Ismael Cid Martínez

Meet Kyle Moore: TCF’s new Chief Economist! Kyle brings his expertise in economic inequality, race, and corporate power, with a strong focus on the structural forces shaping workers’ and families’ lives. Get to know Kyle and learn more about his work at @kdoc-writes.bsky.social:

EPI’s Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy has been selected as a finalist for the Anthem Awards! Vote for EPI in the Belonging and Inclusion category by October 29 👇 celebrate.anthemawards.com/PublicVoting...

The @houstonchronicle.com posted this video and it's pretty jarring. No matter that he was fleeing, law enforcement officers may not use deadly force on someone who poses no significant risk of death or serious injury to others. Deliberately hitting someone with a car is a use of deadly force.

Although the overall labor market has weakened, Latina workers have record-high employment rates in 2026. But Latino workers and young Hispanic workers are not experiencing similar gains. @icidmartinez.bsky.social explores the latest trends: www.epi.org/blog/despite...

A 28-year-old man was shot and wounded by a federal immigration agent in New York City on Thursday. Here is what to know about the shooting.

This thing has made me go do a lot of reading tonight, and the Wikipedia page about the last public execution in the United States is well-written. It was Rainey Bethea, a Black man hanged in front of a crowd of 20,000 in 1936, a spectacle which embarrassed Kentucky enough that they ended hangings.

Our Quick Guide to SNAP Eligibility and Benefits is now updated for fiscal year 2027, including the latest eligibility rules, benefit amounts, and recent changes to the program: www.cbpp.org/research/foo...

How do federal nutrition programs help fuel healthy futures? Join me at FRAC's Benefit Breakfast on Oct. 7 at the National Press Club for an important conversation about the role these programs play for children, families, and communities. @epi.org frac.org/benefit-brea...

Notable weakness in today's #jobs report for this morning. Payroll employment grew by 29,000 while downward revisions to both July and August totaled 60,000. July is now recording losses. The job growth in September (29,000) is slower than the prior 12 months (45,000). #EconSky

Trump wants to remove a question about race in the census. We look back at the history www.npr.org/2026/09/27/n...

The rise of 287(g) programs has meant that ICE is increasingly using local police as a very significant force multiplier, with up to 1 in 8 arrests of noncitizens in the interior now being carried out by state and local police. This is going to have profound impacts on community relations.

As I told @gregsargent.bsky.social, Congress should demand answers from those responsible for diverting taxpayer funding intended to protect people from persecution to some of the world’s worst authoritarians, for purposes which clearly violate human rights.

ICYMI we released our updated analysis on CEO pay. @cnn.com's @mattegancnn.bsky.social breaks it down

An ICE agent shot and injured a man in Austin, Texas, the latest violent episode amid the Trump administration’s push to increase deportations. Read more: www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/u...

A cop in rural Texas pulls over a Latino. He demands papers; doesn’t get any. Arrests the guy, throws him in a local jail cell. Hours later, GardaWorld staff show up to put him on a bus with a dozen others. They drive him to the nearest ICE jail; a bus service for the machine of mass deportation.

The 2025 American Community Survey should have come out today. But it has been delayed because of unusual political encroachment at Census. ACS drives business and policy decisions, especially in local communities, and is the primary input to Census’s immigration estimates.

A Trump administration proposal would change access to Head Start for children experiencing homelessness and the kind of care they would receive if they do get in. n.pr/46Z2ExU

Is a rate hike going to rebuild our trade relationships or reopen the Strait of Hormuz? No, but it could make an already tough economy a little tougher for strained American families. New commentary w/ @tcfdotorg.bsky.social: tcf.org/content/comm...

DC folks, this is going to be an amazing event next week. Come join us!

This morning, the Census Bureau is releasing the latest data on Income, Poverty and Health Insurance! Note: these data are for 2025 and will not reflect changes in the labor market, rising inflation, and attacks on vital safety net policies, hitting families in 2026. www.epi.org/blog/2025-ce...

Next week, the Census Bureau will release income and poverty data for 2025, which may show early signs of a softer labor market and weaker safety net. The 2026 story is still unfolding and is likely to be worse— @elisegould.bsky.social and @icidmartinez.bsky.social with your preview. 👇

The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed to no longer count immigrants without green cards in the 2030 census or ask about race and ethnicity, part of an overhaul that would redefine who counts as a U.S. resident in the eyes of the federal government.

🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 Chloe East (CU Boulder Econ) & I are hiring a postdoc to work on causal research on impacts of imm policy on immigrant children & families + rapid response descriptive work. Please share & encourage qualified candidates to apply! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05505

This “game” on the White House website, a version of Snake where you play as a white man in a suit and you run around picking up identifiably black, Asian, and Latino men and putting them in orange jumpsuits, might be the most openly white supremacist thing I’ve ever seen the US government produce

A slight majority of Border Patrol agents are Latino so it was also a very deliberate choice to make the character here white.

August #JobsDay numbers show job growth reversed its drop from last month with payrolls rising by 162,000. Unemployment held steady at 4.1%, and payrolls were revised up by 55,000 for the months of June and July. (1/6)

Today's #jobs data can be considered a solid bounce back to relative weakness in June and July. Job growth has averaged 71k over the last 3 months. Weaker numbers for leisure and hospitality and unusual July losses in local government education employment seems to have resolved in August. #econsky

Important story about the most important knock on effect to the decimation of SNAP …

If you are in NYC on September 8th….come check us out! event.newschool.edu/thecommongoo...

A way immigrant Americans raise native-born Americans' productivity... "...immigrants are responsible for 32 percent of aggregate innovation, over half of which is due to human capital externalities on US-born collaborators."

Proud to be joining up as Chief Economist at The Century Foundation- I want to continue to help to give people a vaccine for bad thinking about racial disparities. If folks have questions about building a progressive vision for our economy hit me up, let me know. Let's do better together!

ICE enforcement has not increased employment for native-born Americans.

Las autoridades electorales haitianas han fijado las elecciones para el 13 de diciembre, pero muchos expertos sostienen que es probable que la violencia extrema las vuelva a aplazar. O que pocos haitianos puedan llegar a las urnas.

Like an estimated 350,000 Haitian immigrants, Pierre Damas Bel had recently lost temporary protected status, which is given to people fleeing nations experiencing disaster. He was recently run over and killed in what his family believes was a suicide. https://wapo.st/4cmZ8AJ

Scoop: The U.S. State Department has drafted guidance requiring parents applying for passports for their children ​to provide proof of their own citizenship or immigration status as part of President Trump's latest effort to limit birthright ‌citizenship, @kristinacooke.bsky.social and I report.

BREAKING: Liam Tadeo was just deported by ICE.

Getting my job back at the Washington Post would not have been possible if it wasn’t for me belonging to a union. @postguild.bsky.social and @wbng.org are the unions I belong to. I was able to challenge my wrongful termination because of the collective bargaining agreement / union contract!

Despite some walking back of his initial threats, President Trump’s devastating cuts to funding for the World Food Program—which won a Nobel Prize for its work— have had a catastrophic effect, resulting in an increase in suffering and death worldwide. Lawrence S. Wittner on @fpif.bsky.social:

2 measles-related deaths reported in Pennsylvania, the state’s first in 35 years www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

The President’s threat of legal action against @amprog (CAP) marks another disturbing, anti-democratic effort to silence those with whom he disagrees. Our Constitution protects our right to engage in vigorous debate, debate that makes our nation stronger.

The president is threatening to sue a think tank for $5 billion unless they retract a report stating that his National Guard deployments to American cities under the guise of fake emergencies didn't make those cities safer. It's like a Con Law exam question about executive abuse of power.

🚨 Job alert 🚨 The Department of Sociology at Ohio State University is hiring: 1) Asst prof in tech and society 2) Assoc or full prof in social stratification osu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/OSUCareers?q... should pull up both openings Happy to answer questions.

From state and local food-safety response to the federal health agencies that fund that work, a record-breaking year for cyclosporiasis cases runs up against the Trump administration's cuts last year. n.pr/4gauXiv

straight-up corruption of a federal statistical agency for partisan ends in a just world everyone who signed off on this would be fired

"Affordability’s key ingredient is union power" @hshierholz.bsky.social @epi.org www.epi.org/blog/afforda...