Ben Glasner
@BenGlasner
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Economist with @InnovateEconomy. Ex-post-doc with @CpspPoverty. Tweets on policy and research. All good tweets are my dog. Check the link for important info:
Washington, DC
Joined September 2018
Who I am, why I do this, and what you’ll get here: clear, honest, usable economics. Check the linktree for more: https://t.co/NEW96OJFqm
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Terrific original reporting and analysis from Kenan on how the Recompete pilots in a remote, struggling part of Washington State are progressing, and how DC should help (or at least stop hindering)
What happens when a once-in-a-generation economic development experiment meets the longest federal shutdown in history? I traveled to the North Olympic Peninsula to find out. Recompete is working. Washington (DC) isn’t. https://t.co/m5fOqh3m9l
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What happens when a once-in-a-generation economic development experiment meets the longest federal shutdown in history? I traveled to the North Olympic Peninsula to find out. Recompete is working. Washington (DC) isn’t. https://t.co/m5fOqh3m9l
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The latest New Bazaar is my chat with @Birdyword about his great book, "The Land Trap." We discussed the productivity-sapping pressures of rising land values, Georgism, McDonald's as a real estate company, and lessons to be learned (and not) from Singapore
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Mike Bird, the Wall Street editor of The Economist, joins […]
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SNAP isn't a partisan program, and recipients are split across red and blue America. #SNAP #FoodSecurity #GovernmentShutdown #Economy
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As my colleague has pointed out, Gen Z and Millennials have taken longer to achieve the same home ownership rates than prior generations. Homeownership is indeed less common for young people than it used to be. Just isn’t nearly as dire as NAR implies. https://t.co/UrkYQC401U
When you track actual homeownership by generation, defined clearly and consistently, you see something else. Millennials and Gen Z are behind Boomers, but they are converging toward Gen X. Also, that gap is not nearly as big.
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Ready to get back to my old home at the Evans School and @APPAM_DC in Seattle. You should checkout the full panel where I’ll be covering the impact of Opportunity Zones on housing.
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To honor Connor's time at EIG and the many amazing pieces he has written, please read his last piece with a rare but important insight: the immigration system should ignore your occupation https://t.co/D58GjDvpli
After nearly 4 years, this week is my last with @InnovateEconomy. I’m grateful to have worked with a team of some of the smartest, most curious policy analysts and advocates in the business. Couldn't have asked for a better place to start my policy/research career in earnest.
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After nearly 4 years, this week is my last with @InnovateEconomy. I’m grateful to have worked with a team of some of the smartest, most curious policy analysts and advocates in the business. Couldn't have asked for a better place to start my policy/research career in earnest.
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For those who don’t know, @LettieriDC only brought me on at @InnovateEconomy to meet an internal quota of circus performers. Little did he know I’d only ever been in one show with the @Vassar Barefoot Fireflies.
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I’m deeply disappointed in my friend @cojobrien, who slandered the top issue of the day: the labor market among circus performers. "Consider circus performers. They won’t command particularly high salaries, even though few people can swallow swords and live to tell about it."
New from me: How did DHS end up proposing an H-1B rule prioritizing some acupuncturists over surgeons? An obsession with occupations. But our immigration system shouldn’t care about your job description at all. Focus on talent, not titles.
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Check out my @FT Weekend letter responding to @jburnmurdoch on ways to mitigate technology shocks. Like JBM, I've been persuaded away from the UBI. Drawing on @InnovateEconomy work from @BenGlasner and @ModeledBehavior, I call attention to the wage subsidy as an alternative.
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Last night we wrote about the geo. and poli. dist. of SNAP reliance. We walked back language to reflect that the admin stated they would resume paying. Yet here we are. A SNAP shutdown does not punish one side. It punishes families, our neighbors, and local economies.
Among counties that received more than 1% of total income from SNAP, 82% voted for Trump and 18% voted for Harris. The on-again-off-again, still-looming, lapse in SNAP benefits for 42 million people is not in fact a “largely Democrat” issue.
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The latest New Bazaar is a *really* fun chat with @JerusalemDemsas on the attention economy, how (if?) people can be persuaded, short-form video addiction, whether Twitter is "acid on community" (borrowed from @ezraklein), and mid-90s Ethan Hawke movies.
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Jerusalem Demsas is one of Cardiff’s favorite econ and housing […]
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42M of us/our neighbors rely on SNAP, nearly 12% of households and 1 in 5 children. As high as 30%+ of households in 138 distressed, mostly rural counties; even in the most well-off places it’s ~1 in 20.
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Interesting work from Ben and Co. here—and reflective of a wider phenomenon in which policies that the administration views as left-coded actually often give right-leaning counties a bigger boost.
Among counties that received more than 1% of total income from SNAP, 82% voted for Trump and 18% voted for Harris. The on-again-off-again, still-looming, lapse in SNAP benefits for 42 million people is not in fact a “largely Democrat” issue.
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What’s next: two federal judges ordered emergency funds to continue until Congress acts; @SecScottBessent won’t appeal. Bottom line: even short lapses drain local spending, hitting distressed communities hardest.
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SNAP shouldn’t be viewed as partisan. 51.5% of SNAP households live in Harris counties, 48.5% in Trump counties. Nationally SNAP ≈0.6% of income; but where SNAP >1% of total income 19.5% of households receive SNAP (vs 12.1% nationally).
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42M of us/our neighbors rely on SNAP, nearly 12% of households and 1 in 5 children. As high as 30%+ of households in 138 distressed, mostly rural counties; even in the most well-off places it’s ~1 in 20.
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@kenanfikri, @SarahEckha89223, and I pulled some insight out of our data on local government transfer reliance. Read the full analysis here: https://t.co/snP9UFxeas
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