New Journal of Policy Analysis and Management paper on #paidsickleave mandates by Meredith Slopen 👇👇👇

A beautiful Covid Memorial is up! instagram.com/reel/C6plYBXN8…

Woke up to Hilary Wething on the radio this morning, sharing her research on the community-wide benefits of paid sick leave mandates. While business owners expressed concerns about costs in the Marketplace story, research from Catherine Maclean (@jcmecon.bsky.social) and others find these costs are very low. Link ⬇️

Our The City University of New York team found that 1 in 5 app-based (eg DoorDash, UberEats) food delivery workers in NYC, most of whom are minorities or immigrants, face injury or assault on the job. This rate is very high, much higher than for construction workers! The apps are likely culprits. Why? 🧵

The preposterous idea of an 'Antisemitism Awareness Act' to support the genocidal policies of the Israeli government is so beyond grotesque that of course it just passed the House.

Taxpayer-funded armed men flooding a university campus violently tackling an unarmed…economics professor.

If this shocks you, and it should, remember that Israel destroyed ALL of Gaza’s universities.

We’re watching the logic of occupation play out at home.

We used to go to Brooklyn Public Library every single weekend. Now we go when we can but my 10 y/o feels the loss of weekly new books. Cutting Sunday means working families basically lose access. I can't stress how busy and necessary weekend hours are. Support: bklynlib.org/standup

20% of young workers have left a job due to lack of #PaidLeave . 15% of young workers have been fired due to lack of #PaidLeave . 100% of young workers (& all workers) deserve #PaidLeave ForAll. 🔥 new polling from CLASP & Data for Progress filesforprogress.org/memos/clasp-df…

Excited to share a new Upjohn Institute working paper with Hilary Wething on the impact of paid sick leave and hours worked. We found that the policy supported low-wage workers to increase work by 4.4 hours/quarter. See Hilary Wething's thread for details and links to the paper and brief.

Excited to share a new Upjohn Institute working paper with Meredith Slopen on the impact of paid sick leave and hours worked. We looked at one of the oldest city laws, Seattle's PSL law, and found that the policy induced low-wage workers to work 4.4 hours/quarter more than before

But tbh, the agency I really wish we heard from more on COVID, and the flu, and RSV, and even measles is OSHA_DOL.

These are rapidly becoming the most important occupational hazards for workers in many many industries.

Where are the occupational health and safety standards?

we never stopped hating you guys btw

New paid sick leave evidence! This paper (which I love) shows that PSL actually functions like a work support--turns out providing job protected leave to take care of yourself and family lets women stay employed and earn more.

The GC-CUNY Stone Center workshop - on socio-economic inequality research and methods - is back, and in-person for the first time since summer 2019! Check it out. In NYC, June 3-7. Apply by March 12. The Graduate Center Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality LIS 👇👇👇

I recently spoke to Jennifer Kitses from Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality about using research to inform policy and the workplace as a site to address inequality.