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Christopher Cox

@coxcristobal.bsky.social
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Research Coordinator, Marquette University Center for Peacemaking Notre Dame alum, husband, father, he/him Milwaukee, WI

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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I studied at Tantur in the spring of 1990. It was an experience that continues to shape me to this day. We continue to pray for the peace of Jerusalem.
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Sam Pizzigati @sgp.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Why we so need government action to both lift worker wages and bring CEO pay back into the compensation orbit of ordinary Americans. @ips-dc.org @sarahanderson.bsky.social www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...
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Contributor: Corporations with big pay disparities have been silent as ICE detains their workers
The 'Low-Wage 100' companies are also acquiescing as the Trump administration strips workers' healthcare and food stamps to pay for handouts to CEOs and other wealthy people.
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
@dacemoglumit.bsky.social happy birthday! 🎉🎂🥳
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
@isabelallende.com, ¡feliz cumpleaños! ¡Muchas bendiciones! ¡Gracias por las grandes historias! 🎂🎉🥳
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National Catholic Reporter @ncronline.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The annual shareholder proposal season is complete, and Catholic sisters say the resolutions they put forth scored resounding victories. Of course, the sisters don't score these things the way average investors do.
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Catholic sisters use shareholder activism to press Palantir, GM on human rights
"Raising the moral questions at the boardroom level is so important because you don't know what the impact would be if those questions weren't on the table," said Sr. Susan Francois.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Detained by ICE on her way to Mass yesterday, Sr. Letty is reunited finally with Sr. Norma Pimental, Pope Francis used called Sr. Norma his “favorite nun.” Quite a moment that shows the human face of rounding up people randomly.
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Sister Susan Francois, CSJP @susanfrancois.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Earlier this month I was shadowed by a reporter at my volunteer ministry at Delaney Hall. It was released today ... perfect timing in the midst of what is going on this week. Sadly GEO group and ICE are retaliating against the detainees and families by canceling visitation this week.
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
When drafted initially in Latin, one can imagine that an encyclical may seem dry to the modern eye.
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Pope Leo XIII was probably very conscious of how the world would hear Rerum Novarum. And the evidence would seem that more regular folks read it than today's encyclical will be. Pope Leo XIV is highly committed to synodality, and it has particular implications for how he responds to the world.
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The writing style of encyclicals has become more accessible over time. Some of that may also reflect the language within which it was first drafted. Pope Francis had some idioms in his encyclicals that were particularly Argentinian and not entirely captured in the translation to English.
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Any encyclical has as its audience the Catholic faithful and people of goodwill. Exhortations and other documents may have a more specific audience.
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
And, paragraphs #179 and #209 explicitly include the responsibilities of "investors."
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
And that fits the arguments made by all the Popes from Leo XIII, especially John Paul II, and now Leo XIV, that capitalism misunderstands its telos.
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Magnifica Humanitas, for instance, includes a nifty quote from Tolkein's LOTR.
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Here is something that I wrote about the earlier AI document: seventhgenerationinterfaith.org/asking-bette...
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Asking Better Questions About Artificial Intelligence - Seventh Generation Interfaith Coalition for Responsible Investing
Last week, the unveiling of DeepSeek’s new artificial intelligence (AI) [...]
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Pope Leo signaled this from the beginning of his papacy. Here is a little piece that I wrote: seventhgenerationinterfaith.org/advancing-th...
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Advancing the Legacy of Pope Leo XIII: A Call to Action for Catholic Investors - Seventh Generation Interfaith Coalition for Responsible Investing
In 1891, Pope Leo XIII issued Rerum Novarum, the landmark encyclical that laid the cornerstone of modern Catholic Social Teaching. More than a century later, its principles—fair wages, safe conditions...
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
There is a certain amount of "As the Church has always taught." (Which is a tell that something new is coming.)
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
He would be wise to expect some pushback, but I did not detect anything unusual. I will reread it based on your question. Vatican documents, especially when aimed for a broader audience, may spend a lot of time explaining themselves.
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
A 2025 document from a dicastery on artifical intelligence began, in a very Vaticanesque way, by defining intelligence.
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
The encyclicals often ground themselves in that initial review of prior teaching. The citations from Scripture, ecumenical councils, and earlier popes are standard fare. It's fun to find a citation from an unexpected source.
