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Lydia DePillis
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Lydia DePillis
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Economy reporter @nytimes. Always asking people to explain things. Tips/praise/etc.: [email protected], Signal @LydiaDePillis.48
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    May 5
    Personal news: I am writing a book! The conversation around birthrates has grown toxic. The truth is that fertility decline is mostly a consequence of greater freedom and opportunity, and seems unlikely to reverse. We can deal with the downsides -- if we confront them head on.
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    Sep 13, 2018
    So Jeff Bezos is putting $2 billion into homelessness and preschool. Laudable. But you have to ask -- is this better than just taxing the wealth of the richest man in the world, and making that money democratically accountable?
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    Sep 13, 2018
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    Dec 8, 2017
    How did Trent Franks get $5 million, you ask? The @phoenixnewtimes found his net worth, which comes from his shares in an oil company, skyrocketed to $33 million after he voted repeatedly to deregulate the oil industry. phoenixnewtimes.com/news/trent-fra…
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    Dec 8, 2017
    Oh politico.com/story/2017/12/…
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    Jun 24, 2022
    This is what it actually means to criminalize abortion. I am not sure America is prepared for the level of invasive policing that women are about to endure. newyorker.com/magazine/2022/… via @jiatolentino
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    Nov 5, 2025
    The new political map of NYC shows some stark divides: Very wealthy, very white and very Hasidic parts of the city went for Cuomo. Young, Black and Hispanic voters went for Mamdani. But the biggest divide? Transit vs. cars. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
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    Feb 21, 2020
    YIKES: New @ODNIgov @RichardGrenell probably shouldn't even have a security clearance, because he failed to report lobbying work for a corrupt Moldovan politician who's now a fugitive, @iarnsdorf reports.
    Trump’s New Spy Chief Used to Work for a Foreign Politician the U.S. Accused of Corruption
    From propublica.org
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    Dec 26, 2018
    Fascinating and weird wrinkle to the wage gap conversation: Single women, married women, and single men all make about the same amount of money. It's MARRIED men who vastly out-earn everybody else. stlouisfed.org/on-the-economy…
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    Oct 2, 2025
    "They had the Black people in one van, and the immigrants in another van" abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chica…
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    Feb 2, 2018
    WHOA: On her way out, Yellen rips Wells Fargo for consumer abuses, effectively fires 4 board members, and stops the bank from growing larger "until the firm makes sufficient improvements."
    Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
    federalreserve.gov
    Responding to widespread consumer abuses and compliance breakdowns by Wells Fargo, Federal Reserve...
    Responding to recent and widespread consumer abuses and other compliance breakdowns by Wells Fargo, the Federal Reserve Board on Friday announced that it would
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    Lydia DePillis
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    Sep 14, 2017
    You've got to be kidding me. Trump plans to close the EPA lab in Houston, one of the US' most contaminated cities:
    Houston EPA lab set to close
    From houstonchronicle.com
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    Jan 25, 2021
    !! Study finds that uniform moratoria on evictions and utility shutoffs through November of last year could have saved *164,000* lives lost to COVID-19: nber.org/system/files/w… If real, that would make reducing housing precarity easily the best public health measure we've got.
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    Dec 27, 2019
    There's been a lot of anecdotal evidence about how tariffs are behind the manufacturing slump. Now the Federal Reserve proves it, finding that the trade war is hurting the sector it was ostensibly supposed to help: federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/f…
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    Apr 25, 2022
    Ahem. *Personal News*: Friday was my last day at ProPublica. In a couple weeks, I’ll start as an economics reporter at the New York Times, with a team I’ve long admired.
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    Business Welcomes Lydia DePillis | The New York Times Company
    We’re excited to announce that Lydia DePillis will be joining the Business desk as an economics reporter. Lydia brings a blend of economics acumen, writing flair and energy that make her a valued…
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    Lydia DePillis
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    Dec 8, 2017
    Department of confused infrastructure policy: White House looks to states to hike taxes for their own improvements, as it pushes a tax bill that punishes local governments for raising more revenue.
    After cutting taxes, Trump looking to localities to raise revenue for infrastructure
    From washingtonpost.com