Sociology, Unions. Other stuff.
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HAPPENING NOW: @RepPressley asks @FinCENnews Director Andrea Gacki what the bureau is doing to curb dirty money from enviro. crimes flowing into the U.S.
Pressley cites FACT's latest report: Dirty Money and the Destruction of the Amazon, and enters the report into the record.
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This article discusses a new forthcoming book on "the two-parent privilege" and quotes me. 😊 I'm not against marriage; I'm against framing marriage as an inherent inequality reducing mechanism. thecut.com/article/why-is-ev…
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Student loans linked to worse health, mental health and reduced health care use: Diverse issues in Higher Ed covered my research with Kenneshia Williams and @JoanieMazelis on student debt disparities: diverseeducation.com/student…
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Great profile in the NYT of the one and only @janellecj, formerly Chief Economist at the US Department of Labor, now Chief Economist at the Service Employees International Union.
"How Janelle Jones’s Story About Black Women and the Economy Caught On" nytimes.com/2023/04/13/busin…
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All I'm saying is: Civil rights legislation was about *trying* to change the behaviors of people racialized as White rather than rectifying the structural conditions of people racialized as Black. Thus, racial inequality persists.
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This Week @ @CCF_Families
blog, hosted by @TheSocietyPages, @JaclynSWong gives us the three ingredients for an equal dual-career partnership.
Check it out here: thesocietypages.org/ccf/
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The strong decline in teacher well-being since 2010 coincides with the rising number of teaching vacancies.
Poor compensation and highly stressful working conditions are driving teachers out of the classroom. epi.org/blog/high-and-rising…
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Norway's government spends nearly 60x as much as the US on supporting early childhood care.
It's obscene how little public funding in the US is devoted to helping kids in their most formative years
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Disinvestment from student financial aid has eroded the purchasing power of state grants and scholarships. The total state aid students receive covers only 12% of the cost to attend college. #mapoli
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It’s finally here - book launch day! Excited to share Capitalizing a Cure: How Finance Controls the Price and Value of Medicines, available open-access (can download now) and paperback with @ucpress. bit.ly/3HnMXUQ. A brief 🧵 (1/11)
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as a former starbucks partner, it was an honor to write about howard schultz as union buster of the year for @newrepublic
solidarity with @SBWorkersUnited
always 🫶newrepublic.com/article/1697…
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The teacher shortage is both widespread and especially severe in schools with high shares of students of color or students from low-income families.
There has been a long, steady increase in vacancies between roughly the end of the Great Recession and the pandemic.
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NEW REPORT: The pandemic exacerbated the long-standing national teacher shortage. But the primary cause of the shortage isn't a lack of qualified teachers—it's low pay and increasingly stressful work conditions.
Learn more: epi.org/publication/shortage…
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‘There are no lights, it’s scary’: a family prepares for winter in eastern #Ukraine. By @julianborger and @AlessioMamo theguardian.com/world/2022/d…
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BREAKING: The University of California and UAW have reached a tentative agreement for post-docs and academic researchers 15 days into the largest strike of the year.
They remain on strike in solidarity with other units. Some info below on raises and other wins:
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UPDATE: Nearly all UPS drivers in southern and northern CA have been informed by the Teamsters that they can refuse to deliver packages to the U of California during the strike.
Teamsters confirmed. This will likely to have some impact on the U.C. system
washingtonpost.com/business/…
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We won. Question 1 passes. The Fair Share Amendment is in the Massachusetts constitution.
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PSA to other college hookup researchers of the millennial generation or older: a hook up buddy is now called a "sneaky link" by gen z (at least here in the south). Consider yourself informed.
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This year on all the liberal arts college campus tours, kids and parents just wanna know if admin is voluntarily recognizing and bargaining in good faith with campus unions.
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Excited @JMF_NCFR's special issue on Transformative Family Scholarship is out. Special shout out to my co-editors April L. Few-Demo and @doc_thoughts. @ncfr onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/…
