APPAM attendees: Please join us for an APPAM community gathering, “Research on Women's Employment, Economic Wellbeing, and Health During the Period Surrounding Childbirth,” that Jessica Pac and I are organizing. Saturday, November 15 from 8:30am-9:30am in Hyatt Regency Room 702 - Clearwater.

Social workers (and friends) attending @appam.bsky.social in Seattle: we will meet for our annual happy hour on Friday night from 5-7 at Kells' Bar. Be in touch if you need details and share with your students/new colleagues. Looking forward! @arpilarz.bsky.social @calliefreitag.bsky.social

You've probably heard that US fertility is "below replacement level." But what does that actually mean??? Demographers @lesja.bsky.social & others explain the link between birth rates & population growth in this new @ccfamilies.bsky.social brief. contemporaryfamilies.utah.edu/publications...

Childcare is a public good. The return on investment is high (and VERY well-documented). It benefits children, mothers, families, businesses, and the economy. The lack of a robust childcare infrastructure is a choice the U.S. has made. We could make a different one. www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...

The Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work welcomes you to attend our 2025 PhD of Social Welfare Information Session on October 22nd from 12-1pm CST. This is a great opportunity to gain insights and ask questions about the program. Register here: forms.gle/vENsGdGj6fBW...

Please consider submitting an abstract!

“The Price of Parenthood: Childcare Costs and Fertility”, which is @abigaildow.bsky.social’s excellent JMP is a really interesting look at the link between childcare and birthrates

Excited for this paper to be out! Mothers’ work schedules matter for child and family wellbeing, but we know little about how these have changed over time. We find that while, on average, rates of mothers' nonstandard schedules have been stable over time, trends vary substantially across subgroups.

1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans. These are their stories 🧵

Head Start, which serves over 800K children and their families all over the country, was hit hard today by the HHS layoffs. <1% of HS’s annual funding is spent on federal staff. nhsa.org/press_releas...

US faculty and anyone who cares about academic freedom: I urge you to check out @wearehighered.bsky.social * read through compelling letters signed by thousands of faculty * learn about upcoming actions in which you can participate * spread the word to encourage others to get involved, too !

Seven polling sites in Milwaukee ran out of ballots due to "historic turnout" according to city election director. More ballots are being printed and on way. Very important to remind voters that if they're in line when polls close at 8 CT they get to vote. Do not leave. Please spread the word

Did you know that roughly one-third of children and families receiving Head Start services live in the Big Ten states? @arpilarz.bsky.social contributes to a new brief on the benefits of Head Start and how it serves children and families in Big Ten states. btela.osu.edu/our-work/hea...

AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...

As federal research grants continue to be frozen, and NIH staff is being gutted, please note this study was funded by federal research grants, including from NIH. If they continue with staff cuts, and continue to freeze new awards, this is just one example of what we lose.

My new report, on shorter-run economic benefits of Michigan's state pre-K program, was released today by @upjohninstitute.bsky.social . This links to the Research Highlights page, from which you can access the full report: www.upjohn.org/research-hig...

Does anyone have any info on when the SIPP online codebook will be back up? Or happen to have a downloadable version of the codebook? This is for the 2014 and later panels, which only had the online interactive codebook.

this is the development that most fills me with dread www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...

Updates to google doc: a spreadsheet for data at risk (It is a WIP). Info from ICPSR about their efforts. Added headings for accessibility. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

COPAFS (copafs.org) has drafted a letter to Senate and House leadership. You can sign on as an individual or institution. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer. Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵

Associate Prof @arpilarz.bsky.social quoted: “If you’re eligible for a subsidy and there’s just no child care in your community, or no providers that accept subsidies, that’s going to make it a lot harder for you to actually participate in (Wisconsin) Shares."

DATA RELEASE WHEN DATA FEELS SCARCE! Check out data.epi.org -a data repository with 78,000+ series on topics like employment, wages, poverty, and inequality. You can get many measures by gender, race and state! I've been working with our @epi.org team to build this and am so proud of the result

The Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) page of the Population Dynamics Branch of the NICHD is now dead.

🚨BREAKING. 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.

I'm just a simple country public administration professor so maybe smarter people than me can explain if these options can't work and if others are better, but there is no strategy that involves waiting for something bigger than right now.

I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

From a census employee

🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo *rescinding* the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs. Full text, per government source:

For those wondering how to act: Call your reps and demand that they treat this like the utter emergency it is. Numbers: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... And a call script from @celestepewter.bsky.social below

If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.

Really thankful to all of the scientists who made themselves available to talk to me about the unprecedented situation at NIH. I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Nice piece from Theda Skocpol. How to Take Heart From What Really Worked in the First Resistance newrepublic.com/article/1905... via @newrepublic.com

If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you

#RPVSky One of the first things I teach my students *and* my thesis advisees is how to develop a writing practice. Perhaps the most challenging thing in the #HiddenCurriculum of being a graduate students, one of the many things I wasn't taught, was the idea of a writing practice, the "how to".

In Washington, DC, a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.

A List of Things People Blamed on Working Women 🧵

My 1st paper on deep canvass organizing to build support for #anticarceral policies is now out in @socservreview.bsky.social ❗❗This was a herculean effort in collaboration with #WP4BL #ShowingUpforRacialJustice & many other organizers in LA. Here's a glimpse of the #FieldExperiment design. (1/7)

I’m going to try to pull together a starter pack for schools of social work this afternoon. I’ve got a very short list at the moment, so if you have any leads please point me in their direction (or just tag them in a reply). Thanks!

Here’s a schools of social work starting pack. Well, it’s really the start of a starter pack, since there aren’t that many folks on there yet. But I’ll update it as more institutions sign up.

Excited for this super important line of research from the brilliant @arpilarz.bsky.social and Jessica Pac!

Interested in inequality research? Here is a starter pack containing research centers / institutes / organizations dedicated to the study of socioeconomic inequality. Time seemed ripe as, finally, organizations are moving to Bluesky. Let me know if others should be added. go.bsky.app/5daYr6v

I need an indefinite break from podcasts about the election. What are you listening to that you would recommend? I'm partial to narrative podcasts with dazzling storytelling ("S-Town," "Bear Brook," "In the Dark") but I know those are far and few between these days.

This is going to be so good. @arpilarz.bsky.social is brilliant-- can't wait to watch!

Work-family balance begins before childbirth—work-family policies should, too. In this talk, I argue that we need more robust policy supports during pregnancy to protect women’s economic wellbeing and health and that of their unborn children. 1/7

Here are some of the points I made 🧵

Wow--we went from ~1K follows to over 2K in just a few days! Please help us expand our reach by sharing IRP's work to produce & disseminate rigorous evidence to inform policies & programs to combat poverty, inequality, and their effects in the United States. Thanks for the boost! www.irp.wisc.edu

I made a Starter Pack! But I got tired after 70 names. Intended to be inclusive of the #work-family adjacent and interdisciplinary Reply if you'd like to be added and please RT @wfrn.bsky.social @cwfjournal.bsky.social go.bsky.app/63Jq944 #Sociology #Demography #hdfs #PoliSky #academicsky

I quit a great tenured R1 job to work at Upjohn. Because this job is even better for me. If doing research & policy work **of your own choice** full-time appeals to you, consider applying. If you have questions, reach out.

ELECTION DAY STRIKE: We are back out on the picket line today. We know this is a hard day to be on strike for our members but we want to be clear: We are here because of the decisions of @nytimes.com management. #SolidarityStreak #BreakMyStreak #UnionStrong #UnionMadeNYC #Strike #Election2024