Sam Kuhn

screenshot from the Town Administrator's newsletter with a photo of the Town Clerk and the following text: 2026 Town Election & Annual Town Meeting Info Town Elections will be held Tuesday, May 5, 2026. Annual Town Meeting will begin Tuesday, May 26 through Thursday, May 28. Additionally, Tuesday, June 2 through Thursday, June 4 The 2026 Annual Town Meeting Warrant opens for warrant article submission on Wednesday, January 28 and closes at noon on Wednesday, February 25. Residents can check their voter status, precinct information, early voting dates on the Elections and Voting web page. Residents interested in running for an elected position, can pick up nomination papers starting January 20, during Town Hall business hours (Mon.-Thurs., 8:00am - 5:00pm, Fri., 8:00am - 12:30pm) and are due back to the Town Clerk’s office by Tuesday, March 17 at 5:00pm. Seats Available for 2026 Town Elections Town Meeting Member - All Precincts Select Board - 2 Seats School Committee - 3 Seats Board of Library Trustees - 4 Seats Constable - 1 Seat Housing Authority - 1 Seat

Mark your calendars! 📆 The 2026 Brookline town election will be Tuesday, May 5 and nomination papers will be available starting next week for anyone interested in running for #BrooklineTownMeeting Member or townwide office.

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"If you have a job and you're not looking for work, you're fine. But if you're unemployed, if you're on the sidelines, it's a much more difficult labor market than in previous years." @samrkuhn.bsky.social
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#BrooklineTownMeeting begins tomorrow night! I've written a guide to all the items on the agenda: bit.ly/fall2025brooklineTM

Always happy to see @brooklinenews.bsky.social's coverage, too -- though some of the information in the linked article is already out of date as TMMs file last-minute changes

Consumer spending and after-tax incomes both fell in May, adjusted for inflation. #NumbersDay
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The kids are not alright

Likewise, the 12-month change in nonfarm payrolls is at its weakest spot since 2011

Job finding rate is at its lowest point in nearly a decade

#econsky #jobsday

🇨🇦 Canada's upcoming election coincides with a pivotal economic moment. @samrkuhn.bsky.social covers the state of the Canadian economy, and labor market in particular: recruitonomics.com/a-pivotal-mo...

A larger share of Canadian households fear they may lose their job in the next 12 months than compared to the peak of the pandemic

Calm before the tariff storm? Nonfarm payroll growth was surprisingly resilient in March as the labor market added 228,000 new jobs.

The main question now is following Liberation Day, what's the labor market's pain tolerance?

#jobsday #econsky

they're really not holding back

🚨 JPMorgan recession risk odds now at 60%

News today pushing GDP forecast further negative due to another -0.6 percentage point annualized rate revised forecast for personal consumption expenditures (PCE), -0.2 for equipment, & -0.1 for residential fixed investment.

The only upward revised forecast is in government spending.

Gold adjusted GDP now still tracking negative
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We need to boil down abundance to four emojis: 🏠 🚋 💊🔋

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this is perfect, thank you!

What's the best package for synthetic control estimation in python? #econsky

Next years inflation expectations are back to Oct '22

Consumers have boosted growth significantly the past three years, this is a big warning sign that households are reacting in real-time to uncertainty and drawing back spend

Second: Visa's Spending Momentum Index - tracking consumer's spending habits across discretionary and nondiscretionary categories dropped significantly in Feb as well, indicating a consumer that is rapidly reigning in spending habits

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Two concerning data points emerging from consumer spending: Chicago Fed's Advance Retail Trade Summary is tracking a near percentage point decline in retail sales for Feb, following a weak Jan

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Cava in Cambridge must have got an early copy of Ezra Klein’s and @dkthomp.bsky.social new book

Calm before the storm in the February #jobsreport:

-Payrolls up 151,000, a touch below expectations
-Unemp ticked up to 4.1%
-Wage growth grows 4% YoY

Report was a touch softer than expected but precedes any downstream impacts from the DOGE layoffs + tariffs

#NumbersDay 1/

Big drop in Federal gov't employment #econsky

I'm traveling today, but the data ended up coming out some time between 11:30 am-3:30 pm PT

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what are your thoughts on ADP employment data?

Big jump in UI claims for Federal workers this morning - highest total since '21

Harmonized CPI (excluding owner-occupied housing) is now more than a percentage point higher than its low last August - no longer is housing to blame for inflation progress

Thank you!

Create a data frame of map data — map_data Easily turn data from the maps package into a data frame suitable for plotting with ggplot2.

Anyone have any idea why the map data function in ggplot2 is missing Alaska/Hawaii? #rstats

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