Albert Arcarons Feixas
@aarcarons.bsky.social
Sociologist | Senior researcher at the Centre for Sociological Research (CIS) | Interested in poverty, inequality and migration 🍉
“Is this how hope is lost, […] by becoming indifferent to the truth?” L.Y.
👨🏻💻 https://me.eui.eu/albert-arcarons
“Is this how hope is lost, […] by becoming indifferent to the truth?” L.Y.
👨🏻💻 https://me.eui.eu/albert-arcarons
Más crisis de la vivienda: 2026 traerá nuevas subidas en los precios de alquiler y compra www.eldiario.es/1_c42f4e?utm...
Más crisis de la vivienda: 2026 traerá nuevas subidas en los precios de alquiler y compra
Las principales tasadoras calculan que la tendencia al alza de los precios se moderará para situarse en torno al 8% en las operaciones de compraventa, mientras los alquileres pueden subir hasta un 12%...
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December 29, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Más crisis de la vivienda: 2026 traerá nuevas subidas en los precios de alquiler y compra www.eldiario.es/1_c42f4e?utm...
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New, at Can We Still Govern?
Poverty is not some insurmountable problem, we can fix it.
A group of National Academies of Science researchers review the temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit during the pandemic, showing it cut child poverty in half. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-have-...
Poverty is not some insurmountable problem, we can fix it.
A group of National Academies of Science researchers review the temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit during the pandemic, showing it cut child poverty in half. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-have-...
What have we learned about child poverty in America?
Members of a National Academy of Sciences committee share insights
donmoynihan.substack.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:18 PM
New, at Can We Still Govern?
Poverty is not some insurmountable problem, we can fix it.
A group of National Academies of Science researchers review the temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit during the pandemic, showing it cut child poverty in half. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-have-...
Poverty is not some insurmountable problem, we can fix it.
A group of National Academies of Science researchers review the temporary expansion of the Child Tax Credit during the pandemic, showing it cut child poverty in half. 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-have-...
El 75% de la población de Gaza sufre hambre aguda, a pesar de la entrada en vigor del alto el fuego en octubre www.eldiario.es/1_c4301a?utm...
El 75% de la población de Gaza sufre hambre aguda, a pesar de la entrada en vigor del alto el fuego en octubre
Los niveles de hambre han mejorado ligeramente en la Franja gracias a la llegada de más ayuda humanitaria con base en el acuerdo de alto el fuego, pero la mayoría de los gazatíes sigue sufriendo la in...
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December 19, 2025 at 3:10 PM
El 75% de la población de Gaza sufre hambre aguda, a pesar de la entrada en vigor del alto el fuego en octubre www.eldiario.es/1_c4301a?utm...
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🔴Cataluña se convierte en la primera comunidad en regular los alquileres de temporada. La propuesta ha contado con los votos en contra de PP y Vox
▪️Intenta evitar que los propietarios se salten la ley de vivienda catalana que les obliga a topar los precios
🎙️Àlex Llorca
▪️Intenta evitar que los propietarios se salten la ley de vivienda catalana que les obliga a topar los precios
🎙️Àlex Llorca
December 18, 2025 at 10:18 AM
🔴Cataluña se convierte en la primera comunidad en regular los alquileres de temporada. La propuesta ha contado con los votos en contra de PP y Vox
▪️Intenta evitar que los propietarios se salten la ley de vivienda catalana que les obliga a topar los precios
🎙️Àlex Llorca
▪️Intenta evitar que los propietarios se salten la ley de vivienda catalana que les obliga a topar los precios
🎙️Àlex Llorca
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Editorial | La vivienda debe ser considerada como una infraestructura crítica para construir una sociedad más justa, más funcional y más competitiva. El plan presentado esta semana es un paso, que debe ir seguido de otros muchos
La vivienda, problema europeo | Editorial
La preocupación de la UE por acelerar la construcción y corregir los excesos tiene que traducirse en medidas urgentes y concretas
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December 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Editorial | La vivienda debe ser considerada como una infraestructura crítica para construir una sociedad más justa, más funcional y más competitiva. El plan presentado esta semana es un paso, que debe ir seguido de otros muchos
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The last piece of my PhD thesis is now published on @demresjournal.bsky.social 🎉
Using retrospective data from @usociety.bsky.social, I find that only a minority of childhood migrants arrived in the UK with their parents.
