Favorites October 8th 2021
He's literally saying that the filibuster -- an accidental addition to Senate procedure that no one ever intended & the Founders explicitly rejected -- is more important than the world's richest & most powerful country defaulting. Absolutely fucking deranged.
Manu Raju @mkraju
It's not in the constitution, it's not even codefied in law, beyond the rules the senate chose to put on themselves in the last couple decades.
MISS: Just 194K jobs created in the month.
However, the unemployment rate fall to 4.8%
Ongoing story of seemingly slow job creation and tightening labor markets at the same time.
So much for the theories that excessive unemployment benifits were hurting employment, since they just ran out.
Not directly related to this month’s jobs report, but Goldman Sachs notes that the collapse of visa issuance during the pandemic has significantly shrunk the labor force.
Yglesias has an article about issuing 'catch up' green cards, to make up for periods like this where we issued fewer than usual.
The New York Times published a 4000+ word story today on post-suburbia, backyard homes, multigenerational living, and developer vs. homeowner capitalists… by following a handful of characters in a plain San Diego neighborhood.
@ConorDougherty’s latest:
I've wanted to do a big story on ADUs for like a year, because the permit data is bananas. They're up by a factor of ten and now account for >10% of CA housing production from near zero when I started covering housing. WHAT?
These numbers are absolutely wild, to some extent I also hope that as they become more popular, we'll get better at making them, and more people will notice it as an option.
