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Staff writer @TheAtlantic , author of "Give People Money," working a book called "The Time Tax." Not here often, please say hi on annie @theatlantic .com.

San Francisco, CA

Joined May 2009

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@AnnieLowrey

Annie Lowrey

1 year

I am writing a book about time taxes and I need your help! Tell me about the insurance snafu ruining your life, the years you spent waiting for benefits, your immigration process, your FAFSA cluster, your healthcare nightmare. I'm annie @theatlantic .com.

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A six-month wait for unemployment insurance. A paperwork nightmare over an insurance reimbursement. Drug tests for cash benefits. Why is there so much red tape in American life?

www.theatlantic.com

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@AnnieLowrey

Annie Lowrey

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Since it's coming up: Gosh, making it harder to get divorced is not a good way to encourage couples to stick together and coparent together. It's a good way to get women killed.

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I've spent a lot of the last six months working on this story about reports of abuse at one of the country's most-esteemed, certified-humane dairy farms.

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The Truth About Organic Milk

Cows are suffering on even the most “humane” dairy farms.

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@Paddywan Yes, and that if you're flying first-class, you're due all earthly deference! Get a grip!

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Annie Lowrey

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Has anyone ever modeled the labor-supply effect of having daycare/school for all kids 0-17, 9am-5pm, a reliable five days a week, 50ish weeks a year? Asking for, uh, me. For me.

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Annie Lowrey

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I found Melissa Kearney's book careful and interesting, but came away convinced the conversation we should be having is about how to improve outcomes for kids growing up with a single parent, not how to get those parents married.

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Is Single Parenthood the Problem?

If so, should the government try to fix it?

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Annie Lowrey

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Some speculation on here that universities can't divest from Israel, bc they hold their endowment $ in index funds, hedge funds, PE, etc. This is just not true.

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The Real Meaning of Divestment

This isn’t a financial issue, but a political one.

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Annie Lowrey

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A canonical time tax! One of the simplest ways to make the lives of lower-income Americans easier would be to relax the rules so that you can use SNAP on prepared foods, hot food, diapers, paper towels, dish soap, etc.

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kintsugi kid

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OH THIS IS DOPE

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The whistleblower report:

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Dairy Deception: Corruption and Consumer Fraud at Alexandre Family Farm | Publications | Farm...

www.farmforward.com

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Annie Lowrey

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The transition to green energy is going to eliminate a lot of six-figure jobs for men w/o a college degree. I wrote the risk of letting decarbonization go like deindustrialization went.

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The Green Revolution Will Not Be Painless

A California oil refinery shut down during the pandemic. A year later, former employees were not all right.

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Annie Lowrey

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The debt-ceiling deal clarifies a position Democrats should have adopted a long time ago: No work requirements, ever, for any person, for any policy.

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Work Requirements Just Won’t Die

The debt-ceiling deal rests on a cruel and ineffective policy.

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We're in a housing crisis. Where's HUD?

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Why Isn’t the Government Doing More About the Housing Crisis?

The Department of Housing and Urban Development should consider doing some housing and urban development.

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Annie Lowrey

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Turns out that my book is being used without my permission and with no residuals or payment to me to train private companies' AI systems.

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Annie Lowrey

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I thought the story would be about this one farm. But it's really not. It's about how there is no system ensuring the welfare of farm animals, just a chimera of one.

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Annie Lowrey

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I've spent a lot of the last six months working on this story about reports of abuse at one of the country's most-esteemed, certified-humane dairy farms.

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I'd also note that state flagships do not have these demented preferences, and SUNY/CUNY/Cal State et. al. are actually the engines of mobility the Ivies like to think they are.

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Annie Lowrey

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I hadn't quite grokked how much, holding SAT scores and other academic measures constant, the Ivy-Plus schools *prefer* rich kids to poor kids. Totally maddening.

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Annie Lowrey

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Lots of chatter about this null result, finding that giving $$$ to the low-income parents of low-birthweight kids doesn't improve a wide range of outcomes for the kids. It's a tough, sad finding. But some of the discussion seems a little sideways, imho.

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Sarah Miller

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SSI provides cash payments to over a million families who have children w disabilities. Do these substantial payments—which make up ~half of total income for recipients—improve kids’ outcomes? We use a cutoff in SSI eligibility for infants based on birthweight to investigate.

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I don't want to punch anyone, but this isn't true! We're having affordability problems in a *lot* of places, and *huge* problems in places where wages are high and people want to move.

