Davon Norris

Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics event featuring a presentation titled “Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence.” Details include date, time, location, and presenter Shay O’Brien, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate. Information about learning more is also provided.

Tomorrow! We're thrilled to welcome @shayobrien.bsky.social, Postdoc @mitshapingwork.bsky.social , to CID as she presents, "Kinship Interlocks: How the Intimate Exchange of Wealth, Status, and Power Generates Upper-Class Persistence.”

Learn more and RSVP: myumi.ch/3RWWp

ISR researcher @jeremylevine.bsky.social studies why victim compensation laws often fail survivors.

His new project evaluates a New York policy change removing the police report requirement to see if it improves access for victims and informs reforms nationwide.

Squad!!!

We also gotta shoutout the baller women up and down the ISR org chart like the trinity running our @umichstonecid.bsky.social: our fearless leader Sasha Killewald @sashakillewald.bsky.social , Melissa Bora keeping everything humming, and Nicole Bonomini broadcasting us to the world!

For the first time, we now know how many Black-owned bookstores exist in the U.S. The National Association of Black Bookstores has released the “first comprehensive national report” on the state of America’s Black-owned bookstores.

There has never been an official, comprehensive record of Black-owned bookstores across the United States — until now

We. Love. To. See. It.

We are pumped to have this paper finally out in these streets!

Hot of the presses research on high-cost alternative credit instruments and the welfare state by Rhodes, Berger, and @umichstonecid.bsky.social associate @davonnorris.bsky.social 👇

Had a conversation about this a few days ago. I am on the side of them being called “boneless wings”!

Great opportunity for folks in these debt streets!

in the 1960s, two species of fish were documented in a university Cuyahoga River water quality survey.

as of today, we've collected more than 70 different species of fish since we started Cuyahoga River survey work in 1990.

This tracks closely with the argument I’ve made about the U.S.: scarcity is litigated, not regulated.

Civil law countries have much more regulation but far fewer lawsuits. The housing crisis isn’t about too many rules; it’s about who can afford to sue over them.

The rule of law can’t survive this

It was just so wonderful.

The set design for this is awesome

Our paper “Inferring fine-grained migration patterns across the United States” is now out in @natcomms.nature.com! We released a new, highly granular migration dataset. 1/9

Consumer Credit and the Incidence of Tariffs: Evidence from the Auto Industry (February 2026) - Captive finance subsidiaries create a channel for trade policy to affect consumer credit. Examining the impact of the Trump administration's metal tariffs on captive automobile lende...

Came across this dope piece by @kwhankins.bsky.social and co-authors. It made me stop packing for vacation. Really interesting stuff that pairs nicely with sociological insights on financialization. I will have to work this into my credit and debt class next year.

www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...

Keeping our work going at the UMich Stone Center!!

This is so good.

Huge!

Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.

If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:

America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.

What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵

Jerome’s in the house!! I said Jerome’s in the house oo ow oo ow!!!

Why Wealth Inequality Matters: A Symposium - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Join us for a series of interdisciplinary discussions on wealth inequality – its origins and political philosophy, its national and global contexts, and its connections…

On 27 January, MIT's new Stone Center will host a symposium (hybrid) on Why Wealth Inequality Matters. See the agenda and register: shapingwork.mit.edu/events/why-w...

An agent of the state murders an American, and government leaders rush to media to call the victim a "domestic terrorist" before any pretense of an investigation. We are so far down the fascist hole.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

I still don't understand when exactly Trump decided Venezuela was the enemy or why.

“I would engage you in a battle of wits but you are clearly unarmed.”

How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little?

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

I swear!!!

Ohio State mascot uses snow to mark an “X” over the Block M in the Michigan end zone with a script Ohio on the background