Jacob Hacker (@jacob_s_hacker) 's Twitter Profile
Jacob Hacker

@jacob_s_hacker

Professor of Political Science @Yale, Fellow @ISPSYale, co-author "Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality;" jacobhacker.com

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Ximena Benavides (@xsbenavides) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Amazing postdoc opportunity!! Folks interested in #LPE, you will love this *new* postdoc opp Yale University affiliated with #APEX (the American Political Economy eXchange) at the Yale ISPS with Jacob Hacker. Reviewing applications in mid-March. Apply! apply.interfolio.com/140859

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Announcing new Yale University postdoc, affiliated with APEX (American Political Economy eXchange), housed at Yale ISPS, and affiliated with APSA APE | @CAPE-team.bksy.social. For APE researchers eager to advance their own work and help develop new programming and opportunities. Apply-> apply.interfolio.com/140859

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Join us this Monday, April 1 at 7pm ET for a free, virtual launch of Can the Democrats Win? with Jacob Hacker, Paul Pierson and Lily Geismer. Plus, get a discount on the issue when you register today. secure.givelively.org/event/boston-c…

Join us this Monday, April 1 at 7pm ET for a free, virtual launch of Can the Democrats Win? with <a href="/Jacob_S_Hacker/">Jacob Hacker</a>, Paul Pierson and <a href="/LGeismer/">Lily Geismer</a>.

Plus, get a discount on the issue when you register today.

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Hope you can make this Boston Review virtual event on the future of the Democratic Party with Paul Pierson, Lily Geismer, Joshua Cohen, and me! April 1 (no joke!) at 7pm ET. Register 👇secure.givelively.org/event/boston-c…

Amy Hanauer (@amyhanauer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The American Prospect is "the magazine of the moment" per Columbia Journalism Review, "indispensable" per Chris Hayes & a "liberal bulwark" & "lefty magazine flexing Biden-era muscle" per Politico. Want to help lead this amazing publication? We're hiring a new publisher!

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New WSJ piece with Jon Cohen of American Academy of Arts & Sciences! Economic measurements like GDP and the Dow don’t capture what life is like for real Americans. A new metric called the CORE Score (corescore.us) offers a better alternative wsj.com/economy/gdp-an… via The Wall Street Journal

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Nominate scholars for the APSA APE | @CAPE-team.bksy.social section awards! Deadline is May 17: (1) Emerging Scholar in American Political Economy (2) Best Dissertation on American Political Economy (3) Best Paper on American Political Economy Info and nominations at apsanet.org/section54

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As Paul Pierson & I argue in New York Times Opinion today, the U.S. is on course for an epochal debate over future policy priorities: Should the enormous, ineffective and inequality-abetting Trump tax cuts of 2017 be extended past their scheduled expiration in 2025? nytimes.com/2024/05/30/opi…

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Few Americans seem to understand the huge stakes of the 2024 election for the basic public policies that shape their lives — especially on taxes, say Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson. Read: nyti.ms/3X1jvfE

Background Briefing w/ Ian Masters (@ianmastersmedia) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We’re joined by Jacob Hacker discussing his article at The NYT with Paul Pierson, “What Kind of Country Do You Want? Start With Taxes.” on.soundcloud.com/5Avw865rahYgbw…

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NOW at backgroundbriefing.org | Michel Paradis - The 80th Anniversary of D-Day | Lindsay Owens - How Corporate Power and Technology Have Combined to Gouge Consumers | Jacob Hacker - As Billionaires and Corporations Back Trump to Continue Tax Cuts, Biden Needs to Make Them Pay Up

NOW at backgroundbriefing.org | <a href="/MDParadis/">Michel Paradis</a> - The 80th Anniversary of D-Day | <a href="/owenslindsay1/">Lindsay Owens</a> - How Corporate Power and Technology Have Combined to Gouge Consumers | <a href="/Jacob_S_Hacker/">Jacob Hacker</a> - As Billionaires and Corporations Back Trump to Continue Tax Cuts, Biden Needs to Make Them Pay Up
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Great new Wall Street Journal Opinion piece by Alan Blinder on the need for more of what I've called “predistribution." Non-affluent workers shouldn't have to rely solely on a politically vulnerable safety net. Make the market work better for them in the first place! wsj.com/articles/shore…

Jacob Hacker (@jacob_s_hacker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How can our economic measures better capture the lived economic experience of American workers and their families? Jon and I had a really great conversation with Jeff about this fundamental question.

Jacob Hacker (@jacob_s_hacker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Great thread by Greg Sargent. Democratic Party has been acting like a party. Both progressive & moderate Ds believe in active governance (not true on GOP right). There’s also recognition that Ds need to win moderate seats to hold power. And Trump helps unify them too.

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My take on why another Trump presidency would be such a threat to democracy, alongside other expert reflections. Down-ballot races matter: “If Trump has both houses of Congress — along with…[the] Supreme Court — the pace and extent of democratic backsliding will be much greater”

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For those attending APSA meeting and in town on Friday morning, please swing by the hackathon that Kathy Cramer and I are leading utilizing a new American Academy of Arts & Sciences dataset on Americans’ well-being. We’ll have breakfast and coffee from 8am in PCC 201B. Hope to see you there!