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Trevon Logan
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Economist. Economic Historian. Lego Nerd. Sharing thoughts.

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Trevon D'Marcus Logan is an American economist. He is the Hazel C. Youngberg Trustees Distinguished Professor in the Department of Economics and Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Ohio State University, where he was awarded the 2014 Alumni Award for Distinguished Teaching. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. In 2014, he was the youngest-ever president of the National Economic Association. In 2019, he was the inaugural North Hall Economics Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2020, he was named the inaugural director of the National Bureau of Economic Research Working Group on Race and Stratification in the Economy. His research mainly focuses on economic history, including studies of African American migration, economic analysis of illegal markets, the economics of marriage transfers, and measures of historical living standards, with an emphasis on racial disparities in the United States. .. more

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1h
I find it absolutely hilarious that gay conservatives use the SCOTUS decision to not reconsider Obergefell v. Hodges as proof that progressive gays are fear-mongers while prominent conservatives openly admit that they are committed to ending same sex marriage in the United States.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 6h
One of my HS classmates is a trucker who has hit hard times because of an on the job injury and since this country’s social safety net is trash, needs to raise funds to support his recovery. Please consider donating, even if you can’t offer much 🫶🏽

www.gofundme.com/f/help-jason...
Donate to Help Jason Bell's Family During Spinal Surgery & Recovery, organized by Jason Bell
Hello everyone, My name is Tony Patterson and I’m reaching ou… Jason Bell needs your support for Help Jason Bell's Family During Spinal Surgery & Recovery
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 15h
Black veterans fought for freedom abroad and returned home to second class citizenship. Traveling while Black during Jim Crow was about survival, mobility, and dignity. The Green Book Project documents that story:

greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu

#GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 15h
I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly.

A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.

U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 17h
The least most politically engaged people I know are texting me before 8am to say, “we won’t forget.”

So I don’t know man.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1d
We might as well find joy!!

“I Gotta Feeling Everything Gonna Be Alright”

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Martin - Reverend Leon Lonnie Love
YouTube video by VIGILANCE100
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1d
The history of this country is riddled with losses. Welcome to the history of Black Descendants of Enslaved Americans. The entire idea that we are on an arc that bends toward justice is a myth. We simply try to move forward and create the path for the future. But know this—- We must never give up.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1d
The history of this country is riddled with losses. The entire idea that we bend toward justice is a myth.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Fox gives Trump a platform during their NFL broadcast to peddle his absurd lies about "prices are coming way down", "we inherited a mess," and "our country has over $17 trillion being invested in it." Absolutely shameful for all involved.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 1d
I was reading about Fannie Lou Hamer's Freedom Farm Cooperative (FFC) in the book "Freedom Farmers." It talked about starvation as a political weapon and how the FFC was a project to build self sufficiency, feed people, and gain political power. Made me think a lot about the SNAP cuts rn.
trying to register, now they say, “go ahead and register—then you’ll starve.”25 Hamer’s organic intellectualism—her experience of the condition of starvation as a political weapon—enabled her to identify this structural obstacle to collective progress for the African American citizenry. She understood that the exploitative economic relationships between landowner and farm worker and between homeowner as employer and domestic worker were a major impediment to the movement for the vote. In her work with SNCC and with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, she connected the starvation of people in Sunflower County not only to the pressure to migrate but also to the pressure not to register to vote: “Nobody told us we have to move from Mississippi. Nobody tells us we’re not wanted. But when you’re starving you know.”26 In creating Freedom Farm as a means to develop a sustainable black community on the foundation of agriculture, Hamer illuminated the relationship between economic self-sufficiency and political power and translated the theory into action.

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NPR @npr.org · 1d
Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.
Grocery prices have jumped up, and there's no relief in sight
Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.
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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1d
Nobody who shops in actual stores is fooled by the Thanksgiving pack price.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 1d
Black American soldiers literally dug these WWII graves. Traumatic. To acknowledge that fact at a cemetery they helped construct is something the Heritage Foundation cannot accept. As Veterans Day approaches, never forget that this country both compels and disrespects Black military service. Always.
chriso-wiki.bsky.social ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 1d
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 1d
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

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no thrones on arakko @profponton.bsky.social · 2d
TSA worker and mother of 2 details life getting unpaid during Mike Johnson's government shutdown

