Otis Reid
@otis_reid
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Interested in policies and politics to make the world a better, more equitable place. Work at @open_phil. Tweets my own. PhD from @MITEcon. From NC.
Joined January 2014
RT @williamjordann: This is a great question to ask. As someone left of center, if you think the answer is the second one, think hard about….
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I think the Dem brand won’t really get “fixed” until they have a popular presidential nominee who can redefine the party.
📊 WSJ POLL. Net Favorability.🔴 Republicans: -11 .🔵 Democrats: -30 (lowest in 35 years).——.Trust MORE to handle .🔴 Illegal immigration: R+24.🔴 Immigration: R+17.🔴 Inflation: R+10.🔴 Tariffs: R+7.🔴 Foreign policy: R+8.🔵 Vaccine policy: D+8.🔵 Healthcare: D+14
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Deadline is today for @open_phil Abundance and Growth Fund roles! See nested tweet for more.
Deadline to apply for these roles is Sunday, July 27 (less than a week away!) — time has never been better to try to unlock supply constraints on energy, housing, healthcare, state capacity, etc.!.
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Via @aarmlovi nice NotebookLM instantiation
You can read the full text here but also actually query it to ask what's in the bill. (If you haven't used @NotebookLM before, it's Google's corpus-restricted RAG model--the first consumer AI product ever to solve the "constantly lying to users" problem).
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Summary of the most important supply-oriented parts of the bill, including directing HUD to produce best practice zoning guidelines, streamlining environmental review, grants for places adopting pro-housing policies, manufactured housing reforms, and loan policy for multifamily.
This mega-package of bipartisan bills has been our full-time job since we started the team in 2022. What began as just "HOTMA 2.0" has snowballed into a serious down payment on housing that picks the low-hanging fruit, puts up real wins, & builds a bipartisan coalition for more!
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RT @calebwatney: This money disappears at the end of the fiscal year if it's not spent. Science budgets can be effectively cut, separate fr….
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RT @pseudoerasmus: Many people are tweeting this paper, because it is forthcoming in QJE. The big splashy headline results are being tweete….
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RT @aarmlovi: This mega-package of bipartisan bills has been our full-time job since we started the team in 2022. What began as just "HOTMA….
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RT @paulnovosad: 🔥🚗🚗 Here we go, short-run effects of congestion pricing in NY. I feel like Twitter already figured this one out, but look….
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RT @albrgr: Awesome paper finding huge benefits from relaxing zoning constraints in NYC, even once you account for the big costs of redevel….
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Lol @ Illinois ranking absolutely dead last in share of homes that are vacation homes. Just a place for working and living! Via @_brianpotter newsletter
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RT @StefanFSchubert: New PNAS paper on US academics' publication rates during tenure-track and post-tenure. Publication rates rise steeply….
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Generalist role (smart utility player willing and interested in working across areas and helping with community building):
jobs.ashbyhq.com
We are looking to hire up to four new team members to join our Abundance and Growth https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/abundance-and-growth/#:~:text=This%20fund%20supports%20efforts%20to,primar...
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Specialist role (for people with deeper backgrounds in focus areas like energy, housing, clinical trials, state capacity and infrastructure):
jobs.ashbyhq.com
Open Philanthropy is looking to hire up to four new team members to join our Abundance and Growth https://www.openphilanthropy.org/focus/abundance-and-growth/#:~:text=This%20fund%20supports%20effor...
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Deadline to apply for these roles is Sunday, July 27 (less than a week away!) — time has never been better to try to unlock supply constraints on energy, housing, healthcare, state capacity, etc.!.
Highly recommend applying to our two new Abundance and Growth roles at @open_phil ! We are looking for up to 4 new team members including specialists in areas like energy, housing, clinical trials, etc. as well as broader generalists to help us direct $120M+ in the coming years
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RT @paulnovosad: There is *so much* variation even across Europe on which immigrants come in and how their children do. Figure (Boustan et….
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I was aware that Paul Douglas, who co invented the Douglas-Cobb production function was a Senator — I did _not_ know that he enlisted in the Marines at age 50 in WW2, requested combat duty, and won two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star
Most recruits are 21 when they step onto Parris Island. Paul Douglas was 50. A professor, politician, and patriot, Douglas left behindb a life of comfort in 1942 to enlist in the Marine Corps-becoming the oldest recruit in Parris Island history. From enduring boot camp without
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RT @PoliticalKiwi: New blog post!. "There is a silent majority in America". Once again I'm looking at this awesome high-response rate mail….
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A combination of high boomer wealth + people surviving a lot longer (but still having mental decline) + AI is going to make these scam risks very severe in coming years. Bank safe haven laws for stopping suspected fraud seem like a start but we’ll need more I suspect.
Some “pig butchering” scam victims say banks aren’t doing enough to prevent the fraud.
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