskanen Center
There is already wide recognition among states of the value of additional data categories for analyzing state labor market dynamics.
www.niskanencenter.org
January 29, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Here is my collaboration with Will Raderman @niskanencenter.bsky.social to look into states that have adopted enhanced wage records and how that data can help UI agencies, as well as training and education efforts for workers. www.niskanencenter.org/the-case-for...
When this is all over, I propose we establish a fund to pay damages to those illegally harmed by ICE, funded by assets seized from those responsible, and if they are no longer alive, their estates. Similar to what we did for Japanese American internees, but not 50 years later.
January 20, 2026 at 12:26 AM
When this is all over, I propose we establish a fund to pay damages to those illegally harmed by ICE, funded by assets seized from those responsible, and if they are no longer alive, their estates. Similar to what we did for Japanese American internees, but not 50 years later.
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Arrests, detentions, and deportations will devastate home care, eliminating jobs and the care infrastructure that seniors, people with disabilities, and families depend on
Immigration crackdown threatens U.S. domestic workforce
Since arriving in the United States, Margarita has been a live-in home care worker, caring for disabled young people and adults. Now, as Trump threatens to crackdown even further on immigration, Marga...
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January 15, 2026 at 10:17 PM
Arrests, detentions, and deportations will devastate home care, eliminating jobs and the care infrastructure that seniors, people with disabilities, and families depend on
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Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
January 13, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.
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What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
January 5, 2026 at 4:12 PM
What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids?
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.
It's great that Senators Warren and Sanders are on top of this!
NEW: Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are asking the Labor Department for more information following my reporting that Labor is planning to test out a more centralized role in unemployment insurance claims.
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Warren, Sanders push Labor on plans to create a centralized unemployment ‘starting point’
The senators worry that the planned intake of applicant data at the Labor Department will create "grievous economic and privacy risks for millions of Americans.”
www.nextgov.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
It's great that Senators Warren and Sanders are on top of this!
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The unemployment rate for Black Americans rose to 8.3% in November, the highest level since 2021 and a 2.1 percentage point increase from the start of this year
December 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The unemployment rate for Black Americans rose to 8.3% in November, the highest level since 2021 and a 2.1 percentage point increase from the start of this year
Bidenomics were good, actually?
FOX: How would you right now describe the labor market?
LORI CHAVEZ DeREMER: Well I can yell you when the president took office, there was so much consumer confidence from what we inherited in the Biden administration ... with the delay in dropping the Fed rate, it has caused some more uncertainty
LORI CHAVEZ DeREMER: Well I can yell you when the president took office, there was so much consumer confidence from what we inherited in the Biden administration ... with the delay in dropping the Fed rate, it has caused some more uncertainty
November 4, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Bidenomics were good, actually?
I wonder how DOGE feels not getting paid right now.
October 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
I wonder how DOGE feels not getting paid right now.
What's different than what has been explored before? “When DOGE is tweeting about UI data, that’s not good stewardship of [personally identifiable information],” Evermore said.
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
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Labor Department looks to pilot intaking unemployment claims for states
The effort follows the department’s notice that it may create a national claims database, a move critics say raises cybersecurity, privacy and surveillance risks.
www.nextgov.com
October 10, 2025 at 5:19 PM
What's different than what has been explored before? “When DOGE is tweeting about UI data, that’s not good stewardship of [personally identifiable information],” Evermore said.
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
www.nextgov.com/digital-gove...
Thank you, @epi.org for the number of workers in each state and district page! I've been using it all day helping to explain the shutdown and unemployment for federal workers. (Link in replies.)
September 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Thank you, @epi.org for the number of workers in each state and district page! I've been using it all day helping to explain the shutdown and unemployment for federal workers. (Link in replies.)
Tomorrow is going to be a big day for unemployment agencies even if the government doesn't shut down, because all the deferred resignation people will be trying to figure out if they are eligble.
September 29, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Tomorrow is going to be a big day for unemployment agencies even if the government doesn't shut down, because all the deferred resignation people will be trying to figure out if they are eligble.
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This article ran one day ago.
September 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
This article ran one day ago.
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in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments.
that fox news host still has his job.
that fox news host still has his job.
Brian Kilmeade endorses euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."
September 17, 2025 at 11:23 PM
in light of the kimmel news, just a reminder that a few days ago a prominent fox news host literally called for killing homeless people. right afterward, someone shot up a couple homeless encampments.
that fox news host still has his job.
that fox news host still has his job.
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Pay attention. Something dark might be coming.
The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent.
1/ Here's what's happening.
The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent.
1/ Here's what's happening.
Stephen Miller: "The last message that Charlie Kirk gave to me before he joined his creator in heaven was he said that we have to dismantle and take on the radical left organizations in this country that are fomenting violence. That was the last message that he sent me ... we are gonna do that."
