Love to my friends and colleagues born abroad today, you deserve to feel safe and welcome where you are โค๏ธ
22.05.2025 20:29 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@kdoc-writes.bsky.social
Economist @ Program on Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy, Economic Policy Institute Stratification Economics, Political Economy of Health, Philosophy of Econ
Love to my friends and colleagues born abroad today, you deserve to feel safe and welcome where you are โค๏ธ
22.05.2025 20:29 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Fear and cruelty are their goals. It is dangerous to keep treating this administration as legitimate. This is tyranny.
22.05.2025 20:25 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The "why's" are important here: Trump's attacking equity to make it harder to hold the government & corporations accountable for the harm they do, particularly to communities of color.
But don't get it twisted, these actions make us all sicker and less economically secure ๐ท๐
The cuts to #publichealth will not only lead to worse health outcomes in general, it will make health inequities even worse. #healthequity
Trumpโs gutting of public health institutions is setting the stage for our next crisis www.epi.org/blog/trumps-... by @kdoc-writes.bsky.social via @epi.org
These attacks on HHS make it harder to protect workers and their families, and to hold corporations accountable (that's the point!). They're also making us more vulnerable to the next public health and economic crises ๐๐ท
www.epi.org/blog/trumps-...
That ๐ man is manipulating the stock market in real time. Scary
09.04.2025 20:23 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0THE DOUBLE TAX: How Women of Color are Overcharged and Underpaid Coming September 2025 Available for Preorder Portfolio/Penguin
IT'S OFFICIAL. I WROTE MY FIRST BOOK! ๐คฏ
#TheDoubleTax unpacks the cost of being a woman, why the bill runs higher for women of color, and how closing the gaps moves us ALL forward. #blacksky #booksky #econsky
PRE-ORDER NOW: tinyurl.com/doubletax-or...
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What do you get when thousands of federal workers are laid off, millions of borrowers' credit scores drop 100s of points, and billions of dollars of federal funding evaporates over the course of a few months? Idk, but I bet it starts with an 'R'
12.03.2025 21:39 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Remote work doesn't thwart productivity. It boosts focus.
Government workers are 12% more productive when randomly assigned to work from home. They're more efficient where it's quiet.
Most people aren't shirking from home. They're escaping distractions and long commutes.
Reparations? In this economy? Yes, in fact, and now more than ever. Here's the latest from me on why it's critical we don't let the chaos of this political moment cause us to lose sight of our commitments to equity โ๐พ
Why we have to keep talking about reparations in 2025 www.epi.org/blog/reparat...
sites.utulsa.edu/chetu/event/...
Cool new conference for those interested in political economy, keep this on your radar!
list of banned keywords
๐จBREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
04.02.2025 01:26 โ ๐ 28148 ๐ 15956 ๐ฌ 1296 ๐ 3735This Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, remember that children, poverty, and economic freedom were at the heart of Dr. Kingโs โI Have a Dreamโ speech. More than 60 years later, child poverty persistsโespecially for children of color.
www.epi.org/blog/child-p...
Wishing you all a Very Normal, Largely Uneventful 2025, with little to no World Changing Events
(at least one quarter, please?)
Man, Nintendo really did figure out how to stick the landing with Tears. The music ๐ฅน๐ญ
26.12.2024 06:15 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0What he actually wants is for Black children (and adults) to turn off their pain receptors for injustice, so he doesn't have to hear them complaining about it.
Nah.
Stay sensitive to racism, it doesn't have to be inevitable. Calling it out is how we remove racists from the power structure
New in PN: RFK Jr. is a massive public health threat
"Kennedy has articulated a vision that will, if enacted, lead to the deaths of untold numbers of people, many of whom have not even been born. It's difficult to overstate the long-term danger he poses."
Saw this post and was like "Damn it's been years can people let that man rest?? He was the King of Pop ๐ข" #twoamericas
19.11.2024 14:06 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0I sincerely hope all of us on the progressive side of the world are taking rest and restoration seriously as we enter this new era of...chaos, is I guess the best term.
What steps are we taking to stay mentally and spiritually healthy and grounded, in and out of work? #econsky #blacksky
5 days left to get 10 free ebooks from Haymarket
17.11.2024 23:26 โ ๐ 150 ๐ 103 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 1We popping out and showing people on #Blacksky? Bet ๐
In and out of cosplay #bookofclarence
What if, instead of trying to have a productive writing day, you aimed for a satisfying one instead?
16.11.2024 14:40 โ ๐ 7332 ๐ 548 ๐ฌ 185 ๐ 63People of Bluesky, let's get to know each other better- what's your favorite movie?
Quote share your answer on GIF form! Mine was: Black Dynamite ๐งจโ๐พ
Listen bro don't sleep on Arcane!!
17.11.2024 06:11 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I refuse to join Bluesky- I don't want to become part of an Ekko chamber โฑ๏ธ
17.11.2024 05:07 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Glad to have contributed a chapter on stratification economics to this wonderful project- it continues to be relevant today, perhaps even more so! Shoutouts to @itsafronomics.bsky.social for pulling it together ๐ธ๐ฟโ๐พ
17.11.2024 02:51 โ ๐ 9 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Sick of seeing the best of Black America being put in the same sentences as white mediocrity...happened with Kamala, happened with Beyonce, now Iron Mike is getting in the ring with a YouTuber? I'm tired boss ๐ฎโ๐จ
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