Harold Pollack
@haroldpollack.bsky.social
University of Chicago Professor. Posts are my own. Reposts do not imply endorsements. Oh--Pay your credit card off in full every month. That's the best risk-free,-tax-free investment available on Planet Earth.
Walking through campus today, I had a random warm memory of my college friend, David Kramer, tragically lost 16yrs ago, when his car was rear-ended by a drunk driver. My friend, you are still so very deeply missed. www.huffpost.com/entry/missin...
Missing a friend, and learning from his example
Missing a friend, and learning from his example
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Pardon the link hijinks. This link should work watermark02.silverchair.com/12757915.pdf...
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Harold Pollack@haroldpollack.bsky.social · 2d agoABLE accounts have such potential to help people w/disabilities. We must address their punishing administrative burdens. "Administrative and Financial Barriers to Using ABLE Accounts for People with Disabilities" Our team in JHPPL. @jhppl.bsky.social watermark02.silverchair.com/12757915.pdf...
ABLE accounts have such potential to help people w/disabilities. We must address their punishing administrative burdens. "Administrative and Financial Barriers to Using ABLE Accounts for People with Disabilities" Our team in JHPPL. @jhppl.bsky.social watermark02.silverchair.com/12757915.pdf...
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I opened my old voicemails and somehow initiated a 5-year-old 14sec message: “Hey it’s Dad, give me a call when you can. I miss talking to you. Take care. Bye” Not nearly as much as I miss talking to you, Dad. You are so deeply missed. I so wish we didn't have to say goodbye.
Ted Marmor played a critical role in my career, and that of others. Sad to learn of his passing, Condolences to all who are mourning.
Jon Oberlander@oberlanderunc.bsky.social · last wk.Sad to hear that Ted Marmor has passed away. A pioneer who helped create field of health politics & one of the first US scholars to study Canadian health insurance & advocate for single payer.Ted believed in public policy that embraced social insurance to achieve health & social security for all
Also an enormously influential mentor who left an indelible imprint on the lives and careers of so many, including me. May his memory be a blessing
Myself, Richard Frank and Sherry Glied in @milbankfund.bsky.social: Opening the Door Wider to Community Support of People With Serious Mental Illnesses: What States Can Learn From the IDD Experience. www.milbank.org/quarterly/ar...
Opening the Door Wider to Community Support of People With Serious Mental Illnesses: What States Can Learn From the IDD Experience | Milbank Quarterly
Since the early 1960s, US policymakers have sought to assist persons living with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDDs) and persons living with severe and persistent mental illness (SPMI) to live on a human scale with their clinical and service needs met in their communities.
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I just bought my @UChicagoCrown friend and colleague Curtis McMillen's new book: Brandon and Wilson at the Catch. Congrats, Curtis, on a terrific read. www.amazon.com/dp/B0GZ1WNZ2...
Brandon and Wilson at the Catch
Amazon.com: Brandon and Wilson at the Catch: 9798995658108: McMillen, Curtis: Books
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I was just elected to the Council of the University Senate for a three year term. My first legislative proposal will be to charge any University of Chicago faculty member a $3000 fee for any peer-review publication that conflates odds ratios with relative risk
The mother of one of my daughter's high school friends recently passed away, far too soon. The number of Black people in my life, including two cousins, who passed away before their time from preventable causes leaves me speechless. Linda, you are deeply missed.
I told you “ILoveOddsRatios” was too obvious a password
My Twitter account was hacked, due to carelessness on my part. Working to resolve the issue
My friend, facing cruel infirmities of disability, recently grabbed my shoulder to keep her balance as we descended some stairs. My mind’s eye drifted to a 1988 basketball game, where that same hand grabbed that same shoulder to box me out for a rebound. God of our fathers--wtf are you doing here?
I am excited to see our paper, "Predicting behavioral health-involved police encounters: A machine learning approach" go live at Journal of Quantitative Criminology link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007...
Predicting behavioral health-involved police encounters: A machine learning approach
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Congrats! It’s something to aspire to! Well-deserved, though. I am not envious. Not really.
Same, but I used TurboTax, which is like getting accepted at a predatory journal
I know that it’s tacky to boast about acceptances. But at my career stage, it remains gratifying to read the emails notifying me that both my state and federal tax returns were accepted via e-file. So far, anyway, not even an R&R….
Passover is such a poignant experience. As we answer the four questions, my mind always wanders to various empty seats at the family Seder table.
The launch of my book Coverage Denied (out 4/23) will be at the White Whale Bookstore on 4/28. If you're in Pittsburgh, register to attend here: www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launc... And if you're not local, you can register for the livestream! us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Hope you can make it!
I've read w/interest the dialogue on this I'm partly motivated by fairness: Pricey conferences are out of reach for colleagues whose research is better than mine. It's partly my belief in frugality+restraint in life when ppl close to me live in modest circumstances. We don't need middle-class bling
Harold Pollack@haroldpollack.bsky.social · 4mo agoPet peeve: un-self-aware academic junket culture. We spend $2000 to attend conferences where 75% of speakers rail against American inequality, while we splurge on $75 dinners, stay in $300/night hotel rooms, and take a $50 uber ride to avoid a 3-stop subway ride that would cost $2.50.
I am actually curious if tighter budgets will start shifting some of this behavior. I imagine it will
Uhhh... yeah. Those of us slumming it in non-R1 academia are sharing rooms and paying out of pocket. Have been for years.
Just imagine the people who are NOT at the conference b/c they can't afford to do any of that!
Thank you so much but I'm afraid [Political Supervillain du jour] doesn't have 401(k) matches for protesters. But the good news is that Roth IRA contribution limits are now $7500 ($8500 for graying protesters)... unless they're getting too much income from Etsy merch with subversive messages.
Pet peeve: un-self-aware academic junket culture. We spend $2000 to attend conferences where 75% of speakers rail against American inequality, while we splurge on $75 dinners, stay in $300/night hotel rooms, and take a $50 uber ride to avoid a 3-stop subway ride that would cost $2.50.
