Heidi Shierholz
@hshierholz.bsky.social
President, @EPI-org. Board member, EPI Action. Former Chief Economist, US Dept of Labor. Bike commuter, backyard beekeeper. Tweets my own. She/her.
Great @delong.social piece on Lisa Cook. open.substack.com/pub/braddelo...
August 26, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Great @delong.social piece on Lisa Cook. open.substack.com/pub/braddelo...
Trump's war on immigrants shows up clearly in the data: the age 16+ immigrant popn has dropped 3.8%—1.9 million—since January. It's a moral catastrophe, and an economic one. Deporting 1 million immigrants per year will cost ~6 million jobs over Trump's term.
www.epi.org/publication/...
www.epi.org/publication/...
August 1, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Trump's war on immigrants shows up clearly in the data: the age 16+ immigrant popn has dropped 3.8%—1.9 million—since January. It's a moral catastrophe, and an economic one. Deporting 1 million immigrants per year will cost ~6 million jobs over Trump's term.
www.epi.org/publication/...
www.epi.org/publication/...
Whoa, the jobs numbers are really bad. With the new July numbers and revisions to May/June, the avg monthly job growth of the last 3 months is 35,000. As Josh says, if we were entering a recession, this is what it would look like.
August 1, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Whoa, the jobs numbers are really bad. With the new July numbers and revisions to May/June, the avg monthly job growth of the last 3 months is 35,000. As Josh says, if we were entering a recession, this is what it would look like.
A picture is worth a thousand words etc etc (my brother in law took this).
July 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
A picture is worth a thousand words etc etc (my brother in law took this).
Absolutely vile post from the official US DOL twitter feed—celebrating immigrants losing their jobs. It’s both utterly racist and anti-worker. Deportations don’t just hurt immigrants—they drag down the whole labor market.
July 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Absolutely vile post from the official US DOL twitter feed—celebrating immigrants losing their jobs. It’s both utterly racist and anti-worker. Deportations don’t just hurt immigrants—they drag down the whole labor market.
Welp, the federal minimum wage is now officially a poverty wage (as in, a full-time worker earning the federal minimum wage gets paid less than the poverty line for a single person). www.epi.org/blog/the-fed...
April 28, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Welp, the federal minimum wage is now officially a poverty wage (as in, a full-time worker earning the federal minimum wage gets paid less than the poverty line for a single person). www.epi.org/blog/the-fed...
Distraction from the hellscape: find my dog
April 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Distraction from the hellscape: find my dog
The purchasing power of workers’ wages—wages after taking inflation into account—was higher in 2024 than it was at the business cycle peak of 2019 or any point before that.
The wildest part? Wage growth 2019-2024 was strongest for the bottom 40%. Bucks a 40-yr trend.
www.epi.org/publication/...
The wildest part? Wage growth 2019-2024 was strongest for the bottom 40%. Bucks a 40-yr trend.
www.epi.org/publication/...
March 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
The purchasing power of workers’ wages—wages after taking inflation into account—was higher in 2024 than it was at the business cycle peak of 2019 or any point before that.
The wildest part? Wage growth 2019-2024 was strongest for the bottom 40%. Bucks a 40-yr trend.
www.epi.org/publication/...
The wildest part? Wage growth 2019-2024 was strongest for the bottom 40%. Bucks a 40-yr trend.
www.epi.org/publication/...
When self-proclaimed skeptics of misogyny's impact on the gender wage gap discover that misogyny is, in fact, an economically meaningful and statistically significant predictor of the gender wage gap.
February 3, 2025 at 4:46 PM
When self-proclaimed skeptics of misogyny's impact on the gender wage gap discover that misogyny is, in fact, an economically meaningful and statistically significant predictor of the gender wage gap.
Lol my partner has the same obsession, never knew there were others like him! I got him this, as a comment on it all
January 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Lol my partner has the same obsession, never knew there were others like him! I got him this, as a comment on it all
And this is her learning to go downstairs (much trickier than up!)
December 7, 2024 at 4:38 PM
And this is her learning to go downstairs (much trickier than up!)
This is what i typically see when i'm on zoom at home (the dog is looking out the window to my left)
December 5, 2024 at 5:21 PM
This is what i typically see when i'm on zoom at home (the dog is looking out the window to my left)
Photo from yesterday -- the human legs belong to the person carving the turkey.
November 29, 2024 at 5:24 PM
Photo from yesterday -- the human legs belong to the person carving the turkey.
Just spilled my smoothie everywhere, how is your Monday going
November 25, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Just spilled my smoothie everywhere, how is your Monday going
My niece's dog, who has a neurological disorder, just learned to do stairs, and it's pretty cute. (Such a good and brave girl!)
November 24, 2024 at 2:21 PM
My niece's dog, who has a neurological disorder, just learned to do stairs, and it's pretty cute. (Such a good and brave girl!)
friday puppy kisses
November 15, 2024 at 10:33 PM
friday puppy kisses
My first Bluesky post! It's a breath of fresh air to be here. Kicking this off right with an action picture of my dog (at Gravely point by DCA).
November 13, 2024 at 9:51 PM
My first Bluesky post! It's a breath of fresh air to be here. Kicking this off right with an action picture of my dog (at Gravely point by DCA).