Dr. Trevon D Logan
@TrevonDLogan
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ENGIE-Axium Endowed Prof Econ @OhioState, Assoc Dean @ASCatOSU, Co-Dir @AEAMP1. Economic History, Race, Applied Econ, and #LEGOS. #ADOS Tweets=my own
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My mother (a Birmingham native): I just don’t think people understand what it was like. You couldn’t go to a store and try clothes on. You had to measure yourself with a ruler and hope it would fit when you got it home because Black people couldn’t return purchases.
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Just so you know— around 70% of meat packing employees are black or Hispanic. Nearly 50% are immigrants. 15% lack health insurance. Forcing them to work in a pandemic has nothing to do with a “free market” but everything to do with ruthlessness and disregard for human life.
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I haven’t seen any social commentary about the homes these kids come from today…🤷🏾♂️.
SAE vs Sigma Chi in the Ole Miss student section.
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The first 3 digits of your SSN are a regional code. So if you do *anything* with the first number of an SSN you are not doing anything "stochastic," you're picking people by where they were born. These people have no idea how SSN works, they're just talking nonsense.
Vivek: If your SSN ends in an odd, you're out. If it ends in an even you're in. That's 50% cut right there. Of those who remain, if your SSN starts with an even, you're in and if it starts with an odd you're out. That's 75% reduction. This is his plan for government efficiency🤔
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Whenever I hear “they should have gone to trade school” I know you know nothing about predatory schools that saddled students with excessive debt under the pretense of learning marketable trades in a short period of time. They did what you said to do! It’s infuriating.
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One thing that led to the little-discussed defeat of “anti-CRT” bills in Indiana is the fact that the College Board would not certify AP courses in schools adopting such strict and ahistorical curricula. Florida’s recent textbook fiasco may cost them AP status for math courses.
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This police chief said a white 17 year old murdered two people “to resolve a situation” and that “people shouldn’t be out after curfew.” We see how police protect and act as accomplices to white assailants from the start. This is so racist and sick, yet on brand for police.
Chief of Kenosha Police on last nights triple shooting that took 2 lives. #kenoshariots #kenoshaunrest #wisconsin #jakeblake #jacobblake #kenoshaprotests @tmj4 #tmj4
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And we expect people to say something akin to “it wasn’t so bad” or “we survived by faith in ourselves and a better tomorrow” because nobody wants to confront the heinous domestic terrorism that was a a regular feature of everyday like for Black people in this country.
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I wish more economists knew someone who was $27K in debt from culinary school and making $10.50/hr. Or a vet tech student with $19K in loans and earning $31K. But hey, we can’t get economists out of their racially segregated school districts, so this is hopeless.
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Saying "race is socially constructed" (new for Economists!) does not lead anywhere unless you tell us what that social construction does. Money is socially constructed as well, but we know it as a medium of exchange. So what does it mean/do for race to be socially constructed?.
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The news from Milwaukee is deeply troubling. The county is 26% black.
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American democracy is very, very young. It is not even 60 years old. Look at voting registration and voting by race in Mississippi counties in 1946– in some cases no Black people voted. None. When people are nostalgic for the “good old days,” this is what they mean.
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Completely on point. Black cities fund white suburbia through police, teachers, and city employees who live outside of the cities they’re employed in. Black people literally fund the white suburban tax base this way.
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America masquerades its ubiquitously violent, racist history under a story of Black bravery & nobility. It is not noble or brave to be subjected to inhumane racism. America simply refuses to leave us any other options but to endure its latest manifestations, so they lie about it.
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It’s now painfully clear to me that the vast majority of economists have (1) never been poor nor (2) know any poor people. They have imaginary poor people they create hellish stories for. This influences how they speak about (and for!) poor people and what policies they advocate.
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Please stop equating Blackness with suffering, discrimination, and every social ill imaginable. Those are the result of anti-Blackness. Blackness is not the things done to Black people.
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If I seem pessimistic please note: while they were reading the verdict of Derek Chauvin, 15 year old #MakiyahBryant was being shot 4 times by Columbus, Ohio police. A Black child was shot and killed by police today. In my city. It never, ever ends. .
