Day Three of snipers at Indiana University with admin escort for the Gaza encampment

Sniper on the roof of the Indiana Memorial Union at #IU . Gun pointed down at peaceful Gaza protesters in Dunn Meadow. This is 4 hours after the arrest of 22 students and 2 professors in the meadow. Have never seen anything like this on this campus.

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Linked is David Brady (@davebrady72.bsky.social) of UCR School of Public Policy on 3/11

The Social Consequences of the Increase in Refugees to Germany in 2015-2016
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The US is exceptional in providing almost no safety net to (presumed) work-able, childless adults - 106 million people! No wonder that poverty among this demographic is a serious albeit largely unrecognized problem. From a new paper with Janet Gornick David Brady (@davebrady72.bsky.social) Zach Parolin (1/n)

It looks like my faves Jamila Michener and Jeff Niederdeppe are hiring a postdoc and since I can't do it I might as well tell you!
We’re hiring a postdoc at the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy to work on a project entitled
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6 high-income countries that reduce poverty more than the US does and/or achieve lower post-tax-post-transfer poverty rates for non-elderly, nondisabled, childless adults.

via Janet Gornick, David Brady (@davebrady72.bsky.social), Ive Marx, & @zparolin The Brookings Institution brookings.edu/articles/pover…

I look forward to discussing my paper - joint with coauthors David Brady (@davebrady72.bsky.social), Ive Marx, & @zparolin - later today. We use LIS to compare US' poverty reduction policies with those in other rich countries, with a focus on countries that do more for this underserved population.

College admission essay content has a stronger correlation with household income (R2 = 16%) than SAT scores.
This explains how removing standardized tests can increase inequality.
Based on 240,000 admission essays to the University of California. science.org/doi/full/10.11…

I'm thrilled to share new work with David Brady (@davebrady72.bsky.social) , Katharine Mach, Jochen Schubert, Eva-Marie Hamill, and Steven J. Davis
'Quantifying Social Inequalities in Flood Risk'
doi.org/10.1061/AOMJAH…
-In ASCE OPEN, new open-access j. for multi-disciplinary rsrch
ascelibrary.org/journal/aomjah