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Amanda Kass

@akass.bsky.social

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Assistant Prof. at DePaul, deep in the public finance weeds, grammar + typo offender, stata frenemy. opinions are my own. She/her Personal site: https://amandakass.blog/ Current research: https://covidfundsforviolenceintervention.com/

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Desiree Fields @desireefields.bsky.social · 7d

Along with Will Payne and Jovan Lewis, I'm organizing an AAG session on the economic geography of scams for the 2026 conference in San Francisco. Please share widely! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

AAG 2026 CFP: Putting the ‘Con’ in Economic Geography

AAG 2026 CFP: Schemes, Scams, and Flim-flam: Putting the ‘Con’ in Economic Geography Will B. Payne, Rutgers University Desiree Fields, University of California, Berkeley Jovan Scott Lewis, University ...

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Amanda Kass @akass.bsky.social · 7d

Thank you Chicago for greeting me with this horrible weather and losing my ventra card. It's good to be back

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Amanda Kass @akass.bsky.social · 12d

this was just horrifying to read. good for Block Club for doing the reporting

Amanda Kass @akass.bsky.social · 13d

you're gonna have to make a tik tok about your tik tok research

Amanda Kass @akass.bsky.social · 13d

going down a rabbit hole of looking at property tax videos on tik tok....are any public finance or public admin scholars on the platform?

Amanda Kass @akass.bsky.social · Sep 12

I have been working on an article about pandemic federal aid and fiscal federalism since July 2024 and I just the final version. This paper was gone on a real journey, but I'm very pleased with how it turned out. Fingers crossed it's in print soon

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Amanda Kass @akass.bsky.social · Sep 2

Hopefully you’ll be at UAA in the spring! It’s in Chicago so very easy trip for you

Amanda Kass @akass.bsky.social · Sep 2

no driving for me! Flagstaff may not be the easiest place to get to, but I’m really excited to go there!

Amanda Kass @akass.bsky.social · Sep 2

and just discovered how not easy it is to get from Flagstaff back to New Haven

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Amanda Kass @akass.bsky.social · Aug 29

Oh my goodness, YES!

Amanda Kass @akass.bsky.social · Aug 29

I'm very excited that I was accepted to the NASPAA NEXT cohort! Also means I'll be headed to the NASPAA conference in Flagstaff. First time attending this conference so looking forward to it!

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Amanda Kass @akass.bsky.social · Aug 20

putting together the syllabus for my research methods class. As part of the readings I'll have students read academic articles that involve qualitative research. So friends, who has a recent publication I should assign?

Amanda Kass @akass.bsky.social · Aug 19

I'm so sorry and hate that you've also dealt with this. There has to be a better way. The one office I've dealt with that's been kind and helpful is the medical examiner

Amanda Kass @akass.bsky.social · Aug 19

exactly what I'm going through right now. Got some additional challenges to everything, but will spare the details. This is just a cruel system

Amanda Kass @akass.bsky.social · Aug 19

it's just like having the worst, unpaid part-time job one can imagine

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Amanda Kass @akass.bsky.social · Aug 19

I hadn't said anything publicly. It is the worst part-time job one could ever have. I don't even have words other than it is awful and nothing is easy

Amanda Kass @akass.bsky.social · Aug 18

Woah! Depaul’s first day isn’t until September

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Amanda Kass @akass.bsky.social · Aug 18

I got absolutely nothing done this summer 😂 didn’t even get to goal setting

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Amanda Kass @akass.bsky.social · Aug 18

Urban Affairs Association is now accepting submissions for the 2026 conference in Chicago….and here I was pretending it’s still the start of summer

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whet moser @whetmoser.com · Aug 14

what baltimore's doing is what a lot of people who actually care about this stuff have been saying should happen (a lot of overlapping things)

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · Aug 14

what's happening in Baltimore really gives the game away. a Dem major has drastically cut violent crime with a services-focused approach, even including police too, and none of these people give a shit popular.info/p/the-secret...

The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year

This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.

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Amanda Kass @akass.bsky.social · Jun 30

Was listening to the radio this morning and the discourse on Trump’s policy bill is frustrating. Cutting Medicaid is framed as generating “savings”. Sure, it will reduce on-budget government spending, but there are real off-budget costs

Amanda Kass @akass.bsky.social · Jun 20

Grades are in so officially a wrap on Spring Quarter 2025!

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · Jun 18

My heart breaks for trans kids, who do not deserve this obsessive animus that adults are directing at them.

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Amanda Kass @akass.bsky.social · Jun 17

as someone navigating childcare and elder care costs and coordination simultaneously I'm just at loss for words for the cruelty, shortsightedness and stupidity for what's occurring

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