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@ProfessaJay @DaniaFrancis This thread just reinforces how close we are to having our lives taken away for simply existing in this country. It’s infuriating.
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No black students featured in this story. This is how @nytimes knowingly feeds into racist tropes about black students. I’m tired of it! It’s not about doing better, but doing right! . ‘I Put My Work In’: Honest College Applicants Await Their Fates
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Notice that voting restrictions are called a "setback for Democrats" and this Wisconsin policy is all about disenfranchisement. In a democracy, restrictions on voting are. a setback to democracy.
In setback for Democrats, Supreme Court won't let late mail ballots count in Wisconsin via @PeteWilliamsNBC
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Historical wealth capture depleted black wealth. It’s an untold story in economic history. We focus on “skills gaps” but never tell the story of how whites simply stole black wealth—running blacks from their homes and stealing their property.
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It’s unclear how the will play out in states that have passed legislation, but the College Board is clear that they pull AP designation from courses that do not cover required content.
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Time to start naming things as they are. We are currently experiencing a severe, violent, and prolonged White backlash to the protests of the Summer of 2020. It's reach is far and wide, and the same type of White rage America experiences whenever racial issues are made salient.
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But the bottom line is that the “Ivy league” student with a “worthless degree” narrative is far from the norm. There are a lot of trade school students who did what the market told them and they were used by a system. If you’re going to tell the story, at least tell the truth.
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Rural, poor Black folks are poorer than rural whites. Black people are not joining militias. This argument about poverty takes no account of the fact that Black and Brown people live in these same communities but don’t resort to armed insurrection attempts. @gbenga_ajilore.
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Mark my words: The combination of big data, genetic information, and spurious correlation will give give rise to a new wave of eugenics that will be embraced by neoliberals and technocrats, in addition to conservatives. It’s already happening. and black and brown people will pay
“The avg. IQ of a black person is about 20 points lower than the avg. IQ of a white person.” –White nationalist candidate Arthur Jones. “I went to Harvard.” -@MorganRadford. “Alright, and you’ve got a lot of white blood in you, too.” –Jones
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Recall “the habitual be” and how Black people are mocked for a sophisticated linguistic structure that includes a conjugation of the verb “to be” that goes beyond the limits of English and has tangible, identifiable meaning. They use it instead to humiliate our children. 1/N.
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America has an unblemished reputation of erasing race massacres (Tulsa, Elaine, Memphis, Atlanta, East St. Louis, etc. etc. etc.) and other forms of white supremacist violence. They’re erasing the January 6 insurrection the same way and for the same reasons.
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Relative to Whites, Native American women face the highest risk of dying by police hand than any other group of women. We see very little, if any, coverage of Native Americans as victims of police violence. And we need to start talking more about this.
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I never thought I would see this day. .
This is a major statement from the Mississippi Historical Society.
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These schools had very high default rates because students had high debt levels and low wages after graduation, assuming they graduated at all. Programs in veterinary technology, physical therapy, culinary arts, medical transcription etc. could leave you $30K in debt. Easily.
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There is a young Black scholar who needs to hear this truth: Many of the people researching racial inequality are racist and/or anti-Black. You're not imagining any of this. Once you realize this truth so many of the things that frustrate you will make sense. Keep being great.
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When social scientists tell us that violent protests "don't work" or "are ineffective" they seem to forget how effective white political violence has been in history and continues to be. Is it that "violence" doesn't work, or that "black violence" doesn't work? A thread. 1/N.
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It is well established that 30.8% of the free families in the South owned slaves in 1860 (see the US Census). I usually do not comment on this type of foolishness, but today is not your day.
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Looks like all those economists who said “you need to deal with the virus first and foremost” were right.
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“Ban Lynching” is just too divisive. I understand the goals but the slogan hurts us with rural white voters and white suburban women. It might cost us the Senate. Let’s think along the lines of “New, Better Lynching” or “Reformed Lynching with Reallocated Resources for Racists”.
