Kate Bahn
@lipstickecon.bsky.social
Pro-worker/anti-work labor economist, Chief Economist and SVP of Research at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, Hampshire College and NSSR alum, cat person.
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So this phrase “able-bodied” has clearly been on the most recent list of R talking points. It comes from the first round of English labor laws, which were instituted after the Black Death.
A mini medieval story time!
A mini medieval story time!
Jim Jordan: "If there's an able-bodied adult out there now who is in our welfare system, guess what -- that person is going to have to work ... that is far from immoral."
July 8, 2025 at 8:12 PM
So this phrase “able-bodied” has clearly been on the most recent list of R talking points. It comes from the first round of English labor laws, which were instituted after the Black Death.
A mini medieval story time!
A mini medieval story time!
I'm hiring 2 research assistants on my team at IWPR! Our team is made up of brilliant researchers across economics, sociology, education, and health and we are looking for some sharp and enthusiastic staff to help us build evidence to advance women's equity! iwpr.applytojob.com/apply/pALkWV...
Research Assistant - Institute for Women's Policy Research - Career Page
Apply to Research Assistant at Institute for Women's Policy Research in Washington, DC.
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June 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
I'm hiring 2 research assistants on my team at IWPR! Our team is made up of brilliant researchers across economics, sociology, education, and health and we are looking for some sharp and enthusiastic staff to help us build evidence to advance women's equity! iwpr.applytojob.com/apply/pALkWV...
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I use @pitchforkeconomics.bsky.social podcasts all the time in my teaching so was extra fun to join them to talk about Good Company
didn't quite dwell on how cynical I am rn about the ending of shareholder primacy but must keep pushing no matter what
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
didn't quite dwell on how cynical I am rn about the ending of shareholder primacy but must keep pushing no matter what
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
Good Company: Ending the Era of Shareholder Supremacy (with Lenore Palladino)
Podcast Episode · Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer · 05/27/2025 · 37m
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May 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I use @pitchforkeconomics.bsky.social podcasts all the time in my teaching so was extra fun to join them to talk about Good Company
didn't quite dwell on how cynical I am rn about the ending of shareholder primacy but must keep pushing no matter what
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
didn't quite dwell on how cynical I am rn about the ending of shareholder primacy but must keep pushing no matter what
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g...
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For the June issue of TNR: I went long on the problems with the recent wave of abortion rights ballot initiatives, focusing on Missouri, which “won” back their rights in November, but for most Missourians, abortions are still nearly impossible to get.
Missouri’s Struggle to Restore Abortion Access
The state’s voters defeated an abortion ban. So why can’t more people get one?
newrepublic.com
May 21, 2025 at 2:55 PM
For the June issue of TNR: I went long on the problems with the recent wave of abortion rights ballot initiatives, focusing on Missouri, which “won” back their rights in November, but for most Missourians, abortions are still nearly impossible to get.
New in @msmagazine.com from the big boss Dr. Jamila Taylor and me on what the attacks on data mean for advancing equity and social and economic goals: msmagazine.com/2025/05/20/t...
Why Democracy Needs Data—and What Happens When It Vanishes
In the first few months of Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, one thing has become crystal clear: The war on gender and racial equity is being waged in a new arena—on the battleground of data. T...
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May 21, 2025 at 2:37 PM
New in @msmagazine.com from the big boss Dr. Jamila Taylor and me on what the attacks on data mean for advancing equity and social and economic goals: msmagazine.com/2025/05/20/t...
The boss Dr. Jamila Taylor in @newsweek.com on Black maternal health! Read below.
"Black women in America are dying at three times the rate of white women from pregnancy-related causes. That gap is widening, not closing." #MsReads via @newsweek.com
Let's Honor Black Mothers by Confronting What Endangers Them | Opinion
The lives of Black women—especially Black mothers—are not expendable. Black women are not a political talking point. Our existence is the very foundation of our families, our communities, and our futu...
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April 18, 2025 at 5:16 PM
The boss Dr. Jamila Taylor in @newsweek.com on Black maternal health! Read below.
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Got to talk MAGA plans to enforce gender essentialism on ALL women and why solidarity is how we fight back and win with the brilliant @sarahljaffe.bsky.social and @lipstickecon.bsky.social
progressive.org/magazine/our...
