Kate Bahn
@lipstickecon.bsky.social
Pro-worker/anti-work labor economist, Chief Economist and SVP of Research at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Hampshire College and NSSR alum, cat person.
So this phrase “able-bodied” has clearly been on the most recent list of R talking points. It comes from the first round of English labor laws, which were instituted after the Black Death. A mini medieval story time!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.Jim Jordan: "If there's an able-bodied adult out there now who is in our welfare system, guess what -- that person is going to have to work ... that is far from immoral."
I'm hiring 2 research assistants on my team at IWPR! Our team is made up of brilliant researchers across economics, sociology, education, and health and we are looking for some sharp and enthusiastic staff to help us build evidence to advance women's equity! iwpr.applytojob.com/apply/pALkWV...
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I use @pitchforkeconomics.bsky.social podcasts all the time in my teaching so was extra fun to join them to talk about Good Company didn't quite dwell on how cynical I am rn about the ending of shareholder primacy but must keep pushing no matter what podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
Good Company: Ending the Era of Shareholder Supremacy (with Lenore Palladino)
Podcast Episode · Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer · 05/27/2025 · 37m
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For the June issue of TNR: I went long on the problems with the recent wave of abortion rights ballot initiatives, focusing on Missouri, which “won” back their rights in November, but for most Missourians, abortions are still nearly impossible to get.
Missouri’s Struggle to Restore Abortion Access
The state’s voters defeated an abortion ban. So why can’t more people get one?
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a cartoon of a woman holding a brush with the words unionise all the workers written on it .
ALT: a cartoon of a woman holding a brush with the words unionise all the workers written on it .
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Aaron Sojourner@aaronsojourner.org · last yr.Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever, analysis of new data @epi.org from me & Adam Reich of Columbia Labor Lab. In data back 60 years, Americans' sentiments are both warmer toward unions & cooler towards big business than ever before. www.epi.org/blog/america...
New in @msmagazine.com from the big boss Dr. Jamila Taylor and me on what the attacks on data mean for advancing equity and social and economic goals: msmagazine.com/2025/05/20/t...
Why Democracy Needs Data—and What Happens When It Vanishes
In the first few months of Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, one thing has become crystal clear: The war on gender and racial equity is being waged in a new arena—on the battleground of data. T...
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Got to talk MAGA plans to enforce gender essentialism on ALL women and why solidarity is how we fight back and win with the brilliant @sarahljaffe.bsky.social and @lipstickecon.bsky.social progressive.org/magazine/our...
Our Shared Experience of Being Under Attack
Orders enforcing so-called biological sex are about more than banning trans people from public life. Transphobic violence and policy are tools to keep us all in line.
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My daughter Louise made her TV news debut on @nbcwashington.com last night, where I talked about how the return-to-office mandate impacts federal workers with caregiving responsibilities while also caregiving for her when I was on parental leave 🫠. www.nbcwashington.com/investigatio...
Your job or your kid? Federal worker moms say return-to-office order forced them to choose
After the Trump administration ordered federal workers to end all remote work and return to offices full-time, some parents say they feel forced to choose between their jobs and their families. Expert...
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Today is AANHPI Equal Pay Day! Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women still earn less than white men. Learn more about the level of the wage gaps across the country, the causes, and the policy solutions with IWPR's new factsheet: iwpr.org/breaking-bar...
Breaking Barriers: Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Women and the Fight for Equal Pay - IWPR
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Great new piece by @lipstickecon.bsky.social on why federal worker cuts matter to women. One group of women to especially watch? Women veterans. More than one out of every six working women veterans works for the federal government: nationalpartnership.org/women-vetera...
Women's share of the veteran workforce is at an all-time high – but Trump's policies threaten their success | National Partnership for Women & Families
Women's share of the veterans' workforce is at an all-time high – but President Trump and Elon Musk's attacks on veterans and service members threatens their employment prospects and economic security...
