Lunchtime Must-Read: Nick Bunker’s Weekend Reading

…Ben Walsh argues that the boom in oil jobs… is over…. Shane Ferro reports that one million Americans are at risk of losing access to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program…. The United States has the highest GDP per capita, but as Matt Bruenig shows, incomes at the bottom are higher in other developed countries…. What explains the decline in the labor share of income? Dylan Matthews looks into the competing hypotheses…. Cardiff Garcia lays out his observations from the annual Allied Social Sciences Associations meeting…. Ben Casselman and Andrew Flowers… noticed that economists seem to be more engaged with policy.