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
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What Happened When the Pope Had to Call Customer Service
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Jake Grumbach @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
France’s mandated profit-sharing distributes excess profits to workers. This paper shows that the policy raises the labor share and reduces the profit share, with little to no effect on investment, productivity, etc academic.oup.com/qje/advance-...
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The Effects of Mandatory Profit-Sharing on Workers and Firms: Evidence from France
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Elio Nimier-David X, David Sraer X, David Thesmar X
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, qjag022, https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjag022
Published: 24 April 2026
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Since 1967, all French firms with more than 100 employees have been required to share a fraction of their excess profits with their employees. Through this scheme, firms with excess profits distribute, on average, 10.5% of their pre-tax income to workers. In 1990, the eligibility threshold was reduced to 50 employees. We exploit this regulatory change to identify the effects of mandated profit-sharing on firms and their employees. The cost of mandated profit-sharing for firms is evident in the significant bunching at the 100-employee threshold observed prior to the reform, which completely disappears post-reform. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that, at the firm level, mandated profit-sharing (a) increases the labor share by 1.8 percentage points, (b) reduces the profit share by 1.4 percentage points, and (c) has small to non-existent effects on investment and productivity. At the employee level, mandated profit-sharing increases lower-skilled workers' total compensation and leaves high-skilled workers' total compensation unchanged. Overall, mandated profit-sharing redistributes excess profits to lower-skilled workers in the firm without generating significant distortions or productivity effects.
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Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Your perennial reminder that, had the Bush and Trump tax cuts never been enacted, debt/GDP would be declining indefinitely instead of rising (dashed blue is above dashed orange). Yes, this graph first assumes a patched AMT at Clinton tax code.
Primary deficits okay if not for those tax cuts
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
(WSJ) - The U.S. national debt now exceeds 100% of gross domestic product, crossing a once-unthinkable threshold, on the way toward breaking the record set in the wake of World War II. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-...
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ICCR @iccr.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Today we released "Excessive Executive Compensation: Investor Guidance" spotlighting the ways exec. comp trends are distorting the wider economy. Our guide provides concrete examples of how investors can help rein in excessive pay through their proxy voting & engagement www.iccr.org/iccr-issues-...
The cover of the Excess Executive Compensation report, which shows a blue and orange graph of escalating pay disparity between CEOs and average workers, and how intervention by investors can help reduce the disparity.
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ITEP @itep.org · 24/04/2026
88 corporations paid $0 in federal income tax for 2025. Some of these companies want to distract you with other taxes they paid, but that doesn't change the fact that their $0 federal income tax bill is disclosed right in their own financial reports. itep.org/88-corporati...
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The Big Corporations That Avoided All Federal Income Taxes on Their 2025 U.S. Profits Would Like Us All to Please Just Look at That Squirrel Over There
When confronted with the completely accurate observation that their own annual reports disclose an estimated current federal income tax expense of zero on current-year income, the companies will despe...
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
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Concern Grows Over Republican Congressman’s Mysterious Absence
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
@isaacrowlett.bsky.social @danshafer.bsky.social Any ideas?
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Milwaukee folk: anyone know why we have three cargo vessels at anchor outside the port? Coincidence? Spring cleaning? Supply chain issues (e.g., Persian Gulf)? Labor issues? Something else? In my ten years here, I have not seen that many at the same time.
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
@ejdionne.bsky.social Happy birthday! 🎂🥳🎉
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Divertido! Lo hice en 5. Necesito desarrollar mis palabras claves como en inglés.
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𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @charlescmann.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
An economist friend passes along this graph of energy costs. He says, "Given this history, it is more than a little ironic that renewable energy is derided by fossil-fuel proponents as 'unreliable.'”
Chart of relative energy costs since 2010 shows a steady decline in wind and solar vs wild oscillations in the price of oil due to geopolitical events like the current war in Iran.
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ICCR @iccr.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
ICCR CEO Josh Zinner kicks off the March 2026 ICCR Conference
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 18/03/2026
I’m bowled over by the response to this. Thanks all, and thank you new subscribers. Please read the story, bc these activists trusted me with it when they could’ve gone somewhere bigger, and I want to ensure their work and what they’re exposing stays the focus. gillianbrockell.com/video-proves...
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Video proves Delta flew Liam Ramos and his dad to ICE detention center
Three plainclothes federal agents can be seen boarding a Delta flight while guarding the 5-year-old boy and his father, right under unsuspecting passengers’ noses.
