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Andy @Revkin from Sustain What – “There’ve been heaps of warnings since the start of the final term of President Trump (“second term” implies too much flex on what might follow) about the short- and long-term damage to American welfare and security from the Doge-led demolition of funding for research and budgets of relevant agencies …
Via LLRX – AI in Finance and Banking, March 31, 2025 – This semi-monthly column by Sabrina I. Pacifici highlights news, government documents, NGO/IGO papers, conferences, industry white papers and reports, academic papers and speeches, and central bank actions on the subject of AI’s fast paced impact on the banking and finance sectors. The chronological links provided …
Wired – no paywall – DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse – “The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is starting to put together a team to migrate the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of …
Boston.com: “The unemployment rate for college graduates has risen faster than for other workers over the past few years. How worried should they be? When Starbucks announced last month that it was laying off more than 1,000 corporate employees, it highlighted a disturbing trend for white-collar workers: Over the past few years, they have seen …
Washington Post – no paywall – “Federal officials are preparing for agencies to cut between 8 and 50 percent of their employees as part of a Trump administration push to shrink the federal government, according to an internal White House document obtained by The Washington Post that contains closely held draft plans for reshaping the …
Washington Post [unpaywalled]: “…An economic treatise by a top Trump adviser is being read as a roadmap of his tariff policy. But even he says it’s not what Trump is implementing In July 1944, during World War II, hundreds of economic policymakers from dozens of countries gathered at a hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, …
Via Kottke – this episode of This American Life from a few weeks ago, Masha Gessen read an excerpt from their book Surviving Autocracy about the particular kind of lie used by autocrats like Putin and Trump. Lies can serve a number of functions. People lie to deflect, to avoid embarrassment or evade punishment by …
Washington Post via MSN: “Senior tax officials are bracing for a sharp drop in revenue collected this spring, as an increasing number of individuals and businesses spurn filing their taxes or attempt to skip paying balances owed to the Internal Revenue Service, according to three people with knowledge of tax projections. Treasury Department and IRS …
Axios: “The Social Security Administration is rushing cuts to phone services at the White House’s request, the agency’s acting commissioner told Social Security advocates in a meeting on Monday, two sources who attended tell Axios. Why it matters: These changes will strain the already struggling Social Security system and deprive some people of benefits entirely, …
The Contrarian: “The most comprehensive post-mortem on the 2024 presidential elections—by Blue Rose Research, a leading Democratic polling firm that collected 26 million responses from voters of all ages, demographics and party affiliation in 2024—has been making the rounds of podcasts, newsletters and political media recently. Donald Trump won among young white men, and also …
Kelly Smith, UC San Diego – These sources [maintained by advocacy groups, law firms, universities, media, think tanks] help researchers track the many changes being made by the Trump administration. The subjects matters are: Apportionment, Cabinet/Appointees; Cabinet/Appointees; Climate/Environment; Congressional Response; Corporate Enforcement; Data Rescue Projects; Executive Orders; Federal Policy; Federal Workforce; Health Care; Immigration; LGBTQ+; …
The Hill: “A nearly 400-page list provided to Congress may give rare insight into the scope of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which have already roiled the global humanitarian community and shut down programs around the world. Some of the cuts on the list appear to …
