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Dr. Trevon D Logan

BREAKING NEWS!! Today

announced another 10 tenure-track faculty positions for the Race, Inclusion and Social Equity (RAISE) initiative. With the 15 positions approved earlier this year, we have identified half of the 50 research positions for RAISE!

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Ohio State News

The 10 newly approved faculty positions to be created under @OhioState’s RAISE initiative will focus on how race & equity issues intersect with criminal justice, STEM education, economic opportunity and engagement with urban communities. news.osu.edu/ohio-state-to-

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@jacobselisabeth

Not a housing expert, but gonna go out on a not-very-dangerous limb here to say that these data on eviction filings bode poorly for low-wage BIPOC workers’ labor market mobility prospects.

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Eviction filings are above historical average in half of the cities that @evictionlab is tracking. Between 2/27 and 3/26—the most recent four-week period for which we have complete data—filings were >100% of normal in 14 cities. They were >150% of normal in four.

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A longer thread for our paper, “Hiring women into senior leadership positions is associated with a reduction in gender stereotypes in organizational language” (out in PNAS): pnas.org/content/119/9/. This is work with

@ashleymartin14

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, and Imrul Huda: 1/n

Hiring women into senior leadership positions is associated with a reduction in gender stereotypes...

Women continue to be underrepresented in leadership positions. This underrepresentation is at least partly driven by gender stereotypes that associ...

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@jacobselisabeth

New

@uscensusbureau

evidence on parental leave for first-time dads! Increase in leave-taking (paid + unpaid) over the last decade, highly-educated dads most likely to take leave + most likely to take paid leave 👀

Leave Usage Following a First Birth Among Men in the United States: Evidence from New Nationally...

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Elisabeth Jacobs

@jacobselisabeth

“Aside from courage, there is no greater input than hope that is required for real, meaningful change. … . Cynicism is the enemy of creativity.”

How Labor Activist Ai-jen Poo Gets It Done

And how she stays hopeful in the face of cynicism.

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Francisca Antman

@FranciscaAntman

Check out the new Equitable Policy Research Lab

led by

! The lab conducts policy-relevant research in service of reducing current and historical inequities. They are also hiring an inaugural Research Assistant Fellow. For more details:

equitablepolicylab.org

Equitable Policy Research Lab

Policy-relevant research to ensure equitable opportunities for all

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Harvard Business Review

Service workers often don’t know how many hours they will receive or what shifts they will be assigned. And it's not only hurting them — it's hurting their companies, too.

Give Service Workers Stable Schedules

Service businesses are notorious for giving their workers unstable schedules — everchanging shifts and hours. This practice has contributed to the Great Resignation. But some companies, including...

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@AlondraNelson46

On 4/7

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will host an inaugural White House Summit on Evidence for Action to share leading practices from Federal Agencies to use research evidence to advance better, more equitable outcomes for all of America. Join us: whitehouse.gov/ostp/events-we

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Elisabeth Jacobs

@jacobselisabeth

Conventional measures of racial income gaps understate inequality: Black hhs pay 2.4% higher prices than white hhs [for identical products], Hispanic households pay 0.8% higher prices. From conference.nber.org/conf_papers/f1, on tap for Fri 4/8

Race + Stratification conference

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Dr. Trevon D Logan

What are you doing next Friday? If you're not planning on attending the @nberpubs Race and Stratification in the Economy Meeting you're missing out! The program is here: nber.org/conferences/wo

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@jacobselisabeth

New evidence re: equitable paid leave policy design, via

@Julia__Goodman

: “When we manipulate UPTAKE so…everyone [takes] the full duration of leave available to them through CA PFL AND we increase wage replacement, the [industry + occupation] gaps completely go away.”