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I'm amazed by the chemical education of people who eat and drink food and beverages with unrecognizable ingredients but won't take the vaccine because they "don't know what's in it." How, may I ask, will an ingredient list help you?.
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I wonder what it is about these flagship public universities founded before Emancipation and their severe under enrollment of Black students.
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Given today’s events, this cartoon from May 20, 1961 is quite appropriate.
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We know the major names like Devry and ITT, but there are many, many more that copied cheaper (but longer duration) community and technical college programs at higher prices and shorter completion times. They sold speed. They also used veterans, which is another story.
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The audacity to draw out the “violent, angry ni**er” trope on a Black man watching a man choked to death by police. The insinuation: Black people have no right to their emotions no matter what people are doing to or around them.
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We are not operating in a free market. So just stop. These are not “voluntary quits” as they are not voluntary and they are not quits. This is putting a gun to the head of the working poor and acting like there’s nothing wrong with this. It’s sick.
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During the family reunion, I walked through downtown Coffeeville, MS with my family, and the history of #segregation & Jim Crow was everywhere. First, a new mural depicts the segregated Hamblett Hotel in town, (long closed). It shows a Black butler attending to White guests 1/N
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Did you know: Black drivers had a difficult time obtaining car insurance because custom dictated that if they were in an accident with a White driver, the White driver never had to pay for damages and the Black driver always paid, regardless of who was at fault. (Mia Bay 2021).
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but we are NOT going to "diversity" and "anti-racist" workshop our way out of systemic racism and white supremacy. It doesn't work that way.
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Black people in the depths of Jim Crow invent yet another iconic and world-imitated American art form (Rock and Roll) and a White man decides that only White men can be the masters of it. This is the psychology of White racism. We see this in the academy as well. It’s sick.
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With @SandyDarity I wrote about how these erased massacres were attempts to rob Black people of wealth and income and criminalize them for daring to be full members of the economy. Eliane, Arkansas in 1919 is one example.
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@ProfessaJay It’s so important to point out that when Black people found ways to build wealth in the past, it was taken from them. The entire idea of merit neglects the extremely large wealth transfers the federal government gave to White people en masse.
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Anyone using traditional labor theory right now is gaslighting you for the explicit purpose of endangering workers lives. These workers must have PPE, frequent testing, sick leave, health insurance, and the right to not return to work due to concerns over their health.
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I think a sociologist needs to offer a course on "basics of racial disparities" for economists. I'm seeing way too many Econs on social media expressing surprise about simple racial disparity facts that, as social scientists, they ought to know.
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It’s important to understand who the “violent protestors” are and their motivation. The cameras are on, and the infiltration is being recorded.
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This is American political economy for the last 40 years—gift fiscal policy to the wealthy which runs up debt and then cry “federal budget constraints” when aid to the poor and unemployed are on the table. This is deliberate and they are intimately related. We predicted this.
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We are either going to engage in a serious conversation about how the story of a “stolen” election is a nakedly racist attack on the legitimacy of Black voters or we’re going to put the entire pundit class out to pasture.
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Hearing people use “free market” rhetoric during a pandemic (mostly libertarians and conservatives) tells you one of the key failures of economics— our models lack context. A working being forced back to work when 20+ million are unemployed is actually Marxian theory at work.
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Lastly, this would be a great time to have a functional Economic Research Service at the USDA, to study our food supply chain and it’s pricing, etc. But this administration killed it last year. So we’re left with less information and fewer options. It’s a deliberate plan.
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This is so disturbing. A Black man loses 22 years of his life for something that never happened and where there was no unanimous verdict.
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Excited to announce that today I begin my tenure as the inaugural North Hall Endowed Chair of Economics @ucsantabarbara! This year I will also serve as the Associate Dean and Faculty Equity Advisor for the Division of Social Sciences in the College of Letters and Science.
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Don’t forget— @MLB was originally racially integrated. They chose to segregate. Moses Walker played in 1884. The league later decided they didn’t want Black players.