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I hadn't quite grokked how much, holding SAT scores and other academic measures constant, the Ivy-Plus schools *prefer* rich kids to poor kids. Totally maddening.

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McKay Coppins

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I have never really cared that much about the endless Ivy-centric culture wars that consume certain segments of the media but ⁦ @AnnieLowrey ⁩ makes a persuasive case that these schools do matter—and that their admissions policies need radical reform.

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Annie Lowrey

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SBF hurt dozens of worthy nonprofits and charities, both by promising money he knew he could never deliver and by forcing them to deal with SBF-and-EA-related reputational taint.

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60 Minutes

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"He becomes toxic. Like, nobody wants to talk to him. He has no friends,’" says Michael Lewis. “There is still a Sam-Bankman-Fried-shaped hole in the world that now needs filling” for someone driven by their ideals to do good on a large scale, Lewis says.

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@heikki_bear US has different rules than the EU -- in the US, antibiotics are forbidden in the organic program (so if an organic farmer has to give a cow antibiotics, they either sell the milk as conventional from that point forward or sell the cow to a conventional farm)

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Waiting for mortgage rates to drop to buy a house? So is everyone else. Me on why it's not going to be a buyers' market for a very, very long time:

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It Will Never Be a Good Time to Buy a House

Maybe in 2030?

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Annie Lowrey

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These arguments have felt over-technical to me on all sides. Can endowments divest? Yes! Do universities want to? No! Would divestment hurt the Israeli economy/affect stock prices much? No! Do the protestors get that and still think it is worth doing? Yes!

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Annie Lowrey

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As a side note: As a parent of a baby who was born at 3 pounds, I have trouble even reading studies like this one. But it's a really excellent paper. And the policy response should be "how do we do enough to help?" not "well, let's cut SSI!"

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Annie Lowrey

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@besttrousers we only have hundreds of high-quality studies done over 50+ years in dozens and dozens of countries

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Annie Lowrey

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I'm so honored that @carlzimmer has chosen this essay for Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023. My thanks to @jaimealyse and @MarinerBooks and my brilliant colleagues @danteramos and @JaniceWolly .

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American Motherhood

My pregnancies could have killed me, but at least I chose them.

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Annie Lowrey

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I don't know that you can replace the income of a second parent. But you can definitely provide low-cost, high-quality zero-to-five care, the expanded CTC, Medicaid and SNAP.

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The transfers averaged out to $146 per month for infants, $141 for toddlers, and $33 per month for kids 3+. Maybe that’s just not enough for kids starting life in a box in a NICU with parents struggling to keep a roof over their heads and food in everyone’s mouths.

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Will humans treat AI better than we treat animals? Will AI treat *us* better than we treat animals?

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What Does Sentience Really Mean?

The fact that AI isn’t alive doesn’t mean it can’t be sentient, the sociologist Jacy Reese Anthis argues.

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Annie Lowrey

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One thing this demonstrates is that trading chicken for beef is an easy thing to do for animal welfare (though trading beef for chicken is better for the climate). Square the circle by just eating less meat.

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What can you even say about this?

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Does this show that cash doesn’t work? Not so much as it shows that this level of cash doesn’t work for babies this disadvantaged in terms of their health, growing up in families this disadvantaged in terms of income/wealth and often a number of other factors.

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People (mostly) spend what they can afford on housing. Lots of folks are priced out of the location or type of place they want. That frustration / pressure doesn't show up in statistics like these.

@Noahpinion

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦

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@karltaro Nah. Housing costs as a proportion of income are at historical norms. If you control for age it's actually way down. Median personal income divided by housing costs is up over the last 20 years.

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First, responses like this. I’m not sure what to say. Cash isn't magic. It doesn't solve every problem. But we have hundreds of quality studies showing that cash has effects, sometimes big ones, on a lot of outcomes in a lot of contexts.

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Scott Winship

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New study: sizable SSI boost to family income (for 10 years) given to low-birthweight kids born into poverty has no effects on kids. Please incorporate into your lit reviews on guaranteed income.

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From the paper itself: “These results indicate that current level of support targeted to populations endowed with especially high levels of need across multiple dimensions are likely insufficient to achieve the earnings and health gains observed in more advantaged samples.”

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Annie Lowrey

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Also, what does "work" mean? Raising salience, keeping things in the headlines, affecting marginal business decisions, forcing position-taking, trying to make an issue one of bright moral lines -- this is all activism. It's messy stuff.

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Annie Lowrey

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inflation!

