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Pamela Metz
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Dir of Chapter Development @scholars.org. Founding Associate Director, Harvard Inequality & Social Policy (1998-2021)🚢 🔸 scholars.org/staff/pamela-metz
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Hello Sociology friends! Excited to be in Chicago for #ASA2025 with @scholars.org. Point me to your sessions!
SSN and our chapter leaders look forward to #ASA2025 in Chicago! Please stop by and say hello!
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Thank you for your patience, Amicus listeners. This week's episode is now up and running. Listen! It's an important conversation with Janai Nelson about probably the most important case of the term. (and pls let us know if you're still having trouble accessing it) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...
Voting Rights, But Mainly for White People
Podcast Episode · Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts · 10/18/2025 · 51m
podcasts.apple.com
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My Philadelphia Inquirer op-ed w @chriswarshaw.bsky.social, "Gerrymandering is Bad. Expanding it is even worse," is out.

1 limit on gerrymandering -> inability to see the future. If the parties redraw district boundaries every cycle, anti-democratic biases grow.

www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
Gerrymandering is bad. Expanding it is even worse. | Opinion
Constant redistricting of electoral maps is likely to make congressional elections even less competitive.
www.inquirer.com
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Increasing work requirements isn’t going to increase workforce participation. It’s going to increase hunger. I’m glad Newsweek is clear about this (and grateful I had a chance to comment in this piece).
SNAP work rules may lead to loss of benefits
New SNAP rules have raised concerns about employment and potential loss of benefits.
www.newsweek.com
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Today is my birthday and look what came in the mail... my first-ever copies of my new book!

Thank you to @hcrichardson.bsky.social Theda Skocpol @jacobhacker.bsky.social @gabrielzucman.bsky.social and Robin Einhorn for their kind words!
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"The boy, who is Hispanic and African American, was held in a garage for five hours “without informing his family, stating any charges, or allowing him to call an attorney,” the statement said. He is a U.S. citizen, as is his entire immediate family, the release said."
Feds ram SUV after chase down residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd
The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Two men being pursued were arrested as were two bystanders. The crash drew dozens of neighbors who...
chicago.suntimes.com
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This will be a great discussion with my colleague, @jennifermccoy.bsky.social. Hope you can join us!
Join Georgia SSN for the first webinar in their "Defending U.S. Democracy" webinar series with
@jennifermccoy.bsky.social, moderated by @bernardtamas.bsky.social!

📅 Tues, Oct. 14
🕓 4pm - 5:15pm

🔗 Register for the event now: scholars.my.salesforce-sites.com/event/home/d...
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Please register and join us on Tuesday, October 14
Join Georgia SSN for the first webinar in their "Defending U.S. Democracy" webinar series with
@jennifermccoy.bsky.social, moderated by @bernardtamas.bsky.social!

📅 Tues, Oct. 14
🕓 4pm - 5:15pm

🔗 Register for the event now: scholars.my.salesforce-sites.com/event/home/d...
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Join Georgia SSN for the first webinar in their "Defending U.S. Democracy" webinar series with
@jennifermccoy.bsky.social, moderated by @bernardtamas.bsky.social!

📅 Tues, Oct. 14
🕓 4pm - 5:15pm

🔗 Register for the event now: scholars.my.salesforce-sites.com/event/home/d...
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My latest for @msnbc.com, on the recently announced policy of TrumpRx. While reducing prescription drug costs is vital, it's hard to square with other Trump policies that cut against that goal, on top of which the drugs they mentioned would still be too expensive. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | ‘TrumpRx’ may disappoint Americans hoping to save money on prescriptions
For many Americans, a trip to the pharmacy means the stresses of figuring out which drugs are covered or how to afford those drugs at all.
www.msnbc.com
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🌟 We’re excited to welcome the third cohort of SSN Media Fellows!

Over the next year, these scholars will work with SSN mentors to grow their media impact and share research with wider audiences.

📰 Learn more: scholars.org/media-fellow...
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I'm so honored and excited to be part of this group! Thank you @scholars.org!
🌟 We’re excited to welcome the third cohort of SSN Media Fellows!

Over the next year, these scholars will work with SSN mentors to grow their media impact and share research with wider audiences.

📰 Learn more: scholars.org/media-fellow...
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"Data centers are proliferating in VA and a blind man in [MD] is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills...It’s an increasingly dramatic ripple effect of the AI boom as energy-hungry data centers...[pull]...households into paying for the digital economy" www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
www.bloomberg.com
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IPR welcomed three new fellows this fall who are investigating power and opportunity in American life—from mass incarceration and political communication to clean energy and fair hiring. Click here to read more: spr.ly/63328Ad53y
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Now more than ever its critical that academic experts get out of the "ivory tower" and engage with policymakers and practitioners, showing exactly how insights from our research have relevance beyond the academy. (2/2)
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I'm proud to be a member of @scholars.org, whose annual report you can read here: (1/2)
scholars.org/sites/schola...
scholars.org
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Over 14,000 physicians currently practicing in the United States, concentrated in underserved Midwestern+Southern states, are currently working on H-1B visas.

This is the high-skill visa program, lifeblood for critical sectors, that the US Administration is sledgehammering.

doi.org/10.1007/s116...
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The Trump administration is limiting enforcement of fair housing laws, dismissing them as ideologically driven and DEI in disguise, according to interviews and internal documents reviewed by The New York Times.
Trump Appointees Roll Back Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws
Interviews and internal documents show that signature civil rights protections in housing are being dismissed as ideologically driven and D.E.I. in disguise.
nyti.ms