Read more 👉 doi.org/10.4054/DemR...
Using retrospective data from @usociety.bsky.social, I find that only a minority of childhood migrants arrived in the UK with their parents.
Read more 👉 doi.org/10.4054/DemR...
December 17, 2025 at 9:23 AM
The last piece of my PhD thesis is now published on @demresjournal.bsky.social 🎉
Using retrospective data from @usociety.bsky.social, I find that only a minority of childhood migrants arrived in the UK with their parents.
Read more 👉 doi.org/10.4054/DemR...
Using retrospective data from @usociety.bsky.social, I find that only a minority of childhood migrants arrived in the UK with their parents.
Read more 👉 doi.org/10.4054/DemR...
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New publication from @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social and colleagues: Not just a North–South divide: the geography of opportunity in England
For young people who grew up in poor neighbourhoods of regional cities, earnings are far lower than those outside cities
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
For young people who grew up in poor neighbourhoods of regional cities, earnings are far lower than those outside cities
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
December 16, 2025 at 12:29 PM
New publication from @lindseymacmillan.bsky.social and colleagues: Not just a North–South divide: the geography of opportunity in England
For young people who grew up in poor neighbourhoods of regional cities, earnings are far lower than those outside cities
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
For young people who grew up in poor neighbourhoods of regional cities, earnings are far lower than those outside cities
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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New paper in the American Journal of Sociology (with Michael Grätz), and a very good way to close an important chapter!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
Does Expanding Free Secondary Education Moderate the Relationship Between Genes and Socioeconomic Outcomes? Evidence from the Education Act of 1944 in England | American Journal of Sociology: Vol 0, N...
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December 16, 2025 at 9:57 AM
New paper in the American Journal of Sociology (with Michael Grätz), and a very good way to close an important chapter!
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
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⚠️The top 0.001% - less than 60,000 multi-millionaires -
owns three times more wealth than the entire bottom half of humanity combined.
Explore more findings in this third edition of the World Inequality report 👇 wir2026.wid.world
owns three times more wealth than the entire bottom half of humanity combined.
Explore more findings in this third edition of the World Inequality report 👇 wir2026.wid.world
World Inequality Report 2026
The World Inequality Report 2026 offers the most up-to-date synthesis of international research efforts to track global inequalities.
wir2026.wid.world
December 12, 2025 at 10:17 AM
⚠️The top 0.001% - less than 60,000 multi-millionaires -
owns three times more wealth than the entire bottom half of humanity combined.
Explore more findings in this third edition of the World Inequality report 👇 wir2026.wid.world
owns three times more wealth than the entire bottom half of humanity combined.
Explore more findings in this third edition of the World Inequality report 👇 wir2026.wid.world
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Consumo multa con 64 millones de euros a Airbnb por anunciar viviendas sin licencia dozz.es/os4us2
Consumo multa con 64 millones de euros a Airbnb por anunciar viviendas sin licencia
dozz.es
December 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Consumo multa con 64 millones de euros a Airbnb por anunciar viviendas sin licencia dozz.es/os4us2
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INVESTIGACIÓN | Órdenes escritas y datos de lista de espera muestran cómo el Hospital de Torrejón priorizaba las operaciones de los pacientes más rentables
Órdenes escritas y datos de lista de espera muestran cómo el Hospital de Torrejón priorizaba las operaciones de los pacientes más rentables
Mientras los pacientes de Torrejón esperaban más de dos meses para una cirugía una vez entraban en lista de espera, los de libre elección se operaban antes de un mes en esa misma área, como ha podido ...
