This is a great video overview—from the indispensable @nerd4cities.bsky.social ("CityNerd" on YouTube)—of our research on tax base fragmentation in US metro areas. I particularly appreciate the discussion about fiscal impoverishment in tax-poor jurisdictions. Check it out! youtu.be/hF2gUdG9kU0?...

Check out the incredible video that @nerd4cities.bsky.social made on #TaxBaseFragmentation! www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF2g...

My op-ed in the Boston Globe today. Gifted link below:

My book is on her way into the world! I am proud and grateful. It is about how immigrant women's carework – in families, schools, and communities – weaves together the protections of sanctuary. Pre-orders are available now. If you know someone who might be interested, please share!

This is pretty cool / rewarding to see years of collective research & policy efforts yield some real-world improvements

Thomas Edsall asked me how much Trump's fossil fuel handouts, attacks on cheap-clean-power, and reckless wars are costing the American people. So I sat down and did the math. This year alone, it's on pace to be $1508 per household. That's not going to be popular. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/o...

Today, Amna Akbar interviews @joesoss.bsky.social and @joshpage.bsky.social about their recent work on the predatory dimensions of criminal legal governance.

I’m excited to share a new paper in Nature that shows how large language models launder the strategic rhetoric of authoritarian states. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... A thread.

The revolving door between the private prison industry and DHS continues apace. CoreCivic, GEO Group, and the others are now more than just "partners" of the government. They are the government. #LegalPlunder

I appreciate @anamariecox.com helping to spread this. The more clicks stories like this get, the more I'll be allowed time to do them. Here's another story about a Colombian mother and all the challenging situations faced by people left behind after deportations. share.google/IrhmqQrEjD6V...

Always good to chat with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social and @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social, even if it’s often about difficult subjects, like the Court’s continued assault on the VRA. Check out our conversation: Trump and the Supreme Court Are Crushing Black Political Power newrepublic.com/article/2101...

We are glad to share a new report just released on the experiences of school board members in the diverse California context live-gdtf3.pantheonsite.io/reports/loca.... It's part of the "Getting Down to Facts III" initiative on the state of the state of CA's ed systems. live-gdtf3.pantheonsite.io

Thrilled to be in Minneapolis today to give the closing keynote at the National Head Start Association's conference. I'll discuss challenges in measuring Head Start impact and synthesize high-quality evidence, in conversation with @dpdrew.bsky.social, president @mpr.org and Head Start alumnus.

Heroes in a race against darkness www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A glimpse into what has been lost www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

On Monday, I joined @wbez.org (@npr.org affiliate) to discuss what comes next after the SCOTUS Voting Rights Act decision. We've been here before—Reconstruction, then backlash. Then Civil Rights Movement. Now backlash again. This is not time for despair, but courage. 🎧 www.wbez.org/in-the-loop-...

We could not have done this work outside of our partnerships with tenant organizations--their insights, ideas, and experiences were the basis of our arguments. This research is a product of deeply engaged research that centered the experiences & perspectives of the people w/ the most at stake.

📣📣New publication w/ @ymurad.bsky.social 📣📣 We argue that the racial wealth gap is as much a gap in financial resources as it is a gap in power. Turning attention to power, we posit tenant organizing as pathway to fundamentally alter wealth inequality. Read here 👇🏾 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Our new report with Workshop & @cljeharvard.bsky.social on the strong protections policymakers could put into place to save workers' lives. The question is no longer whether effective protections exist, but whether politicians have the will to stand up to employers lobbying hard to block them.

NEW: UPS & Amazon have been cited for hundreds of safety heat-related violations — with fines exceeding $2 million. These companies would rather spend millions fighting safety rules than spend far less implementing them. Meanwhile workers are dying in their trucks and on their worksites.

Hugely important paper here ⬇️ #EconSky #PolicySky

Powerful, honest and brave 🔥 Read this 🧵 and watch this video from IAS Member and friend @mjcrockett.bsky.social, who uses the occasion of her distinguished @nationalacademies.org award to challenge the uncritical automation of science and the erosion of federal funding for social science research

New webpage with info on The Wage Standard. Includes upcoming and past events, links to media, and writing! arindube.com/the-wage-sta...

It's officially release day for Dangerous Migration. You can still order here www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0... and get 30% off with promo code S26UIP.

