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Beth Truesdale
@truesdale.bsky.social
Sociologist studying work, aging, and inequality at @upjohninstitute. Editor of Overtime: America's Aging Workforce and the Future of Working Longer. bethtruesdale.org
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This is basically how we got Milton Friedman, how we got Ronald Reagan, and how we got the up-by-your-own-bootstraps, winner-take-all, profits-over-people economy that's leaving so many Americans (and especially women and moms) still struggling today. Let me explain... 🧵 1/

The University of Chicago just received $100 million from an anonymous donor. Donations of that size fundamentally shift an institution’s programming and priorities, and we know that donors exert influence on campus policy. So this is—as one of my colleagues put it—basically dark money, it should be illegal to stay anonymous when exerting this much influence on an institution that’s publicly supported through tax exemptions, federal grants, non-profit status, etc.
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120 CEA alumni urge congressional action to support the Current Population Survey. Grateful to Bernanke, Boskin, Furman, Heckman, Hubbard, Stiglitz & so many others for speaking up. 📉📈 #️⃣#️⃣ www.friendsofbls.org/updates/2024...

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Reposted by Beth Truesdale
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I added dozens of active poasters to this Starter Pack of individual accounts bcz Bluesky raised the pack limit from 50 to 150, including @arindube.bsky.social@benzipperer.org@belindaarch.bsky.social@leightjessica.bsky.socialgo.bsky.app/DxFZBfc

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90 percent of minimum wage studies found no or only small disemployment effects when you look at published papers that cover broad groups of low wage workers or the overall workforce (rather than just teenagers) www.epi.org/blog/most-mi...

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Reposted by Beth Truesdale
JCjessicacalarco.bsky.social

White Evangelical Christian churches offer moms support they can't get from our current policies. Then they weaponize that support to dissuade moms from fighting for policies that would better support us all. Take, for example, a stay-at-home mom I'll call Kristy... 🧵 1/

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Beth Truesdale
@truesdale.bsky.social
Sociologist studying work, aging, and inequality at @upjohninstitute. Editor of Overtime: America's Aging Workforce and the Future of Working Longer. bethtruesdale.org
524 followers397 following9 posts