#deanbaker
June 2, 2024 at 3:50 AM
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January 13, 2026 at 12:01 PM
I love @deanbaker and I get it that he is using fast food consumption as a proxy for how working class folks are doing, but —overall—people eating less fast food is a good thing. Really.

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Fast-Food Going Down: What We Learned in the April Consumption Data
April consumption data showed weak spending growth, falling fast-food sales, and declining tourism, raising concerns about consumer confidence.
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June 1, 2026 at 12:44 PM
June 1, 2024 at 8:54 PM
More interesting #US #jobs data from #DeanBaker: “The category, ‘ #scientific #research and development services’ has lost almost 20k jobs this year (2.0 percent). It had been growing modestly, adding 6,400 jobs in 2024.” #usecon
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Conservatives have been trying to divide the generations over the issue of Social Security for decades. Guess who benefits if the program is cut or privatized?
@deanbaker13.bsky.social #SocialSecurity #SSA #inequality #deanbaker
November 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
#Republicans are telling us that the wallets are really hurting, but the wallets don’t act like they were hurting, or at least they didn’t until #Trump started yelling about #tariffs, and #Musk began taking a chainsaw to people’s jobs and benefits.
#DeanBaker
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March 20, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Me neither, Benni. I'm in the find out phase how to use Blue Sky. I'm deanbaker BTW. GTSY on BlueSky
December 1, 2024 at 7:39 AM
Red-state reality: Our friend @DeanBaker notes that life expectancy in GOP-ruled Tennessee is about the same as Mexico
Are The Republicans Actually Killing You? Probably, If You Live In A Red State
When we look at data on life expectancy, that seems like a reasonable question to ask. We can argue over the causes and mechanisms, but it is an undeniable fact that people in states that are controlled by Republicans have much shorter life expectancies than people who live in states controlled by D
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April 16, 2026 at 7:55 PM
April jobs report was the sharp slowing of wage growth. This is bad news both the labor market and because wages are where workers get paychecks. Slowing wage growth, especially in the context of rising prices due to tariffs, is very bad news for workers’ pocketbooks. #DeanBaker
May 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I really wish the NY Times would fire one of its five right of center columnists and hire Dean Baker.

#USPol #economics #DeanBaker
Automation is Called “Productivity Growth”
It is more than a bit bizarre reading pieces that talk about automation or job-killing AI as something new and alien. These are forms of productivity growth. They allow more goods and services to be produced...
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October 7, 2024 at 1:29 PM