New slate of grants supports dissertation research on policy-relevant employment issues

Congratulations to the 2025 Upjohn Institute Dissertation Research Grant winners:
Charlotte O’Herron, Harvard University
Gonzalo Respighi Grasso, University of California, Santa Cruz
Clinton Rooker, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Duan Zhang, University of Missouri

Work requirements penalize workers in volatile occupations

Congress is considering adding or expanding work requirements for Medicaid and SNAP. But work requirements penalize low-income workers and families, who—not by choice—often experience volatility in employment and work hours. @lizananat.bsky.social, ‪@agpines.bsky.social‬, and Olivia Howard explain:

Friends! As promised, a pre-order link for my book is now available: www.amazon.com/Inherited-In...

Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants

the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever

they aren’t going into universities’ endowments

they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research

🚨 BREAKING: I'm suing #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH

Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸

Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social

Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇

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Trump's attack on Harvard and other universities has nothing to do with fighting antisemitism. A good column from a former president of Harvard Hillel. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025.... Failure to state the obvious is not leadership.

Literally a jaw dropping email from our university president…

This is not simply bending the knee - this is saying the threatened punishments are deserved

Pilkauskas inducted to the National Academy of Social Insurance Natasha Pilkauskas, associate professor of public policy at the Ford School, is one of 64 experts who were inducted into the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) this year. Approved by the NASI...

Some positive news (for me) in a time of just non-stop bad news: fordschool.umich.edu/news/2025/pi...

PAA and the Association of Population Centers express alarm about recent events in which federal agencies have been purging scientific and statistical data from publicly available portals and websites. Read our full statement: www.populationassociation.org/blogs/paa-we...

Our special section drawn from the Festschrift papers in honor of Thomas Kochan@mitsloan.bsky.social & edited by Rose Batt @cornellilr.bsky.social, Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld, Ann Frost & John Paul MacDuffie @uofpenn.bsky.social is out!
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Jobs - The Shift Project Shift is hiring!   Post-Doctoral Research Fellow Opportunity   About the Position Professors Daniel Schneider (Harvard Kennedy School) and David Weil (Brandeis University) are recruiting one full-ti...

David Weil & I are hiring a full-time post-doc to work with us on new strategic enforcement research. Folks interested in computational methods, labor policy, industrial relations, labor economics, etc.. pls apply (+ don't hesitate to get in touch)! Apps due 1/8/24
shift.hks.harvard.edu/about/jobs/

Last week to apply for a Post Doc in Computational Demography with the amazing Ridhi Kashyap here at Oxford! Deadline is November 17th.

Some of the rest of us are fun to hang with here too...

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I'm sad to miss 2023 APPAM @appam.bsky.social, but I'm excited to hype presentations from Clem Aeppli on schedule stability and employee retention at Ikea and Tyler Woods on schedule quality and job upgrading in the service sector during the “Great Resignation”  appam.confex.com/appam/2023/m...