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🚀 On 19 May we will be launching this year's edition of 'Social Policy in the European Union', our annual review of the previous year's developments in EU #SocialPolicy, published jointly with the European Social Observatory (OSE)

Taking part in #Euricse’s event on “Lavori socialmente utili e inclusione lavorativa”. The report reflects on the effectiveness, impact, and development of labour inclusion policies in Trentino.

#LabourInclusion #SocialPolicy #Trento #SocialEconomy

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Starvation is a Union-Busting Tactic. Not Anymore. | Velocity Economics The word you're looking for is "solidarity," but let me tell you what's actually happening in this room. These aren't abstractions. These are the people whose labor makes everything work — the...

Bernie & Zohran Mamdani launched Union Now, a fund to keep striking workers afloat & break employer starvation tactics.

#Labor #SocialPolicy #VelocityEconomics

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Punishment alone won’t fix youth crime Tougher penalties dominate the politics of youth crime, but without addressing how young people – particularly First Nations children – learn, relate and develop, punishment risks deepening the very problems it seeks to solve.

Tougher penalties are the default response to youth crime.
But without understanding how young people – particularly First Nations children – learn and develop, punishment risks deepening the problem, John Frew writes.
#auspol #YouthJustice #FirstNations #SocialPolicy #Crime

Tax the rich. Then *keep* America building. | Velocity Economics This is the first progressive policy document I've seen that understands the game isn't about winning arguments — it's about breaking the machine that makes losing arguments profitable. The article.....

Rich wrote #Project2029. I added the engine: the 70-90% tax rates that made the 89th Congress possible. #SocialPolicy #Economics #VelocityEconomics

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The fact that organizations for #PhysicianScientists and #PoliticalScience have same exact abbreviation is incredibly confusing. There has to be at least one MD PhD out there whose PhD is in political science right?
(One of my mentors has a PhD in #socialpolicy and a med school friend in #history)

Our new paper is out! We examined fathers' parental leave use in Estonia — a generous system, but without daddy quotas. We found that fathers' leave use is primarily driven by parents' income optimization.
#ParentalLeave #FatherLeave #SocialPolicy #Estonia #GenderEquality #NewPublication

🌍 CRC 1342 Jour Fixe: Professor Sophia Seung-yoon Lee from Chung-Ang University in Seoul will hold a lecture on "Algorithmic Control and Welfare State Drift in South Korea" on Wednesday, April 22, 2 to 4 pm, Room 7.1020, UNICOM. #SocialPolicy Read more: socialpolicydynamics.de/en/

DeSantis Weaponizes Terrorism to Silence Dissent | Velocity Economics Florida just built the infrastructure for a governor to label any organization he doesn't like "terrorist," shut it down, freeze its money, and expel students who supported it — no trial, no...

DeSantis signed a law letting him label any group “terrorist” and shut them down—no court needed. It’s a direct path to silencing dissent, starting with groups like CAIR and chilling free speech on

#Politics #SocialPolicy #VelocityEconomics

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📢 NEWS: We are pleased to announce the relaunch of the CRC 1342 website. 🚀 #SocialPolicy Discover our research, publications, and upcoming events – explore now: www.socialpolicydynamics.de/en/

Press Release Bulletin | 31 March 2026 Welcome to Medianet’s daily media alert featuring a curated list of today's most newsworthy press releases handpicked by our editorial team. Today's highlights Five social media platforms flagged for ...

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#OnlineSafety #PublicHealth #HumanRights #CostOfLiving #Energy #Climate #AI #Superannuation #SocialPolicy #AustralianNews #pressrelease #pressreleasedistribution #australia #australianews #media #journalists

Sanders: Billionaires Are Waging War—And Stealing America. | Velocity Economics This is Bernie Sanders speaking to the third mass mobilization in nine months — each one larger than the last. He's delivering a speech that names exactly what's happening in America right now, and...

Bernie just eviscerated the billionaire class & their trillion-dollar wars—Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg are all named.

#Politics #SocialPolicy #VelocityEconomics

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Check out our guidelines for creating a #PolicyBriefing aimed at policymakers and those making real-world impacts: #SocialPolicy #PolicyMaking

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Rallies planned in thousands of US cities for 'No Kings' protest against Trump | Velocity Economics Saturday, thousands of rallies will hit all 50 states in what organizers hope will be the largest single-day protest in U.S. history. More than 3,200 events planned. Millions expected. The movement...

Massive protests are hitting all 50 states Saturday, aiming for millions against Trump & the war in Iran. #nokings

#Politics #SocialPolicy #VelocityEconomics

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Idaho passes legislation criminalizing transgender use of public bathrooms | Velocity Economics Idaho just made it a felony to use the wrong bathroom. Not a policy violation. Not an administrative fine. A felony. Five years in prison for a second offense. That's the same criminal category as...

Idaho just criminalized being #transgender in public, making it a felony (up to 5 years) for a second bathroom offense. They’re literally equating using the wrong restroom with vehicular manslaughter.

#SocialPolicy #CriminalJustice #VelocityEconomics

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Senate rejects bid to suspend rules and move contraception bill to immediate third reading A motion to suspend the Senate rules and immediately take SB 13-96 (concerning contraception rights) to third reading failed after a contested series of explanations and appeals; the floor announced the final tally as 12 ayes, 16 nays, 2 not voting.

