Guillem Vidal

The Bureau Labor Statistics Jobs Numbers Are Right, We Can Check There is zero reason to question the integrity of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) jobs numbers.

Of course the Bureau of Labor Statistics is right about job growth and Trump is lying, but just in case you wanted to check, you can substack.com/home/post/p-...

The WaPa headline says: 60,000 Gazans were killed. 18,500 of them were children. These are some of their names. Then follows an enormous list of small print names

Thousands of small print names interspersed with some photos of some of the child victims

NEW: 18,500 children have been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza.

The Washington Post has just published every single known name.

A seminal moment.

Chartbook 400: Murder not crisis - Why Israel's starvation of Gaza is exceptional in a global context. For many months, it has been beyond reasonable doubt that the Israeli government, the Israeli military, sections of Israeli politics and society as well as their aiders and abetters abroad, have been ...

“Anyone deflecting from the clear responsibility of the Israeli state for this mass starvation of two million people, anyone resorting to euphemisms about “crises” makes themselves complicit in this historic crime.”

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Daros el placer de leer Libre, de Lea Ypi.

¿Os acordáis cuando subir el SMI iba a hundir la economía y disparar el paro?

Work time reduction via a 4-day workweek finds improvements in workers’ well-being - Nature Human Behaviour Fan et al. find that income-preserving 4-day workweeks boost job satisfaction and mental and physical health, while easing burnout. Gains are partly driven by improvements in work ability, reduced…

L'estudi acadèmic més gran sobre la relació entre setmana laboral de quatre dies i salut analitza 2.900 treballadors i 141 organitzacions. Els beneficis principals són menys fatiga, millora de la qualitat del son i millor rendiment laboral.

Abhijit Banerjee, premio Nobel de Economía : “La inmigración para España ya no es opción, sino necesidad” ¿El mundo es más o menos pobre cada día? Si usted me hubiera hecho esta pregunta hace 25 años, en el 2000, yo no hubiera ni soñado que íbamos a mejorar tanto en tan

“La inmigración para España ya no es opción, sino necesidad” www.lavanguardia.com/lacontra/202...

Caer en la escala social no genera más rechazo cultural hacia los inmigrantes.

Lo que aumenta es el rechazo al sistema: menos confianza política, menos satisfacción con la democracia y más preocupación por el impacto económico de la inmigración.

Caer en la escala social con respecto a los padres aumenta las probabilidades (hasta en un 60%!) de votar a la extrema derecha.

Pero hay algo todavía más interesante en este artículo…

The rent's too high, it's too hot, and no one's getting the glorious green homes we keep hearing about. The market is broken.

In our latest @cplusc.bsky.social report, we show how green industrial policy could deliver affordable, green homes for all.
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El Ingreso Mínimo Vital reduce un 12% la probabilidad de trabajar, alerta la Autoridad Fiscal La Autoridad Independiente de Responsabilidad Fiscal (Airef) detecta, un año más, problemas estructurales en el despliegue y alcance del Ingreso Mínimo Vital. El

Dicho de otro modo: el IMV permite rechazar trabajos precarios. Bien.

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For SD Parties this means that as long as their program is economically to the left, it does not matter much to working class voters what it includes culturally e.g. on immigration. In contrast, educated middle class voters will punish a program for being less culturally progressive.

En los últimos meses hay un debate sobre si el mundo se está calentando más rápido en la última década.

Aquí @hausfath.bsky.social recopila toda la evidencia que señala que muy probablemente sea así y el cambio climático se esté acelerando.

www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-great-...

Esto es muy grave. Ya es hora de que la gente de izquierdas que estudió en la concertada defienda la pública y deje de decir que "su colegio era distinto porque era progresista".

La concertada es una fábrica de segregación social, sea una cooperativa Montessori o un colegio de curas.

How did Spain come to be the only nation holding firm on its aid spending? | Ana Carbajosa By refusing to slash funding to poorer nations, Spain became an outlier in the new world disorder. Next week it hosts a UN summit in Seville to prove it

How did Spain come to be the only nation holding firm on its aid spending? | Ana Carbajosa

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Pedro Salas-Rojo, Carlos J. Gil-Hernández, Guillem Vidal-Lorda, and Davide Villani have won the Aldi Hagenaars Memorial Award for their paper 'Wealth Inequality and Stratification by Social Classes in 21st-Century Europe.'

Congratulations to the authors for their recognition!

Thanks @psalasr.bsky.social & #DIGCLASS (@guillemvidal.me & D.Villani) for the @lisdata.bsky.social Award! Wealth is stratified by class💸—Class isn't dead 🧟

📝Article @socialindicators.bsky.social: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
📰Post @lseinequalities.bsky.social: blogs.lse.ac.uk/inequalities...

Para hacernos una idea de lo que implica hacer una campaña en EEUU. Y ganársela al tipo que tiene 26 millones de dólares más de presupuesto que tú.

Trump shares a message from NATO’s Rutte

Five things to remember about war:

Bologna?

“Estem en una transició d’un model de beneficència cap a un model de drets.”

Una buena noticia.

Good institutions won’t fix broken politics Without political consensus, hawkish central banks and balanced budgets will not bring economic stability

R. Rajan: "Institutions do not assure countries a ticket to nirvana — and they cannot create political consensus. That requires citizens to believe economic outcomes are fair. This necessitates structural reforms that enhance opportunities for those falling behind"

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“Los orígenes sociales explican alrededor del 20% de la transmisión de los resultados socioeconómicos”

Más de 18.000 personas se manifiestan en Barcelona para reclamar el fin del "genocidio" en Palestina Los convocantes a la acción han exigido al Gobierno español que decrete el embargo de armas a Israel mediante un decreto ley que rompa relaciones con Tel-Aviv

Más de 18.000 personas se manifiestan en Barcelona para reclamar el fin del “genocidio” en Palestina

Folks, CBO estimate of the distributional effect of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is out: www.cbo.gov/system/files...

It's grotesque

No country has ever been destroyed by migrants just wanting a better life for their family.

Many though have been destroyed by authoritarianism and fascism.

¡Gracias! Mucho mérito de mis co-autores, la verdad.

Wealth and Income Stratification by Social Class in Five European Countries - Social Indicators Research Wealth is a central determinant of life chances and intergenerational status persistence in modern societies. Despite increasing attention, sociologists traditionally overlooked its role in class-base...

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Published article: link.springer.com/article/10.1...