Combined, these sources of volatility mean that nearly 1 in 3 service workers in households with children *who meet or exceed 80 work hours/month* over the course of the year would fall short of the work requirement in at least one month–and get kicked off basic needs programs: 8/8

Turnover is also high in the service sector–and the bill does not allow work search by those between jobs to count as work effort: 7/n

This volatility means that even someone who works on average throughout the year at well above the 80 hours/month required by the law is highly likely to have a “short” month and get kicked off basic needs programs: 6/n

That’s despite how hard it is to raise a family on this type of work. Hours fluctuate enormously in these jobs–driven overwhelmingly by employers’ focus on meeting fluctuating customer demand with the lowest possible labor costs, not by workers’ preferences: 5/n

And those aren’t just casual jobs held by young men who spend the rest of their time “playing video games”--in fact, service work has become more common for low-income families with school-age children than for any other group. 4/n

Amazing energy in NYC today!

Venn the Snowman (to the tune of Frosty, obv)

Santa's null hypothesis
(is it that you were bad or that you were good??)

Z*-of-David enjoying latkes

Santa boxplot

Dreidl probabilities

Santa census

Menorahs illustrating normal and chi-squared distributions (no uniform distribution, for obvious reasons!)

My friend’s kid had some free time in her AP Stats class, so she and a friend made a bunch of holiday-themed stats cards/stats-themed holiday cards…

Happy holidays, fellow stats nerds! (1/8)

Columbia's Women in Applied Micro group had a fabulous time celebrating @econsandy.bsky.social winning the Carolyn Shaw Bell award from @aeacswep.bsky.social!

On our bus back from canvassing for Harris in PA yesterday, the organizers reported that overall the campaign knocked *2000 doors per minute* in PA on Saturday.

2000 DOORS PER MINUTE.