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McKay Coppins

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I reported in 2018 that after Access Hollywood, a group of billionaires discussed paying Trump to drop out. Back then, the number was $800 million.

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Annie Lowrey

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Getting housing and childcare prices down would help a tremendous amount, as would working on neighborhood poverty and raising wages across the board.

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Annie Lowrey

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This is a profile of a radical vegan activist group -- so radical they annoy the heck out of other vegan groups, and a number of prominent vegans want nothing to do with them

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Radical Vegans Are Trying to Change Your Diet

The impossible fight to persuade people to stop eating meat

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Annie Lowrey

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I'm looking to talk with folks who have considered moving, have moved, or want to move due to changes to abortion access and/or LGBTQ+ laws in their state. On annie @theatlantic .com if that's you or someone you know.

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We really need to get better at this.

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New York Failed the Smoke Test

Everywhere needs to be prepared for everything.

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Annie Lowrey

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@chrislhayes Never met a low-income single parent who wouldn't love a committed, stable partner and coparent. And it's not clear to me the norms around marriage are changing at all...

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The Atlantic

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“The most heavily anticipated economics book of the year makes a radical argument: Having married parents is good for kids,” @AnnieLowrey writes. But what do we do about that?

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(She supports these things, I should note! Along with a lot of other good ideas. I'm just not sure there's any norms/cultural issues we should be focusing on, rather than economic ones.)

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Annie Lowrey

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Scientists have been trying to make lab-grown meat taste just like regular meat. What happens when they start bioengineering stuff that tastes... really different?

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Open Your Mind to Unicorn Meat

Entrepreneurs have invested billions in plant-based and lab-grown meats, and the possibilities are endless.

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A lot of these studies do show marginal effects, just not very big ones. The more divestment you have, the bigger the effect. Divestment works, it just takes scale.

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Annie Lowrey

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Nick's a writer's editor - a true joy to work with, so good with ideas, so good with copy. I really wish this industry were better.

@NickBaumann

Nick Baumann

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Last year, @meridak asked me to lead the @latimes ' coverage of the 2024 election cycle. The Times laid me off today, so someone else will have to take on that task. But I'm proud of the plan we put together and the work we've done. I will be rooting for LAT in the months ahead.

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Annie Lowrey

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There's this idea out there that you just take the refinery workers and make them green energy workers. That... doesn't make any sense. We want to use those skill sets in heavy industry and get these folks six-figure jobs.

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Annie Lowrey

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The null-result paper looks at whether $$ changes outcomes for kids who have a really tough start—born at less than 2.5 pounds (!) to poor families, often extremely poor. Good reason to think it might! Poverty and health are deeply intertwined; it's a good chunk of SSI money.

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Annie Lowrey

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I said I would write a little celebrity profile once the pandemic was over but it turns out the pandemic will never be over so, well, here's me with @ParisHilton :

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Paris Hilton Has a Lesson for Everybody

Her memoir is a manual on how to construct a self for public consumption.

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Annie Lowrey

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Public policy Twitter, or what remains of it: There's a theory (maybe?) in polisci (maybe?) about how problems tend to get political traction once they start affecting rich people. I think it comes from the donor-influence lit? What, if anything, am I half-remembering?

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That's not a statement about how much abuse there is on farms -- whether best-of-the-best regenerative organic or CAFOs. It's about whether we know. I don't think we do.

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But SSI $$ doesn’t affect high-school GPA, enrollment in a gifted and talented program, college enrollment, college completion, earnings, mortality, or the use of transfer programs.

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One last note: A lot of folks also think that because previous divestment campaigns have not affected the cost of capital much, divestment doesn't "work."

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Annie Lowrey

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I wrote about immersive art / interactive exhibits / rave caves / trip traps / why concerts look so cool now / why my kids' room looks like Shibuya Crossing (it's the LEDs)

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LEDs Change Everything

Why so many gardens and museums are lit up like Burning Man at night

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Annie Lowrey

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Meet the Buddhist monks meditating on x-risk and trying to build an enlightened AI:

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The Monk Who Thinks the World Is Ending

Can Buddhism fix AI?

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@AnnieLowrey

Annie Lowrey

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I'm also interested in great application or paperwork processes -- things that work! And arcane ones. And international comparisons. Really, just ping me. I love talking about this stuff, and am happy to keep folks off-the-record.

