Gbenga Ajilore
@gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social
Professional economist, amateur bassoonist, and 23x half-marathon runner.
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"Rise of populism & future of economic policy" explores factors contributing to support for populism, as well as solutions stemming from those factors.
Ft @gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social @povertyscholar.bsky.social @jleibenluft.bsky.social
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"Rise of populism & future of economic policy" explores factors contributing to support for populism, as well as solutions stemming from those factors.
Ft @gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social @povertyscholar.bsky.social @jleibenluft.bsky.social
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APPAM Fall Research Conference 2025
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November 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM
3/ ⏰ 1:45pm-3:45pm
"Rise of populism & future of economic policy" explores factors contributing to support for populism, as well as solutions stemming from those factors.
Ft @gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social @povertyscholar.bsky.social @jleibenluft.bsky.social
convention2.allacademic.com/one/appam/ap...
"Rise of populism & future of economic policy" explores factors contributing to support for populism, as well as solutions stemming from those factors.
Ft @gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social @povertyscholar.bsky.social @jleibenluft.bsky.social
convention2.allacademic.com/one/appam/ap...
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Hi everyone, I wrote a short recap of what will happen with government labor market data after the shutdown. Hope this is useful!
macromostly.substack.com/p/when-the-b...
macromostly.substack.com/p/when-the-b...
November 12, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Hi everyone, I wrote a short recap of what will happen with government labor market data after the shutdown. Hope this is useful!
macromostly.substack.com/p/when-the-b...
macromostly.substack.com/p/when-the-b...
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My latest on the lessons from the Administration's horrific freeze of SNAP food assistance.
Balkinization: What the Administration’s SNAP Freeze Teaches Us share.google/PSeuJtcugMGO...
Balkinization: What the Administration’s SNAP Freeze Teaches Us share.google/PSeuJtcugMGO...
What the Administration’s SNAP Freeze Teaches Us
For more than a decade, Congress has provided a contingency reserve to fund the Supplemental Food Assistance Program (SNAP) during g...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
My latest on the lessons from the Administration's horrific freeze of SNAP food assistance.
Balkinization: What the Administration’s SNAP Freeze Teaches Us share.google/PSeuJtcugMGO...
Balkinization: What the Administration’s SNAP Freeze Teaches Us share.google/PSeuJtcugMGO...
They had me at Shea Whigham (who plays Roscoe Conklin).
It’s soooooo good!!! (And I’m quite glad I was able to write in depth about it) decider.com/2025/11/06/n...
Netflix's 'Death By Lightning' is a timely look back at a largely forgotten moment of radical political violence
“It felt so immediate to this current era in which we live,” showrunner Mike Makowsky said. “Not just Garfield as an individual, but also his political moment.”
decider.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM
They had me at Shea Whigham (who plays Roscoe Conklin).
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instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
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Ok but GUYS MY BOOK IS ACTUALLY OUT TODAY
YOU CAN GO AND GET A COPY AND READ IT AND EVERYTHING
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vanes...
YOU CAN GO AND GET A COPY AND READ IT AND EVERYTHING
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vanes...
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Ok but GUYS MY BOOK IS ACTUALLY OUT TODAY
YOU CAN GO AND GET A COPY AND READ IT AND EVERYTHING
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vanes...
YOU CAN GO AND GET A COPY AND READ IT AND EVERYTHING
www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/vanes...
Entrepreneurs you say?
November 11, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Entrepreneurs you say?
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When people can’t afford preventative health care, they delay treatment until it’s more expensive.
@gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social says soaring premiums will hit rural communities hardest, where many hospitals have already reduced services or closed, worsening the affordability crisis. @wamu.org
@gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social says soaring premiums will hit rural communities hardest, where many hospitals have already reduced services or closed, worsening the affordability crisis. @wamu.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:06 PM
When people can’t afford preventative health care, they delay treatment until it’s more expensive.
@gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social says soaring premiums will hit rural communities hardest, where many hospitals have already reduced services or closed, worsening the affordability crisis. @wamu.org
@gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social says soaring premiums will hit rural communities hardest, where many hospitals have already reduced services or closed, worsening the affordability crisis. @wamu.org
The Republicans' health care alternative to the ACA.
a group of men are standing under a tent on a golf course . one of the men is holding a golf club .
ALT: a group of men are standing under a tent on a golf course . one of the men is holding a golf club .
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November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
The Republicans' health care alternative to the ACA.
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every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
November 9, 2025 at 2:55 AM
every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
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if you are insured, in all likelihood.. you got a SUBSIDY to buy health insurance.
WE ALL GET TAX SUBSIDIES TO BUY HEALTH INSURANCE
Those with employer insurance (60% of us) get subsidies TEN TIMES higher than the costs of the ACA subsidies.
So why only attack the ACA/Obamacare subsidies?
WE ALL GET TAX SUBSIDIES TO BUY HEALTH INSURANCE
Those with employer insurance (60% of us) get subsidies TEN TIMES higher than the costs of the ACA subsidies.
So why only attack the ACA/Obamacare subsidies?
A complaint: extending ACA/marketplace enhanced premium tax credits would be expensive.
It would cost $35 billion/year to extend marketplace credits.
In contrast the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance cost $299 billion/year in 2022
taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-boo...
It would cost $35 billion/year to extend marketplace credits.
In contrast the tax exclusion for employer-sponsored health insurance cost $299 billion/year in 2022
taxpolicycenter.org/briefing-boo...
November 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
if you are insured, in all likelihood.. you got a SUBSIDY to buy health insurance.
WE ALL GET TAX SUBSIDIES TO BUY HEALTH INSURANCE
Those with employer insurance (60% of us) get subsidies TEN TIMES higher than the costs of the ACA subsidies.
So why only attack the ACA/Obamacare subsidies?
WE ALL GET TAX SUBSIDIES TO BUY HEALTH INSURANCE
Those with employer insurance (60% of us) get subsidies TEN TIMES higher than the costs of the ACA subsidies.
So why only attack the ACA/Obamacare subsidies?
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“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
Two panels commemorating the contribution of Black American soldiers towards the liberation of the Netherlands in World War Two have been quietly removed from a cemetery in Limburg. It follows a complaint by right-wing think tank The Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission.
November 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
“woke” is when you acknowledge that black people have contributed to the united states
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Low-income households denied SNAP due to administrative barriers suffer downstream consequences. Process-related denials increase debt, delinquencies, and decrease credit scores, from Tatiana Homonoff, Min S. Lee, and Katherine Meckel www.nber.org/papers/w34434
November 8, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Low-income households denied SNAP due to administrative barriers suffer downstream consequences. Process-related denials increase debt, delinquencies, and decrease credit scores, from Tatiana Homonoff, Min S. Lee, and Katherine Meckel www.nber.org/papers/w34434
Sharing this piece from my colleague @gidlukens.bsky.social on the problems with HSAs.
www.cbpp.org/blog/five-re...
www.cbpp.org/blog/five-re...
Five Reasons Lawmakers Should Reject Expansions of Health Savings Accounts
Expanding health savings accounts (HSAs) is a key element of Republicans’ health care policy agenda. Ostensibly, HSAs allow people enrolled in certain health insurance policies to set aside money...
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November 8, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Sharing this piece from my colleague @gidlukens.bsky.social on the problems with HSAs.
www.cbpp.org/blog/five-re...
www.cbpp.org/blog/five-re...
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Requiem for a Jobs Report
Today marks the second missing jobs report. Damage is piling up
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November 7, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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It's #jobsday! Except it isn't, because of the government shutdown. Which means that we're left sifting through alternative data sources to try to figure out what's going on in the labor market.
So, what are those sources telling us? A 🧵:
So, what are those sources telling us? A 🧵:
November 7, 2025 at 1:34 PM
It's #jobsday! Except it isn't, because of the government shutdown. Which means that we're left sifting through alternative data sources to try to figure out what's going on in the labor market.
So, what are those sources telling us? A 🧵:
So, what are those sources telling us? A 🧵:
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Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
Here's the planned BLS data release schedule for Nov 2025.