Negro League statistics will be integrated into the MLB database beginning tomorrow, per @BNightengale . Josh Gibson will now be MLB's all-time career leader in batting average (.372), slugging percentage (.718) and OPS (1.177)
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Addendum: this is not just about health care. This is also about environmental racism, segregation, employment discrimination, school funding, housing policy, wealth, concentrated poverty, and a host of other racially based policies and legacies.
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Randomization started in 2011 (see below), partly because regional codes leave SSNs vulnerable if you know birthplace or place of naturalization, etc.
Sigh…the first number in your SSN is a three digit regional code, if you were born before 2011. So you’d be kicking people off as a function of where they were born. That is the antithesis of “stochastic” but please, go on….
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More Bad News: Every single person dead from #COVID19 in St. Louis, MO is African American
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We are in a serious hunger crisis in this country. 13% of Ohio adults with children say their children are not getting enough to eat. 25% of food bank are users are first time recipients. This is going to get worse without serious action.
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Ohio's former health director, Amy Acton, resigned after armed protesters went to her home in “protest.” Gov. DeWine’s first choice to replace her wouldn’t take the job because of violent harassment. Last night, shots were fired into the home of a state health official. A mess.
Just after 8 p.m. Saturday, Upper Arlington Police responded to a call about shots being fired into the home of an official at the Ohio Department of Health.
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New Orleans is a #COVID19 hotspot. To pay people $10.25/hr to handle refuse there is a shame. To fire them and replace them with prison labor ($1.33/hr) is immoral. We’re learning every day just low we can go.
Striking garbage workers in New Orleans, making $10.25 an hour, were fired en masse this week. Now, they are being replaced by prison labor.
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This is getting a lot of attention. There is a lot we can learn by being in community with our elders. So much Black history is missing because we have not asked the right questions. This is part of a larger research project:
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I’m STILL waiting for those 10,000 news stories featuring Black voters in the diners of Philly, Detroit, and Milwaukee discussing their thoughts on Republican attempts to disenfranchise them, the white supremacist insurrection, and Biden’s economic recovery package.
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A tactic conservatives typically try with Women of Color 1) nobody can hear you, which is quickly followed by 2) take it down a notch. The racist math doesn’t add up. Built on stereotypes of Black women as loud and rude. It’s 2020, that game is so tired. She wasn’t having it!.
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@RebeccaMtn "Of those who remain, if your social security number *starts* in an even number. ".
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I do not know a single faculty member excited about this academic year. Most are dreading it. Everyone is either nervous, stressed, anxious, or exhausted. And many are a combination of all of that. Please take care of yourselves and prioritize your well-being.
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Today @nhannahjones has a beautiful article on Reparations ('It Is Time for Reparations’) in @NYTmag @nytimes. I want to highlight an important part of the historical Reparations story that is usually hidden from the discussion. A thread. 1/N
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@SteveBHolt Please continue with this project. This agrees with qualitative evidence as well. Are service providers more flexible with people they perceive to be high income? The “I know you’re busy” may be applied selectively. Very interesting.
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Yesterday, I heard a shocking statistic. @OhioState educates more Pell eligible undergraduate students than half of the Ivy League (maybe all?). And our Pell students are not charged tuition on any campus. Public universities are the engine of mobility in American society.
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New work by Paul Rhode establishes that more whites were enslavers than previously believed. "In 1820 and 1830, six-in-ten southerners lived in slave-holding households." This work changes the story of American enslavement in a major way.
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We've reached the point where to get into an Econ PhD program you need a PhD. Everything we're doing on the front end is about access to elite spaces (data, institutions, researchers, programs, etc.). This is a problem for Econ, and these marginal solutions hurt more than help.
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I’m not watching another video of a black man dying a painful death. I will not participate in the gruesome consumption of black male death. Sharing that video does not educate anyone. It commercializes our brutalization for social media. #AhmadArbery.
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Just had this thought about Black names-- we talk about all of the negative racial impacts, but we rarely celebrate the ingenious creativity Black people have expressed through their given names. It's like jazz-- improvisation over the Western naming conventions. It's beautiful.
