Steve B. Holt

My latest debunks 3 myths re US manufacturing jobs: 1) they're all good paying; 2) they're all attainable by anyone w/ a HS degree; & 3) Americans are dying to work them. These myths fuel a lot of bad policy (eg tariffs); pols should stop spreading them www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti... (🎁 )

When your streak is so long someone has to dedicate their life just to find tickets to each game, you know you achieved something incredible.

My job market paper is now online first at EEPA! I examine the impact of a suspension ban on the classification of SWDs, finding that the ban increased classification of more stigmatizing disabilities. doi.org/10.3102/0162...

It's mostly a senior citizen scam, from what I understand.

Posting this after the season we just had is a hate crime.

Paper tiger. So much of his wealth is derived from government contracts that they could strip his empire for parts before he could blink. He bet big that our democracy would collapse into a one-party rule and the chickens coming home to roost will be fun to watch.

What do you mean you are actively managing your parents' social media algorithm?? My generation's caretaking of our parents is going to be weird. nymag.com/intelligence...

Really cool study on a highly relevant policy topic in education right now.

I’ve been redesigning some interactive features for the accompanying website for the “Inequality of Recession” working paper series. After making this visualization, the data shows that generally speaking, the last couple years looks like a mild downturn in the labor market. #EconSky

I will think about this as I do my fairly burdensome complete financial disclosures in the coming weeks required of all state employees at a certain level.

There is a special place in hell for child abusers and their enablers. And the soulless villain that funded this ad will be right in that place one day.

It's no longer front page news, but the same tactics from the Trump administration are continuing, now to elite public universities.

First of all, that was nonsense. Second of all, "the evidence shows, at least in my opinion..." is two phrases fighting each other for meaning in the same sentence.

More in-depth investigation on the consequences of expanded police presence in Texas schools, citing research from @amheadley.bsky.social @stevebholt.bsky.social and me: www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/u...

I look forward to the NY Times profiles of the heartbroken people creating support groups for each other because their AI girlfriends and boyfriends are all being unplugged in the bankruptcy.

Tuition guarantee at work at UT Austin! Modeled on the HAIL intervention at UMich

I have to imagine data centers are very heistable with a crew. In the middle of nowhere, minimal staffing, just a big warehouse.

AI tutors take the education out of education

New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment. www.nber.org/papers/w35854

New Brookings Chalkboard blog post on inequalities in school facilities -- and proposed policy solutions, from @miyeunjung.bsky.social, Sodiq Ambali, and me: www.brookings.edu/articles/how...

For those who follow elite high school admissions in #nyc @mdarisse.bsky.social (on the job market!) has written the most rigorous analysis to date of the Discovery Program which sets aside seats for low-income students who missed the test cutoff for admission: edworkingpapers.com/ai26-1607

And here I thought Republicans really cared about women's sports.

As a Florida alum of the Tebow era it pains me deeply to agree. But that's really just because I maintain a deep suspicion of prosperity gospel evangelicals writ large. Always feels like a ticking clock before they use the moral authority of faith to exploit desperate Christians for self-enrichment.

"We have a mandate from the American people to do evil things and take lifelines away from the American people and people around the world. You can tell people love and support this by how much money we cut from aid and reallocate to keeping ourselves safe from the American people, who love us."

"Woke 1 was crazy" has become a meme in certain corners, but during about the same period, the right built an entire social media ecosystem dedicated to convincing women being in a fundamentally abusive marriage was natural and desirable to mainstream implied opposition to the 19th Amendment.

Perfectly timed response to WB merger likely going through, lol. Anyway, get your libraries to sign up for Kanopy. And set up Plex servers. And get a DVD player and rent DVDs from the library. Just a reminder of the alternatives to streaming.

With friends like this, it's easy to feel like you only have enemies.

Saw The Dog Stars. Can't recommend it. boxd.it/ghbHiP

One more example of how a personalist regime they cannot conceive of a bipartisan institution to the point they would prefer to destroy it if they cannot repurpose it to their ends. See, also, much of the rest of the federal government, our military, science, higher education etc.