@tomchandos.bsky.social
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This paper from @tomlyttelton.bsky.social and @natewilmers.bsky.social is amazing. It shows that removing educational requirements can have big impacts for workers...except that employers don't really hire those workers below the normal education level anyway.
Are decredentialed jobs a route to upward mobility? Prominent employers, from Microsoft to the State of Maryland, are increasingly dropping college degree requirements when hiring. Does this provide upward mobility for workers without a college degree? Matching job postings to h
#sociology link
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September 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
This paper from @tomlyttelton.bsky.social and @natewilmers.bsky.social is amazing. It shows that removing educational requirements can have big impacts for workers...except that employers don't really hire those workers below the normal education level anyway.
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Because he’s a headline-chasing “big thinker” rather than someone serious about fixing the UK’s actual problems
I’m getting really fed up of these abstract attacks on ‘regulation’ - why is Andy Haldane advocating the Doge approach for UK - blanket halving the number of regulators and their budgets? on.ft.com/416pqlx 1/2
How to dismantle the UK’s regulatory Tower of Babel
Labour’s erratic, piecemeal approach will not deliver lasting change
on.ft.com
February 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Because he’s a headline-chasing “big thinker” rather than someone serious about fixing the UK’s actual problems
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Tory strategy at the moment reminds me of that very old joke about Bono saying “every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies” and a heckler responding “stop doing it then”.
Yet another pollster has the Tories in third place in the low 20s. They are in so much trouble and they don't even seem to realise it.
New Westminster Voting Intention
LAB 27% (-3)
CON 22% (-3)
REF 24% (+4)
LD 13% (+2)
GRE 8% (+1)
SNP 3% (+1)
OTH 4% (-)
F/w 28th - 29th January. Changes vs. 16th December 2024.
@jackpeacock1.bsky.social explores the findings below: www.survation.com/reform-rise-...
LAB 27% (-3)
CON 22% (-3)
REF 24% (+4)
LD 13% (+2)
GRE 8% (+1)
SNP 3% (+1)
OTH 4% (-)
F/w 28th - 29th January. Changes vs. 16th December 2024.
@jackpeacock1.bsky.social explores the findings below: www.survation.com/reform-rise-...
January 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Tory strategy at the moment reminds me of that very old joke about Bono saying “every time I clap my hands, a child in Africa dies” and a heckler responding “stop doing it then”.
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A great article about my friend Lord Hodgson's campaign to end the extortionate profit making and bring transparency to one our country's most famous institutions.
Stop wealthy seat-holders’ big profits from reselling at Royal Albert Hall, peer says
Sales of trustees’ tickets should go through the RAH box office rather than commercial sites, Lord Hodgson proposes
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 11:29 AM
A great article about my friend Lord Hodgson's campaign to end the extortionate profit making and bring transparency to one our country's most famous institutions.
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You can’t ban ‘Fahrenheit 451’ without making Ray Bradbury’s warning come true - when the freedom to read is attacked, we lose our ability to think critically and challenge the status quo. Join me at 11a w/ Lois Lowry for the latest #VelshiBannedBookClub featuring the dystopian classic. #Velshi
January 11, 2025 at 2:34 PM
You can’t ban ‘Fahrenheit 451’ without making Ray Bradbury’s warning come true - when the freedom to read is attacked, we lose our ability to think critically and challenge the status quo. Join me at 11a w/ Lois Lowry for the latest #VelshiBannedBookClub featuring the dystopian classic. #Velshi