Troy Tassier
@troytassier.bsky.social
Public health, health equity, economic inequality, complex systems, social networks
Economist at Fordham
Author: The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus: How Our Unequal Society Fails Us during Outbreaks (JHU Press)
Book webpage: troytassier.com
Economist at Fordham
Author: The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus: How Our Unequal Society Fails Us during Outbreaks (JHU Press)
Book webpage: troytassier.com
Everyone has heard the phrase "it's not what you know but who you know." However, what you know is often tangled up in who you know and vice versa. Interesting paper on social mobility and these issues in the pics.
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Everyone has heard the phrase "it's not what you know but who you know." However, what you know is often tangled up in who you know and vice versa. Interesting paper on social mobility and these issues in the pics.
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It really seems like this administration is trying to eliminate the field of public health. MPHs and DrPHs will no longer be considered "professional degrees" by the DOE and, therefore, will face limits to accessing federal student loans.
aspph.org/department-o...
aspph.org/department-o...
Department of Education Proposal Excludes Public Health Degrees from “Professional Degree” Definition
Discover the new results and implications of Dept of Ed consensus regarding professional degree programs and public health education.
aspph.org
November 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
It really seems like this administration is trying to eliminate the field of public health. MPHs and DrPHs will no longer be considered "professional degrees" by the DOE and, therefore, will face limits to accessing federal student loans.
aspph.org/department-o...
aspph.org/department-o...
Speechless!
wtf! 😳
wtf! 😳
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Speechless!
wtf! 😳
wtf! 😳
Uniformed guess: if something hurts President Trump politically in the Epstein scandal, it won’t be about sex. He’s survived too many of those scandals already. Instead, it’ll be about financial crimes and money laundering. This could be start of a thread that unravels everything.
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Wyden Presses for Investigation Into JPMorgan Chase and Epstein
www.nytimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Uniformed guess: if something hurts President Trump politically in the Epstein scandal, it won’t be about sex. He’s survived too many of those scandals already. Instead, it’ll be about financial crimes and money laundering. This could be start of a thread that unravels everything.
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All those “manly” manufacturing, mining, and warehouse type jobs are coming back home, just like the President promised.
Winning like we’ve never won before.
Winning like we’ve never won before.
November 20, 2025 at 6:35 PM
All those “manly” manufacturing, mining, and warehouse type jobs are coming back home, just like the President promised.
Winning like we’ve never won before.
Winning like we’ve never won before.
I know this may be awkward, but when your young adult kids come home for the holidays, give them a dose of Narcan to keep in their school or work bags or in their medicine cabinet. It’s cheap, easy to use, and widely available. You never know whose life may be saved.
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November 20, 2025 at 1:31 PM
I know this may be awkward, but when your young adult kids come home for the holidays, give them a dose of Narcan to keep in their school or work bags or in their medicine cabinet. It’s cheap, easy to use, and widely available. You never know whose life may be saved.
Ugh!
Glacial calving refers to an incident where large chunks of ice break off a glacier and fall into the water never to be seen again.
I feel like we’re entering a world of Truth Calving.
Glacial calving refers to an incident where large chunks of ice break off a glacier and fall into the water never to be seen again.
I feel like we’re entering a world of Truth Calving.
RFK Jr.’s CDC fills its autism webpage with anti-vaxxer talking points
A newly updated webpage on the CDC's site shocked insiders and outsiders alike.
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Ugh!
Glacial calving refers to an incident where large chunks of ice break off a glacier and fall into the water never to be seen again.
I feel like we’re entering a world of Truth Calving.
Glacial calving refers to an incident where large chunks of ice break off a glacier and fall into the water never to be seen again.
I feel like we’re entering a world of Truth Calving.
November 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Brief comments on 50-year home loans & why they may be risky for 1st time home buyers. In short, most 1st time home buyers stay in their home abt 7 yrs. It takes a long time to accrue sig equity w/ a 50-year loan. The equity gained may be so small after 7yrs that they can't afford to move.
What do you get and lose with a 50-year mortgage loan?
Why 50-year home financing is risky for most first-time borrowers.
