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Karen Benjamin Guzzo
@karenguzzo.bsky.social
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Demographer and Sociologist. Director of the Carolina Population Center. LEGO Karen

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Amy Diehl, Ph.D. @amydiehl.bsky.social · 9h
A report of >3M finance & tech workers at companies that rolled out RTO mandates found women's turnover is 3x as high as men's & women more likely to take a lower position if they leave. Many left for roles in industries they had never worked in before. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
Women are taking pay cuts as companies mandate return to office
Researchers are identifying several key factors behind why gender pay gap – which had narrowed steadily over the years – has suddenly widened.
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Mark Histed @markhisted.org · 10h
Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
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Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error
www.nytimes.com
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 11h
Heat waves are a public health threat, but heat deaths aren’t inevitable. Communities have to decide to do something and make the necessary investments.
Deadly summers: Inside the scramble to save lives as heat menaces two Southwestern counties
Maricopa County, Arizona, and Clark County, Nevada, offer a cautionary tale about what it takes to keep people alive in extreme temperatures.
www.nbcnews.com
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Reposted by Scott L. Greer, Daniel W. Drezner, Daniel Aaron , and 8 more

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 14h
Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)
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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 14h
Looks like a great opportunity for pop health researchers... #demography #episky
jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
Two Postdoctoral Researchers on Health Inequalities
Two Postdoctoral Researchers on Health Inequalities
jobs.helsinki.fi
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Reposted by Diane Ravitch, Karen Benjamin Guzzo

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Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 16h
⚠️ USAToday reporter confirms the office in charge of special education funding has been “decimated”:
Zach Schermele Follow @ZachSchermele NEW: The Education Dept. layoffs continued overnight, w/ the main office in charge of special ed funding being "decimated," as one person described. "They cut just about everyone that works with IDEA funding," said another. "I'm not sure how these programs exist moving forward." 10:21 AM • 10/11/25 • 2.1K Views
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 16h
The first reports of what would eventually be called AIDS and its causative agent identified as HIV were published in the MMWR in 1981 alerting health care and public health systems across the country. A tremendous loss for public health.
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 16h
“…the near total cessation of the inflow of illegal aliens” is threatening “the stability of domestic food production and prices for U.S. consumers. Unless the Department acts immediately to provide a source of stable and lawful labor, this threat will grow.”

The admin knows and still does it.
Trump administration says immigration enforcement threatens higher food prices
U.S. farmers face labor shortages and potential food price hikes due to Trump’s immigration policy, the administration acknowledged in a Federal Registry document.
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 17h
“Welcome to clown college! Some of you are really gonna have to work on appearing friendlier…” #legokaren
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Devin Judge-Lord @judgelord.bsky.social · 19h
IRS layoffs are costly for the U.S., redistributing wealth to the top 1% (who lie on their taxes at jaw-dropping rates).

The bottom 99% generally pay their taxes. cepr.org/voxeu/column...
Taxes evaded as a percent of taxes owed from a study showing that the 99th wealth percentile and above evade significantly more taxes than everyone else. The richest evade 25% of the taxes they owe on average. The bottom 95% evade less than 3% of their taxes on average. While these data are from Scandinavia, similar patterns are likely in other countries, including the U.S.
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Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Lisa W. Fazio, Nandita Sharma , and 35 more

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 1d
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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Reposted by Rebecca Solnit, Brendan Nyhan, Euan G. Ritchie , and 12 more

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Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 1d
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. 

It wasn’t the feds —  it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 1d
I'm immensely proud of the work done by the faculty, staff, and students of @uncpopcenter.bsky.social. Learn more about the excellent population science work being done at the Carolina Population Center - and the amazing people behind it - in our new report.
CPC Annual Report | Carolina Population Center
www.cpc.unc.edu
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 1d
“Dress like a Mummy” day at the museum did not go as planned… #legokaren
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 2d
Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
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jael holzman @jael.bsky.social · 2d
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled

The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency

@heatmap.news
Esmeralda 7 Solar Project Has Been Canceled, BLM Says
It would have delivered a gargantuan 6.2 gigawatts of power.
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 2d
“The administration is considering whether to spend up to $50m in foreign aid to protect polar bears in Greenland & $25m for snow leopards in Nepal, proposals strikingly at odds w/ a parallel initiative to slash humanitarian & wildlife programs deemed incompatible w/ the “America First” agenda.”
Trump’s new foreign aid plan eyes $50 million for Greenland’s polar bears
Documents reviewed by The Post show the administration may spend millions to protect vulnerable wildlife, proposals that stunned critics of its moves to gut foreign assistance.
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UM SRC @um-src.bsky.social · 2d
@cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy reports on a new study from @ncoaging.bsky.social: using the Health and Retirement Study, the authors find low-income people over 60 years old die an average of nine years earlier than high-income older Americans myumi.ch/5kXQ9
For older Americans, the cost of poverty is 9 years of life, study finds
Low-income older Americans on average die nearly a decade earlier than wealthier people, a new analysis finds.
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Reposted by Caroline Krafft, Karen Benjamin Guzzo

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Chris Uggen @chrisuggen.bsky.social · 2d
Jobs! ISRDI @minnpop.bsky.social is searching for 2 full-time staff for a new National Institute on Aging Demography and Economics Coordinating Center (NIA DECC).

