PERI is proud to help launch the first set of Game Changers: Economic Policies for a Working America. This first wave of proposals explores new approaches to strengthening worker power, expanding care, reforming healthcare, improving immigration policy, and creating better jobs.

Game Changers: Economic Policies for a Working America@gamechangerspolicy.bsky.social · last mo.

Welcome to the official account for Game Changers: Economic Policies for a Working America. This week we're introducing the project and its vision. Next week, we'll begin rolling out the first wave of policy proposals! Learn more: gamechangerspolicy.org

Excited to see the Game Changers policies begin to be released! Nancy Folbre's "Care Package" thoughtfully connects policies that support people across the lifespan and reimagines how the U.S. could support its families. Check it (and the other policy proposals) out below!

Game Changers: Economic Policies for a Working America@gamechangerspolicy.bsky.social · last mo.

The first Game Changers policy proposals are here! Today's releases explore ending profiteering in healthcare, strengthening worker voice, expanding care, reforming immigration policy, and rethinking the workweek. Explore the collection: GameChangersPolicy.org

fresh audio product: • Juliet Schor @julietschor.bsky.social, author of Four Days a Week, on experiments in reducing the workweek • Katherine Moos @katherinemoos.bsky.social and Noé Martin Wiener on overwork among teachers www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

Check out my new paper, co-authored with Noé M. Wiener

A little on the nose for gender & political economy folks ngl

"where are all the protests?" read our series showing the legacy of both the Trump and Biden admins—from BLM in the 2010s, to Standing Rock, to George Floyd, to the Palestine encampments—as protest suppression and criminalization. politicians want to call blocking traffic and masking "terrorism."

Welcome to the United States of Suppression

Our new series documents the recent crackdown on dissent and protests in the U.S.

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Sorry not sorry to play hooky on the #ASSA #EconConf this year. But would love to see @abolisheconomics.bsky.social @shirkandsteal.bsky.social session on "Critical Perspectives on Care Work" if it's going to be livestreamed. Would try to watch it as my kiddos nap

All power to these workers. This is a bold move.

More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2y ago

BREAKING: Amazon workers in NYC are going on strike right before Christmas—the company's busiest time. The first unionized Amazon warehouse is going to shut down in a historic walkout. Workers plan to hit the company where it hurts to win their first union contract. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI1k...

Check out my new working paper, co-authored with Noé M. Wiener. This study is based on four focus group interviews with public school teachers in Massachusetts about reducing work hours as a means of improving their working conditions. @massteacher.bsky.social @neatoday.bsky.social 🧵

Remember @jwmason.bsky.social when we talked about writing a critique of Emily Oster's guides to neoliberal parenting? I actually think that Anna Louie Sussman showed a lot of restraint (more than we would have). www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Emily Oster and the Optimization of Parenting

What gets lost when we approach pregnancy and raising children through data?

thenation.com

Been out of the social media game so long, I had to ask a grad student to re-format the image I wanted to upload for my profile's banner. She was very sweet, and didn't call me grandma once.