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December 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
INVESTIGACIÓN | Órdenes escritas y datos de lista de espera muestran cómo el Hospital de Torrejón priorizaba las operaciones de los pacientes más rentables
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Editorial | "Todas las universidades públicas españolas se hallan en una preocupante situación financiera, pero el auténtico drama lo padecen las seis de la Comunidad de Madrid y, en particular, la Complutense"
La agonía de la Complutense | Editorial
La mayor universidad presencial de España no puede vivir bajo la hostilidad económica y política de la Comunidad de Madrid
social.elpais.com
December 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Editorial | "Todas las universidades públicas españolas se hallan en una preocupante situación financiera, pero el auténtico drama lo padecen las seis de la Comunidad de Madrid y, en particular, la Complutense"
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La Complutense, el mayor centro universitario presencial de España sufre una asfixia económica cada vez más paralizante: todos los departamentos y facultades deben sobrevivir con un 35% menos de un presupuesto. Así se mata una universidad
Así se mata una universidad
La Complutense, el mayor centro universitario presencial de España sufre una asfixia económica cada vez más paralizante: todos los departamentos y facultades deben sobrevivir con un 35% menos de un presupuesto
social.elpais.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:07 AM
La Complutense, el mayor centro universitario presencial de España sufre una asfixia económica cada vez más paralizante: todos los departamentos y facultades deben sobrevivir con un 35% menos de un presupuesto. Así se mata una universidad
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Madrid aprueba su vigésima universidad privada. La comunidad cuenta ya con seis universidades públicas y 14 privadas. La última pública (Rey Juan Carlos) se fundó en 1996 y no hay intención de abrir ninguna nueva
Madrid aprueba su vigésima universidad y la red privada en España ya está a dos campus de empatar en número con la pública
IE Universidad Madrid, que funcionaba como centro adscrito de una matriz en Segovia, cuenta con el informe favorable del Ministerio de Ciencia
social.elpais.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Madrid aprueba su vigésima universidad privada. La comunidad cuenta ya con seis universidades públicas y 14 privadas. La última pública (Rey Juan Carlos) se fundó en 1996 y no hay intención de abrir ninguna nueva
“Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity.
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%”
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%”
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 10:18 PM
“Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity.
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%”
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%”
www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
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🎙 PODCAST | Hospital público, gestión privada: qué podría salir mal
Criterios empresariales que pesan más que los médicos. Plantillas sobreexplotadas y grandes multinacionales del pelotazo. Con lo que era la sanidad española
www.eldiario.es/blog/al-dia/...
Criterios empresariales que pesan más que los médicos. Plantillas sobreexplotadas y grandes multinacionales del pelotazo. Con lo que era la sanidad española
www.eldiario.es/blog/al-dia/...
December 9, 2025 at 2:38 PM
🎙 PODCAST | Hospital público, gestión privada: qué podría salir mal
Criterios empresariales que pesan más que los médicos. Plantillas sobreexplotadas y grandes multinacionales del pelotazo. Con lo que era la sanidad española
www.eldiario.es/blog/al-dia/...
Criterios empresariales que pesan más que los médicos. Plantillas sobreexplotadas y grandes multinacionales del pelotazo. Con lo que era la sanidad española
www.eldiario.es/blog/al-dia/...