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Brief comments on 50-year home loans & why they may be risky for 1st time home buyers. In short, most 1st time home buyers stay in their home abt 7 yrs. It takes a long time to accrue sig equity w/ a 50-year loan. The equity gained may be so small after 7yrs that they can't afford to move.
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Still thinking about @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social’s opening speech at the @theunion.org conference on TB
“Poverty is expensive. Food is medicine”
John totally gets what many don’t - TB is not just a medical problem, it is the quintessential biososcial problem that needs bio social solutions
“Poverty is expensive. Food is medicine”
John totally gets what many don’t - TB is not just a medical problem, it is the quintessential biososcial problem that needs bio social solutions
November 19, 2025 at 6:26 AM
Still thinking about @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social’s opening speech at the @theunion.org conference on TB
“Poverty is expensive. Food is medicine”
John totally gets what many don’t - TB is not just a medical problem, it is the quintessential biososcial problem that needs bio social solutions
“Poverty is expensive. Food is medicine”
John totally gets what many don’t - TB is not just a medical problem, it is the quintessential biososcial problem that needs bio social solutions
If you want first person perspective on gun violence from all angles, you need to follow @josiahbates.bsky.social. The story behind his latest project inside.
The story behind Signals
A short film that grew from reporting, friendship, and a passion for filmmaking
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If you want first person perspective on gun violence from all angles, you need to follow @josiahbates.bsky.social. The story behind his latest project inside.
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Slavery’s brutal reality shocked Northerners before the Civil War − and is being whitewashed today by the White House buff.ly/gIyvsT7
Slavery’s brutal reality shocked Northerners before the Civil War − and is being whitewashed today by the White House
Abolitionists used hard facts to counter pro-slavery propaganda, forcing indifferent Americans to face ugly realities.
theconversation.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Slavery’s brutal reality shocked Northerners before the Civil War − and is being whitewashed today by the White House buff.ly/gIyvsT7
“If we measured corporate profits more often & more reliably, we might be getting a story abt inflation centered not on workers’ power to get wage gains but on corp power to get price gains. …might be far more discussion abt what appear to be record profit margins & their effects on prices... “
We get what we measure: Why policymakers overlook profits as the source of inflation
Listen now (6 min) | Why they're intent on reducing jobs and wages instead
open.substack.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
“If we measured corporate profits more often & more reliably, we might be getting a story abt inflation centered not on workers’ power to get wage gains but on corp power to get price gains. …might be far more discussion abt what appear to be record profit margins & their effects on prices... “
21st century version of redlining.
“Whether you want to buy a home or access the stored wealth in the home you already own in Philadelphia, you are disadvantaged in the valuing of the real estate if you are a person of color or if the home is located in a mostly Black or Hispanic neighborhood.”
“Whether you want to buy a home or access the stored wealth in the home you already own in Philadelphia, you are disadvantaged in the valuing of the real estate if you are a person of color or if the home is located in a mostly Black or Hispanic neighborhood.”
Black and Latino homeowners receive lower appraisals than white homeowners for comparable properties, a disparity that blocks access to mortgages and refinancing, and widens the racial wealth gap. buff.ly/dCJEwRX
Black and Latino homeowners in Philly face discrimination when appraisers assess their properties
An unbiased appraisal is key to ensuring that homebuyers and those seeking to refinance a mortgage can do so under fair and equal conditions.
buff.ly
November 17, 2025 at 1:38 PM
21st century version of redlining.
“Whether you want to buy a home or access the stored wealth in the home you already own in Philadelphia, you are disadvantaged in the valuing of the real estate if you are a person of color or if the home is located in a mostly Black or Hispanic neighborhood.”
“Whether you want to buy a home or access the stored wealth in the home you already own in Philadelphia, you are disadvantaged in the valuing of the real estate if you are a person of color or if the home is located in a mostly Black or Hispanic neighborhood.”
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Sharing only because many, many, even most Americans simply have no idea--and they should. Utter failure of our system.
