Shawn Fremstad
@shawnfremstad.bsky.social
For the many, not the few. Class, labor, family. Born in Fargo.
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What is the care economy? It is $4b/day in developmental care, $12b/day in activities that support daily living, and another $4b/day on time caring for a loved ones' health. The equivalent of $20 billion/day of effort is invested in caregiving in the U.S. Check out the details.👇👇👇 #thecareboard
The Care Economy | The Care Board
The Care Board: Visualizing care connections across the U.S. economy. Using data, we reveal the essential role of care in sustaining families, communities, workers, and the broader economy.
thecareboard.org
April 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
What is the care economy? It is $4b/day in developmental care, $12b/day in activities that support daily living, and another $4b/day on time caring for a loved ones' health. The equivalent of $20 billion/day of effort is invested in caregiving in the U.S. Check out the details.👇👇👇 #thecareboard
This is a new piece from me on the increasing significance of class in arrests and incarceration. 1/ cepr.net/publications...
The Increasing Significance of Class in American Hyperincarceration
The discussion on incarceration and class is crucial. Discover how class disparities influence the criminal justice landscape today.
cepr.net
March 22, 2025 at 1:50 PM
This is a new piece from me on the increasing significance of class in arrests and incarceration. 1/ cepr.net/publications...
“what do you do when the pursuit of middle-range theory feels no more useful than trying to determine how many angels can fit on the head of a pin? My own response has been to zoom out, to shift my research toward the big political economy questions: …” lpeproject.org/blog/in-this...
In This Brave New World, Does Scholarship Still Matter?
If the recent past is no longer a useful guide to seeking change in the present, what good is policy-adjacent scholarship?
lpeproject.org
February 2, 2025 at 6:34 PM
“what do you do when the pursuit of middle-range theory feels no more useful than trying to determine how many angels can fit on the head of a pin? My own response has been to zoom out, to shift my research toward the big political economy questions: …” lpeproject.org/blog/in-this...
February 2, 2025 at 4:25 PM
MPP (marriage promotion and preferences) is the new DEI.
Trump's Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy just sent out a memo directing staff to "give preference to
communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average"
communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average"
January 30, 2025 at 10:42 PM
MPP (marriage promotion and preferences) is the new DEI.
"Grossman and Hopkins note that today there are more nonprofit employees in the US than there are manufacturing workers, around three million as of 2023." jacobin.com/2024/11/libe...
Liberal Dominance of Cultural Institutions Hurt the Left
A new book, Polarized by Degrees, argues that college-educated voters have come to dominate the Democratic Party and cultural institutions while Americans without a college degree feel increasingly al...
jacobin.com
December 16, 2024 at 2:28 AM
"Grossman and Hopkins note that today there are more nonprofit employees in the US than there are manufacturing workers, around three million as of 2023." jacobin.com/2024/11/libe...
Erik Olin Wright's "Understanding Class" (both the 2009 New Left Review piece and the 2015 collection with the same title) is notable for bringing together three of the main approaches (stratification, Weberian, and Marxist) to class. See also his lecture here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmii...
December 14, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Erik Olin Wright's "Understanding Class" (both the 2009 New Left Review piece and the 2015 collection with the same title) is notable for bringing together three of the main approaches (stratification, Weberian, and Marxist) to class. See also his lecture here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kmii...
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Resistance 1.0 didn't fail because it was too reflexively anti-Trump.
Resistance 1.0 did not build sustainable power because it was too formalistic. It was focused on what was aberrant and abhorrent about Trump, rather than the impact of his corruption and incompetence on actual people.
Resistance 1.0 did not build sustainable power because it was too formalistic. It was focused on what was aberrant and abhorrent about Trump, rather than the impact of his corruption and incompetence on actual people.
December 12, 2024 at 12:22 PM
Resistance 1.0 didn't fail because it was too reflexively anti-Trump.
Resistance 1.0 did not build sustainable power because it was too formalistic. It was focused on what was aberrant and abhorrent about Trump, rather than the impact of his corruption and incompetence on actual people.
Resistance 1.0 did not build sustainable power because it was too formalistic. It was focused on what was aberrant and abhorrent about Trump, rather than the impact of his corruption and incompetence on actual people.
"Soviet computing was–ironically–severely undermined by a lack of cohesive, collectivist planning...whereas electronics development in Massachusetts and California was lavishly state-funded, leisurely and cooperative. The Bulgarians were fully aware of this..." newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
Owen Hatherley, Bulgarian Dreams — Sidecar
On Victor Petrov’s ‘Balkan Cyberia’.
newleftreview.org
December 14, 2024 at 2:51 PM
"Soviet computing was–ironically–severely undermined by a lack of cohesive, collectivist planning...whereas electronics development in Massachusetts and California was lavishly state-funded, leisurely and cooperative. The Bulgarians were fully aware of this..." newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Such a telling and important figure illustrating how childcare costs impact inequality!
