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Jennifer Cohen
@jennifercohen.bsky.social
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Miami U. Ezintsha. Economist. Health care workers, women/work, public health. Feminist political economy. Climbing. She/her.
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petermorley.bsky.social
🔥🔥A 2021 study found that Medicaid expansion as part of the ACA led to a substantial reduction in mortality, primarily driven by reductions in disease-related deaths. A 2018 study in the Journal of Political Economy found that, Medicaid reduced infant and child mortality since the 1960s and 1970s.🔥🔥
January 28, 2025 at 11:36 PM
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aaronsojourner.org
Only workers will be targeted, or the employers too?
January 18, 2025 at 4:29 AM
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aaronsojourner.org
AFEE also moved all sessions to the Marker Hotel.
December 18, 2024 at 12:31 PM
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aaronsojourner.org
Read @shirkandsteal.bsky.social @jennifercohen.bsky.social & me.

We discuss pros, cons, whys, & hows of moving.

If you make alternative arrangements, register them with us.

We will publish a directory of these if the strike continues, so folks can find you.
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December 17, 2024 at 11:45 PM
jennifercohen.bsky.social
Unions are social determinants of health
December 12, 2024 at 2:59 AM
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dynarski.bsky.social
I cancelled my hotel via the conference website

Then booked Hotel Spero

Straightforward!
aaronsojourner.org Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Dec 5
Attending #ASSA2025?

Want to know how to navigate your options with respect to hotels, food, & sessions given SF hotel workers' strike?

@shirkandsteal.bsky.social @jennifercohen.bsky.social & I have you covered. Blog w/sign up for email updates.
#EconSky
aaronsojourner.org/hotel-worker...
Are you planning to attend the 2025 ASSA meetings in San Francisco? All ASSA activities have been planned for three ASSA headquarters hotels. Employees at two of these hotels – the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and the San Francisco Marriott Union Square – are on strike and asking people to not meet, eat, nor sleep in the hotels. At the third headquarters hotel – the Parc 55 by Hilton – employees voted to authorize their leaders to call a strike at any moment. Yesterday, ASSA stated that allied associations can move planned sessions to alternative physical locations in San Francisco at their own expense and ASSA will facilitate updating of location information within their program system. This means there is a path to meaningful participation in the conference without crossing picket lines. Did you book your housing through ASSA? If so, then you are booked at a hotel where workers are either currently on strike, where they authorized a strike, or where the union says there’s a real risk employees will be on strike in early January. All the ASSA’s preferred hotels for housing are in one of these three categories, as detailed below. The hotel workers union has asked people not to patronize these hotels. What can a social scientist do as we face a conflict between our desires to: participate in the ASSA annual meeting in San Francisco taking place at hotels—both for meeting space and lodging—where workers currently are on strike or at risk of striking, respect the people employed by the hotels and their request of each of us to not meet, sleep, or eat in striking hotels as part of their wider local and national campaign to lift the industry’s job quality? This blog walks through background and different strategies available to each of us.
December 7, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Reposted by Jennifer Cohen
olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
CW: extreme violence

people used to gather in huge crowds to view and participate in lynchings, often festival like fanfare. photographs were used as postcards. people were often tortured to death, body parts sold in stores as memorabilia - sometimes in stores. just so we're on the same page
December 7, 2024 at 1:58 PM
jennifercohen.bsky.social
Back to regularly scheduled...skeets(?)

If you want updates about the San Francisco hotel workers labor dispute, how it may affect activities at
#ASSA2025, and opportunities for conference participants Sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
December 6, 2024 at 2:22 AM
jennifercohen.bsky.social
Today is February 285th
December 6, 2024 at 2:10 AM
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aaronsojourner.org
Attending #ASSA2025?

Want to know how to navigate your options with respect to hotels, food, & sessions given SF hotel workers' strike?

@shirkandsteal.bsky.social @jennifercohen.bsky.social & I have you covered. Blog w/sign up for email updates.
#EconSky
aaronsojourner.org/hotel-worker...
Are you planning to attend the 2025 ASSA meetings in San Francisco? All ASSA activities have been planned for three ASSA headquarters hotels. Employees at two of these hotels – the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and the San Francisco Marriott Union Square – are on strike and asking people to not meet, eat, nor sleep in the hotels. At the third headquarters hotel – the Parc 55 by Hilton – employees voted to authorize their leaders to call a strike at any moment. Yesterday, ASSA stated that allied associations can move planned sessions to alternative physical locations in San Francisco at their own expense and ASSA will facilitate updating of location information within their program system. This means there is a path to meaningful participation in the conference without crossing picket lines. Did you book your housing through ASSA? If so, then you are booked at a hotel where workers are either currently on strike, where they authorized a strike, or where the union says there’s a real risk employees will be on strike in early January. All the ASSA’s preferred hotels for housing are in one of these three categories, as detailed below. The hotel workers union has asked people not to patronize these hotels. What can a social scientist do as we face a conflict between our desires to: participate in the ASSA annual meeting in San Francisco taking place at hotels—both for meeting space and lodging—where workers currently are on strike or at risk of striking, respect the people employed by the hotels and their request of each of us to not meet, sleep, or eat in striking hotels as part of their wider local and national campaign to lift the industry’s job quality? This blog walks through background and different strategies available to each of us.
December 5, 2024 at 3:44 PM
jennifercohen.bsky.social
If you want updates about the San Francisco hotel workers labor dispute, how it may affect activities at #ASSA2025, and opportunities for conference participants Sign up:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Blog post: aaronsojourner.org/hotel-worker...
Actionable Updates on ASSA 2025 Labor-Dispute
By Hannah Archambault, Jennifer Cohen, & Aaron Sojourner Want to be informed of notable developments in the San Francisco hotel workers labor dispute and how it may affect activities for participants...
docs.google.com
December 5, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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arghavansallesmd.medsky.social
Women were already banned from becoming doctors (as of 2022), but yesterday the Taliban announced women could no longer become nurses and midwives, shuttering institutions where women were enrolled. Given the sex segregation in care, this is severely endangers women’s health.
Screenshot of bbc article titled “Afghan women 'banned from midwife courses' in latest blow to rights”
December 4, 2024 at 4:07 PM
jennifercohen.bsky.social
I'll never forget a workshop when an editor said the first thing they look at is a submission's references to see if they are formatted to journal specs - because that was how they knew the author was serious about publishing in that journal.