Alan Dershowitz is one of those claiming Epstein was not a pedophile because he pleaded guilty to one count of having sex for money with a 17-year-and-10-month-old person. "That’s not a pedophile." See this important response from Julia Brown, the brave reporter who broke the news on this
November 15, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Sharing only because many, many, even most Americans simply have no idea--and they should. Utter failure of our system.
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Why would any parent subject their child to this?
100,000 kids die every year from measles. And it can cause severe complications even if you survive.
Measles can ravage the immune system and brain, causing long-term damage – a virologist explains
Complications from measles infection are surprisingly common.
theconversation.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Why would any parent subject their child to this?
And the US will be right behind them as we close in on a year of continuous cases.
Figure from @pandemiccenter.bsky.social
Figure from @pandemiccenter.bsky.social
November 15, 2025 at 8:55 PM
And the US will be right behind them as we close in on a year of continuous cases.
Figure from @pandemiccenter.bsky.social
Figure from @pandemiccenter.bsky.social
100,000 kids die every year from measles. And it can cause severe complications even if you survive.
Measles can ravage the immune system and brain, causing long-term damage – a virologist explains
Complications from measles infection are surprisingly common.
theconversation.com
November 15, 2025 at 8:54 PM
100,000 kids die every year from measles. And it can cause severe complications even if you survive.
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November 15, 2025 at 5:19 AM
We need to get over our free-market fetish in the US!
Why do we so often assume that deregulation improves the economy and society?!
Why do we so often assume that deregulation improves the economy and society?!
Government funding bill cuts food safety regulations. See the provisions for yourself www.snopes.com/fact-check/g...
Government funding bill cuts food safety regulations. See the provisions for yourself
The bill prohibited the FDA from enforcing regulations aimed at increasing traceability of the supply chain, among other rules.
www.snopes.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
We need to get over our free-market fetish in the US!
Why do we so often assume that deregulation improves the economy and society?!
Why do we so often assume that deregulation improves the economy and society?!
PBMs have evolved into one of the biggest scams ever perpetrated. The original intent was good, but they evolved into nearly full grift once we allowed them to be owned by what they were supposed to control.
I’m trying. I think they got the message that the biggest rip off in pharmacy is when patients have to pay the full list price during their deductible phase. And to make matters worse, a big chunk of the money goes to the PBMs and insurance companies
@mcuban.bsky.social I saw your senate hearing regarding drug pricing. I appreciate all of your explanations and thank you for fighting a good fight.
November 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
PBMs have evolved into one of the biggest scams ever perpetrated. The original intent was good, but they evolved into nearly full grift once we allowed them to be owned by what they were supposed to control.
November 14, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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UCSD has released a report documenting a “steep decline in the academic preparedness” of its freshmen.
The number of entering students needing remedial math has gone from 1/100 to 1/8. The causes are many, from COVID to admissions policies, etc.
senate.ucsd.edu/media/740347...
The number of entering students needing remedial math has gone from 1/100 to 1/8. The causes are many, from COVID to admissions policies, etc.
senate.ucsd.edu/media/740347...
senate.ucsd.edu
November 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
UCSD has released a report documenting a “steep decline in the academic preparedness” of its freshmen.
The number of entering students needing remedial math has gone from 1/100 to 1/8. The causes are many, from COVID to admissions policies, etc.
senate.ucsd.edu/media/740347...
The number of entering students needing remedial math has gone from 1/100 to 1/8. The causes are many, from COVID to admissions policies, etc.
senate.ucsd.edu/media/740347...
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Over my 2+ decades of university teaching I’ve noticed a decline in ability to do simple algebra. However, this is mind blowing! If this is happening at UCSD, imagine other schools!
Over my 2+ decades of university teaching I’ve noticed a decline in ability to do simple algebra. However, this is mind blowing! If this is happening at UCSD, imagine other schools!
The UCSD math department administered a test to 138 students in a remedial math class, and 25% of them got this question wrong:
November 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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Over my 2+ decades of university teaching I’ve noticed a decline in ability to do simple algebra. However, this is mind blowing! If this is happening at UCSD, imagine other schools!
Over my 2+ decades of university teaching I’ve noticed a decline in ability to do simple algebra. However, this is mind blowing! If this is happening at UCSD, imagine other schools!