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Alejandra Ros Pilarz

@arpilarz.bsky.social
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Associate Professor, Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work, @UWMadison. I study work and family, public policy, and child and family well-being. Views are my own.

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Institute for Research on Poverty @irpwisc.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
📣 Join us for our upcoming June 30th virtual session - Wisconsin Knowledge Boost: What is the State of Child Care in Wisconsin? Registration is now open: uwmadison.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Wisconsin Knowledge Boost: What is the State of Child Care in Wisconsin?. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
This virtual session focuses on the current state of child care in Wisconsin including insights into policy and the implications for Wisconsinites. The session will begin with Dr. Alejandra Ros Pilarz,...
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Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World @sociusjournal.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
⏰ Parenting in Sync 👪 @arpilarz.bsky.social & A. K. Walther’s new article in #Socius examines factors contributing to the decline in #tagteamparenting, including access to #nonparentalcare and shifting #employment demands Read: doi.org/10.1177/2378...
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Martha W. Alibali @marthaalibali.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
How I [almost, accidentally] submitted a paper with a fake, AI-generated citation. 🧵 (1/8)
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Tom VanHeuvelen @tvanheuvelen.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Very excited about forthcoming @sfjournal.bsky.social with Jessie Himmelstern academic.oup.com/sf/advance-a... How has job insecurity changed over the past 1/2ish century?
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Alejandra Ros Pilarz @arpilarz.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
APPAM attendees: Please join us for an APPAM community gathering, “Research on Women's Employment, Economic Wellbeing, and Health During the Period Surrounding Childbirth,” that Jessica Pac and I are organizing. Saturday, November 15 from 8:30am-9:30am in Hyatt Regency Room 702 - Clearwater.
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Meredith Slopen @mslopen.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Social workers (and friends) attending @appam.bsky.social in Seattle: we will meet for our annual happy hour on Friday night from 5-7 at Kells' Bar. Be in touch if you need details and share with your students/new colleagues. Looking forward! @arpilarz.bsky.social @calliefreitag.bsky.social
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
You've probably heard that US fertility is "below replacement level." But what does that actually mean??? Demographers @lesja.bsky.social & others explain the link between birth rates & population growth in this new @ccfamilies.bsky.social brief. contemporaryfamilies.utah.edu/publications...
Picture of a brief published by the Council on Contemporary Families titled "How Do We Know When Fertility is Too Low?"
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Childcare is a public good. The return on investment is high (and VERY well-documented). It benefits children, mothers, families, businesses, and the economy. The lack of a robust childcare infrastructure is a choice the U.S. has made. We could make a different one. www.wbur.org/cognoscenti/...
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Will America finally treat child care as a public good? Some states are about to find out
In November, New Mexico will become the first state to offer free daycare for children as young as 6 weeks. On the other side of the country, child care is a key issue in New York City's mayoral elect...
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UW-Madison Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work @uwsocialwork.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
The Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work welcomes you to attend our 2025 PhD of Social Welfare Information Session on October 22nd from 12-1pm CST. This is a great opportunity to gain insights and ask questions about the program. Register here: forms.gle/vENsGdGj6fBW...
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Alejandra Ros Pilarz @arpilarz.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Please consider submitting an abstract!
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Lilly Springer @springerecon.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
“The Price of Parenthood: Childcare Costs and Fertility”, which is @abigaildow.bsky.social’s excellent JMP is a really interesting look at the link between childcare and birthrates
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Alejandra Ros Pilarz @arpilarz.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Excited for this paper to be out! Mothers’ work schedules matter for child and family wellbeing, but we know little about how these have changed over time. We find that while, on average, rates of mothers' nonstandard schedules have been stable over time, trends vary substantially across subgroups.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/05/2025
1/ For ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for public service, we reported on five pregnant women who died after not receiving timely medical care in states with strict abortion bans. These are their stories 🧵
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Christina Weiland @weilanch.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Head Start, which serves over 800K children and their families all over the country, was hit hard today by the HHS layoffs. <1% of HS’s annual funding is spent on federal staff. nhsa.org/press_releas...
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NHSA Expresses Deep Concern Over Administration Shuttering Regional Offices
NHSA is deeply concerned about the closing of regional offices and HHS's reorganization without open communication or a clear plan for how the administration intends on supporting Head Start.
