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@jimtankersley

Tax and economics reporter, The New York Times, DC bureau. Dad. Backpacker. Cardinal🌲 Oregonian eternal.

Washington, D.C.
Joined April 2010
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    May 28

    Friends: I wrote a book, "The Riches of This Land," about the group of heroes who built the great American middle class - and how they are the key to rebuilding it from our current crisis. I'd be honored if you read it. It's out August 11. Pre-order here:

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    3 hours ago

    Somehow has had 7 bylines since he published this story, which ran on today's front page and is the best thing I've read in a while. You should read it.

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  3. 4 hours ago

    A kind and generous thread from my friend and colleague.

    In summary: Check out Jim’s book, “The Riches of This Land,” which will make you question your own assumptions and think of the last 70 years of U.S. economic history in new ways.
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    4 hours ago

    The best nonfiction books help you think about the world around you a little more clearly. A new book from my friend and colleague does exactly that. Consider checking out/buying/reading “The Riches of This Land.” (Thread below on why)

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    5 hours ago

    We have yet see full impact of Latino voters: Of the 1 million Latinos in North Carolina, 2/3 are not eligible to vote because they are either under age 18 or not citizens —the second-highest rate in the nation, just behind neighboring Tennessee.

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  6. 7 hours ago

    IDEA OF THE DAY in the flagship am newsletter "The Morning": How to Rebuild the Middle Class. (Thanks, & !)

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  7. 17 hours ago

    Dame. (Evergreen tweet)

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    21 hours ago

    Kamala Harris will be the first person from a West Coast state to hold a spot on a Democratic ticket. First person from any state west of the Rockies, even.

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    22 hours ago

    Kamala Harris's selection means that the Democratic ticket will not have someone with an Ivy League degree for the first time since 1984

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    22 hours ago

    Beyond complicated legal Qs abt whether Trump can circumvent Congress to create his own tax-and-spend policies, and the economic debate about whether a payroll tax even helps the right people, the proposal leaves Trump juggling political priorities.

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  11. 22 hours ago

    What you should REALLY do while you wait for the Biden pick: Stream the new bonus episode on a very famous VP selection!!!

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  12. 23 hours ago

    Can't stand the stress of VP anticipation? Watch interview a first-time author about his new book!

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    24 hours ago

    is such a lovely essayist, and I can't wait to read her latest about pregnancy, and how we turn pregnant people into something other than human beings deserving of full recognition and autonomy.

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    24 hours ago

    The brilliant has followed up her groundbreaking Down Girl with the equally hard-hitting Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women. It's one of those books that offers a "click" moment on every page.

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    24 hours ago

    The phenomenal has Wandering in Strange Lands out today, one of the most anticipated books of the year by every magazine and website you care about. Morgan is a force indeed. Read her.

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    Aug 11

    This is too long for a tweet, but thinking about this as veep speculation rages

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  17. Aug 11

    An entire chapter of The Riches of This Land is a critique of the national news reporters - myself very much included - who wrote disproportionately about white workers in 2016 and thus missed a huge story. writes elegantly about that today:

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  18. Aug 11

    Happy pub day !!

    Today, OK Boomer, Let's Talk: How My Generation Got Left Behind is out. I thought I knew the basic story of Millennial life - that it's precarious, that we're broke, that we're set to be the first downwardly mobile generation. I didn't know the half of it.
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  19. Aug 11

    First review of the book, by Tal Fortgang, of viral "Why I'll Never Apologize for my White Male Privilege" fame a few years back. He likes some things! He doesn't like others!

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  20. Aug 11

    America has all the material you'd want to rebuild a fast-growing, low-unemployment economy that pulls people into the middle class. Our workers -- our people -- are the riches of our land. And we are hiding them, to paraphrase the Beatitudes, under a bushel. (fin)

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  21. Aug 11

    Immigrant entrepreneurs will create good jobs. As the National Academies reported in 2016, immigrants have raised America's patenting per capita. Without them, the researchers wrote, "The prospects for long-run economic growth in the United States would be considerably dimmed"

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