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Kate Bahn@lipstickecon.bsky.social · 2y agoJobs Report! Small-ish declines for federal workers (-4k) are just one sign of how bad things will get for the country's largest employer, especially for women workers. www.forbes.com/sites/kateba...
In sum, 1. Labor markets remarkably strong & stable to now. 2. Mixed signals today: jobs 💪, avg hours steady, wages soft 3. If employers judge tariffs'll persist, this likely turns worse. Report'd mark the moment just before POTUS steered us away from soft landing into stagflationary ditch.
Strong jobs growth in March but will anybody care? The tariff turmoil still tempers the near-term outlook. -Payrolls up 228,000, well above expectations -Unemp ticked up again 4.2% -Wage growth slows to 3.8% YoY #NumbersDay #EconSky 1/
Jobs Report! Small-ish declines for federal workers (-4k) are just one sign of how bad things will get for the country's largest employer, especially for women workers. www.forbes.com/sites/kateba...
Attacks on Federal Workers Will Make The Labor Market Worse For Women
The "Jobs Report" shows continued decline in federal employment, harming women workers.
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Throughout their careers, U.S. women earn less, on average, than do men. New research shows how drastically parenthood widens this gender gap. www.upjohn.org/research-hig...
In as much as public sector work is like reproductive labor en masse, I can't help but feel like conservative economic ideology à la Trump is just further demonstration of the administration's misogyny.
Walton Goggins's Citrus Noggins
Emily Herring@emilyherring.bsky.social · 2y agoNot now Walton Goggins
Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one
The latest #NumbersDay data out from the Department of Labor (www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf) continue to show significantly higher initial and continuing unemployment insurance claims for federal workers than this time last year, but these losses haven't spread to the private sector data (yet).
Me doing media calls while returning from maternity leave.
Maybe go at least 5 minutes between "good trouble" and "we don't want to cause any trouble."
southpaw@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2y agoNo objections to Risch’s unanimous consent motion, not even from @schatz.bsky.social.
Dismantling unions will make it harder for workers to access paid leave, paid sick time, fair pay, and other critical protections. This is an anti-family and anti-woman move. Solidarity with unions and the federal workforce every day.
Boston folks: check out this event on Black women in solidarity finance with the inimitable @carolinehossein.bsky.social!
Caroline Shenaz Hossein, AKA #theDougla 🇺🇸 🇨🇦@carolinehossein.bsky.social · 2y agoMAY 5TH @ Frugal Book shop in Roxbury. Come Join me, hosted by #UjimaBostonCoop www.eventbrite.com/e/our-kind-o...
"The issue of whether workers and work is wasteful is a subjective call that AI cannot make. But it can justify what a decision maker wants to do. If Musk wants waste, AI can give him #s to prove waste exists." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social great piece on framing www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
Opinion | The Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on Fumes
A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.
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Join IWPR this Thursday at 1pm for "Supporting Workers, Strengthening Families: What We Learned from Workers on DC Paid Family Leave" us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Join us for a dynamic virtual event exploring the findings of IWPR’s latest report on the impact of DC's paid leave policies on workers and families. This discussion will feature leading researchers, ...
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First day back at work since before Thanksgiving. Did I miss anything in policy, politics, or the economy over the last four months? 🫠
And a hot off the presses work from @lipstickecon.bsky.social's awesome team at IWPR on the impacts of workplace flexibility on women's health: iwpr.org/wp-content/u...
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If you are feeling hopeless, may I recommend listening to Congresswoman Sarah McBride speak?
Speaking as someone who did a lot of online dating in her 20s…if you have first name, last initial, and a general geographic location you can track information about people down pretty, pretty fast
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2y agoBreaking News: The CIA sent the White House an unclassified email listing all employees hired by the spy agency over the last two years to comply with an executive order to shrink the federal work force, in a move that former officials say risked the list leaking to adversaries.
Snuck off from parental leave to hear people talk about… parental leave! And other policies to advance gender equity in this critical moment: iwpr.org/federalpolic...