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Annie Lowrey

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@besttrousers it's like asking for more RCTs on aspirin! i'm all for pilots and demos, but they're political tools, not policy tools, at this point

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Annie Lowrey

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another weird dc cost thing: lot of UMC parents paying the full, proper taxes for domestic workers, bc of security clearances / being in or up for a confirmed position

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Matthew Zeitlin

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a dumb theory of mine is that the economics of UMC parenting are quite acute in dc, where you have a lot of high education couples where both parents earn six figures but not enough to really make the math of one not working pencil (and people in dc find their work meaningful)

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He wasn't helping them. He wasn't doing good. He was using them.

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Annie Lowrey

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If you've written a book, there's a handy lookup tool by @_alexreisner here at @TheAtlantic !

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Annie Lowrey

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One in three Americans live in one of the top 15 metros (NY, Seattle, Detroit, etc.)! Even if it were just a problem there it would be a huge problem!

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Annie Lowrey

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okay fine if anyone has an extra invite to fun, deranged jack twitter

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Annie Lowrey

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@KayHymowitz @kearney_melissa You might not be able to close the gap, but at least you can make it matter less by shifting the poor families up the income ladder -- eliminating child poverty via transfers is not just feasible, we just did it! Whereas eliminating it via higher marriage rates...

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@AnnieLowrey

Annie Lowrey

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It's also an attempt to answer the question of whether anything vegan and animal-rights groups do will ever get folks to stop eating meat. (50 years of activism thus far has failed to do that in any kind of meaningful way.)

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Radical Vegans Are Trying to Change Your Diet

The impossible fight to persuade people to stop eating meat

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@allafarce the book is just going to be these kinds of anecdotes with "jfc" written in the margin

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Annie Lowrey

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a few years back i wrote a piece about turkeys and humans

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Tossing a Bird That Does Not Fly Out of a Plane

A Thanksgiving story about the limits of human empathy

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Annie Lowrey

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Also -- serious about this -- if you're a user of an illicit drug that induces euphoria (mdma, cocaine) and you're on ozempic or similar, I want to talk about how the experience is different! (I can provide anonymity for that, lmao.) Still annie @theatlantic .com.

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STAFF! WRITER! ELLEN! CUSHING!

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Something Weird Is Happening With Caesar Salads

With chefs tossing in pig ear, tequila, and other wacky ingredients, when does a classic dish become something other than itself?

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Annie Lowrey

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The entire state of Florida is having an affordability crunch!

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Florida faces 'prolonged affordability crisis' despite rent costs stabilizing, study says

The rise in rent costs in Florida seems to have stabilized, but the affordability crisis shows no sign of lessening for residents, according to a new study.

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@wesyang @mattyglesias i don't make the rules, oh wait yes i do

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@TyAvery12 Oh I think it's a great idea! I just think the underlying policy is terrible.

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Goodness

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California workers who cut countertops are dying of an incurable disease

The booming popularity of countertops made of engineered stone has driven a new epidemic of silicosis, an incurable lung disease, researchers have found.

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Annie Lowrey

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This is super interesting! They do find big increases for the 0.1 and 0.01 percent, plus there's all the wealth data, plus all the economic mobility data...

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@whstancil I think this holds up: Things can be popular but end up not being particularly salient or motivating!

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The Child Tax Credit Was a Little Too Subtle

How $100 billion helped families, changed no votes, and is about to disappear

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The People Who Didn’t Matter to Henry Kissinger

Lauded for his strategic insights, the former secretary of state is better remembered for his callousness toward the victims of global conflict.

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Annie Lowrey

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Looking to talk to folks in NYC affected by the Airbnbpocalypse, e.g. folks who used to rent out their place when they were out of town. I'm annie @theatlantic .com.

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Annie Lowrey

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a perfect lil story

@mimbsy

Caroline Mimbs Nyce

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I wrote about why AI-generated people are so hot!

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Annie Lowrey

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@flowersforirene part of the answer might be that these kids need way, way more help and the study proves it! SSI itself isn't moving the needle, but more/different support might; let's get all these families out of poverty one way or another.

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Annie Lowrey

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@RebeccaSolnit @AntoniaJuhasz the dangers of the job feel like a good reason to hasten the transition!

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Annie Lowrey

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There are def places where it's still possible for average wage-earners to own a home, but in some ways it feels easier to highlight where it's cheap than to highlight where it's expensive.

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Annie Lowrey

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one for the "housing theory of everything" files

@femonomics

Corinne Low

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Very relevant to the current debate over marriage spurred by @kearney_melissa 's work, my paper with Jeanne Lafortune is out today in AEJ: Applied! We try to ask *why* marriage rates have declined so much for less wealthy individuals. 🧵

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@ReubenR80027912 Fair! But a lot of college grads want to move to and work in their local big city -- in this person's case, maybe Detroit or Chicago. And it's gotten harder to do that pretty much everywhere.