On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data.
This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data.
Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
On Tues, it couldn't release Sept job openings, hires, layoffs and firings data.
This morning, it couldn't release 2025Q3 business Productivity and Costs data.
Tomorrow, it can't release Oct 2025 #JobsReport
www.bls.gov/schedule/202...
November 6, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Every month for the last 77 years, the Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated Americans' unemployment rate
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
This streak dies tomorrow
Govt staff could not survey Americans about whether they're working or looking for work in Oct, the 1st time in 934 months
This blind spot will remain forever
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Shutdowns hurt people and it will be good news when the government reopens.
But it is vital that Congress also address both the looming massive spike in health care costs for 20M *and* deliver a funding deal that the President can’t undo the parts he just doesn’t like. 🧵
But it is vital that Congress also address both the looming massive spike in health care costs for 20M *and* deliver a funding deal that the President can’t undo the parts he just doesn’t like. 🧵
November 6, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Shutdowns hurt people and it will be good news when the government reopens.
But it is vital that Congress also address both the looming massive spike in health care costs for 20M *and* deliver a funding deal that the President can’t undo the parts he just doesn’t like. 🧵
But it is vital that Congress also address both the looming massive spike in health care costs for 20M *and* deliver a funding deal that the President can’t undo the parts he just doesn’t like. 🧵
Had the pleasure of being on @wamu.org 1a call-in show with @emilypeck.bsky.social & @jenniferludden.bsky.social. A lot of people are concern about costs of a lot of things like healthcare, childcare, and groceries. the1a.org/segments/the...
The government shutdown and the price of life: A 1A call-in special
What does the economy look like from where you sit?
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November 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Had the pleasure of being on @wamu.org 1a call-in show with @emilypeck.bsky.social & @jenniferludden.bsky.social. A lot of people are concern about costs of a lot of things like healthcare, childcare, and groceries. the1a.org/segments/the...
"Good Morning Starshine" - Galt MacDermot #QuarantineHobby
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"Good Morning Starshine" - Galt MacDermot #QuarantineHobby
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"Still, the saga has laid bare the shutdown strategy at the White House, where Mr. Trump has been willing to shield only some Americans from the harms of a fiscal standoff that he has made no effort to resolve."
NEW: Almost six weeks in, Trump's shutdown strategy is clear: He's willing to stretch the budget, but only for political gain and retribution. For others, like the 42 million on food stamps, he has offered no relief, and sought to enact cuts Congress did not approve
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/02/u...
Food Stamp Cuts Expose Trump’s Strategy to Use Shutdown to Advance Agenda
www.nytimes.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"Still, the saga has laid bare the shutdown strategy at the White House, where Mr. Trump has been willing to shield only some Americans from the harms of a fiscal standoff that he has made no effort to resolve."
Add it to the list @itsafronomics.bsky.social. #TheDoubleTax
Gayle King, the face of CBS News' morning show for more than a decade, is expected to depart as an anchor of the morning program next year, Variety reports
Gayle King Expected to Depart as ‘CBS Mornings’ Anchor Amid CBS News Overhaul (EXCLUSIVE)
Gayle King is expected to depart as 'CBS Mornings' anchor when her contract expires next spring. She may shift to a different role at CBS News.
variety.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:19 AM
Add it to the list @itsafronomics.bsky.social. #TheDoubleTax
Now is the time to read @itsafronomics.bsky.social book #TheDoubleTax. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734115...
November 4, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Now is the time to read @itsafronomics.bsky.social book #TheDoubleTax. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/734115...
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It is a relief that the Administration is finally agreeing to do the bare minimum and follow the law by using the #SNAP contingency reserve to partially fund November SNAP benefits & nutrition assistance in Puerto Rico & American Samoa.
November 3, 2025 at 8:11 PM
It is a relief that the Administration is finally agreeing to do the bare minimum and follow the law by using the #SNAP contingency reserve to partially fund November SNAP benefits & nutrition assistance in Puerto Rico & American Samoa.