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Our Shared Experience of Being Under Attack
Orders enforcing so-called biological sex are about more than banning trans people from public life. Transphobic violence and policy are tools to keep us all in line.
progressive.org
April 17, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Got to talk MAGA plans to enforce gender essentialism on ALL women and why solidarity is how we fight back and win with the brilliant @sarahljaffe.bsky.social and @lipstickecon.bsky.social
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My daughter Louise made her TV news debut on @nbcwashington.com last night, where I talked about how the return-to-office mandate impacts federal workers with caregiving responsibilities while also caregiving for her when I was on parental leave 🫠. www.nbcwashington.com/investigatio...
Your job or your kid? Federal worker moms say return-to-office order forced them to choose
After the Trump administration ordered federal workers to end all remote work and return to offices full-time, some parents say they feel forced to choose between their jobs and their families. Expert...
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April 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
My daughter Louise made her TV news debut on @nbcwashington.com last night, where I talked about how the return-to-office mandate impacts federal workers with caregiving responsibilities while also caregiving for her when I was on parental leave 🫠. www.nbcwashington.com/investigatio...
Today is AANHPI Equal Pay Day! Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women still earn less than white men. Learn more about the level of the wage gaps across the country, the causes, and the policy solutions with IWPR's new factsheet: iwpr.org/breaking-bar...
Breaking Barriers: Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander Women and the Fight for Equal Pay - IWPR
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April 7, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Today is AANHPI Equal Pay Day! Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women still earn less than white men. Learn more about the level of the wage gaps across the country, the causes, and the policy solutions with IWPR's new factsheet: iwpr.org/breaking-bar...
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Great new piece by @lipstickecon.bsky.social on why federal worker cuts matter to women.
One group of women to especially watch? Women veterans.
More than one out of every six working women veterans works for the federal government: nationalpartnership.org/women-vetera...
One group of women to especially watch? Women veterans.
More than one out of every six working women veterans works for the federal government: nationalpartnership.org/women-vetera...
April 4, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Great new piece by @lipstickecon.bsky.social on why federal worker cuts matter to women.
One group of women to especially watch? Women veterans.
More than one out of every six working women veterans works for the federal government: nationalpartnership.org/women-vetera...
One group of women to especially watch? Women veterans.
More than one out of every six working women veterans works for the federal government: nationalpartnership.org/women-vetera...
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In sum,
1. Labor markets remarkably strong & stable to now.
2. Mixed signals today: jobs 💪, avg hours steady, wages soft
3. If employers judge tariffs'll persist, this likely turns worse. Report'd mark the moment just before POTUS steered us away from soft landing into stagflationary ditch.
1. Labor markets remarkably strong & stable to now.
2. Mixed signals today: jobs 💪, avg hours steady, wages soft
3. If employers judge tariffs'll persist, this likely turns worse. Report'd mark the moment just before POTUS steered us away from soft landing into stagflationary ditch.
April 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
In sum,
1. Labor markets remarkably strong & stable to now.
2. Mixed signals today: jobs 💪, avg hours steady, wages soft
3. If employers judge tariffs'll persist, this likely turns worse. Report'd mark the moment just before POTUS steered us away from soft landing into stagflationary ditch.
1. Labor markets remarkably strong & stable to now.
2. Mixed signals today: jobs 💪, avg hours steady, wages soft
3. If employers judge tariffs'll persist, this likely turns worse. Report'd mark the moment just before POTUS steered us away from soft landing into stagflationary ditch.
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Strong jobs growth in March but will anybody care? The tariff turmoil still tempers the near-term outlook.
-Payrolls up 228,000, well above expectations
-Unemp ticked up again 4.2%
-Wage growth slows to 3.8% YoY
#NumbersDay #EconSky 1/
-Payrolls up 228,000, well above expectations
-Unemp ticked up again 4.2%
-Wage growth slows to 3.8% YoY
#NumbersDay #EconSky 1/
April 4, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Strong jobs growth in March but will anybody care? The tariff turmoil still tempers the near-term outlook.