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“Lo que era un recurso excepcional se ha convertido en práctica habitual”. Casi un tercio de los hospitales del Sistema Nacional de Salud están gestionados por la privada
Casi un tercio de los hospitales del Sistema Nacional de Salud están gestionados por la privada
El gasto en estos centros se ha incrementado en un 84%, hasta los 4.800 millones de euros. “Lo que era un recurso excepcional se ha convertido en práctica habitual”, asegura Sanidad
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December 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“Lo que era un recurso excepcional se ha convertido en práctica habitual”. Casi un tercio de los hospitales del Sistema Nacional de Salud están gestionados por la privada
"The decision to remove the two-child limit is expected to lift 550,000 children out of poverty, and the extension of free school meals, 100,000. Deep unfairness remains: overall cap limiting how much households can claim, and the frozen local housing allowance"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on reducing child poverty: with the two-child limit gone, Labour must go further | Editorial
Editorial: The new strategy has gaps. But ministers have shown that they are serious and capable of listening
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December 9, 2025 at 12:26 PM
"The decision to remove the two-child limit is expected to lift 550,000 children out of poverty, and the extension of free school meals, 100,000. Deep unfairness remains: overall cap limiting how much households can claim, and the frozen local housing allowance"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Muere el fotógrafo Martin Parr a los 73 años. El británico fue uno de los autores documentales más importantes del último medio siglo
Muere el fotógrafo Martin Parr a los 73 años
El británico fue uno de los autores documentales más importantes del último medio siglo
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December 7, 2025 at 1:16 PM
🔴 ÚLTIMA HORA | Muere el fotógrafo Martin Parr a los 73 años. El británico fue uno de los autores documentales más importantes del último medio siglo
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📣 New IRP Podcast Available: Luke Shaefer on the RX Kids Cash Transfer Program. Dr. Luke Shaefer shares his work with RX Kids—the nation’s first-ever, community-wide, prenatal and infant cash prescription program www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/luk...
November 11, 2025 at 8:44 PM
📣 New IRP Podcast Available: Luke Shaefer on the RX Kids Cash Transfer Program. Dr. Luke Shaefer shares his work with RX Kids—the nation’s first-ever, community-wide, prenatal and infant cash prescription program www.irp.wisc.edu/resource/luk...
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A chronicler of the everyday, Parr made work famed for its biting observations delivered in highly saturated colour.
Acclaimed British photographer Martin Parr dies aged 73
A chronicler of the everyday, Parr made work famed for its biting observations delivered in highly saturated colour.
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December 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
A chronicler of the everyday, Parr made work famed for its biting observations delivered in highly saturated colour.
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Doug Downey wants to convince you that schools actually reduce inequality, not expand it. In his conversation with @gtwodtke.bsky.social, they examine how the education system likely compensates for SES gaps and why school reforms are a band-aid fix to root problems.
Listen now → bit.ly/48nPLij
Listen now → bit.ly/48nPLij
November 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Doug Downey wants to convince you that schools actually reduce inequality, not expand it. In his conversation with @gtwodtke.bsky.social, they examine how the education system likely compensates for SES gaps and why school reforms are a band-aid fix to root problems.
Listen now → bit.ly/48nPLij
Listen now → bit.ly/48nPLij
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The Government’s Child Poverty Strategy published today is the first we’ve seen for 11 years – which in itself is a sea change. 🧵 👇
December 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
The Government’s Child Poverty Strategy published today is the first we’ve seen for 11 years – which in itself is a sea change. 🧵 👇
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📉 This morning, the government published its full Child Poverty Strategy, setting out plans to reduce hardship for children growing up in the UK by the end of the parliament.
It's a crucial commitment to delivering on one of their central manifesto promises.
It's a crucial commitment to delivering on one of their central manifesto promises.
December 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
📉 This morning, the government published its full Child Poverty Strategy, setting out plans to reduce hardship for children growing up in the UK by the end of the parliament.
It's a crucial commitment to delivering on one of their central manifesto promises.
It's a crucial commitment to delivering on one of their central manifesto promises.
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Labour announces plans to lift 550,000 children out of poverty – UK politics live
Labour announces plans to lift 550,000 children out of poverty – UK politics live
Starmer hails child poverty strategy as a ‘moral mission’ which will include measures to help with childcare and getting families out of temporary housing
My colleague Peter Walker has a full report on the plan, the key new elements of which I’ve pulled out for you below:
As part of what Keir Starmer has described as a “moral mission” for his government, the strategy will include an £8m investment in a pilot scheme across 20 councils with a particular prevalence of homeless families in temporary B&B accommodation, to ensure they are all moved within six weeks. Continue reading...
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December 5, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Labour announces plans to lift 550,000 children out of poverty – UK politics live