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Annie Lowrey

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@IChotiner I didn't go to Yale Law, so I don't know about this stuff

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Annie Lowrey

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@felixsalmon @Paddywan totally; one more way in which fractal inequality hurts us all; the line between "ah bummer, and I'd paid for first!" and "this is not what I paid for, the airline will change its policy, kids do not belong in public, i am a large adult snowflake" is an airbus wide

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@wesyang @mattyglesias sorry u have to care now

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Annie Lowrey

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@peterlorentzen @WeedenKim @epopppp @kairyssdal Oh dear -- sociology is so vital, so important to my work, I considered becoming a sociologist myself! The lead-up to the quip about the Council of Historians and Council of Sociologists (good ideas!) got trimmed down but...

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@ReubenR80027912 would also note we're seeing extremely gnarly housing problems in rural states or states with significant rural populations (MT, AK, ME)

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@AnnieLowrey

Annie Lowrey

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@AlecStapp @tomlefevre lol -- leds/lasers are a huge deal in skincare/haircare (tattoo removal, hair removal, hair growth, scar reduction, anti-aging stuff, dealing with conditions like rosacea) but a lot of folks don't know that because they aren't the target market!

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@AnnieLowrey

Annie Lowrey

3 years

@sivavaid @lpolgreen @alixabeth I regret that I hadn't read it, and look forward to reading it, and certainly always try to cite the academic work that informs my writing!

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@AnnieLowrey

Annie Lowrey

10 months

@namalhotra Ofc a kid who gets a 1400 on the SAT despite growing up in the bottom income quartile is more impressive than a kid in the top quartile who does! It's wild that Harvard and Yale don't see it that way!

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Annie Lowrey

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What Bobby McIlvaine Left Behind

Bobby McIlvaine was 26 when he died in the attacks. Two decades later, his loved ones are still grappling with the loss.

www.theatlantic.com

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Annie Lowrey

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What Mitt Romney Saw in the Senate

In an exclusive excerpt from my biography of the senator, Romney: A Reckoning, he reveals what drove him to retire.

www.theatlantic.com

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@AnnieLowrey

Annie Lowrey

9 months

Are you a chef, sommelier, bartender, restaurant reviewer, baker, etc. on semaglutide (or a similar glp-1 med)? I want to talk to you about your sense of taste for a story. I'm on annie @theatlantic .com.

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@AnnieLowrey

Annie Lowrey

3 years

@alixabeth @pamela_herd @donmoyn @povertyscholar @dynarski @SuzanneMettler1 @KathrynEdin All of which is to say, I certainly don't think I invented this out of whole cloth, and I look forward to reading this!

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@AnnieLowrey

Annie Lowrey

9 months

wow "sleepytime" erasure

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25 Perfect TV Episodes From the Last 25 Years

The past quarter century’s best TV episodes, from Mad Men and The Sopranos to Succession and beyond.

www.vanityfair.com

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@AnnieLowrey

Annie Lowrey

3 years

@sivavaid @lpolgreen @alixabeth Very much agreed

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@AnnieLowrey

Annie Lowrey

3 years

@alixabeth @pamela_herd @donmoyn @povertyscholar @dynarski @SuzanneMettler1 Of course my thinking owes a huge debt to @KathrynEdin , Luke Shaefer, Ira Katznelson, Michael Katz, Frances Fox Piven, and others too.

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@AnnieLowrey

Annie Lowrey

10 months

@namalhotra (But I take your point!)

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@AnnieLowrey

Annie Lowrey

1 year

@ggreenwald @davidmirandario Glenn, I'm so sorry for your loss. May his memory be a blessing.

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@AnnieLowrey

Annie Lowrey

6 months

Does make me think we really under-appreciate how much effect marriage rates / household formation have on financial strain / inequality (Melissa Kearney's book is important on this, question of what to do about it aside!)

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@AnnieLowrey

Annie Lowrey

10 months

@aravartanian @wesyang @mattyglesias if i wrote my own headlines, they'd mostly be, like, "here's a topic, complicated huh, hard to draw conclusions, let's look at it carefully, more nuance? i think i'm most interested in the most boring parts" and american media would die

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@AnnieLowrey

Annie Lowrey

8 months

@KerryHowley just set up a meeting for January and fell in love with the east coast all over again

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