I remember thinking, "There goes tenure!"
johnholbein1.bsky.social John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · Dec 3
Why do academic journals have such strict/varied formatting guidelines on first submission? (Beyond length)

Isn’t formatting for a journal, only to be rejected, just a massive unnecessary cost imposed on scientists?

Couldn’t scientists put their time to better use?
December 4, 2024 at 12:03 AM
jennifercohen.bsky.social
For those who are going to ASSA and don't want to cross picket lines, @aaronsojourner.org, @shirkandsteal.bsky.social, and I have a post for you to read - and now an extended deadline (12/12) to request a refund for registration if you decide no skip.

aaronsojourner.org/hotel-worker...
December 3, 2024 at 11:14 PM
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aaronsojourner.org
Blog updated to v2 this morning.

Lots of useful developments from ASSA that, for @shirkandsteal.bsky.social @jennifercohen.bsky.social & I, show a path to meaningful participation in #ASSA2025 even if there are picket lines.

I thank @lkatz42.bsky.social & team for leading to practical solutions.
December 3, 2024 at 8:55 PM
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dismalscientist86.bsky.social
Thank you @aaronsojourner.org, @shirkandsteal.bsky.social, and @jennifercohen.bsky.social for putting together this information.

I changed my reservation and shared the info with my colleagues who are not on BlueSky.
December 2, 2024 at 9:27 PM
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gberik.bsky.social
Those going to ASSA in San Francisco: Great guidance by @aaronsojourner.org @jennifercohen.bsky.social @shirkandsteal.bsky.social to avoid crossing the picket lines and supporting striking workers
imarinescu.bsky.social Ioana Marinescu @imarinescu.bsky.social · Dec 2
If, like me, you are planning to go to #ASSA2025 and want to do something to show support for workers on strike, @aaronsojourner.org & colleagues have got you covered with a menu of options you can pick from (including corner solutions 🤓)👇
aaronsojourner.org Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · Dec 2
Got AEA & ASSA emails this morning abt hotel workers striking in SF?

Want to figure out what it means & what your options are?

See this analysis @shirkandsteal.bsky.social @jennifercohen.bsky.social & me, & our call to support 3 small ASSA policy changes
#EconSky
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December 2, 2024 at 11:54 PM
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aaronsojourner.org
Got AEA & ASSA emails this morning abt hotel workers striking in SF?

Want to figure out what it means & what your options are?

See this analysis @shirkandsteal.bsky.social @jennifercohen.bsky.social & me, & our call to support 3 small ASSA policy changes
#EconSky
aaronsojourner.org/hotel-worker...
Hotel workers' strike and the 2025 ASSA annual meeting - Aaron Sojourner
By Hannah Archambault, Jennifer Cohen, and Aaron Sojourner   Are you planning to attend the 2025 ASSA meetings in San Francisco? If so, then you are planning to attend events at a hotel where the empl...
aaronsojourner.org
December 2, 2024 at 5:35 PM
jennifercohen.bsky.social
How are other labor economists on the AEA program planning to navigate the strike/picket line in SF? @lkatz42.bsky.social @annastansbury.bsky.social @aaronsojourner.org
jennifercohen.bsky.social Jennifer Cohen @jennifercohen.bsky.social · Nov 30
The American Economic Association’s annual conference - @assameeting.bsky.social - is at Hilton SF UnionSq, where UNITE HERE Local 2 workers are on strike

AEA should not do business w hotels where workers are striking

AEA should not make attendees cross picket lines
unitehere.org/campaign/tim...
Time for hotels to “Respect Our Work” in 2024
Join us as we demand the hotel industry respect workers and guests. Approximately 40,000 hotel workers have union contracts up this year across the United States and Canada. Respect Hotel Workers; Ple...
unitehere.org
December 1, 2024 at 12:14 AM
jennifercohen.bsky.social
Economists on the 2025 AEA conference program:

Are you going to cross the picket line?

#econsky

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3u3...
Hotel worker strike continues in San Francisco amid Thanksgiving festivities
YouTube video by NBC Bay Area
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November 30, 2024 at 8:59 PM
jennifercohen.bsky.social
The American Economic Association’s annual conference - @assameeting.bsky.social - is at Hilton SF UnionSq, where UNITE HERE Local 2 workers are on strike

AEA should not do business w hotels where workers are striking

AEA should not make attendees cross picket lines
unitehere.org/campaign/tim...
Time for hotels to “Respect Our Work” in 2024
Join us as we demand the hotel industry respect workers and guests. Approximately 40,000 hotel workers have union contracts up this year across the United States and Canada. Respect Hotel Workers; Ple...
unitehere.org
November 30, 2024 at 6:51 PM