Justin Fox
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Columnist @opinion. Eater of free snacks. (Snacks are property of Bloomberg L.P. Tweets aren't.)
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Joined April 2009
These are both from my new column about subway crime, which you can read with a gift link valid for the next week:
bloomberg.com
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has a point about assaults underground, but his policies aren’t improving anything.
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Another, somewhat less-encouraging chart about crime on the subway
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The subway risk chart you've been waiting for. (Sawyer County, WI, is where Sean Duffy is from and its numbers are 2018-2024 annual averages because the CDC doesn't release its single-year numbers.)
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RT @KennyBurgosNY: .@foxjust with a great comparison on why rent-stabilized housing is the largest (mostly unsubsidized) affordable housing��.
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As @grok figured out a lot more quickly than I did
@RNDM_TXT @zerohedge The spike in Social Security benefits before the drop was due to the Social Security Fairness Act, signed in January 2025. It repealed rules cutting benefits for public servants like teachers and firefighters, leading to over 2.5 million retroactive payments averaging $6,710,.
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The retroactive payments were set in motion by Social Security Fairness Act signed into law on January 5
blog.ssa.gov
Today, the Social Security Administration announced it is immediately beginning to pay retroactive benefits and will increase monthly benefit payments to people whose benefits have been affected by…
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@DianeSwonk Ah, this appears to be the answer
Personal income fell 0.4% in May, and disposable personal income fell 0.5%, largely reflecting a plunge in Social Security payments (which were boosted due to large retroactive payments earlier this year). Incomes from wages and salaries for private-sector workers rose 0.4%
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RT @NickTimiraos: Personal income fell 0.4% in May, and disposable personal income fell 0.5%, largely reflecting a plunge in Social Securit….
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Hey @DianeSwonk, any idea what's up with this? The March-April surge in Social Security payments you wrote about has now reversed.
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The Social Security Administration's data shows a 0.5% increase in payouts from April to May, so this seems like some kind of timing/seasonal-adjustment issue
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In 1860, 47% of New Yorkers were foreign-born, and I doubt their share was ever below one-third before the 1930s
To understand the pace and scope of migration to America in past years, one-third of NYC is foreign-born and almost two-thirds of NYC children live in a foreign-born household.
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Many more charts, and some attempts at explaining them, here:
bloomberg.com
In most of the country, crime is lower than before the pandemic.
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If the 28.7% decline through May 25 holds up for the full year, NYC's murder rate will be the lowest since the 1940s. But other violent crime (mainly robbery and aggravated assault) remains worse than before the pandemic in the city and elsewhere in the state.
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RT @chrisbriem: My markup of population change in Pennsylvania. (underlying map from the @PASDC_PSU)
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RT @MarcGoldwein: TCJA did a lot of good things and a lot of debatable things. The one provision that pretty much every tax expert and eco….
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Here's a gift link to my account of the 1866 debates
bloomberg.com
The lawmakers who wrote drafted the 14th Amendment in 1866 were looking to protect former slaves as well as the children of unpopular immigrants.
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