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Pilar Gonalons-Pons
@pgonalon.bsky.social
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Sociology Prof @ Upenn. Feminist studying gender, families, inequality, and social policy. She/her. The nuclear family is radioactive ⚠️⚠️
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Pilar Gonalons-Pons @pgonalon.bsky.social · Nov 22
Saying hi to this new site by sharing my last ASR pub, w amazing colab @imarinescu.bsky.social! We show that privatized childcare services play a direct role creating family income inequality in the US, bc unaffordable childcare hurts lower income families most doi.org/10.1177/0003...
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jlussenhop.bsky.social
"He wants the world to know what happened to him in the Salvadoran prison — daily beatings, humiliation, psychological abuse. 'There is no reason for what I went through,” he said. “I didn’t deserve that.'" A haunting dispatch from @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social www.propublica.org/article/vene...
He Was Asked About His Tattoos and a TikTok Video in Court. Five Days Later, He Was in a Salvadoran Prison.
Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. After his release, he says he wants the world to ...
www.propublica.org
July 29, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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pennldi.bsky.social
Who provides care in the U.S.—and how has it changed over 50 years? A new study by LDI Fellow @pgonalon.bsky.social reveals key trends in paid and unpaid caregiving, highlighting persistent gender and racial disparities.
ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...
Who Cares? Study Reveals 50 Years of U.S. Caregiving Trends
As debates continue over paid leave, child care, long-term care, and workplace flexibility in U.S. policy discussions, a fundamental question often gets overlooked: Who is doing the care work, and how...
ldi.upenn.edu
June 27, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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pennpsc.bsky.social
New paper in @readdemography.bsky.social by @pgonalon.bsky.social & @z-ansari-thomas.bsky.social

The Social Division of Care Work Time Over Half a Century

READ IT HERE
bit.ly/3F16LiB
July 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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pennaging.bsky.social
➡️ Who Cares? Study Reveals 50 Years of U.S. Caregiving Trends

Research by PARC Research Associate Pilar Gonalons-Pons @pgonalon.bsky.social featured in @pennldi.bsky.social Blog Post:
ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...

Read the @readdemography.bsky.social article doi.org/10.1215/0070...
Who Cares? Study Reveals 50 Years of U.S. Caregiving Trends
As debates continue over paid leave, child care, long-term care, and workplace flexibility in U.S. policy discussions, a fundamental question often gets overlooked: Who is doing the care work, and…
ldi.upenn.edu
July 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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pennaging.bsky.social
💰 The Price of Parenthood 💸

Research by @pgonalon.bsky.social, PARC Research Associate & co-author I. Marinescu, reveals how high childcare costs create family income inequality in the United States
omnia.sas.upenn.edu/story/pilar-...

ASR Journal Article: doi.org/10.1177/0003...
The Price of Parenthood
Research from Pilar Gonalons-Pons, Alber-Klingelhofer Presidential Associate Professor of Sociology, and Ioana Marinescu of Penn’s School of Social Policy and Practice, reveals how high childcare…
omnia.sas.upenn.edu
July 28, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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pennaging.bsky.social
How Medicaid Cuts Could Force Millions Into Nursing Homes

This @pennldi.bsky.social blog post quotes several PARC Research Associates @rachelwerner.bsky.social, @pgonalon.bsky.social, @adrianaperez98.bsky.social, Allison K. Hoffman, and PARC Co-Director Norma B. Coe
How Medicaid Cuts Could Force Millions Into Nursing Homes
Proposed Medicaid cuts in the 2025 Budget Bill could drastically reduce access to home- and community-based care, forcing more Americans into nursing homes and straining families and caregivers.
ldi.upenn.edu
July 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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pennaging.bsky.social
Recent Health Services Research paper:

Increasing Expenditures on Home- and Community-Based Services: Do Home Care Workers Benefit?

by Katherine E. M. Miller, Norma B. Coe, Amanda R. Kreider,
Allison K. Hoffman, Katherine Rhode, Pilar Gonalons-Pons
@pgonalon.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1111/1475...
March 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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erininthemorning.com
1. We are seeing a massive amount of overcompliance with Trump EOs. Nonprofits across the board are erasing transgender people from their websites.

Mira Lazine reports on several that have made the decision to do so in her latest piece.

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Several Nonprofits Overcomply With Trump EOs, Erase Trans People From Websites
Organizations such as the Boys and Girls Club of America, the Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children are among dozens erasing trans people.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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nelsonlflores.bsky.social
Of course it is not the most elite institutions with the most resources fighting back. It is those with the fewest resources who serve the most marginalized populations. For these institutions DEI is not an optional add-on but their entire mission.
February 22, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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joolia.bsky.social
This is a challenging book at a challenging time, but for feminists like me who tend to repudiate TERFism as "not real feminism", it's an important push to grapple honestly with history and be clearsighted about the nature of our current opponents.