1. DECC Coordinator, JO 370494: hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...

2. Communications Manager, JO 370497 - hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...
About the NIA DECC
Demography & Economics of Aging Coordinating Center (DECC) Contact us at [email protected] Co-Directors: Gina Rumore, Cathy Fitch, and Rob Warren We aim to increase the efficiency, productivity, and impac...
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 2d
It is simply accurate to call this regime segregationist.
Trump Fires Black Officials From an Overwhelmingly White Administration
www.nytimes.com
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 2d
Hey, little girl, want a balloon? It floats! We all float down here… #legokaren
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Bryce Covert @brycecovert.bsky.social · 3d
Georgia's Medicaid work requirement increased neither Medicaid enrollment nor employment www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Insurance coverage and employment after Medicaid expansion with work requirements: quasi-experimental difference-in-differences study
Objective To understand how health insurance coverage and employment changed among working age adults with low incomes in Georgia, the first state to implement Medicaid expansion with work requirement...
www.bmj.com
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Reposted by Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Steven Schmidt

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Raj Nayak @rdnayak.bsky.social · 3d
Fantastic report by the SHIFT Project team + @profsheenalives.bsky.social and @juliesulabor.bsky.social
Amazon Drives Low Wages: The Unraveling of Workplace Protections for Delivery Drivers - The Shift Project
Read the Full Article Amazon has revolutionized shopping and challenged traditional brick-and-mortar retail. But at the heart of this logistics […]
shift.hks.harvard.edu
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Reposted by Kim L. Scheppele, Lisa W. Fazio, Elizabeth Saunders , and 11 more

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 3d
The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.
MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) - Mohammed Taher clutched the lifeless body of his 2-year-old son and wept. Ever since his family's food rations stopped arriving at their internment camp in Myanmar in April, the father had watched helplessly as his once-vibrant baby boy weakened, suffering from diarrhea and begging for food. On May 21, exactly two weeks after Taher's little boy died, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio sat before Congress and declared: "No one has died" because of his government's decision to gut its foreign aid program. Rubio also insisted: "No children are dying on my watch." That, Taher says, "is a lie."
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Reposted by Karen Benjamin Guzzo, Aaron Sojourner

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Gideon Lukens @gidlukens.bsky.social · 3d
Idaho’s 2026 ACA marketplace open enrollment begins Oct 15. People are already window shopping, seeing next year’s premiums spike due to expiring tax credit enhancements. A typical 60-year-old couple making $85,000 in Idaho will face a $17,900 increase in annual premiums. (1/4)
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Devex @devex.com · 3d
Former USAID Administrator Henrietta Fore highlights the strategic value of U.S. foreign assistance, asserting that it is essential soft power, not just charity.

Watch the full conversation⬇️
www.devex.com/news/early-pr...
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 3d
The mad scientist is hard at work! He’s successfully managed to turn living beings inside out…which maybe isn’t that much of a success. #legokaren
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 4d
"On the other hand, precisely because one million additional votes would create a changed electorate, the voting patterns of that electorate cannot be easily estimated from the voting patterns of the electorate in which Black lifespans are cut short." www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Three Ways of Looking at Black–White Mortality Differences in the United States
Everyone agrees that US Black deaths happen earlier than white deaths on average, but it is surprisingly challenging to find the best ways to summarize, quantify, and compare this gap. This review arg...
www.annualreviews.org
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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · 4d
The acting CDC director has now approved ACIP recs allowing anyone 6 months+ to receive an updated Covid-19 shot after discussing w/ their provider. If you are on the fence about getting an updated shot, read my in-depth take on the evidence we've accumulated on these vaccines. #publichealth
Do additional COVID vaccines really help?
We've accumulated a lot of scientific evidence in the last few years.
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Elizabeth Wrigley-Field @wrigleyfield.bsky.social · 4d
New podcast episode where I talk about what's going on with mortality in the US

A wide-ranging discussion of what happened before the pandemic & what's happened since then; racial disparities and how to get our heads around their scope; why things might be going so badly for Millennials & Gen Zers
Prof. Elizabeth Wrigley-Field Discusses Excess Deaths
Because the US death rate has exceeded that of 21 other high income countries for over four decades, an estimated 14.7 million US lives have been lost since1980.
www.thehealthcarepolicypodcast.com
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 4d
Research by @uncpopcenter.bsky.social Fellow Ross Boyce!
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NPR @npr.org · 4d
Inspired by a military strategy to ward off disease-carrying mosquitoes, researchers see if the technique will help cut malaria infections in little ones. n.pr/3IwwWQc
Babies take a lesson from soldiers in the war against malaria
Inspired by a military strategy to ward off disease-carrying mosquitoes, researchers see if the technique will help cut malaria infections in little ones.
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