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Karen Benjamin Guzzo

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This is a story about child labor but also about our failed safety net that means a night manager brings their 10 yr old kids to work with them bc that probably seemed the best of all the crappy options. www.axios.com/2023/05/03/m...
10-year-olds found working at McDonald’s until 2 a.m.www.axios.com More than 300 minors, including two 10-year-olds, were found working at McDonald’s later and longer than the law permits.
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Asking why people “just don’t move?” when they live in a state that is inhospitable misses a key point: on average, states whose laws are more hospitable to L.G.B.T.Q. people also have a higher cost of living. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/11/b...
For L.G.B.T.Q. People, Moving to Friendlier States Comes With a Costwww.nytimes.com Laws targeting gender-affirming care have uprooted thousands. But places that are more supportive can also be more expensive.
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I asked for - and got - an extension. 😁
I'm so sad because I totally forgot I had a deadline Monday until a student sent me a follow-up email. I leave for vacation tomorrow. 😭😭😭
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I'm so sad because I totally forgot I had a deadline Monday until a student sent me a follow-up email. I leave for vacation tomorrow. 😭😭😭
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I must have done something right, parenting-wise, because tonight, my 17 year old said out of the blue, “How does chocolate lava cake sound? I found a recipe, & we have all the ingredients. I’ll let you know when it’s ready.” She plated it beautifully, & it was delicious.
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Completed the Madhouse for LEGO Karen’s city. It’s HUGE!
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“Higher premiums are being charged in states where regulators apply less scrutiny to requests for rate increases, compared with states where officials question the justifications offered by companies and try to keep rates low.” www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Home Insurance Rates in America Are Wildly Distorted. Here’s Why.www.nytimes.com Climate change is driving rates higher, but not always in areas with the greatest risk.
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“Life expectancy in Italy is 82.7 years, while in the US ...for a Black male it’s 70. So in the US I’m already two years past my expiration date. But in Italy I can get 10 extra years.” That sound you're hearing is every demographer's head exploding. www.cnn.com/travel/man-b...
He bought a cheap house in Italy to improve his life expectancy | CNNwww.cnn.com Bingwa Thomas, 72, from Kansas City, bought a cheap old house in Southern Italy’s Latronico, hoping that that Italy’s laid-back lifestyle will help him live longer.
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📢Check out IRP's new short animated video! 📢"Measuring Economic Mobility In The United States." https://www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/measuring-economic-mobility-in-the-united-states/ Economic mobility refers to changes in a person’s economic status throughout their lifetime. (1/4)
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Having kids and watching them grow up means feeling their pains and disappointments but also their joys and excitement. One of my kids just got really great news, and I am just about to burst with happiness for her.
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If you think the Supreme Court is out of control now, imagine if Trump appoints two, three, or four more justices.
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An article in the peer-reviewed medical journal The Lancet, using the conservative estimate of 4 indirect deaths in Gaza for every one direct death (in other conflicts it’s been 3-15x), calculates that Israel has killed approximately 186,000 Palestinians. That is 8% of the population of Gaza.
Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essentialwww.thelancet.com By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN Offi...
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LEGO Karen - and everybody else - is trying to beat the heat by hitting up the ice cream shop! 🍦
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It’s gonna be a scorcher today, but LEGO Karen knows how to stay cool!
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Today, I'm celebrating the fact that I just sent off the last T&P letter I agreed to do this year!
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LEGO Karen is ready to celebrate the 4th of July!
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“Ooooh, look at the cool fish tank, Mom!” #legokaren
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How everyone feels after this debate:
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"I am curious to know why an economic dilemma, the kind you might expect to be tackled by corporations or governments or NGOs, is instead presented as a dilemma to be solved by uteruses." wapo.st/4cEcfeg
Perspective | Don’t pin the birth rate problem on the birth giverswapo.st A lot of women don’t want 2.1 kids. We need an economic model in which that’s okay.
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CPC is hiring! We're looking for a Training Manager for our T32 programs. This would be a great position for someone w/ advanced doc studies or a PhD in a pop-science related field who wants to be academia-adjacent. To learn more/apply, visit unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/283...
Training Managerunc.peopleadmin.com This position is the Program/Project Manager for the Population Research Training and the BioSocial Research Training Programs at the Carolina Population Center (cpc.unc.edu). The Carolina Population ...