According to NYT, Pentagon officials told Congress that the first 6 days of the war had cost the U.S. at least $11.3 billion. But we can't seem to expand nutritional assistance programs to help families avoid food insecurity, which is worse today than it was in 2019!!!
And now for a bit of good news:
🎉 Congratulations to EPI Senior Policy & Economic Analyst (and absolute legend) Chandra Childers who was honored with a Progressive Women's Voices IMPACT Award last week at the Women's Media Center's 21st Anniversary Awards.
#WomensHistoryMonth
A workplace that reflects the workforce is not “reverse racism.”
The Trump EEOC’s frivolous justification for a serious federal investigation is another signal of the rise of white supremacy within our government & diverts attention + resources from the systemic discrimination that still occurs.
maybe I'm focusing on the wrong thing here but this is the wildest shit I've ever heard a white South African say and I study racism for a living
La proporción de hispanos con empleo (63.8%) también cayó en febrero. Tanto la tasa de empleo de las latinas (60%) como la de los latinos (75.4%) registraron un descenso el mes pasado. Ambas cifras se sitúan por debajo de las registradas en noviembre de 2025. #LatinSky #Economia #Latinos
La tasa de desempleo (TD) hispana subió al 5.2% en febrero dado un aumento mayor de lo habitual en la TD de los latinos (4.5%), lo que borró las ganancias de enero. La TD de las latinas (5.0%) también mantuvo la tendencia al alza que comenzó en diciembre de 2025. #LatinSky #Economia #Latinos
Hispanic EPOP ratio since December 2019. Tasa de empleo hispana desde diciembre de 2019.
The share of Hispanics w/ a job (63.8%) also fell slightly last month after what seemed like a strong start to 2026 in January. Both Latinas (60.0%) and Latinos (75.4%) saw their employment rates contract in February. Both figures now stand below those recorded in November 2025. #JobsDay #EconSky
Hispanic unemployment rate since December 2019. Tasa de desempleo hispana desde diciembre de 2019.
The Hispanic unemployment rate (UR) climbed to 5.2% last month. This was driven by a sharper than usual rise in the UR of Latinos, to 4.5%, which reversed the January gains. The UR of Latinas (5.0%) also kept the upward trend that started late last year in December. #JobsDay #EconSky
Today's jobs report was much weaker than expected. Payroll jobs fell 92k in Feb, and revisions to Dec data show a loss of 17k jobs. Average job growth over the last 3 months now under 6k.
Household survey population controls indicate a significant drop in the labor force.
#NumbersDay #EconSky
Here's the point to remember about the brutal negative revisions in today's job market report: They aren't saying the labor market showed green shoots that withered. It's saying that there never were any green shoots. They were an illusion.
We've been here before: White supremacy has always been used to usher in massive economic inequality #EconSky by @kdoc-writes.bsky.social @epi.org
Many workers have missed shifts without jobs being destroyed making it challenging to measure labor impacts with conventional sources.
We use real-time daily data from Homebase to measure impacts. Thanks to UChicago and Homebase for making the data available.
#EconSky #NumbersDay
La proporción de hispanos con empleo también aumentó al 64,2% en enero. Tanto las latinas como los latinos vieron un aumento en sus tasas de empleo (TE) a principios de 2026. La TE de los latinos aumentó al 76,1%, mientras que la de las latinas subió al 60,0%. #LatinSky #Economia #Latinos
La tasa de desempleo (TD) hispana bajó levemente al 4,7 % en enero de 2026. Esto se debió a una caída en la TD de los latinos, que pasó del 4,3% en diciembre de 2025 al 3,7% el mes pasado. En cambio, la TD de las latinas aumentó al 4.7%. #LatinSky #Economia #Latinos
Employment rates for Hispanics since December 2019. Tasa de empleo hispana desde diciembre de 2019.
The share of Hispanics with a job also increased last month to 64.2%. Both Latinas and Latinos saw their employment rates (ER) rise at the start of 2026. The Latino ER increased slightly to 76.1% while the ER of Latinas also moved up marginally to 60.0%. #JobsDay #EconSky
Hispanic unemployment rate since December 2019. Tasa de desempleo hispana desde diciembre de 2019.
