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Trevon Logan

@trevondlogan.bsky.social

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Economist. Economic Historian. Lego Nerd. Sharing thoughts.

Trevon D'Marcus Logan is an American economist. He is the Hazel C. Youngberg Trustees Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio State University, where he was awarded the 2014 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2014, he was the youngest-ever president of the National Economic Association. In 2019, he was the inaugural North Hall Economics Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2020, he was named the inaugural director of the National Bureau of Economic Research Working Group on Race and Stratification in the Economy. His research mainly focuses on economic history, including studies of African American migration, economic analysis of illegal markets, the economics of marriage transfers, and measures of historical living standards, with an emphasis on racial disparities in the United States. .. more

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 9h

You’d think economic reporting would highlight this….

Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 10h

It’s. On. Now. YES!!!

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 19h

Loved the part where they note MIT does not have legacy admissions— an item curiously missing from the administration’s demands about “fairness” and “merit”

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 21h

Understanding how Black Americans got to where they are today, requires understanding Black history. The Green Book Project is a place to share the rich historical journey of Black Americans finding dignity during the Jim Crow era:

greenbookproject.osu.edu #GreenBookProject
#CommunityMap #EconSky

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Kathleen Clark @kathleenclark.bsky.social · 21h

Another impressive highlight from MIT’s response to the proposed “compact:”

“MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions.”

Dear Madam Secretary,
I write in response to your letter of October 1, inviting MIT to review a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." I acknowledge the vital importance of these matters.
I appreciated the chance to meet with you earlier this year to discuss the priorities we share for American higher education.
As we discussed, the Institute's mission of service to the nation directs us to advance knowledge, educate students and bring knowledge to bear on the world's great challenges.
We do that in line with a clear set of values, with excellence above all. Some practical examples:
• MIT prides itself on rewarding merit. Students, faculty and staff succeed here based on the strength of their talent, ideas and hard work. For instance, the Institute was the first to reinstate the SAT/ACT requirement after the pandemic. And MIT has never had legacy preferences in admissions.
• MIT opens its doors to the most talented students regardless of their family's finances. Admissions are need-blind. Incoming undergraduates whose families earn less than $200,000 a year pay no tuition. Nearly 88% of our last graduating class left MIT with no debt for their education. We make a wealth of free courses and low-cost certificates available to any American with an internet connection. Of the undergraduate degrees we award, 94% are in STEM fields. And in service to the nation, we cap enrollment of international undergraduates at roughly 10%.

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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 22h

The only woman of color on the board of trustees of the University of Utah was not recommended for reappointment to the board by a committee at the state legislature because she used the word “equity” twice

ballerinaX @ballerinax.bsky.social · 23h

"they counted and questioned how many times she used the word “equity” when describing her work.

Maria Garciaz, a prominent Latina in the Salt Lake Valley community who has served on the U.’s board of trustees for the past four years,"

www.sltrib.com/news/educati...

State lawmakers vote against recommending University of Utah trustee, a Latina who’s championed inclusion

“I did hear you mention ‘equity’ twice in the presentation,” said Sen. Mike McKell, R-Spanish Fork, who voted against recommending University of Utah trustee Maria Garciaz for reappointment.

www.sltrib.com

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1d

Black families tend to have strong preferences against nursing homes, usually driven by concerns of inadequate care. Seeing that Black nursing home patients have significantly worse outcomes, and that they are driven by *within-nursing home* differences in care, confirms this suspicion.

NBER @nber.org · 1d

Nursing home value-added for black patients is 30 percent lower than for white patients, with most of the gap reflecting differences within, rather than across, nursing homes, from Liran Einav, Amy Finkelstein, @nealemahoney.bsky.social, and James C. Okun www.nber.org/papers/w34324

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1d

Yes indeed.

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 1d

The Republican shutdown continues.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t want to give away the plot, but the way he described the laughter from the audience and the scene involved…not for me…

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1d

I’ve heard nothing good about One Battle After Another from my circle of friends. One friend told me he had to leave the theater 2/3 through the movie. The “fight or flight” instinct kicked in.

