“Dube offers a whole bunch of ideas for how to combat monopsony power…for example, [he] argues we should adopt sectoral bargaining like other industrialized nations, where unions or policymakers set industry-wide minimum pay standards for the workers in whole industries or types of occupations.”
“Monopsony is a cool word for an important idea, especially in labor markets: when employers face limited competition for workers, they gain power to pay them less and treat them worse than they otherwise could.”
For decades, economists gave short shrift to the idea of monopsony — a power employers can have to suppress wages. Now a wave of research suggests it's everywhere, and a new book argues it's key to understanding today's inequality. n.pr/4e0RHRi
Congratulations to you and all the authors, Swathi! 🥳🎊🎉
Congratulations to Nick Newkirk, an amazing graduate student from the lab, on the latest story that supports a model in which helicase-domain methylation and Dicer phosphorylation act together to regulate Dicer conformation and effector recruitment.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Working Families Guarantee. A home you can afford; lower rents, mortgages and utility costs. Healthcare you can rely on; guranateed healthcare for all. A good job to support your family; a national jobs program to place workers in union jobs. Childcare when and were you need it; guaranteed low-cost childcare. Time to spend with your family; 12 weeks of paid family and medical leave. How do we make it happen? Tax the rich and get big money out of politics.
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Sign of where things are going on the left: @workingfamilies.org today is unveiling a policy platform for 2026 that includes a federal jobs program designed in part to combat any AI-related job losses
www.notus.org/2026-electio...
Measles is NOT "just like chickenpox". It can kill years later. This woman was so brave for coming forward with her story.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...
Gisèle Pelicot
Paywall-free link: archive.ph/eWCXO
Locally, parents are pushing back against schools forcing Chromebooks on kids and I agree…
Republicans know they are about to lose the House and are trying to give Big Oil its holy grail: legal immunity from any futures actions that would hold the industry responsible for the climate crisis it knowingly caused and is making worse every day.
climateintegrity.org/news/view/br...
Figure showing number of competitive grants mentioning women from 2015-2025. The number was rising until recently, with a precipitous drop in the last year.
At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years.
Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.”
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hey georgia, today's the last day to register to vote -- even if you THINK you're registered, check your registration! mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/
As with the case led by UCLA workers, it is important to emphasize that our leaders are NOT the ones leading on this. It's the faculty and staff directly affected by the administration who are doing the work to fight it.
My union @uam-umd.bsky.social did such a good job beating our bosses in the statehouse this year that we figured we'd go ahead and beat the White House too.
With allies from across higher ed and the good people at @democracyforward.org we're suing to stop the latest illegal anti-DEI order.
This is a good moment in @donmoyn.bsky.social's dive into the tech broligarchs: They keep talking about the "west" in order to feel like world-historical sages but they're just echoing warmed over white nationalist inanitites at this point:
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...
Never not a good time to rewatch "The Fifth Element"
I could use a picture of your cat companions today, 🙁.
(No dogjackers please)
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Hoon Tau casts a ballot at a polling site at the California Museum in Sacramento on March 5, 2024. Photo by Miguel Gutierrez Jr., CalMatters. HED: Commentary - Voting rights are health rights. That’s why California must reject the SAVE Act
Opinion | People of color, naturalized citizens, and low-income voters are less likely to have birth certificates, passports, or other ID that the SAVE Act would require. cal.news/42i2tv9
📝 R. David Rebanal and Shaina Sta. Cruz
📷️ Miguel Gutierrez Jr.
President Donald Trump’s second Cabinet was never exceptionally diverse from the start. And in the past two months, three women have been fired or resigned. https://bit.ly/4mMoUCq
Yesterday was the anniversary of Freddie Gray's death. I published a book in 2023 that includes never released evidence of his cause of death and how it was covered-up.
I offer a free PDF copy of my book to anyone interested! Please email me. just3003@gmail.com
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Like I’ve seen opportunities pop up from foundations and other places which are nice to see, but this doesn’t change that universities have built their pipeline for bringing in early-career faculty through K awards.
There’s no current adequate replacement, and it’s increasingly more competitive.
I've been in training full time for the past 12 years.
I need one of these grants to start my academic career.
The current administration could support my research for the next millennium with a small fraction of what they have stolen from the American people.
Act like they have a 20-seat margin in the Senate and a 75-seat margin in the House.