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Linda Tropp @lindatropp.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
US faculty and anyone who cares about academic freedom: I urge you to check out @wearehighered.bsky.social * read through compelling letters signed by thousands of faculty * learn about upcoming actions in which you can participate * spread the word to encourage others to get involved, too !
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Seven polling sites in Milwaukee ran out of ballots due to "historic turnout" according to city election director. More ballots are being printed and on way. Very important to remind voters that if they're in line when polls close at 8 CT they get to vote. Do not leave. Please spread the word
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UW-Madison Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work @uwsocialwork.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Did you know that roughly one-third of children and families receiving Head Start services live in the Big Ten states? @arpilarz.bsky.social contributes to a new brief on the benefits of Head Start and how it serves children and families in Big Ten states. btela.osu.edu/our-work/hea...
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Head Start and Outcomes for Children and Families: How Head Start Serves the Big Ten States - Big Ten Early Learning Alliance
BIG TEN EARLY LEARNING ALLIANCE BRIEF Number 3 — Winter 2025 Anna J. Markowitz, Alejandra Ros Pilarz, David Purpura, Terri Sabol, & Dawn Thomas Overview The Big Ten Early Learning Alliance brings toge...
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AERA @aeraedresearch.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
AERA has just learned that all restricted-use NCES data licenses will be cancelled, possibly as early as March 20. We urgently request that all AERA members and others in the research community with restricted-use licenses take these two actions: www.aera.net/Research-Pol...
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Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
As federal research grants continue to be frozen, and NIH staff is being gutted, please note this study was funded by federal research grants, including from NIH. If they continue with staff cuts, and continue to freeze new awards, this is just one example of what we lose.
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Tim Bartik @timbartik.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
My new report, on shorter-run economic benefits of Michigan's state pre-K program, was released today by @upjohninstitute.bsky.social . This links to the Research Highlights page, from which you can access the full report: www.upjohn.org/research-hig...
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Michigan’s Great Start Readiness Program yields positive economic return
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Alejandra Ros Pilarz @arpilarz.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Does anyone have any info on when the SIPP online codebook will be back up? Or happen to have a downloadable version of the codebook? This is for the 2014 and later panels, which only had the online interactive codebook.
Screenshot of the Census website for the SIPP online interactive codebook saying that the site is down for maintenance.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
this is the development that most fills me with dread www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...
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Tent City Rising at Guantánamo Bay (Gift Article)
These are the first independent images to emerge from the migrant operation that the Trump administration has begun at the Navy base.
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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 06/02/2025
Updates to google doc: a spreadsheet for data at risk (It is a WIP). Info from ICPSR about their efforts. Added headings for accessibility. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Data Rescue Efforts
Data Rescue 2025 Efforts and More Updated 2025-02-06 These suggestions come from various sources, including IASSIST, RDAP, Data Curation Network, BlueSky, LinkedIn, and others. A librarian at a unive...
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Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org · 05/02/2025
COPAFS (copafs.org) has drafted a letter to Senate and House leadership. You can sign on as an individual or institution. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics
The Council of Professional Associations on Federal Statistics (COPAFS) is devoted to educational activities and to preserving the public good represented by federal statistical collections.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 06/02/2025
Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer. Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵
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Alt: a man in a black shirt is looking at a screen with a red background
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UW-Madison Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work @uwsocialwork.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Associate Prof @arpilarz.bsky.social quoted: “If you’re eligible for a subsidy and there’s just no child care in your community, or no providers that accept subsidies, that’s going to make it a lot harder for you to actually participate in (Wisconsin) Shares."
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Wisconsin child care costs soar, but thousands miss out on state aid
Child care costs more for some families than housing. Despite the strain, 39% fewer children receive state aid than 13 years ago.
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Hilary Wething @hilwething.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
DATA RELEASE WHEN DATA FEELS SCARCE! Check out data.epi.org -a data repository with 78,000+ series on topics like employment, wages, poverty, and inequality. You can get many measures by gender, race and state! I've been working with our @epi.org team to build this and am so proud of the result
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Topics - EPI Library
The EPI Data Library offers comprehensive, up-to-date labor data from Economic Policy Institute analysis, covering wages, inequality, and economic trends across demographics.
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
The Notice of Funding Opportunities (NOFOs) page of the Population Dynamics Branch of the NICHD is now dead.
A "page not found" screen for the NICHD's PDB funding opportunities.
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
I'm just a simple country public administration professor so maybe smarter people than me can explain if these options can't work and if others are better, but there is no strategy that involves waiting for something bigger than right now.
