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Hannah Archambault @shirkandsteal.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

It’s the most wonderful time of the year! (The day my labor Econ students do their collective bargaining game and demand things like fraternity leave [time off to hang out with your {gender neutral} bros])

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Hannah Archambault @shirkandsteal.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

A view of social reproduction, and more specifically domestic labor, that views "the home" and SR as outside of the realm of capitalist control actually limits the vision of the domestic realm as a sit of struggle by declaring it already free.

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Hannah Archambault @shirkandsteal.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

I think the best way to improve economics as a discipline/field is to replace multiple semesters of required microeconomics coursework with a mandatory six semesters working in service industry jobs.

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Hannah Archambault @shirkandsteal.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

There is no relief like the relief of deciding to watch a video in class 2/3 of the way through the semester

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Hannah Archambault @shirkandsteal.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

The more "humane" a prison's mission statement is--highlighting care, health, wellness, etc.)--the more disturbing it is. And not because they're lying, but because this is where and how public care happens in the U.S.

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Hannah Archambault @shirkandsteal.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

If you ever want a window into how fundamentally fucked the United States is, I recommend reading dozens of state prison mission and vision statements. I do not recommend it if you do not want to be overcome with a feeling of deep hopelessness, however.

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Hannah Archambault @shirkandsteal.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Tariffs only work if there's increased domestic production. Capacity is currently 73.7%, with 83,200 workers, in the Iron & Steel Mills NAICS sector. 20,900 jobs could be created if the mills went to full capacity and it was all steel (unlikely). It takes AT LEAST two years to build a new steel mill

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Hannah Archambault @shirkandsteal.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Gonna write a paper called “Abolishing your outie: the intensification of real subsumption”

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Hannah Archambault @shirkandsteal.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Self proclaimed "progressives" invoking imagined science about trans women's advantage in sports is utterly rage inducing. The science does NOT show that trans women have an advantage over cis women, you absolute dopes. I am begging you to read an actual study.

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Hannah Archambault @shirkandsteal.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

The rapid dismantling of the (already inadequate AND carceral) public health apparatus in the United States is evidence that public health provision in the United States is barely better than private health services (and sometimes worse) and good health can't come from our current system

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

FANTASTIC ICPSR at U Mich is coordinating the archiving of at-risk federal data (all of it?) You can upload data you have & search for data you don’t have www.datalumos.org/datalumos/

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Hannah Archambault @shirkandsteal.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Teaching & service this semester are exhausting but I'm grateful for my students and colleagues for providing a modicum of stability and hope. Particularly my more conservative students, frankly--their unflappable interest in learning and solidarity with other working ppl suggets there is a way out

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Hannah Archambault @shirkandsteal.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

The Federal government revoking FEMA grant-disbursed funds from a city's commercial bank account, well past the usual five day reversal time limit, is deeply troubling.

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American Statistical Association Office of Science Policy @asa-scipol.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Please consider signing this letter to Congress and the Administration regarding threats to our nation’s economic statistical infrastructure, specifically the Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the U.S. Census Bureau: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Statement of Urgency for Federal Economic Statistics

Please use this form to be a signer to this letter to Congress and the Administration conveying the risks to federal economic statistics produced by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), the Bureau o...

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Hannah Archambault @shirkandsteal.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Given the current number of job openings and the current unemployment level, laying off a significant portion of federal employees results in a total number of unemployed people that outpaces available jobs.

A graph from FRED that shows the relationship between unemployment level and number of employees and the job openings that reflect the content of the post.

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Hannah Archambault @shirkandsteal.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

VERY interesting thread on the fallout for farmers in the U.S. because of USAID freeze. Farmers/big ag are Trump's base here in the central valley and he's already jilted them once with his weird water release stunt.

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Hannah Archambault @shirkandsteal.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Fuck the NCAA always, but especially right now.

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Hannah Archambault @shirkandsteal.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

My students watched me realize in real time that they might have a harder time conducting their final research projects in our Women in the Economy class this semester than students in previous semesters bc of the thousands of articles and reports about gender that have been removed by the new admin

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

🚨 BREAKING: The @aflcio.org, EPI, and four major unions have filed an injunction against DOGE and the Trump-appointed Acting Sec of Labor. They’re seeking a temporary restraining order to keep Musk’s minions out of the DOL’s data. More at @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/elon...

Article screenshot: Protests and a Lawsuit Confront DOGE as It Targets Labor Department
Ahead of a planned Department of Labor visit today by Elon Musk’s government-slashing group, unions launched protests and a lawsuit.
KIM KELLY FEBRUARY 5, 2025

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Hannah Archambault @shirkandsteal.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

I’m not an accelerationist but it’s scarier to think about the current policy moves resulting in successful (re)entrenchment of US capitalism (though almost certainly not working class quality of life) than for them to lead to the collapse of the US economy and global hegemony

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the Union for Radical Political Economics @urpe1968.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

The 27th Annual David Gordon Memorial Lecture will be delivered via webinar, on Friday 31 January 2025, at 12:00 p.m. Eastern US time/5:00 p.m. London time. Imperialism in Marx, the Marxist Tradition, and Today Please register here: forms.gle/hrtGxyH7awXP...