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Our new study on inequities in #PaidFamilyLeave by occupational class and industry sector lead by @Julia__Goodman from @publichealthpdx with Will Dow and Connor Williams from @UCBerkeleySPH is out today in SSM-PH doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmp

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@jacobselisabeth

New survey of over 900 small businesses from

highlights how market structure (especially #monopsony) shapes opportunity: ilsr.org/wp-content/upl

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@jacobselisabeth

Funding opportunity for data-informed efforts to improve community conditions shaped by structural racism + ultimately work toward achieving health equity (from

@urbaninstitute

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) Webinar on 4/3, registration of intent to apply due 4/20

Data to Improve Community Conditions Shaped by Structural Racism

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@jacobselisabeth

“Economics studies topics like inequality, unemployment, good middle class jobs, poverty, access to health & education... What ideas, context, knowledge, questions, answers are we missing by underrepresenting so heavily people with lived experience of these issues?” 🧵:

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**How socioeconomically diverse is the economics profession?** New @PIIE working paper by @SchultzzyRun & myself, building on some stats I showed in an (unexpectedly viral!) Twitter thread in November. 10 Key Facts - and some discussion - below: piie.com/publications/w

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🌟funding alert!🌟 Are you an early career researcher studying the social safety net response during the pandemic??? See 👇👇 for a small research grant program from

@urbaninstitute

and

funded by

Deadline Apr 11

taxpolicycenter.org

The Family Stability and Economic Mobility Research Pilot Project

Issued March 25, 2022 The Urban Institute (Urban), in partnership with UC Berkeley Opportunity Lab, and funder Doris Duke Charitable Foundation (DDCF) are developing a...

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@jacobselisabeth

New recs from DC’s Early Childhood Educator Equitable Compensation Task Force 🎉 It is time to equitably compensate the heroes helping us raise the next generation + facilitating work/life for today’s adults. This report provides a roadmap for progress: lims.dccouncil.us/downloads/LIMS

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Martin Austermuhle

The report talks about how to funnel the tax revenue to child care workers in centers and homes. This table below the types of raises that are being contemplated, though. A teacher with a BA could see almost $30k more a year. A caregiver with HS degree could get $12k more.

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My presentation highlights business case for supporting childcare, from view of enlightened self-interest. This support yields short and long-term benefits, both for individual business & business community. Childcare IS a key part of the local business climate.

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Upjohn Institute

@UpjohnInstitute

This current crisis shouldn’t cause us to overlook the long-run crisis, which is that U.S. childcare and preschool is too high cost yet pays its workers too little to be able to consistently maintain high quality, our @TimBartik writes. upjohn.org/research-highl

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Google search trends over the last year for "Great Resignation" and "Great Upgrade" — two terms for the recent surge in quits and job moves. Search interest peaked in late October, while the quit rate peaked in November & December. Searches most intense in DC, MA, MD, CO & CT.

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Overall, about 40 percent of all working women and 50 percent of women of color are earning less than $15 an hour,

found.

In almost every state, over half of all women of color earn less than a living wage

In almost every state, at least one out of every two women of color is working a low-wage job, according to a new analysis by Oxfam.

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@jacobselisabeth

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@michele_norris

💯 “Balance is a mirage…women earn less for comparable work … and are still responsible for the bulk of hh duties whether they work in or outside the home … . Balance is unrealistic. It’s … a cruel invitation to failure.”

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@michele_norris

My latest column. For women everywhere — Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said the quiet part out loud. The juggle is real and it’s really hard. washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/

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@jacobselisabeth

From

: 65% of Black workers are STARs (skilled through alternate routes). Ending the reification of degrees over skills in hiring/promotion is part of the path toward an equitable #futureofwork, as is tackling other forms of persistent quiet (+ not-so-quiet) racism.

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IRLE UC Berkeley

IRLE supports rigorous interdisciplinary research projects on topics aligned with our mission. We are inviting applications from

faculty, graduate students and doctoral students for our 2022-2023 awards cycle. Apply by Friday, April 15, 2022.

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Elisabeth Jacobs

@jacobselisabeth

Well-deserved attention for

@WorkRiseNetwork

Leadership Board member

@DarrickHamilton

, a brilliant mind + a genuinely kind human. In brutal times like these, folks like Darrick give me hope 💫 Thank you for all that you do!

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Nina Elizabeth Banks

Wonderful profile of our gem @DarrickHamilton: Darrick Hamilton has spent his life thinking about the U.S. racial wealth gap. Now one of his biggest ideas — baby bonds — is being embraced as a solution to one of America's most persistent problems. bloomberg.com/news/features/ via @BW

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I'll just say that many, many workers I speak with (especially those earning under $20/hr) would strongly disagree with Fed Chair Powell's statement here.

