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Misty Heggeness @mlheggeness.bsky.social · Apr 8

What is the care economy? It is $4b/day in developmental care, $12b/day in activities that support daily living, and another $4b/day on time caring for a loved ones' health. The equivalent of $20 billion/day of effort is invested in caregiving in the U.S. Check out the details.👇👇👇 #thecareboard

The Care Economy | The Care Board

The Care Board: Visualizing care connections across the U.S. economy. Using data, we reveal the essential role of care in sustaining families, communities, workers, and the broader economy.

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Shawn Fremstad @shawnfremstad.bsky.social · Mar 22

Finally, the research I review uses pre-pandemic data. Crime and incarceration rates have recently decreased, and drug arrests have fallen sharply since 2019, but this may not hold in the current political environment. /FIN.

Shawn Fremstad @shawnfremstad.bsky.social · Mar 22

All that said, people racialized as Black remain disproportionately incarcerated compared to their population share, and the increasing significance of class doesn't negate the continued importance of ethnoracial disparities and racial domination. 9/

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Shawn Fremstad @shawnfremstad.bsky.social · Mar 22

... and proposing that rising violent crime rates, economic restructuring, urban decline, and an incomplete social state contributed to the punitive turn in crime policy. 8/ catalyst-journal.com/2019/12/the-...

The Economic Origins of Mass Incarceration

Mass incarceration is typically understood as a system of race-based social control. Yet this standard story mischaracterizes disparities in US punishment, ignores the sharp rise in violence beginning...

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Shawn Fremstad @shawnfremstad.bsky.social · Mar 22

See also Clegg & Usmani (2019), disputing that the carceral system functions mainly as a race-based social control mechanism ... 7/ catalyst-journal.com/2019/12/the-...

The Economic Origins of Mass Incarceration

Mass incarceration is typically understood as a system of race-based social control. Yet this standard story mischaracterizes disparities in US punishment, ignores the sharp rise in violence beginning...

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Shawn Fremstad @shawnfremstad.bsky.social · Mar 22

Clegg and Usmani (2024) found that adverse local labor market shocks due to increased Chinese exports led to significant increases in total incarceration rates for both Black and White people. 6/ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 6/

Labor markets and incarceration: The China shock to American punishment

Studies have failed to show a positive effect of unemployment on incarceration despite reasons to expect such a relationship. We note that prior estimates have been muddied by the absence of substate...

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Shawn Fremstad @shawnfremstad.bsky.social · Mar 22

Muller and Roehrkasse (2022) observe that Black-White inequality in the prison admission rate peaked in 2000 and then declined, while class inequality in admission, using education as a proxy, has surged for both groups. 5/ escholarship.org/content/qt74...

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Shawn Fremstad @shawnfremstad.bsky.social · Mar 22

Light (2021) finds that the average sentencing difference between Black and White defendants in US federal courts narrowed considerably between 2009 and 2018, especially for drug offenses. 4/ academic.oup.com/sf/article-a...

The Declining Significance of Race in Criminal Sentencing: Evidence from US Federal Courts

Abstract. Racial inequality in sentencing has decreased substantially over the last decade. In 2009, the average sentencing difference between black and wh

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Shawn Fremstad @shawnfremstad.bsky.social · Mar 22

Robey, Massoglia, and Light (2023) highlight a substantial 44 percent decrease in the risk of incarceration for Black men between 1999 and 2019, with the fastest decline among young Black men. 3/ sociology.wisc.edu/2023/07/12/a...

A Generational Shift: Race and the Declining Lifetime Risk of Imprisonment by Jason P. Robey, Michael Massoglia, & Michael T. Light (July 2023)

Demography Abstract: Mass incarceration fundamentally altered the life course for a generation of American men, but sustained declines in imprisonment in recent years raise questions about how incarce...

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Shawn Fremstad @shawnfremstad.bsky.social · Mar 22

Beckett and Brydolf-Horwitz (2020) document significant declines in drug arrests and imprisonment for Black individuals between 2007 and 2018, attributing this partly to increased support for drug policy reform in urban areas. 2/ lsj.washington.edu/sites/lsj/fi...

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Shawn Fremstad @shawnfremstad.bsky.social · Mar 22

This is a new piece from me on the increasing significance of class in arrests and incarceration. 1/ cepr.net/publications...

The Increasing Significance of Class in American Hyperincarceration

The discussion on incarceration and class is crucial. Discover how class disparities influence the criminal justice landscape today.