-Payrolls up 228,000, well above expectations
-Unemp ticked up again 4.2%
-Wage growth slows to 3.8% YoY
#NumbersDay #EconSky 1/
-Payrolls up 228,000, well above expectations
-Unemp ticked up again 4.2%
-Wage growth slows to 3.8% YoY
#NumbersDay #EconSky 1/
Jobs Report! Small-ish declines for federal workers (-4k) are just one sign of how bad things will get for the country's largest employer, especially for women workers. www.forbes.com/sites/kateba...
Attacks on Federal Workers Will Make The Labor Market Worse For Women
The "Jobs Report" shows continued decline in federal employment, harming women workers.
www.forbes.com
April 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Jobs Report! Small-ish declines for federal workers (-4k) are just one sign of how bad things will get for the country's largest employer, especially for women workers. www.forbes.com/sites/kateba...
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Throughout their careers, U.S. women earn less, on average, than do men. New research shows how drastically parenthood widens this gender gap.
www.upjohn.org/research-hig...
www.upjohn.org/research-hig...
April 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Throughout their careers, U.S. women earn less, on average, than do men. New research shows how drastically parenthood widens this gender gap.
www.upjohn.org/research-hig...
www.upjohn.org/research-hig...
In as much as public sector work is like reproductive labor en masse, I can't help but feel like conservative economic ideology à la Trump is just further demonstration of the administration's misogyny.
April 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
In as much as public sector work is like reproductive labor en masse, I can't help but feel like conservative economic ideology à la Trump is just further demonstration of the administration's misogyny.
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Walton Goggins's Citrus Noggins
April 3, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Walton Goggins's Citrus Noggins
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Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one
April 3, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one
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The latest #NumbersDay data out from the Department of Labor (www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf) continue to show significantly higher initial and continuing unemployment insurance claims for federal workers than this time last year, but these losses haven't spread to the private sector data (yet).
April 3, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The latest #NumbersDay data out from the Department of Labor (www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf) continue to show significantly higher initial and continuing unemployment insurance claims for federal workers than this time last year, but these losses haven't spread to the private sector data (yet).
Me doing media calls while returning from maternity leave.
April 3, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Me doing media calls while returning from maternity leave.
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Maybe go at least 5 minutes between "good trouble" and "we don't want to cause any trouble."
No objections to Risch’s unanimous consent motion, not even from @schatz.bsky.social.
April 2, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Maybe go at least 5 minutes between "good trouble" and "we don't want to cause any trouble."
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Dismantling unions will make it harder for workers to access paid leave, paid sick time, fair pay, and other critical protections. This is an anti-family and anti-woman move.
Solidarity with unions and the federal workforce every day.
Solidarity with unions and the federal workforce every day.
March 31, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Dismantling unions will make it harder for workers to access paid leave, paid sick time, fair pay, and other critical protections. This is an anti-family and anti-woman move.
Solidarity with unions and the federal workforce every day.
Solidarity with unions and the federal workforce every day.
Boston folks: check out this event on Black women in solidarity finance with the inimitable @carolinehossein.bsky.social!
MAY 5TH @ Frugal Book shop in Roxbury. Come Join me, hosted by #UjimaBostonCoop
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Our Kind of Investing: Cooperative Finance in the Hands of Black Women
Join us for a book talk on The Banker Ladies by Dr. Caroline Hossein, exploring Black women's leadership in solidarity finance.
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April 1, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Boston folks: check out this event on Black women in solidarity finance with the inimitable @carolinehossein.bsky.social!
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"The issue of whether workers and work is wasteful is a subjective call that AI cannot make. But it can justify what a decision maker wants to do. If Musk wants waste, AI can give him #s to prove waste exists."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
great piece on framing
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
great piece on framing
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
Opinion | The Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on Fumes
A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.
www.nytimes.com
April 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
"The issue of whether workers and work is wasteful is a subjective call that AI cannot make. But it can justify what a decision maker wants to do. If Musk wants waste, AI can give him #s to prove waste exists."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
great piece on framing
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
great piece on framing
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...
Join IWPR this Thursday at 1pm for "Supporting Workers, Strengthening Families: What We Learned from Workers on DC Paid Family Leave" us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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March 31, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Join IWPR this Thursday at 1pm for "Supporting Workers, Strengthening Families: What We Learned from Workers on DC Paid Family Leave" us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...