It is, Sophie says, "a love letter to feminism".
‘I won’t cede the ground’: Sophie Lewis wants feminists to know their enemies – even if they’re other feminists
In a new book, Enemy Feminisms, the scholar traces a line from reactionary tendencies in history to anti-trans feminists enabling the far right today
www.theguardian.com
February 21, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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epopppp.bsky.social
I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x
Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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rsbaker.bsky.social
Delighted to be featured in this great WP piece by @andrewvandam.bsky.social today:

"‘Kindergarten Cop’ lied to us. This is the real single-parent capital of America"

www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

(Don't know why a sea lions image came up here! 🦭🤷🏾‍♀️ 😂)

#sociologysky #policysky
Column | ‘Kindergarten Cop’ lied to us. This is the real single-parent capital of America.
The movie casts Astoria, Oregon, as “the single-parent capital of America.” That can’t possibly be true, can it? Let’s look at the data!
www.washingtonpost.com
January 24, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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johnedwinmason.bsky.social
All the soldiers are white—in every photo you've seen of the liberation of Paris in 1944. Yet African colonial soldiers made up 2/3rds of Free French forces & tens of thousands of African American troops fought in France. US & UK commanders insisted—no Blacks allowed.
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/...
The black and white photo shows a large phalanx of white American soldiers marching down the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, in August 1944, during the military parade that marked the liberation of Paris.
December 28, 2024 at 5:49 PM
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imarinescu.bsky.social
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Co-authored with Jose Azar: Chapter 10 - Monopsony Power in the Labor Market, in the Handbook of Labor Economics. doi.org/10.1016/bs.h... Honored to contribute to this series that inspired me as a young researcher! 🙌 #EconSky 🧵
December 11, 2024 at 10:18 PM
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pennldi.bsky.social
In the midst of the urgent need for home health care workers, LDI Fellow @pgonalon.bsky.social & colleagues found that as state Medicaid spending for home-based services increased, home care worker wages remained stuck.

She unpacks what these findings mean here:
ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/res...
Wages Stagnate as Medicaid Home Care Spending Rises
A study found that as state Medicaid spending for home-based services increased, home care worker wages remained stuck in the $11-$12 an hour range.
ldi.upenn.edu
December 11, 2024 at 6:21 PM
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juliaserano.bsky.social
since the US v Skrmetti #SCOTUS case is this week, I thought I'd share this 🧵 of excerpts from my essay "Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation of Studies" (no paywall). the essay provides...
juliaserano.medium.com/gender-affir...
Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth Is Neither New nor Experimental: A Timeline and Compilation…
NOTE: this essay is a 15 minute read. If it’s listed as longer than that, it’s because it contains a list of over 100 references at the…
juliaserano.medium.com
December 2, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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queenmab.bsky.social
So many of us have been screaming about the online radicalization of young (white) men. Misogyny & “trolling” are gateways that shouldn’t be dismissed
olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Nov 29
"How do you make ‘strong’ men? According to the right, it’s by making them cruel. “Owning the libs” isn’t just entertainment and sport, it’s important psychological training for the civil war they believe is to come."

www.skeptic.org.uk/2024/11/the-...
The meaning crisis, and how we rescue young men from reactionary politics
In the recent US election, male voters overwhelmingly voted for Trump – because he offered them the illusion of meaning in a world where their position is uncertain
www.skeptic.org.uk
November 29, 2024 at 6:59 PM
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shawnfremstad.bsky.social
Great piece from @rachelmcohen.bsky.social. I'm with Bruenig on this: "the technical fix is to just tax everyone on their personal income rather than using household income", but would also add that our system (and many proposed reforms) create marriage bonuses.
rcobooth.bsky.social Rachel Cohen Booth @rcobooth.bsky.social · Nov 26
50 years ago, policymakers worried that welfare benefits were encouraging too many births outside of marriage. Today, some conservatives are making nearly the opposite argument: that government assistance programs are contributing to too few births by penalizing marriage

www.vox.com/policy/38781...
Could tweaks to the tax code lead to more marriages — and more kids?
Some pronatalists say we should end financial penalties for couples who tie the knot.
www.vox.com
November 26, 2024 at 3:37 PM
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johngraves.bsky.social
Two critically important research articles related to this.

One third (!!!!) of the home health and personal care aide workforce is foreign-born.

amandakreider.github.io/in-progress/... (from @amandakreider.bsky.social)

www.nber.org/papers/w30960
Immigration, The Long-Term Care Workforce, and Elder Outcomes in the U.S.
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
www.nber.org
November 25, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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serenekhader.bsky.social
Apparently Nancy Mace did not get this memo www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Home is the most dangerous place for women, says global femicide report
Of the 85,000 women killed by men in 2023, 60% died at the hands of a partner or family member, new UN figures show
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 3:33 PM
pgonalon.bsky.social
Correct link here: doi.org/10.1177/0003...
November 22, 2024 at 5:32 PM
pgonalon.bsky.social
Reposting to correct the tag of my fab co-author @imarinescu.bsky.social
pgonalon.bsky.social Pilar Gonalons-Pons @pgonalon.bsky.social · Nov 22
Saying hi to this new site by sharing my last ASR pub, w amazing colab @imarinescu.bsky.social! We show that privatized childcare services play a direct role creating family income inequality in the US, bc unaffordable childcare hurts lower income families most doi.org/10.1177/0003...
November 22, 2024 at 4:21 PM
pgonalon.bsky.social
Saying hi to this new site by sharing my last ASR pub, w amazing colab @imarinescu.bsky.social! We show that privatized childcare services play a direct role creating family income inequality in the US, bc unaffordable childcare hurts lower income families most doi.org/10.1177/0003...
November 22, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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imarinescu.bsky.social
Yes, and childcare costs deepen family income #inequality as less educated women have a stronger incentive to drop out of the labor market post birth, as we show in our paper w. @pgonalon.bsky.social repository.upenn.edu/entities/pub...
November 19, 2024 at 8:17 PM