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Executives of Core Civic, the company that operates the Dilley detention center, receive cash bonuses that scale up based on company earnings. ICE revenues doubled in 2025. Patrick Swindle is now CEO. Monetizing torture of kids is wrong. #DIVEST $CXW
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
An odd editorial choice to polish the image of tobacco companies whose business model depends on losing half their customers permanently.
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
If tobacco products kill 1 in 2 customers, perhaps tobacco companies belong in the public health section -- not among games for users, including minors. Media influence matters.
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
@chrisgeidner.bsky.social I tried it as one word, and NYT's Spelling Bee rejected my answer. 😞
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Ernie Smith @ernie.tedium.co · 24/12/2025
LOL at Cory Booker putting the 60 Minutes story up on his YouTube channel. Paramount won't dare take it down youtu.be/jiehEMlNiCI?...
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The 60 Minutes Story The Trump Administration Doesn't Want You To See
YouTube video by Cory Booker
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ICCR @iccr.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
Food & bev giants Coke, Pepsi and Mondelez face new shareholder proposals calling out their use of additives, particularly synthetic dyes. Investors press for responsible, transparent steps to protect consumers, strengthen trust, and reduce preventable risk: www.iccr.org/shareholders...
A well-lit grocery store isle; many products are visible on the stocked shelves
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
So very glad that members of SGI could co-file these resolutions. It is important work.
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DC @dcosta.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
Trump’s new H-2A wage rule will radically cut the wages of all farmworkers - and that appears to be the administration's explicit intention: New estimates from @benzipperer.org & me at @epi.org show farmworkers stand to lose $4.4 to $5.4 billion annually under DOL’s updated Adverse Effect Wage Rate
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Trump’s new H-2A wage rule will radically cut the wages of all farmworkers: New estimates show farmworkers stand to lose $4.4 to $5.4 billion annually under DOL’s updated Adverse Effect Wage Rate
The Trump administration will cut the pay of all farmworkers by reducing the minimum wages paid to workers filling seasonal agricultural jobs in the H-2A visa program. By lowering wage rates implement...
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
How much weight would you attribute to ICE at Home Depot sites as well as construction worksite arrests?
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
The Shareholder Rights Group has a statement enumerating its concerns. Curious: Do you see circular logic here? Private markets evade public scrutiny → SEC retreats from proxy oversight → fewer checks on issuers → tougher path for meaningful shareholder engagement? Would value your thoughts.
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Statement Regarding SEC Suspension of Shareholder Proposal No Action Process
November 17, 2025    Today the Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Corporation Finance announced that for the coming proxy season...
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
@matt_levine — your column today on private markets as “the new securities fraud” was spot-on. Meanwhile, the Securities and Exchange Commission just declared it will no longer provide substantive guidance on no-action submissions under Rule 14a‑8. www.sec.gov/newsroom/spe... 1/2.
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SEC.gov | Statement Regarding the Division of Corporation Finance's Role in the Exchange Act Rule 14a-8 Process for the Current Proxy Season
Statement Regarding the Division of Corporate Finance's Role in the Exchange Act Rule 14a-8 Process for the Current Proxy Season Division of Corporation Finance November 17, 2025
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Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org · 17/11/2025
NEW: The Trump administration's brutal removal of so many workers is projected to shrink the nation’s GDP by as much as 6.8% — a deeper hit than the one sustained during the Great Recession. A.J. Schumann:
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Mass Deportations Aren’t Helping Workers. They’re Tanking The Economy. - OtherWords
Trump claimed immigrants were “taking your jobs.” But during his brutal crackdown, the job market has only gotten worse.
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
SGI will close on Jan 31, 2026 after a year of discernment. I’m grateful for all who have walked with us. As we wind down, I’m exploring new opportunities & welcome any connections or suggestions. Thank you for your trust, collaboration, & friendship. seventhgenerationinterfaith.org/an-update-on...
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An Update on the Future of SGI - Seventh Generation Interfaith Coalition for Responsible Investing
Over the past year, Seventh Generation Interfaith’s Board of Directors and staff have been engaged in a careful process of discernment about the future of SGI. With support from consultants funded th...
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Indeed. Thanks for taking on the added responsibilities.
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Christopher Cox @coxcristobal.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
@samjones74.bsky.social will find this interesting. Thanks, Matthew, for your good work.
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