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David Gordon Memorial Lecture 2025

Review of Radical Political Economics

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Hannah Archambault @shirkandsteal.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

This is bonkers. What are the US government's criteria for banning scholars from entering the US? Can US scholars safely travel abroad (for work or leisure) and be certain they can return? What about students? What about ANYONE?

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Hannah Archambault @shirkandsteal.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Democrats have been hemming and hawing, looking over their shoulder, crossing the street, and wringing their hands to avoid defending and protecting trans kids and their cowardice gets us here, and that same cowardice is almost certainly going to result in them continuing to do absolutely jack shit.

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Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation – The White House

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Policy and

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Hannah Archambault @shirkandsteal.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Is Trump trying to speed up dedollarization in the world economy? Trade restrictions, halting foreign aid, and pulling back participation in various international organizations seem like solid steps in that direction.

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the Union for Radical Political Economics @urpe1968.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Hey Bluesky! We're the Union for Radical Political Economics. Founded in 1968, URPE is an interdisciplinary membership organization of academics and of activists. Its mission is to promote the study, development and application of radical political economic analysis to social problems.

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About Us

Founded in 1968, The Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE) is an interdisciplinary membership organization of academics and of activists. Its mission is to promote the study, development and ap...

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Hannah Archambault @shirkandsteal.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Are you even vegan at the econ conference if you don’t eat an entire package of Oreos in 36 hours?

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Hannah Archambault @shirkandsteal.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

82% of incarcerated people who were uninsured before incarceration saw a healthcare provider in prison since admission, 77% of those who had been incarcerated for a year or less. 46.4% of uninsured people in the "free" economy saw a healthcare provider in a one year time frame.

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Hannah Archambault @shirkandsteal.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

I'm bringing seven Fresno State undergraduate students to the ASSAs in San Francisco in a few days! If you are going to be there and want to hang out with some super interesting, smart, motivated central valley students, hit me up. They're fun to talk to!

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Hannah Archambault @shirkandsteal.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

UNITE HERE Local 2 ratified a new contract with Marriott and there’s a tentative agreement with Hyatt! Economists organizing to leave to hotels probably wasn’t the decisive factor in pushing to settle, but truly believe we helped. Hilton still hasn’t budged so let’s keep it up.

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Hannah Archambault @shirkandsteal.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Want to support some undergraduates attending the ASSAs (who won't be crossing picket lines!)? You can donate (or sign up for a raffle if you're near Fresno) at the QR codes below! Fresno State is a Hispanic Serving Institution and 64% of our students recieve Pell Grants and 64% are first generation

Flyer for the Fresno State Economics Student Association fundraiser to attend ASSA. Raffle for Kane Brown concert tickets in Fresno OR donation. QR coes for Venmo and CashApp provided in flyer

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 05/12/2024

Attending #ASSA2025? Want to know how to navigate your options with respect to hotels, food, & sessions given SF hotel workers' strike? @shirkandsteal.bsky.social @jennifercohen.bsky.social & I have you covered. Blog w/sign up for email updates. #EconSky aaronsojourner.org/hotel-worker...

Are you planning to attend the 2025 ASSA meetings in San Francisco? All ASSA activities have been planned for three ASSA headquarters hotels. Employees at two of these hotels – the Hilton San Francisco Union Square and the San Francisco Marriott Union Square – are on strike and asking people to not meet, eat, nor sleep in the hotels. At the third headquarters hotel – the Parc 55 by Hilton – employees voted to authorize their leaders to call a strike at any moment.

Yesterday, ASSA stated that allied associations can move planned sessions to alternative physical locations in San Francisco at their own expense and ASSA will facilitate updating of location information within their program system. This means there is a path to meaningful participation in the conference without crossing picket lines.

Did you book your housing through ASSA? If so, then you are booked at a hotel where workers are either currently on strike, where they authorized a strike, or where the union says there’s a real risk employees will be on strike in early January. All the ASSA’s preferred hotels for housing are in one of these three categories, as detailed below. The hotel workers union has asked people not to patronize these hotels.

What can a social scientist do as we face a conflict between our desires to:

participate in the ASSA annual meeting in San Francisco taking place at hotels—both for meeting space and lodging—where workers currently are on strike or at risk of striking,
respect the people employed by the hotels and their request of each of us to not meet, sleep, or eat in striking hotels as part of their wider local and national campaign to lift the industry’s job quality?
This blog walks through background and different strategies available to each of us.

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Hannah Archambault @shirkandsteal.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

If you are an URPE member or presenter, please don’t cancel your ASSA registration! It is looking EXTREMELY likely (almost certain) we’ll have off site, in person, on program sessions. Revoking your attendance will cause problems for our panels.

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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 02/12/2024

Got AEA & ASSA emails this morning abt hotel workers striking in SF? Want to figure out what it means & what your options are? See this analysis @shirkandsteal.bsky.social @jennifercohen.bsky.social & me, & our call to support 3 small ASSA policy changes #EconSky aaronsojourner.org/hotel-worker...

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Hotel workers' strike and the 2025 ASSA annual meeting - Aaron Sojourner

By Hannah Archambault, Jennifer Cohen, and Aaron Sojourner Are you planning to attend the 2025 ASSA meetings in San Francisco? If so, then you are planning to attend events at a hotel where the empl...

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