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Jessica Lussenhop @jlussenhop.bsky.social · Jul 29

"He wants the world to know what happened to him in the Salvadoran prison — daily beatings, humiliation, psychological abuse. 'There is no reason for what I went through,” he said. “I didn’t deserve that.'" A haunting dispatch from @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/vene...

He Was Asked About His Tattoos and a TikTok Video in Court. Five Days Later, He Was in a Salvadoran Prison.

Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. After his release, he says he wants the world to ...

www.propublica.org

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PennLDI @pennldi.bsky.social · Jun 27

Who provides care in the U.S.—and how has it changed over 50 years? A new study by LDI Fellow @pgonalon.bsky.social reveals key trends in paid and unpaid caregiving, highlighting persistent gender and racial disparities.
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Who Cares? Study Reveals 50 Years of U.S. Caregiving Trends

As debates continue over paid leave, child care, long-term care, and workplace flexibility in U.S. policy discussions, a fundamental question often gets overlooked: Who is doing the care work, and how...

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Population Studies Center @pennpsc.bsky.social · Jul 10

New paper in @readdemography.bsky.social by @pgonalon.bsky.social & @z-ansari-thomas.bsky.social

The Social Division of Care Work Time Over Half a Century

READ IT HERE
bit.ly/3F16LiB

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Population Aging Research Center @pennaging.bsky.social · Jul 15

➡️ Who Cares? Study Reveals 50 Years of U.S. Caregiving Trends

Research by PARC Research Associate Pilar Gonalons-Pons @pgonalon.bsky.social featured in @pennldi.bsky.social Blog Post:
ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...

Read the @readdemography.bsky.social article doi.org/10.1215/0070...

Who Cares? Study Reveals 50 Years of U.S. Caregiving Trends

As debates continue over paid leave, child care, long-term care, and workplace flexibility in U.S. policy discussions, a fundamental question often gets overlooked: Who is doing the care work, and…

ldi.upenn.edu

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Population Aging Research Center @pennaging.bsky.social · Jul 28

💰 The Price of Parenthood 💸

Research by @pgonalon.bsky.social, PARC Research Associate & co-author I. Marinescu, reveals how high childcare costs create family income inequality in the United States
omnia.sas.upenn.edu/story/pilar-...

ASR Journal Article: doi.org/10.1177/0003...

The Price of Parenthood

Research from Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Alber-Klingelhofer Presidential Associate Professor of Sociology, and Ioana Marinescu of Penn’s School of Social Policy and Practice, reveals how high childcare…

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Population Aging Research Center @pennaging.bsky.social · Jul 29

How Medicaid Cuts Could Force Millions Into Nursing Homes

This @pennldi.bsky.social blog post quotes several PARC Research Associates @rachelwerner.bsky.social, @pgonalon.bsky.social, @adrianaperez98.bsky.social, Allison K. Hoffman, and PARC Co-Director Norma B. Coe

How Medicaid Cuts Could Force Millions Into Nursing Homes

Proposed Medicaid cuts in the 2025 Budget Bill could drastically reduce access to home- and community-based care, forcing more Americans into nursing homes and straining families and caregivers.

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Population Aging Research Center @pennaging.bsky.social · Mar 5

Recent Health Services Research paper:

Increasing Expenditures on Home- and Community-Based Services: Do Home Care Workers Benefit?

by Katherine E. M. Miller, Norma B. Coe, Amanda R. Kreider,
Allison K. Hoffman, Katherine Rhode, Pilar Gonalons-Pons
@pgonalon.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/1475...

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · Feb 25

1. We are seeing a massive amount of overcompliance with Trump EOs. Nonprofits across the board are erasing transgender people from their websites.

Mira Lazine reports on several that have made the decision to do so in her latest piece.

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Several Nonprofits Overcomply With Trump EOs, Erase Trans People From Websites

Organizations such as the Boys and Girls Club of America, the Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children are among dozens erasing trans people.

www.erininthemorning.com

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Nelson Flores @nelsonlflores.bsky.social · Feb 22

Of course it is not the most elite institutions with the most resources fighting back. It is those with the fewest resources who serve the most marginalized populations. For these institutions DEI is not an optional add-on but their entire mission.

Crystal Fleming クリスタル @alwaystheself.bsky.social · Feb 18

An inspiring article on courageous community college leaders who are *publicly* organizing and standing up against DEI attacks.. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Grassroots college leader group resists anti-DEI legislation

Education for All, a grassroots network of mostly community college leaders, is spreading strategies for how to resist anti-DEI bills and rhetoric.

www.insidehighered.com

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Feb 21

This is a challenging book at a challenging time, but for feminists like me who tend to repudiate TERFism as "not real feminism", it's an important push to grapple honestly with history and be clearsighted about the nature of our current opponents.