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
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
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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.
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
From a census employee
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
🚨 BREAKING: OMB has just issued a memo *rescinding* the previous memo freezing all federal financial assistance programs. Full text, per government source:
January 29, 2025
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MEMORANDUM FOR HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES
FROM: Matthew J. Vaeth, Acting Director, Office of Management and Budget Me
SUBJECT: Rescission of M-25-13
OMB Memorandum M-25-13 is rescinded. If you have questions about implementing the
President's Executive Orders, please contact your agency General Counsel.
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laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
For those wondering how to act: Call your reps and demand that they treat this like the utter emergency it is. Numbers: www.usa.gov/elected-offi... And a call script from @celestepewter.bsky.social below
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Jonathan Lambert @jonlambert.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
If you're a scientist that serves on an NSF panel that got cancelled today, I'd love to talk to you about it for an NPR story. DM, email or reach out on signal.
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Jackie Flynn Mogensen @jackiefmogensen.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Really thankful to all of the scientists who made themselves available to talk to me about the unprecedented situation at NIH. I've never had so many people reach out to me for a story like this. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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What the Hell Is Going on at NIH?
Scientists sound the alarm about Trump’s unprecedented “Big Brother” research crackdown.
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Sam Bagenstos @sbagen.bsky.social · 24/01/2025
Nice piece from Theda Skocpol. How to Take Heart From What Really Worked in the First Resistance newrepublic.com/article/1905... via @newrepublic.com
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How to Take Heart From What Really Worked in the First Resistance
Marches and lawsuits are fine, but the real wins over MAGA last time were powered by grassroots activists pushing from thousands of districts across the country.
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Amy Feldman @amyfeldman7.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
If you’ve been directly impacted by a pause or cancellation of an NIH study session, we @forbes.com would like to talk to you
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Raul Pacheco-Vega @raulpachecovega.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
#RPVSky One of the first things I teach my students *and* my thesis advisees is how to develop a writing practice. Perhaps the most challenging thing in the #HiddenCurriculum of being a graduate students, one of the many things I wasn't taught, was the idea of a writing practice, the "how to".
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
In Washington, DC, a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.
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How D.C. tackled a child care crunch through a tax hike on the rich
In Washington, D.C., a tax on residents earning more than $250,000 a year is boosting the wages of child care workers. Two years in, it's proving to be a great investment.
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Paul Fairie @paulisci.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
A List of Things People Blamed on Working Women 🧵
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Kristen Brock-Petroshius @4heartsnminds.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
My 1st paper on deep canvass organizing to build support for #anticarceral policies is now out in @socservreview.bsky.social ❗❗This was a herculean effort in collaboration with #WP4BL #ShowingUpforRacialJustice & many other organizers in LA. Here's a glimpse of the #FieldExperiment design. (1/7)
Research design diagram of the field experiment showing a sampling frame beginning with over 500,000 registered voters and ending with 830 participants who completed a survey one-week after being canvassed
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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I’m going to try to pull together a starter pack for schools of social work this afternoon. I’ve got a very short list at the moment, so if you have any leads please point me in their direction (or just tag them in a reply). Thanks!
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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Here’s a schools of social work starting pack. Well, it’s really the start of a starter pack, since there aren’t that many folks on there yet. But I’ll update it as more institutions sign up.
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Julia Goodman @julia-goodman.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Excited for this super important line of research from the brilliant @arpilarz.bsky.social and Jessica Pac!
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Fabian Pfeffer @fabianpfeffer.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Interested in inequality research? Here is a starter pack containing research centers / institutes / organizations dedicated to the study of socioeconomic inequality. Time seemed ripe as, finally, organizations are moving to Bluesky. Let me know if others should be added. go.bsky.app/5daYr6v
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Pamela Colloff @pamelacolloff.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
I need an indefinite break from podcasts about the election. What are you listening to that you would recommend? I'm partial to narrative podcasts with dazzling storytelling ("S-Town," "Bear Brook," "In the Dark") but I know those are far and few between these days.
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Hilary Wething @hilwething.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
This is going to be so good. @arpilarz.bsky.social is brilliant-- can't wait to watch!
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Alejandra Ros Pilarz @arpilarz.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Work-family balance begins before childbirth—work-family policies should, too. In this talk, I argue that we need more robust policy supports during pregnancy to protect women’s economic wellbeing and health and that of their unborn children. 1/7
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Here are some of the points I made 🧵
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