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Meredith Slopen

@mslopen.bsky.social
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Studying labor policy, women's employment, economic security, and work as a social determinant of health. Zinemaker. Can sometimes be found playing music. www.meredithslopen.org

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Meredith Slopen @mslopen.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Compelling new calculator, and useful to be able to look up the specifics for my university (and other locations). We can meet the needs of our communities, and instead are paying for the horror of immigration enforcement.
A calculator showing that Stony Brook University taxpayers currently fund $4893/taxpayer for mass deportations, but could instead spend on 30 teachers, 32 firefighters, 404 people on medicaid, 190 veterans' medical care, 268 head start slots, or 27 registered nurses.
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Meredith Slopen @mslopen.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
This year was not my best for reading - it seemed like there were sometimes months between things I really liked, but definitely some great ones in the mix.
A collage of 49 books/novels I read in 2025.
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Meredith Slopen @mslopen.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Magenta magnolia with small green leaves in front of a brownstone house.
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Meredith Slopen @mslopen.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
This is what it comes down to for me:
Quarterfinals Predictions in Hell Gates March Madness Bracket: Participatory Budgeting is an Austerity-Driven Scam (1) vs. Everyone employed in the NYPD press shop should have to write DOGE-style "what I did this week" letters and submit them to Hell Gate (15) with voting buttons.
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Meredith Slopen @mslopen.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Two menorahs in a window with nine candles lit and burning.
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Meredith Slopen @mslopen.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Let's hope. New year, same fight.
A screenshot of my word for 2025 reading "salvation".
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Meredith Slopen @mslopen.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Headed to #APPAM2024. Looking forward to learning from and strategizing with other policy researchers. I'll be discussing two excellent papers on paid leave and parent employment Thursday morning, and presenting my own work on paid sick leave and older adult employment and health on Friday.
A list of conference sessions where I am presenting at the APPAM conference.
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Meredith Slopen @mslopen.bsky.social · 21/06/2024
Big Ideas @wfrn.bsky.social: @arpilarz.bsky.social makes the case for work family policies starting in the prenatal period.
Alejandra stands in front of a large screen with a slide outlining policy needs during the prenatal and postpartum periods.
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Meredith Slopen @mslopen.bsky.social · 19/06/2024
Views from the @wfrn.bsky.social Early Career Fellows convening in Montréal.
A mural of Leonard Cohen against a blue sky.
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Meredith Slopen @mslopen.bsky.social · 15/09/2023
Lshanah tova! A zizn yontif! I love that this holiday prefigures the sweetness we are hoping for while focusing on the ways our actions set the stage for the year ahead. We can and must make change. Apples dripping with honey, sticking together is key.
A round braided challah bread on a blue plate beside a window with a fire escape.
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Meredith Slopen @mslopen.bsky.social · 08/09/2023
Blue!
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Meredith Slopen @mslopen.bsky.social · 31/08/2023
Where do you get coffee, lunch, drinks around 34th and 5th Avenue?
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