It is, Sophie says, "a love letter to feminism".

‘I won’t cede the ground’: Sophie Lewis wants feminists to know their enemies – even if they’re other feminists

In a new book, Enemy Feminisms, the scholar traces a line from reactionary tendencies in history to anti-trans feminists enabling the far right today

www.theguardian.com

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · Feb 2

I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.

www.nytimes.com

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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · Jan 24

Delighted to be featured in this great WP piece by @andrewvandam.bsky.social today:

"‘Kindergarten Cop’ lied to us. This is the real single-parent capital of America"

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

(Don't know why a sea lions image came up here! 🦭🤷🏾‍♀️ 😂)

#sociologysky #policysky

Column | ‘Kindergarten Cop’ lied to us. This is the real single-parent capital of America.

The movie casts Astoria, Oregon, as “the single-parent capital of America.” That can’t possibly be true, can it? Let’s look at the data!

www.washingtonpost.com

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johnedwinmason @johnedwinmason.bsky.social · Dec 28

All the soldiers are white—in every photo you've seen of the liberation of Paris in 1944. Yet African colonial soldiers made up 2/3rds of Free French forces & tens of thousands of African American troops fought in France. US & UK commanders insisted—no Blacks allowed.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/...

The black and white photo shows a large phalanx of white American soldiers marching down the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, in August 1944, during the military parade that marked the liberation of Paris.

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Pilar Gonalons-Pons @pgonalon.bsky.social · Dec 20

Aw, thank you for sharing and for the kind words Caity!

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Ioana Marinescu @imarinescu.bsky.social · Dec 11

🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Co-authored with Jose Azar: Chapter 10 - Monopsony Power in the Labor Market, in the Handbook of Labor Economics. doi.org/10.1016/bs.h... Honored to contribute to this series that inspired me as a young researcher! 🙌 #EconSky 🧵

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Pilar Gonalons-Pons @pgonalon.bsky.social · Dec 11

Thanks my dear!! 💚💚

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PennLDI @pennldi.bsky.social · Dec 11

In the midst of the urgent need for home health care workers, LDI Fellow @pgonalon.bsky.social & colleagues found that as state Medicaid spending for home-based services increased, home care worker wages remained stuck.

She unpacks what these findings mean here:
ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...

Wages Stagnate as Medicaid Home Care Spending Rises

A study found that as state Medicaid spending for home-based services increased, home care worker wages remained stuck in the $11-$12 an hour range.

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Julia Serano @juliaserano.bsky.social · Dec 2

since the US v Skrmetti #SCOTUS case is this week, I thought I'd share this 🧵 of excerpts from my essay "Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation of Studies" (no paywall). the essay provides...
juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...

Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation…

NOTE: this essay is a 15 minute read. If it’s listed as longer than that, it’s because it contains a list of over 100 references at the…

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Mia Brett @queenmab.bsky.social · Nov 29

So many of us have been screaming about the online radicalization of young (white) men. Misogyny & “trolling” are gateways that shouldn’t be dismissed

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Nov 29

"How do you make ‘strong’ men? According to the right, it’s by making them cruel. “Owning the libs” isn’t just entertainment and sport, it’s important psychological training for the civil war they believe is to come."

www.skeptic.org.uk/2024/11/the-...

The meaning crisis, and how we rescue young men from reactionary politics

In the recent US election, male voters overwhelmingly voted for Trump – because he offered them the illusion of meaning in a world where their position is uncertain

www.skeptic.org.uk

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Shawn Fremstad @shawnfremstad.bsky.social · Nov 26

Great piece from @rachelmcohen.bsky.social. I'm with Bruenig on this: "the technical fix is to just tax everyone on their personal income rather than using household income", but would also add that our system (and many proposed reforms) create marriage bonuses.

Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · Nov 26

50 years ago, policymakers worried that welfare benefits were encouraging too many births outside of marriage. Today, some conservatives are making nearly the opposite argument: that government assistance programs are contributing to too few births by penalizing marriage

www.vox.com/policy/38781...

Could tweaks to the tax code lead to more marriages — and more kids?

Some pronatalists say we should end financial penalties for couples who tie the knot.

www.vox.com

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John Graves @johngraves.bsky.social · Nov 25

Two critically important research articles related to this.

One third (!!!!) of the home health and personal care aide workforce is foreign-born.

amandakreider.github.io/in-progress/... (from @amandakreider.bsky.social)

www.nber.org/papers/w30960