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'It's heartbreaking': TSA worker and mother of 2 details life in a shutdown
YouTube video by Good Morning America
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Lee West @whodat35.bsky.social · 2d
Schumer responded on the Senate floor today:“For this administration to go all the way to the Supreme Court just to get out of having to pay SNAP benefits for hungry kids is pathological levels of vindictiveness. This crisis is in the administration’s hands. It’s all them, not anyone else.” C-SPAN
GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN DAY 39 SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER D-New York • Minority Leader

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2d
The Race and Stratification Working Group at @nber.org will have its annual meeting on Friday, March 27, 2026. Francisca Antman, Bocar Ba, Robynn Cox and I are organizing the program. December 11, 2025 is the deadline to submit your paper!

www.nber.org/conferences/...
Economics of Race and Stratification, Spring 2026
www.nber.org

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2d
The people responsible will die and bust Hell wide open.
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d
Or Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been in America since he was two years old.

He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him

His health is declining, they won’t let him get his legs and they’ve placed him in solitary

www.disabledginger.com/p/help-rodne...
Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE
Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.
www.disabledginger.com

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2d
Grocery price inflation is tearing him up and he has no plan to fix it. You can’t lie your way around what people see every week at the store. You can’t bully prices. The administration owns the continued inflation in grocery prices. They fully own it now, whether they like it or not.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d
WOLFERS: “.. I can’t tell you why the president lies, but I can tell you that everything he has said about prices being lower is a lie. .. I’m starting to think that he doesn’t actually care about the cost of living.”

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Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · 2d

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d
Or Rodney Taylor, a disabled double amputee who’s been in America since he was two years old.

He was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE grabbed him

His health is declining, they won’t let him get his legs and they’ve placed him in solitary

www.disabledginger.com/p/help-rodne...
Help Rodney Taylor, a Disabled Double Amputee Being Held by ICE
Rodney has been in the country more than 40 years. He's in solitary confinement in Georgia, being denied disability accommodations and having his medical needs ignored. He must be released.
www.disabledginger.com

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Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · 3d
Read about WHY Ketanji Brown Jackson stayed the SNAP order. Her move is probably the best solution for getting SNAP benefits approved quickly. open.substack.com/pub/stevevla...
190. SNAP WTF?
A very quick explainer on what (and why) Justice Jackson issued an "administrative stay" in the SNAP case late on Friday night, and on what's likely to happen next
open.substack.com

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 3d
The optics could not be more straightforward.
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While Trump’s lawyers file an emergency petition with the Supreme Court tonight to do everything they possibly can to avoid paying SNAP benefits to the needy so they can starve, Trump flies to his country club for another weekend of parties and golf.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3d
While Trump’s lawyers file an emergency petition with the Supreme Court tonight to do everything they possibly can to avoid paying SNAP benefits to the needy so they can starve, Trump flies to his country club for another weekend of parties and golf.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 3d
WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration turns to Supreme Court to block order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments.

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Trevon Logan @trevondlogan.bsky.social · 3d
How did Black families travel during the Jim Crow era? Learn the history, explore the data and contribute. Start local: search your city on the Community Map, and add your story to this living history.
greenbookproject.org.ohio-state.edu #GreenBookProject #CommunityMap #EconSky

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James M. Thomas (JT) @insurgentprof.bsky.social · 3d
Friends and colleagues,
Please encourage your undergraduate students to apply for our 3rd annual summer REU program centered on the interdisciplinary study of race, power, and the politics of place, all set within the context of the dynamic and vibrant American South.

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MSNBC @msnbc.com · 3d
BREAKING: The USDA tells states funds will be made available later today to pay November SNAP benefits in full.

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Melissa Gentry @melissadgentry.bsky.social · 3d
I am excited to announce I am on the #EconJobMarket this year! 🎉 My research explores economic barriers for people with disabilities at the intersection of labor, public, and health economics.

My #EconJMP examines how reliable transportation transforms outcomes for this population. 🧵1/6
Photo shows the title page for an academic paper titled "Driving Inclusion: The Effect of Improved Transportation for People with Disabilities" by Melissa Gentry. The abstract is as follows: People with disabilities face substantial barriers to economic and social participation. I explore the extent to which these barriers are overcome by the availability of reliable and flexible transportation, which may serve as ``reliability insurance'' in case other modes of transit fail. Leveraging the roll-out of Uber, I use a stacked difference-in-differences approach to show that the availability of reliable and flexible transportation leads to improvements in social and economic participation through increased marriage rates and labor force participation, and reduced reliance on public assistance. The reduction in public assistance outweighs expected rideshare costs, lending support to the recent push towards public-private partnerships in the transportation space.