Allen Hyde

Cuts to Medicaid will disproportionately hurt people of color and children Cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, sometimes called food stamps) are inevitable if Congress and President Trump continue down the budget path they have laid out....

Cuts to Medicaid will disproportionately hurt people of color and children www.epi.org/blog/medicai...

Truth!

Amazon Doesn’t Want You to Stream This Gripping New Documentary. This Weekend, You Can. Union won raves and an award at Sundance, but executives have been afraid to make it available. Now it is.

I wrote about UNION, the gripping and much-needed documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and why it hasn't gotten a distribution deal (spoiler: Bezos has too much money/power). You can stream it on Gathr this weekend and you should! slate.com/culture/2024...

📣 Call for papers for junior (non-tenured) researchers:

Workshop on “The Impact of Immigration and Refugee Inflows on Host Country Economies”, March 6‐7 in Berlin

Keynote: Anna Maria Mayda (Georgetown University)

Submission Deadline: December 20, 2024
#EconConf #Econsky

Two postdoc opportunities at Cornell with Mui Ho Center for Cities

Post-Doctoral Associate in Urban Climate Mitigation and Adaptation
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Post-Doctoral Associate in Just and Equitable Cities
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Iowa won't participate in US food assistance program for kids this summer Iowa will not participate in a federal program that gives $40 per month to each child in a low-income family over the summer to help with food costs while school is out.

Iowa will not participate in a food assistance program for low-income families to help with child food costs while school is out

“An EBT card does nothing to promote nutrition at a time when childhood obesity has become an epidemic,” the governor said

Early Christmas present, receiving the cover of my forthcoming book with Daniel Jenks, "Reunited: Central American Youth Migration and Family Reunification," coming in 2024 with the Russell Sage Foundation. Available for pre-order www.russellsage.org/publications...

Postdoctoral Associate in Equitable and Open Scholarship, Center for Research on Equitable and Open Scholarship (CREOS), at MIT Libraries. libraries.mit.edu/app/uploads/...
#openscience #PostDoc

Interested in mortality? Apply for a POSTDOC with @drjenndowd.bsky.social. I can confirm that it’s a great team & research community!

🗓️: deadline 25 Jan
⏳: 3-years
💷: Grade 7 (£36,024-£44,263)
🧐: investigate the drivers of population mortality!
📍: Oxford, Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science

That is very strange, especially for upper-level students. But times have indeed changed. At UConn, I taught writing intensive courses, and students had to write at least 15 pages of revised writing. I typically broke them up into a 5-7 page paper and then a 10-12 page paper.

From my colleagues:

“What has happened at Penn is indicative of a larger, coordinated attack on higher education. Their goal is to suppress freedom to teach, conduct research, learn, and engage in political dissent at universities and colleges across the United States. We cannot let them succeed.”

Hey, I finally made a profile on here. I’m counting this as “not work” during the holiday break.