John Halpin

5 days ago | liberalpatriot.com | John Halpin |Ruy Teixeira |Michael Baharaeen

📖 “Progress Depends on Reversing the Left's Working-Class Woes: There’s no forging a durable progressive coalition without winning back blue-collar workers,” by Jared Abbott. Our friends at the Center for Working-Class Politics put out a banger of a post a few weeks ago.

2 weeks ago | liberalpatriot.com | Ruy Teixeira |Michael Baharaeen |John Halpin

ūüďä "Where Have All the Good Jobs Gone?" by Gordon Hanson and Enrico Moretti. Very interesting National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) paper with lots of good data to chew over. We examine changes in the spatial distribution of good jobs across US commuting zones over 1980-2000 and 2000-2021. We define good jobs as those in industries in which full-time workers attain high wages, accounting for individual and regional characteristics.