New in @theconversation.com In short: @rightstracker.bsky.social data show the US is behind on economic and social rights (education, healthcare, dignified work and fair pay, food and nutrition) relative to what it can afford and its peers, looking at 30 years theconversation.com/americans-ar...

Americans are not as well off as people in peer nations – US safety net’s shortfalls show up in global data

This is not a one-year blip. The US has been underperforming in terms of health, education and more for the past 25 years.

theconversation.com

New paper out with @skipmark.bsky.social and Shristi Rai, a recent UMSL grad. We find that Compliance with IMF loan concessions in the “political” and “revenue” policy categories are startlingly bad for fulfillment of ESRs. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Compliance with International Monetary Fund concessional lending policies and economic and social rights fulfillment

Does compliance with International Monetary Fund (IMF) concessional lending conditions improve or harm the fulfillment of economic and social rights? While existing scholarship examines IMF program...

tandfonline.com

Happy first Sweater Weather day from Winnie.

It seems quite obvious to me that the slow, then sudden closing of the grindset-to-six-figures pipeline explains quite a bit of whatever crisis of whatever is afflicting the Culture right now.

Jason "Red5" Lyall@jaylyall.bsky.social · 12mo ago

"Among college graduates ages 22 to 27, computer science and computer engineering majors are facing some of the highest unemployment rates, 6.1% and 7.5% respectively ... That is more than double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%"

Now back to dog pics. This is what she does when she wants to hang out on the porch even though it’s a heat index of 100+.

Really proud of this work with @skipmark.bsky.social , and the article it’s based on with Meridith LaVelle and Asia Parker, so I’m self promoting again. Strengthening collective labor rights reduces inequality- not just vertical inequality like the GINI but also inequality between ethnic groups.

The Conversation U.S.@us.theconversation.com · last yr.

The richest 1% of Americans now have 5x more wealth than the bottom 50%. Meanwhile, 59% of Americans can't cover a $1000 emergency expense. Strengthening collective labor rights may reduce economic inequality, according to political scientists.

A shout out to @aaup.org, the URI Adjunct faculty union, and the URI Professional Staff Association (PSA), a bargaining unit affiliated with the National Education Association of Rhode Island (NEARI). You are almost always better off in a union, so join one, start one, or support one!

Promoting labor rights reduces inequality, narrows the racial wealth gap, and serves as a popular policy platform for politicians seeking to win elections. If you expand this to all labor rights, you have a political agenda that motivates a majority of diverse voters and strengthens democracy.

Americans favor labor unions over big business now more than ever

This piece was also published on Medium. For decades, Americans were evenly divided in their relative support of labor unions and big business, but that’s no longer the case. Now, Americans are more l...

epi.org

We use CIRIGHTS data, which codes US State Department and @amnesty.org human rights reports to assign numerical scores for two dozen human rights. For this piece, we examined the rights to unionize and engage in collective bargaining. We looked at both protection in law and in practice.

About CIRIGHTS

The goal of the CIRIGHTS data project is to create numerical measures for every internationally recognized human right for all countries of the world. Human rights scores are necessary for understa…

cirights.com

Unions have an incentive to recruit all workers. As a result, they often help to promote racial inequality faster than other parts of society (they tend to be less racist). Where collective labor rights are strong, minorities can also unionize for themselves when they are shut out of other unions

Unions promote racial equity

By now it is well known that unions are a key institution enforcing more equal outcomes by income class in the U.S. economy and that the policy-driven shrinkage of unionization has played a key role i...

epi.org

Unions, protected by collective labor rights, negotiate for higher wages, limit corporate power, and lobby for better working conditions for all workers. This is how we got the 40-hour workday, overtime pay, & restrictions on child labor. They also strengthen democracy and act as a check on power.

Unions help reduce disparities and strengthen our democracy

Unions improve wages and benefits for all workers, not just union members. They help reduce income inequality by making sure all Americans, and not just the wealthy elite, share in the benefits of the...

epi.org

Building on our scholarly work, we argue that collective labor rights reduce inequality by empowering workers: they reduce the cost of organizing unions, reduce the cost of collective bargaining, create a credible threat for non-union workers to unionize, and protect the right to strike

Union Rights and Inequalities - Human Rights Review

Competing arguments surrounding the relationships between inequalities and labor rights have persisted over time. This paper explores whether labor rights increase or decrease two types of wage inequa...

link.springer.com

New piece in the @us.theconversation.com with @stephenmbagwell.bsky.social The protection of collective labor rights (right to unionize, strike, and bargain collectively) reduces income inequality between individuals (poor vs. rich) and between ethnic/racial groups (white versus Black).

Strengthening collective labor rights can help reduce economic inequality

A research team’s findings suggest that when workers are free to advocate for better wages and benefits for themselves, it also benefits society as a whole.

theconversation.com

The richest 1% of Americans now have 5x more wealth than the bottom 50%. Meanwhile, 59% of Americans can't cover a $1000 emergency expense. Strengthening collective labor rights may reduce economic inequality, according to political scientists.

Strengthening collective labor rights can help reduce economic inequality

A research team’s findings suggest that when workers are free to advocate for better wages and benefits for themselves, it also benefits society as a whole.

buff.ly

New post with @skipmark.bsky.social out at @theconversation.com theconversation.com/strengthenin...

Strengthening collective labor rights can help reduce economic inequality

A research team’s findings suggest that when workers are free to advocate for better wages and benefits for themselves, it also benefits society as a whole.

theconversation.com

🚺 Calling all women-identifying grad students & jr faculty! Join our Pay-it-Forward mentoring workshop at ISA-Midwest! 🗓️ Register by July 1 🍸 Thu reception | 🥗 Fri lunch + mentoring Space limited! Details in your inbox or ask us! Sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Apply to Pay It Forward at ISA Midwest

Apply now to the Pay-it-Forward mentoring workshop held during the ISA Midwest Conference. This event is designed for female-identifying graduate students and junior faculty and offers them a chance t...

docs.google.com

🚨 Sunday Workshops at ISA-Midwest! 🚨 Two fantastic professional dev sessions on Nov 23: 🧠 VIRP w/ Patrick James (diagram your research!) 📊 Text-as-Data w/ Leah Windsor (turn words into numbers!) Free w/ conf reg. Sign up by Aug 1 to be in the program! Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Seeing a lot of discussion of what the War Powers Resolution does and does not permit. As always, the Congressional Research Service provides essential reading. www.congress.gov/crs_external...

🇿🇼ZIMBABWE | The Standard covers HRMI's new human rights scores for #Zimbabwe: www.thestandard.co.zw/news/article...

I think about this figure a lot.

New article now online with @malavelle.bsky.social and Matthew Rains, who isn’t on here as far as I know. From the Journal of Conflict Resolution: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Logged on here for the first time in months- happy to see this community growing from the ashes of the bad place. Doesn’t feel futile to be active over here now- let’s keep building!

Here’s my dog watching Dimension 20.

Feels weird to be starting over after twitter. I am moseying this direction, though. Hope we all find each other again!