Misty Heggeness

A SNAPSHOT OF TRUMP'S ECONOMY—judged by his own goals: manufacturing jobs are down 100,000 since Trump took office, private-sector job growth is the weakest we’ve seen outside a recession in more than 20 years, and the unemployment rate for U.S.-born workers has increased.

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Breaking down the mastermind economics of Taylor Swift Misty Heggness, an economist and professor, joins "CBS Saturday Morning" to discuss her new book "Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy."

Don't miss @mlheggeness.bsky.social on @cbssaturday.bsky.social discussing tips like "authenticity" that everyone can take from Taylor Swift's rise to success, detailed in her new book SWIFTYNOMICS: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy: www.cbsnews.com/video/breaki...

Iran Says Dozens Are Killed in Strike on School The strike on an elementary school in the southern Iran town of Minab was one of two attacks that appear to have hit schools during U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran on Saturday.

During the U.S. and Israel attack in Iran on Saturday, dozens of people, most of them likely children, were killed when a strike hit a girls’ elementary school in Minab and a high school in Tehran, according to Iranian health officials, state media and a human rights group.

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Taylor Swift, Beyonce, and Women's Economic Agency Today

I'll be at SXSW 2026, where you can book me for this @e180labs braindate: Taylor Swift, Beyonce, and Women's Economic Agency Today a.e180.co/l/nuwui7/

kermit the frog is standing behind a red curtain . ALT: kermit the frog is standing behind a red curtain .

I really need the bombastic news cycles to slow down.

Epstein once attended an elite arts camp. Years later, he used it to find his victims Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell lavished money on the Interlochen Center for the Arts to gain access, documents show — even funding an on-campus lodge they stayed in. In the process, two teenagers were pulled into their orbit.

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell lavished money on the Interlochen Center for the Arts to gain access, documents show — even funding an on-campus lodge they stayed in. In the process, two teenagers were pulled into their orbit. n.pr/3MyKsok

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.

This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

ICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin Cities Some people who observe ICE activity are skeptical about a large scale drawdown of agents in the state. There are indications that activity has decreased in the Twin Cities, but has continued outside ...

Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help.

“A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Quick but eventful trip to LA for the book tour - which included a stop at 📚🍜! IYKYK

BREAKING: The Trump administraiton has committed a mass violation of ICE detainees' constitutional rights in MN, effectively blocking their acess to attorneys in the Whipple building, a judge ruled tonight.

The judge: Trump appointeee Nancy Brasel

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The IRS slips on ICE The tax agency just shared thousands of unsuspecting people's private tax data with immigration enforcement.

On the newsletter -- How the IRS managed to spill thousands of the "wrong" people's confidential tax data to ICE.

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How does recent growth compare to recent years?

Economy added 0.36 million jobs over 12 months to Jan 2026.

Deceleration to slowest outside pandemic in many years.

As expected, the annual benchmark revisions sharply lowered estimates of job growth in earlier months. BLS now says we added just 181,000 jobs in 2025, down from the earlier estimate of 584,000. #NumbersDay

a graph of US nonfarm payroll growth year-on-year

The regular annual benchmark revisions to jobs data released today cut roughly 1M from US payroll estimates, revealing a slower pace of job growth throughout 2024 and 2025

This may just be what bravery looks like today… 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

ICE Is Expanding Across the US at Breakneck Speed. Here’s Where It’s Going Next ICE plans to lease offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

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Swiftynomics: At times reading like a self-help book, it carries hefty political analysis Misty L. Heggeness offers a rich economics history and veritable coterie of feminist heroes, drilling deep into the concept of care-privilege

Swiftynomics: At times reading like a self-help book, it carries hefty political analysis

Thank you! 😊

"Swiftynomics" and how women drive the economy New book uses Taylor Swift as lens on how women do the work every day that drives the economy.

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Swiftynomics tracks the fiscal impact of gender and inequality (Taylor's Version) Swifties, rejoice. There’s new reading material, and it’s from a local author. Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy is brought to you by Misty L. Heggeness. She’s a professor at...

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What Taylor Swift Teaches Leaders About Reinventing Their Careers Why Taylor Swift’s career reinventions are a masterclass for today’s women leaders.

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On Taylor Swift and the Hard Art of Reinvention At the end of the music video for her song titled “Look What You Made Me Do” from her Reputation album, fifteen different Taylors appear next to each other in an airplane hangar, in front of a blac…

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How one author is hoping Taylor Swift will bring more women into economics Professor Misty Heggeness wrote "Swiftynomics" hoping to encourage more women to become interested in economics.

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Taylor Swift embodies female economic power in new book by KU professor • Kansas Reflector Misty Heggeness released “Swiftynomics,” a book explaining how female economic power radiates from the music star.

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What ‘Swiftynomics’ Reveals About Women, Work, and Power Women now participate more fully in the formal economy than ever before, yet when unpaid care and cultural constraints are accounted for, they continue to shoulder a disproportionate share of total wo...

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What Taylor Swift Can Teach Us About Economics Dr. Misty Heggeness explains how the pop star inspired her new book, Swiftynomics: How Women Mastermind and Redefine Our Economy.

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