September 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Pay attention. Something dark might be coming.
The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent.
1/ Here's what's happening.
The murder of Charlie Kirk could have united Americans to confront political violence. Instead, Trump and his anti-democratic radicals look to be readying a campaign to destroy dissent.
1/ Here's what's happening.
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Today, The Century Foundation published a new report from three of the nation's leading experts on unemployment insurance: Sec. @juliesulabor.bsky.social, and @aimstettner.bsky.social and @micheleevermore.bsky.social—leaders of DOL’s Office of UI Modernization during the pandemic: go.tcf.org/ui
September 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Today, The Century Foundation published a new report from three of the nation's leading experts on unemployment insurance: Sec. @juliesulabor.bsky.social, and @aimstettner.bsky.social and @micheleevermore.bsky.social—leaders of DOL’s Office of UI Modernization during the pandemic: go.tcf.org/ui
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Trump's Labor Dept. wants to create a national database of unemployment insurance claims. Expert @micheleevermore.bsky.social warns this will drain state budgets, expose workers' private wage data, and make fraud easier by centralizing all records in one system. news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/punching...
Punching In: Trump’s Crackdown on UI Fraud Brings New Fraud Risk
The Department of Labor is creating a national database of unemployment insurance claims to crack down on fraud in the jobless aid system and a group is continuing its challenge of the EEOC’s pregnanc...
news.bloomberglaw.com
September 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Trump's Labor Dept. wants to create a national database of unemployment insurance claims. Expert @micheleevermore.bsky.social warns this will drain state budgets, expose workers' private wage data, and make fraud easier by centralizing all records in one system. news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/punching...
All of the alarm numbers that I look for in a jobs report are flashing red right now: Black unemployment is up nearly a point and a half from last year, marginally attached is up, U6 climbing, youth unemployment is 10.6% and Black youth unemployment is a stunning 24.8%. RAGE and tariffs are bad.
September 5, 2025 at 3:36 PM
All of the alarm numbers that I look for in a jobs report are flashing red right now: Black unemployment is up nearly a point and a half from last year, marginally attached is up, U6 climbing, youth unemployment is 10.6% and Black youth unemployment is a stunning 24.8%. RAGE and tariffs are bad.
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🚨 Join our next rally on September 5, the 143rd anniversary of Labor Day, to stand up for workers!
September 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
🚨 Join our next rally on September 5, the 143rd anniversary of Labor Day, to stand up for workers!
Why is the White House embedding social media teams with FBI arrest teams? They wouldn't do that to go after undocumented cooks or teenage hooligans. (Link to story in comments.) Who are they going to arrest with the social media teams in tow?
August 19, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Why is the White House embedding social media teams with FBI arrest teams? They wouldn't do that to go after undocumented cooks or teenage hooligans. (Link to story in comments.) Who are they going to arrest with the social media teams in tow?
West Virginia is sending 300-400 national guard to DC, South Carolina is sending 200, Ohio is sending 150. What's the plan here? Is there a resistance or what?
August 17, 2025 at 2:06 AM
West Virginia is sending 300-400 national guard to DC, South Carolina is sending 200, Ohio is sending 150. What's the plan here? Is there a resistance or what?
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Justice for sandwich bro!
August 12, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Justice for sandwich bro!
Tech friends: What kind of coding issue conveniently deletes parts of the Constitution that the current president is trying to work around? I'm not a coder, I need some help here.
Article I Sections 9 & 10 of the U.S. Constitution—which limit presidential power over tariffs and protect habeas corpus—have disappeared from Congress’s website. They claim a coding error is to blame.
Sections of the U.S. Constitution Missing from Government Website
Articles I, Sections 9 and 10 are inaccessible on Congress-run portal, raising concerns over transparency and public access.
meidasnews.com
August 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Tech friends: What kind of coding issue conveniently deletes parts of the Constitution that the current president is trying to work around? I'm not a coder, I need some help here.
Would we still be talking about past month's revisions in the monthly jobs report if he hadn't fired Commissioner McEntarfer? He Streisand Effect-ed the jobs numbers.
August 4, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Would we still be talking about past month's revisions in the monthly jobs report if he hadn't fired Commissioner McEntarfer? He Streisand Effect-ed the jobs numbers.
24 hours later, what I think the normal people are missing about what's happening at BLS is that they think this is about numbers. Behind those numbers are human beings who lost their jobs. The president isn't just trying to demand fudged numbers, it is actually the erasure of unemployed people.
August 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
24 hours later, what I think the normal people are missing about what's happening at BLS is that they think this is about numbers. Behind those numbers are human beings who lost their jobs. The president isn't just trying to demand fudged numbers, it is actually the erasure of unemployed people.