In a dramatic showdown, the Arizona Senate voted down a motion to fast-track a pivotal contraception bill, revealing deep divisions over procedural norms and social policy.

Get the details!

#AZ #CivicAccountability #CitizenPortal #LegislativeProcess #SocialPolicy #ArizonaContraception

CachyOS Censors A Linux distribution just told its users that asking about age verification makes them "radicals" who deserve to be censored. Let me be extremely clear about what happened here: people asked "are you....

CachyOS, a popular #Linux distro, is banning users for simply *asking* about age verification. They claim these questions are “radical” – it’s censorship disguised as moderation.

#Technology #SocialPolicy #VelocityEconomics

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Zohran Mamdani Proves MAGA's A Democratic Socialist mayor just did the thing MAGA claims to want — cut government waste, save millions, make government more efficient — and they're losing their minds because the wrong person did....

NYC's Zohran #Mamdani Proves MAGA's "Fiscal Responsibility" is a Lie

#Politics #SocialPolicy #VelocityEconomics

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This seminar sits at the intersection of environmental science, public health, education, and policy — #Architecture, #Civil & #EnvironmentalEngineering, #PublicHealth & #Epidemiology, #Psychology & #Education, #EnvironmentalScience & #Sustainability, #SocialPolicy & #UrbanPlanning.

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Rethinking East Asia's welfare model: Nan Yang & @stefankuehner.bsky.social's #fsQCA study challenges the Productivist Welfare Capitalism thesis: buff.ly/Pa7icaZ

#WelfareRegimes #SocialPolicy #PoliticalEconomy #Globalisation @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com

NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces initiative to speed affordable housing development | Velocity Economics A socialist mayor just announced he's going to build housing. Not "incentivize developers." Not "study the feasibility." Build actual apartments and actual homes on city-owned land, fast enough that.....

NYC's #Mamdani is actually building 1000+ affordable units—rentals *and* homes—on city land, cutting project timelines to crush developer delays

#Housing #SocialPolicy #VelocityEconomics

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TSA chief says nearly 500 officers have quit, warns travel problems will outlive any shutdown deal | Velocity Economics They've been working without pay for 40 days. Sleeping in their cars. Selling their blood plasma. Taking second jobs. Nearly 500 just said fuck this and quit during this shutdown alone — 1,500 total.....

TSA chief says nearly 500 officers have quit, warns travel problems will outlive any shutdown deal. Trump blames Dems & wants to send in the National Guard while staff sell plasma to survive.

#Politics #SocialPolicy #VelocityEconomics

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A score between 0 and 3. Below 1.0 means your income doesn't cover what it costs to survive. Above 1.0 means it does. Above 3.0 you exit the scale entirely - cost of living is no longer relevant to your daily life. Ontario welfare scores 0.21.
#canada #ontario #economic #socialpolicy #costofliving

Crowded Democratic race for California governor could open door for Republicans | Velocity Economics The Democratic Party is about to get locked out of the governor's race in its safest state because it can't stop cannibalizing itself — and instead of consolidating around someone who can win,...

California Democrats are so busy fighting each other (and spending Tom Steyer’s millions) that they might send two Republicans—including a sheriff seizing ballots—to the general election.

#Politics #SocialPolicy #VelocityEconomics

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Today our colleague Kilian Van Looy presented his research “The Curious Case of the Flexi-Job Scheme in Belgium” at the #CSBLunchSeminar series.

#FlexiJobs #LabourMarket #SocialPolicy #Research

Jewish volunteer ambulances set on fire outside London synagogue in antisemitic attack | Velocity Economics Three people walked up to volunteer ambulances parked outside a synagogue at 1:36 in the morning and set them on fire. The explosions woke the neighborhood. Four of the organization's six ambulances.....

London: masked attackers torched ambulances serving the Jewish community, destroying £500k worth of vehicles.

#CriminalJustice #SocialPolicy #VelocityEconomics

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Huerta's Silence. Trump's Files. America Against Women. | Velocity Economics A woman waited 60 years to say she was raped by the man who built her life's work. Dolores Huerta, 95, a civil rights icon who spent decades organizing farmworkers, finally named what Cesar Chavez...

Dolores Huerta revealed decades-long rape by Cesar Chavez, mirroring Trump’s shielded abuse allegations.

#SocialPolicy #CriminalJustice #VelocityEconomics

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The group behind Project 2025 has a chilling new plan for America’s women | Velocity Economics The Heritage Foundation just published their sequel to Project 2025, and this one drops the pretense entirely. They're not talking about tax policy or regulatory reform anymore. They're explaining,...

The Heritage Foundation, the group behind #Project2025, has a chilling new plan for America’s women. Force women into traditional roles by gutting childcare, attacking divorce rights, and even banning IVF.

#SocialPolicy #Politics #VelocityEconomics

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‘We are not done’: Abughazaleh ends campaign with call to action | Velocity Economics A 26-year-old progressive challenger just lost a congressional primary after AIPAC, dark money groups, and the entire institutional weight of the Democratic establishment came down on her campaign....

AIPAC & the Democratic establishment crushed the 26-year-old progressive, Kat Abughazaleh, but she’s vowing to primary everyone who enabled it.

#Politics #SocialPolicy #VelocityEconomics

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Our March newsletter is out! In this issue, we feature ARK publications, updates and activities, with a focus on minority ethnic people.

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#northernireland #socialscience #SocialPolicy

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