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

The racial divide in commentary I've seen on One Battle After Another ........

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1d

The racial divide in commentary I've seen on One Battle After Another ........

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New York Attorney General Letitia James @newyorkstateag.bsky.social · 1d

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system.

I am not fearful — I am fearless.

We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

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Kindra Cotton @kindracotton.com · 1d

I sometimes find "nice" and "kind" to be at odds. Nice requires a level of fakeness and veneer of politeness/respectability that simply isn't possible to deliver if your goal is to be kind, in most cases.

I often think of "Minnesota Nice" when I think of niceness. It's truly NASTY WORK! 😒

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

RFK Jr on Tylenol and autism: "It is not proof. We're doing the studies to make the proof."

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1d

The relationship between segregation and racial violence is empirically validated! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Racial Segregation and Southern Lynching | Social Science History | Cambridge Core

Racial Segregation and Southern Lynching - Volume 42 Issue 4

www.cambridge.org

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump: "We'll be making cuts that will be permanent. And we're only going to cut Democrat programs. I hate to tell you."

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Indigo Wendigo @obdurodon.bsky.social · 1d

You keep on using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means. In less jovial terms, don't make up definitions to suit your faltering argument.

dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/e...

segregation

1. the policy of keeping one group of people apart from another and treating…

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1d

We do a deep disservice to this history by conflating animus with the social system.
People have no idea how much racial debasement and dehumanization was consumption. It was something created and consumed by white supremacists.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1d

The call for the state to mass execute Black men is deliberate. Racial misandry as policy has implications for the lives of Black men. This discourse is something the work of @proftjcurry.bsky.social has been writing about for years. His work speaks to this moment. www.theroot.com/why-this-whi...

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1d

I know @proftjcurry.bsky.social has been speaking about this racial misandry for more than a decade. The call for the state to execute Black men as a necessary societal goal is implicit in a lot of policy we see today.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1d

This call for the state to mass execute Black men is not accidental. Racial misandry as policy has implications for the lives of Black men. This discourse is something the work of @proftjcurry.bsky.social has been writing about for years. Read his work. www.theroot.com/why-this-whi...

Utah Pastor Seeks to Target Black Youth Using Biblical Old Testament Law

This far-right pastor is openly calling for the execution of “rebellious” Black youth, using biblical law to justify what is essentially state-backed violence.

www.theroot.com

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Anna Gifty @itsafronomics.bsky.social · 2d

A loud reminder that this administration wants to bring back SEGREGATION as @victorerikray.bsky.social has pointed out and they're starting within the administration.

A literal page out of Woodrow Wilson's playbook. #blacksky #news

Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration

www.nytimes.com

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Fred Wellman @fpwellman.bsky.social · 2d

This is wrong on every level. It’s a rigorous process that can take years. Just because a small number of rotten people faked being blind or paralyzed doesn’t mean the system should be gutted or over 9 million veterans getting benefits smeared. This is so dam irresponsible of WaPo.

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2d

I believe what you are describing is the reality of Black people’s existence in America. This is an old idea in Black economic thought. See “A Nation of Laws, and Race Laws” by Nina Banks &
Warren C. Whatley in JEL. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

A Nation of Laws, and Race Laws

(June 2022) - This article reviews the history of race laws in the United States as distinct from the rule of law, an idea found in the writing and speeches of Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander, the firs...

www.aeaweb.org

Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2d

This makes total sense in light of American history. Whether people agree with an administration’s policies typically depends on who they are enforced upon. Since this administration is targeting “Democratic cities” Republicans largely approve.

Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2d

“This is a manifestation of what I call effigy politics. It’s eschews the work of democracy in favor of highly visible moments of symbolic dominance. It builds nothing. It only burns down.”

-Cassie Pritchard

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 2d

GOP Rep. Mike Lawler and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries get into it outside a news conference at the Capitol

(video via Rachel Schilke)

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 2d

Just openly cheering the destruction of any representation of gay people in public space. They think their power is totally unrestricted, and the entire country will support them rolling back society to the 1950s, or maybe the 1850s

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