Everyone but everyone is talking about how Callais will impact Congress. That makes sense. But our work studying the effects of Shelby County indicate it might just be the tip of the iceberg, with even bigger effects at the local level. New from me and Mike Miller at Slate:

By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.

Thrilled to see this. Thank you to everyone who helped along the way!!!💜💜💜

A bit of history: As SCOTUS rolls back Black political representation and voting rights, I want to stress that this isn’t just about representation. Black political leaders advocate for policies that shift the political discourse and expand policy options. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

The bigger picture: "I should be able to reliably predict what my son’s financial, medical, housing, educational, employment & social opportunities will look like in the next phase of our lives...Instead, I just wait for the next bad news to come from the White House" bsky.app/profile/loll...

This week, the Supreme Court finally killed off the Voting Rights Act of 1965. I've spent the past decade studying the VRA and the attacks on it, so I thought I would offer some historical perspective, and where I think we're headed. This will be a long thread; buckle up.

Yesterday, SCOTUS dramatically narrowed the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana v. Callais. I joined WVON Chicago radio to discuss my research: race-neutral rules don't produce fair outcomes. Opportunity flows through networks, and minorities receive fewer—even in politics. It's not malice. It's math.

a real honor to talk to @dailyyonder.bsky.social who do some of the best reporting around on rural political economy

This is an outstanding essay by Nikole Hannah-Jones @nhannahjones.bsky.social from July 2025–I missed it then. It’s hyper-relevant this morning after Callais. It’s context we need for processing this moment. Gift link. Highlights in 🧵 1/6 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

A recent study to be published in @thejop.bsky.social... concluded that there is “significant and robust evidence” that the racial turnout gap widened in parts of the country that had been covered by the VRA after [Shelby], “translating to hundreds of thousands of uncast ballots by voters of color.”

Our current housing assistance programs only serve a small fraction of the eligible—even as upwards to 2 million children experience homelessness annually and housing costs have rocketed. Trump is about to make the situation so much worse.

New from @pamherd.bsky.social and I: Trump has added work requirements to Medicaid, expanded them in SNAP. Now he is going after public housing. You can do something about it: take 5 mins to write a public comment opposing this change. Instructions enclosed.🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

As we get these decreases in social supports, we need to keep our eye on trends in borrowing and delinquency rates in the coming quarters. This paired with rising costs in different categories are important headwinds for low income household balance sheets

latest CCIS working paper from Neil Gong and colleagues is an ethnographic account of San Diego immigration court in recent months ccis.ucsd.edu/publications...

The work @robertmanduca.bsky.social has been doing the last few years is huge for our understanding of race/place inequality. Just a total rockstar.

How do eviction courts funnel tenants into settlements with landlords that often reproduce housing insecurity? Check out our new article in LSR on the organizational mechanisms that compel settlements in a California eviction court. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

So excited to share that Diversityland: Hiding Racial Inequality in an American Suburb is available for pre-order! Use code UCPSAVE30 to save 30%. www.ucpress.edu/books/divers... @ucpress.bsky.social

Submissions for #2026APPAM close on WEDNESDAY! I would love to see your work submitted to the Housing, Community Development, and Urban Policy area. (Yes, it continues to bug me that the conference theme is "50 States..." and the logo only shows 48, but submit anyway!)

Feels good to be writing again. open.substack.com/pub/deportat...

Research that started in 2023 when I was in the Biden CEA. Not did the 2021 CTC help millions of families, but when it ended families felt worse about their own financial situation AND ALSO about the economy as a whole

The US Administration has proposed a new rule that would bar almost all asylum-seekers from legally working, for at least a decade. My colleagues and I have written and submitted a detailed analysis of how this act will impact the United States economy. 🧵—>

"Some have preferred to leave the country; many have decided they don’t want to come here, even with papers. The psychological, moral, and economic damage will take decades to repair.” El País U.S. has published the official English version of this article by Carla Gloria Colomé, worth a read.

For AU's Professor Ernesto Castañeda, Noem's footprint is significant. “Much of the Latino community in the United States is terrified, depressed and imprisoned, in either detention centers or their apartments and houses."

My latest #research on the impact of anti-Asian violence on mental health among low-income Chinese older adults in NYC, published in Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. Read the paper here: rdcu.be/fb9H9. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cunygcsociology.bsky.social

Pittsburgh's City Council voted unanimously this week to formally codify its refusal to cooperate with federal immigration enforcement. This is bigger than a symbolic gesture, here's what it actually does and why it matters. 🧵