Jen Jennings

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Professor @PrincetonSPIA & Sociology; Director, Education Research Section.

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After Claudine Gay's resignation, Rufo learned that plagiarism was a smear that he could use to attack scholars of race, no matter how flimsy the evidence. New, from me. Please share if you want people to understand the machinery behind these attacks. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/open-seaso...

This is a witch hunt targeted primarily at scholars of color who study race. Chris Rufo now going after Christina Cross for "plagiarism" - his go-to example is *descriptions of data that are similar.* There are only so many ways you can describe data!

Open season on scholars of racedonmoynihan.substack.com They are facing both personal attacks and institutional censorship

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Financially secure people THINK we've experienced high admin burdens and they weren't that bad. We simply refuse to believe the Kafkaesque level of bullshit we put poor people through for things to which they are legally entitled. If we faced the same, we'd break out the torches and pitchforks.

Lack of representation of people with direct experience of the welfare state creates a blindspot. For example, this paper shows that elected officials are more willing to impose administrative burdens in welfare systems if they have never relied on welfare. academic.oup.com/jpart/articl...

Why Do Policymakers Support Administrative Burdens? The Roles of Deservingness, Political Ideology, and Personal Experienceacademic.oup.com Abstract. Administrative burdens affect peoples’ experience of public administration but there is, to date, limited evidence to as why policymakers are willing

Love to see this sociology energy at AEFP.

Our keynote speaker for #AEFP2024 is Dr. Ruth N. López Turley!

Appreciate folks like @luckytran.bsky.social, who hasn't wavered in reminding us about the current status of Covid.

Something notable from this chart comparing U.S. COVID wastewater levels by year, is that we've never seen levels this high at this time of the year! (indicated by the black line representing current levels, crossing the blue line representing Omicron levels in 2022)

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