The Hispanic unemployment rate (UR) fell marginally to 4.7% in January 2026. This was driven by a decline in the UR for Latinos from 4.3% in Dec 2025 to 3.7% last month. In contrast, the UR of Latinas experienced a slight uptick to 4.7%. #JobsDay #EconSky
Today's #JobsReport highlights:
- payroll job growth 130k in January, but benchmark revisions show 2025 much weaker than originally reported
- unemployment rate at 4.3%, up from 4.0% last January
- federal government continues to lose jobs
#EconSky @epi.org #NumbersDay
"The immortal words of Coretta Scott King capture the true spirit of the civil rights era and expose Trump’s hypocrisy:
'Freedom and justice cannot be parceled out in pieces to suit political convenience. I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.'"
The Trump-Vance administration attacked MLK’s legacy and more than half a century of progress toward racial and economic justice in 2025. The emboldened assertion of white supremacy in our political economy demands a renewed commitment to Dr. King’s legacy of racial and economic justice. @epi.org
A deportation plan that wreaks havoc on every level, hurting immigrant and U.S.-born workers.
Our former guest and @epi.org President @hshierholz.bsky.social is teaming up with Josh Bivens, Valerie Wilson, and Sam Sanders for a conversation about what the affordability debate gets wrong — and what actually needs to change.
🗓 Thursday, Jan 22
⏰ 3–4 PM ET
Register here: buff.ly/KJ7GHQq
Last year, Sebastian Martinez Hickey and @icidmartinez.bsky.social wrote about why low-wage work fails to shelter workers from economic insecurity and poverty. Increasing the minimum wage boosts earnings and reduces poverty. 2/
The federal minimum wage remains under the poverty line for any household of any size in 2026. Annual full-time earnings at the federal minimum wage and federal poverty guidelines by household size. NOTE: Federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. Poverty guideline for the 48 contiguous states and the District of Columbia. SOURCE: Department of Health and Human Services Poverty Guidelines for 2026
BREAKING: The federal minimum wage remains an official poverty wage in 2026. 😵
The annual earnings of a single adult working full-time, year-round at $7.25/hour falls below the newly released poverty threshold for any household of any size. 1/
A woman wearing black sits on a bed. A quote by Mercedes Escoto reads: "I deserve to live well in an apartment that provides all the services I pay for." More text reads: "Mercedes Escoto said it is sometimes so cold in her Bronx apartment that she can see her breath indoors. 'I don't deserve this,' she said." Photo by Elias Williams for The New York Times.
Across New York, some renters — especially those in the city’s poorest neighborhoods – are frequently left without heat or hot water during the winter, leading them to bundle up in layers of clothing or risk fires by using space heaters. trib.al/so6w76W
Renee Nicole Good was murdered. Marimar Martinez was shot. Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and jailed.
The next could be you.
What’s at stake isn’t just American democracy. It’s also your safety and security and that of your loved ones.
This is personal — to every one of us.
Civil rights pioneer Claudette Colvin has died. She was 86. Her 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement. n.pr/4bhqaK7
Powell‘s words are clear and chilling.
The Fed can’t defend itself from the White House. The Senate and the courts will have to step up. Will they?
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AG Bondi & POTUS are threatening the Fed with criminal indictment in order to try to force its leaders to corrupt economic policy.
Watch this.
#NumbersDay #EconSky
La proporción de hispanos con empleo en diciembre (63,9%) fue mayor que en enero, 63,6%. Pero la tasa de empleo (TE) anual no mejoró respecto a ‘24. La TE de las latinas cerró ‘25 en 59,8%, con mejor desempeño que en ‘24. La TE de los latinos cerró ‘25 en 75,9%, pero con peor desempeño que en ‘24.
La tasa de desempleo (TD) hispana cerró ‘25 (en 4,9%) como comenzó en enero (4,8%). La TD de ‘25 fue similar a la de ‘24 (5,1%). La TD de los latinos empeoró en 2025 y cerró el año ligeramente más alta (4,3%). La TD de las latinas se mantuvo en 4,5% durante 2025. #LatinSky #Economia #Latinos #Datos