Here's one key finding. It shows that having children has a negative impact on family income and that childcare costs exacerbate this "birth penalty" for women wo college but not for women w college. As childcare prices go up, inequality between the two groups increases ⬆️
December 11, 2024 at 9:13 PM
Such a telling and important figure illustrating how childcare costs impact inequality!
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After not showing up to votes since Thanksgiving, Senator Sinema finally showed up today only to vote against a nominee she had voted to confirm for the same position just four years ago.
Why show up now? Sinema is currently auditioning for the role of corporate sell-out
Why show up now? Sinema is currently auditioning for the role of corporate sell-out
BREAKING: Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema have cast decisive votes against Biden's NLRB nominee. This means the Democrats will not secure control of the national labor regulator through 2026. These two Senators effectively handed Trump control of the board when his term begins.
December 11, 2024 at 7:40 PM
After not showing up to votes since Thanksgiving, Senator Sinema finally showed up today only to vote against a nominee she had voted to confirm for the same position just four years ago.
Why show up now? Sinema is currently auditioning for the role of corporate sell-out
Why show up now? Sinema is currently auditioning for the role of corporate sell-out
"Gamoneda is not a poet of the establishment. Self-taught, working-class, insurgent, an extraordinary voice in post-Civil War Spain. His work is defiant: hermetic, elliptical, fragmented; words have no fixed meaning; readers must accept being cocreators" www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
On Translating Antonio Gamoneda
Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
www.poetryfoundation.org
December 11, 2024 at 10:46 PM
"Gamoneda is not a poet of the establishment. Self-taught, working-class, insurgent, an extraordinary voice in post-Civil War Spain. His work is defiant: hermetic, elliptical, fragmented; words have no fixed meaning; readers must accept being cocreators" www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
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NEWS: Sen. Schumer filed cloture on Lauren McFerran for another term on the National Labor Relations Board. If she's confirmed Democrats will maintain a majority on the board until 2026.
December 9, 2024 at 11:55 PM
NEWS: Sen. Schumer filed cloture on Lauren McFerran for another term on the National Labor Relations Board. If she's confirmed Democrats will maintain a majority on the board until 2026.
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Evidence has demonstrated this effect in numerous cities now.
I understand why it sounds weird to say, 'building a bunch of fancy new townhouses and skyscrapers will make housing more affordable!' but it simply appears to be true.
I understand why it sounds weird to say, 'building a bunch of fancy new townhouses and skyscrapers will make housing more affordable!' but it simply appears to be true.
So proud of the great work happening in Minneapolis, which shows that boosting housing supply helps make homes more affordable.
December 3, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Evidence has demonstrated this effect in numerous cities now.
I understand why it sounds weird to say, 'building a bunch of fancy new townhouses and skyscrapers will make housing more affordable!' but it simply appears to be true.
I understand why it sounds weird to say, 'building a bunch of fancy new townhouses and skyscrapers will make housing more affordable!' but it simply appears to be true.
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People in poor health — especially in non-government plans — in large fractions do hate their plans. You have to actually use it in a meaningful way to have a view on its quality. And, quite obviously insurers work, via a range of burdens (denials, pre auths)to restrict access to care b/c profits.
December 7, 2024 at 4:22 PM
People in poor health — especially in non-government plans — in large fractions do hate their plans. You have to actually use it in a meaningful way to have a view on its quality. And, quite obviously insurers work, via a range of burdens (denials, pre auths)to restrict access to care b/c profits.
Like I keep saying, Minnesota social democracy is happening and going national next.
Democrats have always been the party of the working class.
But for the first time, most Americans believe we're the party of the wealthy and the elite. It's a damning indictment of our brand—and we've got to change it.
But for the first time, most Americans believe we're the party of the wealthy and the elite. It's a damning indictment of our brand—and we've got to change it.
December 7, 2024 at 9:07 PM
Like I keep saying, Minnesota social democracy is happening and going national next.
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Yes, 100%.
(Also underrated: UMass economics.)
(Also underrated: UMass economics.)
Last, this is why descriptive work is underrated.
No preposterous IV, no incomprehensible structural black box, there is just a new fact about the world.
If the descriptive work is done well — and it is not easy — the fact permanently enters everyone's headspace and must be contended with.
No preposterous IV, no incomprehensible structural black box, there is just a new fact about the world.
If the descriptive work is done well — and it is not easy — the fact permanently enters everyone's headspace and must be contended with.
December 6, 2024 at 10:18 PM
Yes, 100%.