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History made tonight at Madison Square Garden!! Busta Rhymes came on stage to perform “What’s It Gonna Be?” with Janet Jackson!! First time ever!! He brought her her flowers and a birthday cake. Amazing show. Janet Jackson is truly a legendary performer.
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“My feeling is that white people have a very, very serious problem. And they should start thinking about what they can do about it.” . - Toni Morrison.
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Note that the two white students demanded to be rewarded for taking *less* demanding courses. If this were reversed I seriously doubt the Black students would have been awarded honors. The low standards of white mediocrity strike Black excellence again!
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My brother confirmed that after spending more than an hour on Facetime helping my father reset a password that my dad is doing quite well. My brother, however, needs a strong drink.
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Lots of universities say they want to increase the number of Black faculty on their campus. Black scholars come and leave quickly. Why? The universities are not being honest. If what you're really looking for are *docile* Black scholars, just say so.
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Consider this: In the United States you can have a legal specialty in representing Black families who lost members due to police violence. It's so common for police to kill Black people that you can represent these families as an occupation.
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Most academics I know did not take a vacation this summer. The rush to teach, research, caregiving, and work in a different format made for a harried Autumn. People are close to burning out (if they have not already). Please practice self care and take several days off ASAP.
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We’ve already seen the community outbreaks from food manufacturing plants, and these policies will create even more in many of these rural communities. There is something deeply wrong with this.
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Every time you hear celebration of a Black person "beating the odds" you should think about why and how the odds are so stacked against them. People should not have to traverse unjust systems, and we shouldn't celebrate doing so without talking about how to dismantle them.
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Note: there is little substantive difference between the White parents shouting at school boards over Critical Race Theory and the White patents upset that their Gifted and Talented within-school racial segregation scheme has been exposed.
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The bottom line: Elite private universities do NOT have a land grant mission. They were not created to be engines of social mobility, provide opportunity to disadvantaged students, or serve the broader public. They are exclusive finishing schools. Stop asking dogs to fly. 1/N.
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I promised my nephew a PS5 if he did all of his schoolwork on time--every assignment! I gave it a 3% chance of happening based on his history. He called my bluff, and with distance learning he has time-stamped receipts. Now I must find a PS5. Merry $%&*#!! Christmas. .
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I’m not asking anyone to feel our pain. I am asking people to stop inflicting it.
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USA, 2018: The racial disparities in infant mortality are at antebellum levels. And we know that black mothers in the antebellum era gave birth to some of the smallest babies we’ve ever observed for a human population.
Black infants in America are now more than twice as likely to die as white infants — a racial disparity that is actually wider than in 1850, 15 years before the end of slavery
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I recently received an honorarium. As I always do I gifted it to someone who is in need because most honorariums go to folks who don’t need them, me included for sure. They told me “Thank you so much, Trevon! I’ll be able to pay my rent.” And that just totally broke me.
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Economists often forget that Emancipation was, in fact, a weakening of property rights….
A quote from Dr. Piketty that I disagree with. "The idea that growth can solve the world’s economic woes is “totally insane.” Only a substantial weakening of property rights . can do that."
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I think that if every economist, like millions of Americans, had been living on unemployment benefits since March (where the state individual *maximum* ranges from $235/week in Mississippi to $823/week in Massachusetts), we'd be having entirely different policy discussions. .
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The real story is not Michigan’s DEI offices, it’s the fact that ~10% of Michigan’s students come from the top 1% of the income distribution, 66% of students from the top 20%. Michigan is the LEAST socioeconomically diverse highly selective public university in the United States.
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BIG NEWS: Excited to announce that as of July 1, 2023 I will be the Nevir A. Winner Professor of Afroamerican and African Studies, Economics, and Sociology at the University of Michigan!.
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This is not grammatical standard English, but is part of the grammatical structure of AAVE. English doesn’t have a habitual conjunction of “to be,” but some other languages do. It’s not made up, strange, lazy, nor invalid. It’s language and is easily discerned by its users. 3/N.
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