Luke Pardue
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Policy Director @AspenEcon. Labor Markets, Entrepreneurship, Evidence-Based Policy. Philly - South Bend - DC
Washington, D.C.
Joined January 2012
Join us at the Aspen Institute’s DC offices for a talk with @MikeGeruso and Dean Spears on their forthcoming book “After the Spike,” which makes the case for why we should care about global population decline.
Join the AESG on July 9th at 9:30am ET for a conversation w/ @MikeGeruso & Dean Spears on their book, "After the Spike: Population, Progress, and the Case for People." Register here:.
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Incredibly proud to announce this year’s new and returning members of the Aspen Economic Strategy Group (@AspenEcon) today. I’m excited to work with this bipartisan group to advance evidence-based economic policy.
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Aspen Economic Strategy Group Welcomes New Members Leading policymakers, business executives, and academics join bipartisan group dedicated to promoting evidence-based solutions to America’s economic...
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Jens Ludwig and Jonathan Guryan @UChiUrbanLabs highlight High-Dosage Tutoring in particular as an evidence-based path to get students back on track:
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On a hopeful note, there are evidence-based solutions to address pandemic-induced learning loss: .
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The failure to remedy learning loss during the pandemic will only compound over time as these students move up grade levels. Take the historically low fourth grade reading levels - those kids were kindergartners during the school shutdowns of 2020.
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The data out in today’s @NAEP_NCES Nation’s Report Card paints a dire picture of educational progress among America’s young students.
The 67% of eighth-graders who scored at a basic or better reading level in 2024 was the lowest share since testing began in 1992
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From @ProfDavidDeming and @LHSummers @AspenEcon paper “Technological Disruption in the US Labor Market”.
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DAVID DEMING, CHRISTOPHER ONG, LAWRENCE H. SUMMERS This paper explores past episodes of technological disruption in the US labor market, with the goal of learning lessons about the likely future...
America is replacing bad jobs with good jobs. From 2016 to 2022, high-skilled jobs soared while low-skill and mid-skill jobs vanished. Overall employment rates went up. Americans are moving from bad jobs to good jobs.
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RT @AspenEcon: Today, the @WhiteHouseCEA released the 2025 Economic Report of the President. Chapter 7 of the report references AESG Policy….
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RT @AspenEcon: In his new @WSJ op-ed, @jasonfurman stresses the importance of considering tradeoffs in economic policymaking. At our recent….
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RT @ewong: Rare criticism of Trump from Blinken: He said Trump's idea to have the US take Greenland from Denmark was "obviously not a good….
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In Paris, the two officials acknowledged potential strains on alliances with the return of Donald J. Trump to power, but said their countries would try to maintain strong ties.
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Check out my quick 2024 job market recap/2025 here:.
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The past year has been one marked by several significant swings in the labor market. It featured strong (possibly, immigration-fueled) growth in the labor market at the start, a sharp rise in the...
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Where do they project it will be this time next year? Not too far from where it is now - median projection is 4.3%
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Noticed something interesting while taking stock of the job market in 2024:. The FOMC’s projections for Q4 unemployment rate moved around quite a bit this year (down to 4% in March, up to 4.4% in June) but they almost nailed it with the median forecast of 4.1% last December!
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This @wsj article highlights a high-profile example of a point @jenniferdoleac makes in her recent @AspenEcon paper: investing in technology to detect and apprehend criminals (being mindful of privacy costs) is a proven way to make communities safer.
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The NYPD’s Jessica Tisch championed the advanced surveillance technology that helped lead to the arrest of Luigi Mangione.
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And here is Zach’s @AspenEcon paper: . State Capacity for Building Infrastructure.
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This paper, by Zachary Liscow, examines state capacity for infrastructure construction in the United States. It identifies three elements of state capacity that drive up costs and slow down timelin...
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3pm TODAY!. @AspenEcon is cohosting a webinar with @NiskanenCenter on how the US can get better at building infrastructure (like roads/bridges, chips factories, energy transmission lines). @ZLiscow will discuss his new AESG paper with @pahlkadot and @makosloff . Link below:
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RT @AspenEcon: LAST CHANCE TO REGISTER | Tomorrow at 9:30am ET | Join the AESG for "Strengthening America's Economic Dynamism." ft. @Senato….
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Read her essay in @nytimes laying out a “bipartisan public-safety agenda” here:.
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An evidence-based approach to criminal justice would tell us that policing works and long prison sentences do not.
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