(Also underrated: UMass economics.)
(Also underrated: UMass economics.)
"Archaeological and anthropological evidence suggests that a culture of aggressive egalitarianism may have thwarted the emergence of enduring wealth inequality until the Late Neolithic...." www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
The Origins of Enduring Economic Inequality
(December 2024) - We survey archaeological evidence suggesting that among hunter-gatherers and farmers in Neolithic western Eurasia (11,700 to 5,300 years ago) elevated levels of wealth inequality occ...
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December 5, 2024 at 9:06 PM
"Archaeological and anthropological evidence suggests that a culture of aggressive egalitarianism may have thwarted the emergence of enduring wealth inequality until the Late Neolithic...." www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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my book, "Good Company: Economic Policy after Shareholder Primacy," is officially out today 📚
a brief thread on what it's about 🧵
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
a brief thread on what it's about 🧵
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Good Company
On the faulty intellectual origins of shareholder primacy—and how policy can win back what’s been lost. In an era of shareholder primacy, share price is king. Businesses operate with short-term goals ...
press.uchicago.edu
December 5, 2024 at 3:00 PM
my book, "Good Company: Economic Policy after Shareholder Primacy," is officially out today 📚
a brief thread on what it's about 🧵
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
a brief thread on what it's about 🧵
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Co-sign, also Reclaim Idaho's website has great merch with their green camper van on it.
This is such a great Know Your Enemy episode on the power of rural organizing with Luke Mayville, founder of Reclaim Idaho. Fans of @haveyouheard.bsky.social will remember him from our episode on why vouchers flopped in Idaho. know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com/episodes/org...
Organizing in Rural America (w/ Luke Mayville) | Know Your Enemy
Matt and Sam talk to Luke Mayville of Reclaim Idaho about progressive organizing in rural and red America.
know-your-enemy-1682b684.simplecast.com
December 2, 2024 at 7:44 PM
Co-sign, also Reclaim Idaho's website has great merch with their green camper van on it.
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To make up for all the Best Books of the Year end-of-year lists that inevitably omit poetry:
.@davidwoo.bsky.social looks back on 2024’s best poetry collections (and shares new poetry recommendations for December).
Some of Our Favorite Poetry Collections of the Year
If a moral catastrophe and a sense of impending disorder have befallen our country, this moment differs from the modernist era, when some important writers found common ground with the fascism of t…
buff.ly
December 2, 2024 at 4:36 PM
To make up for all the Best Books of the Year end-of-year lists that inevitably omit poetry:
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Finally read it. It's great. Read it now before you formulate your next post-election take.
NEW: my very long election take is here. The key is to understand how beneficial the pandemic era programs were and how painful their expiration was
www.crisesnotes.com/one-election...
www.crisesnotes.com/one-election...
One Election Takeaway: Voters Hate Temporary Safety Nets
Announcement: I'm putting on an end of year sale. For just 55 dollars a year you can subscribe and receive premium pieces of Notes on the Crises. This also helps support the FOIA efforts I've been eng...
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December 2, 2024 at 6:55 PM
Finally read it. It's great. Read it now before you formulate your next post-election take.
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Prior to colonization, Native nations wouldn’t have envisioned themselves as one collective “race”—that was an identity forced on us by Europeans and later the United States.
For example, the Wampanoag and Navajo languages are more linguistically distant than English and Hindi.
For example, the Wampanoag and Navajo languages are more linguistically distant than English and Hindi.
December 2, 2024 at 5:11 PM
Prior to colonization, Native nations wouldn’t have envisioned themselves as one collective “race”—that was an identity forced on us by Europeans and later the United States.
For example, the Wampanoag and Navajo languages are more linguistically distant than English and Hindi.
For example, the Wampanoag and Navajo languages are more linguistically distant than English and Hindi.
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In 4 years of asking swing and surge voters their chief beef with Dems in focus groups, #1 thing we hear is "they don't fight." When we ask them to liken Dems to an animal, top choices are slug, sloth, turtle & tortoise.
I mean Jesus Christ if you fight people notice. Even if you have some short term losses, it creates momentum. It changes things. People with any degree of awareness and any desire for improvement don’t want norms or bipartisanship. They want to fight. Give us some fucking fighters.
Obama's '08 campaign won the biggest margin of victory in the last 30+ years. Within hours of his inauguration, Republicans went to dinner and agreed to oppose him on every single item. Two years later, they won 63 House seats and 6 Senate seats.
December 1, 2024 at 4:06 AM
In 4 years of asking swing and surge voters their chief beef with Dems in focus groups, #1 thing we hear is "they don't fight." When we ask them to liken Dems to an animal, top choices are slug, sloth, turtle & tortoise.