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Shawn Fremstad @shawnfremstad.bsky.social · Feb 2

“what do you do when the pursuit of middle-range theory feels no more useful than trying to determine how many angels can fit on the head of a pin? My own response has been to zoom out, to shift my research toward the big political economy questions: …” lpeproject.org/blog/in-this...

In This Brave New World, Does Scholarship Still Matter?

If the recent past is no longer a useful guide to seeking change in the present, what good is policy-adjacent scholarship?

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Shawn Fremstad @shawnfremstad.bsky.social · Feb 2

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Shawn Fremstad @shawnfremstad.bsky.social · Jan 30

MPP (marriage promotion and preferences) is the new DEI.

Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein.bsky.social · Jan 30

Trump's Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy just sent out a memo directing staff to "give preference to
communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average"

Shawn Fremstad @shawnfremstad.bsky.social · Dec 16

"Grossman and Hopkins note that today there are more nonprofit employees in the US than there are manufacturing workers, around three million as of 2023." jacobin.com/2024/11/libe...

Liberal Dominance of Cultural Institutions Hurt the Left

A new book, Polarized by Degrees, argues that college-educated voters have come to dominate the Democratic Party and cultural institutions while Americans without a college degree feel increasingly al...

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Shawn Fremstad @shawnfremstad.bsky.social · Dec 14

... and Vivek Chibber's Rescuing Class from the Cultural Turn catalyst-journal.com/2017/11/cult...

Rescuing Class From the Cultural Turn

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Shawn Fremstad @shawnfremstad.bsky.social · Dec 14

Catalyst journal is publishing interesting stuff on class, including sociologist Dylan Riley's piece on Bourdieu's Class Theory ... catalyst-journal.com/2017/11/bour...

Bourdieu’s Class Theory

The Academic as Revolutionary

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Shawn Fremstad @shawnfremstad.bsky.social · Dec 14

I also found Will Atkinson's book Class, from
@politybooks.bsky.social Key Concepts series, very helpful as an overview, especially on Bourdieu's approach to class. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

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Shawn Fremstad @shawnfremstad.bsky.social · Dec 14

Erik Olin Wright's "Understanding Class" (both the 2009 New Left Review piece and the 2015 collection with the same title) is notable for bringing together three of the main approaches (stratification, Weberian, and Marxist) to class. See also his lecture here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmii...

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Jeff Hauser @jeffhauser.bsky.social · Dec 12

Resistance 1.0 didn't fail because it was too reflexively anti-Trump.

Resistance 1.0 did not build sustainable power because it was too formalistic. It was focused on what was aberrant and abhorrent about Trump, rather than the impact of his corruption and incompetence on actual people.

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Shawn Fremstad @shawnfremstad.bsky.social · Dec 14

"Soviet computing was–ironically–severely undermined by a lack of cohesive, collectivist planning...whereas electronics development in Massachusetts and California was lavishly state-funded, leisurely and cooperative. The Bulgarians were fully aware of this..." newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Owen Hatherley, Bulgarian Dreams — Sidecar

On Victor Petrov’s ‘Balkan Cyberia’.

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Regina Baker @rsbaker.bsky.social · Dec 11

Such a telling and important figure illustrating how childcare costs impact inequality!

Pilar Gonalons-Pons @pgonalon.bsky.social · Nov 22

Here's one key finding. It shows that having children has a negative impact on family income and that childcare costs exacerbate this "birth penalty" for women wo college but not for women w college. As childcare prices go up, inequality between the two groups increases ⬆️

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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · Dec 11

After not showing up to votes since Thanksgiving, Senator Sinema finally showed up today only to vote against a nominee she had voted to confirm for the same position just four years ago.

Why show up now? Sinema is currently auditioning for the role of corporate sell-out

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · Dec 11

BREAKING: Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have cast decisive votes against Biden's NLRB nominee. This means the Democrats will not secure control of the national labor regulator through 2026. These two Senators effectively handed Trump control of the board when his term begins.

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Shawn Fremstad @shawnfremstad.bsky.social · Dec 11

"Gamoneda is not a poet of the establishment. Self-taught, working-class, insurgent, an extraordinary voice in post-Civil War Spain. His work is defiant: hermetic, elliptical, fragmented; words have no fixed meaning; readers must accept being cocreators" www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

On Translating Antonio Gamoneda

Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.

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David Dayen @ddayen.bsky.social · Dec 9

NEWS: Sen. Schumer filed cloture on Lauren McFerran for another term on the National Labor Relations Board. If she's confirmed Democrats will maintain a majority on the board until 2026.

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