Troy Tassier

💯 and heaven forbid upper level management makes less than 7 figures!

Seeing lots of folks on the right claiming “ghetto” (their word) people need to get jobs and get off snap benefits, as if poverty was primarily an urban unemployment issue. Short response, it isn’t. A couple of educational graphs below.

The fact that 40 MILLION Americans need help to just buy food says everything you need to know about the people running this country.

Napoleon’s Unexpected and Deadly Foe Disease not cannon balls and bullets was responsible for two of his most important defeats.

Thanks for the link. Interesting stuff. As an aside that might be interesting to those reading, Napoleon lost to disease in Haiti too. Yellow fever did in his bid to re-establish a foothold in N America and led to the Louisiana purchase.

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Napoleon’s Unexpected and Deadly Foe Disease not cannon balls and bullets was responsible for two of his most important defeats.

Thanks for the link. Interesting stuff. As an aside that might be interesting to those reading, Napoleon lost to disease in Haiti too. Yellow fever did in his bid to re-establish a foothold in N America and led to the Louisiana purchase.

open.substack.com/pub/troytass...

Alternate for double jeopardy, “who’s never done ANY childcare?”

So many things to choose from here, but I’ll pick “who has never had to take time off work to take their child to the pediatrician for $500, Alex.”

So many things to choose from here, but I’ll pick “who has never had to take time off work to take their child to the pediatrician for $500, Alex.”

Wanted to see it this weekend but had family obligations. Soon! 🤞

The tragic history behind Springsteen’s darkest album that inspired new biopic In ‘Deliver Me From Nowhere’, Jeremy Allen White plays Bruce Springsteen during the writing of ‘Nebraska.’ Kevin E G Perry looks back at the creation of a haunting record that many, including Springst...

Haven’t seen the film yet, but good backstory here.

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We tell our students looking for jobs to have their elevator pitch at the ready. But we need to emphasize it needs to be about “why it matters.” That’s how you hook people. Many people frame their pitch abt what they’ve done bc “why it matters” is obvious to them, but it won’t be obvious to others

Troy Tassier (@troytassier) Lots of good advice inside but this sticks out and is great advice for pitching projects or looking for jobs. “One line that creates curiosity. One line to hook their imagination. One line to make t...

Lots of good advice inside but this sticks out whether pitching projects or looking for jobs.

“One line that creates curiosity. One line to hook their imagination. One line to make them want to hear more.”

“You don’t want to summarize the book, you want to tell them why it matters.”1/2

When books were being pulled from Iowa classrooms, these teens started an after-school club to read them Three Iowa City West high schoolers founded a book club that reads some of the country's most frequently banned books after a state law removing books with sexual content was signed in 2023. Two years...

Love it! Future leaders of society.

"The fact that it is so difficult to have a book club where we read banned books feels like exactly why we were doing it," Gooblar-Perovic said. "Because it’s so important.”

Great story @iowapublicradio.org

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Agree. I was just trying to relate how I believe DeSantis is thinking. Not what I think is appropriate. I agree with you 100%!

Lasting change can really only come when politicians who act contrary to the public interest get burned. Badly. The majority of people are sane enough to know that vaccine mandates save lives. It's time for De Santis and his ilk to get a dose of their outrage. Vote them out.

Well, here’s to hoping that Trump & Bessent’s finance/ hedge fund bros just lost millions or billions.

And as an economist I’m trained to initially think that people are responding at least somewhat rationally to information! Fault of the profession! 🤷‍♂️😂

Good points. Would be funny if it wasn’t so sad and tragic. And when you have your state’s surgeon general saying this is the best course of action (an unconscionable act for an md) you can see people following.

2002 is still close enough in time to remember the measles outbreaks of just a decade prior which caused the switch to the 2-dose course of mmr. Most parents of young kids today are too young to remember that, and many weren’t even born.

Thanks!

I agree somewhat. But the slice of pop that this will affect is pretty small. Parents w/ young kids 0-5ish, plus those w/ immunity issues. And they are swamped in #s by the free choice, own the libs, older crowd in FL. So it’s a weird electorate down there. Still if people stand up w/ votes, it ends

I have seen talking heads reference polls that indicate this is unpopular. But I don’t have a source for that.

DeSantis moves to end Florida's childhood vaccination mandates. Doctors brace for impact Florida announced plans to end mandatory vaccination. Now scientists are assessing which of several diseases deadly to children are likely to make a resurgence and when.

Why can't we just say "DeSantis moves to harm & kill children"?

0 sympathy for silent pediatricians noted: "A lot of them don't take a strong stance on whether kids need to be vaccinated...They don't want to lose business. And there are enough anti-vax ppl who can lambaste you on Google...'"🤦
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Our Private School Vaccination Problem Troy Tassier is a professor of economics at Fordham University and the author of The Rich Flee and the Poor Take the Bus: How Our Unequal Society Fails Us during Outbreaks.

In low vax areas, we already know what effect this will have.

DeSantis moves to end Florida's childhood vaccination mandates. Doctors brace for impact Florida announced plans to end mandatory vaccination. Now scientists are assessing which of several diseases deadly to children are likely to make a resurgence and when.

Imagine being this parent.

“He was 7 years old when he contracted the disease, spending six months in a wheelchair.

“The first polio vaccine was licensed in 1955, the year he got sick. "I remember…my mother telling me, 'The line was too long”

DeSantis knows better. Playing politics w/ kids lives.

DeSantis moves to end Florida's childhood vaccination mandates. Doctors brace for impact Florida announced plans to end mandatory vaccination. Now scientists are assessing which of several diseases deadly to children are likely to make a resurgence and when.

"Infectious diseases don't stop with the people who say they are willing to bear the risk," said Meagan Fitzpatrick, a U Maryland vaccinologist. “…with an infectious disease, vaccination is never an individual choice."

Especially for the innocent kids who don’t get to choose-their parents do.

Based on 2023 data
Current administration is cool with seeing 58.3% of recipients ages under 5 to 17 + 60 and up not have needed assistance for food.
#SNAP #UnitedStates #Congress #GovernmentShutdown

SNAP Helps 1.2 Million Veterans With Low Incomes, Including Thousands in Every State About 1.2 million veterans live in households that participate in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as food stamps).[1] Thousands of veterans in every state — who...

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