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Wow. Fed Chair Powell just said the US labor market is "tight to an UNHEALTHY level" "Take a look at today’s labor market: What you have is 1.7+ job openings for every unemployed person. That’s a very, very tight labor market. Tight to an unhealthy level, I would say"

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Elisabeth Jacobs

@jacobselisabeth

Contract work is prevalent amongst large employers, which limits who can legally unionize. Unless we change how we treat contract work, we are going to continue to have an imbalance of power between workers + corporations, says

@AnneliseOrleck1

@AspenJobQuality

#talkopportunity

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Elisabeth Jacobs

@jacobselisabeth

"The gig economy is an end-run around the New Deal," designed to exclude workers from labor protections to drive down the cost of labor, says

@AnneliseOrleck1

@AspenJobQuality

#talkopportunity

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Elisabeth Jacobs

@jacobselisabeth

Reminder from

: Current labor law does not cover independent contractors. If your Lyft driver wanted to join or form a union, they would be prohibited by federal law.

@AspenJobQuality

#talkopportunity

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Elisabeth Jacobs

@jacobselisabeth

Power is (arguably) zero-sum. Are employers willing to give up (some) power to workers in order to boost workers' economic security + wellbeing? Which ones? Why? What's going to convince them? (These are not rhetorical questions.)

@AspenJobQuality

#talkopportunity

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Elisabeth Jacobs

@jacobselisabeth

Experimentation with alternatives to unions is great, but to what end? The result needs to be real power for workers, and "the only way I've seen that done is through a collective bargaining contract," says Jennifer Epps.

@AspenJobQuality

#talkopportunity

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Elisabeth Jacobs

@jacobselisabeth

"The future of business lies with CEOs who know how to work collaboratively with unions."

@AspenJobQuality

#talkopportunity

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Elisabeth Jacobs

@jacobselisabeth

CEOs have biases that don't match reality. "The knee-jerk business response is to treat the union as an enemy, and this just isn't going to work going forward." -

@AspenJobQuality

#talkopportunity

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@jacobselisabeth

Jennifer Epps: "Folks who want to organize, particularly folks who have been marginalized - Black and brown workers, women - have to overcome the fear, the challenge of losing a job, of having their families threatened, if they want to organize."

@AspenJobQuality

#talkopportunity

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Elisabeth Jacobs

@jacobselisabeth

Worker centers are places where folks come together to boost power + labor stds in a given sector, for a given population or community, and not just inside the workplace. Worker centers + unions = complements, not substitutes, says Jennifer Epps. #talkopportunity

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Elisabeth Jacobs

@jacobselisabeth

The National Labor Relations Act excluded domestic workers + agricultural workers, thanks to racism + (racist) politics. Today's gender + racial disparities in workers' power, protections, rights, and well-being have deep roots in history. #talkopportunity

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Elisabeth Jacobs

@jacobselisabeth

Essential workers, especially low-wage workers, entered the pandemic without access to paid sick days or paid caregiving leave -- and, for too many, that's still the case today.

@AspenJobQuality

#talkopportunity

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@jacobselisabeth

TODAY! I’m excited to #talkopportunity with

,

, Jennifer Epps,

@AnneliseOrleck1

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about Worker Power and the National Labor Relations Act. Join me for this

@AspenJobQuality

event. March 16 at 2 pm ET (11 am PT).

aspeninstitute.org

Video: Worker Power and the National Labor Relations Act

As we look to shape the future of work, what lessons can we learn from the NLRA’s history, impact and effectiveness today?

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@jacobselisabeth

cc:

@DCPSChancellor

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Benjamin P. Linas

If you are making schools policy, or talking about what we "should" do now, please read this paper. We begin by acknowledging that there must be discussion of when we end masking in schools. Then we use DATA to inform that discussion. ja.ma/3JooOMg via @JAMANetworkOpen

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@jacobselisabeth

SECONDED. Thank you,

+ team

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The newsletter that just arrived in my inbox by my City Councilman @charlesallen = master class in writing to your constituents. So rare for a politician to make me feel genuinely better about how hard things are. (His opening did). Plus so many detailed updates. Bravo

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@jacobselisabeth

Some personal news: Spent my AM trying to post a child/doggo-care job on Care.com after 2+ years of struggling to stay afloat w/o help, system keeps crashing when I try to pay, feels like a metaphor for a particular version of pandemic-era working motherhood.

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