IPUMS ftw once again
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Elyas Bakhtiari
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Sociologist at William and Mary. Research focuses on health disparities, immigration, race. Occasionally writes at http://elyas.substack.com
I once got caught in the Boston-area turkey war against the postal service. I had a blue laundry bag that seemed to set off a turkey that lived near my apartment complex in Brighton. It would literally chase me to the laundry room, pecking the bag the whole way. Neighbors thought it was because the blue resembled a mail carrier's bag.
Another study where the headlines don't tell the full story about the racial inequalities driving the worsening health outcomes
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/16/health/covid-pregnancy-death.html
The top-line results are bad enough, but the details unsurprisingly show drastic ethnic and racial inequality in these trends.
Faculty unionization is becoming more crucial by the day, not because of salary concerns, but because it may be the best way to protect academic freedom from an all out assault by DeSantis et al.
Administrators have already shown they will cave to this kind of pressure. The tenure system has been undermined too much to be an effective firewall. If there isn't some kind of mechanism for resisting, like a widespread labor strike, then we're just relying on wishful thinking to protect higher ed.
When forced to choose between revenue and commitments to DEI, academic freedom, etc., higher ed's administrative gatekeepers will be quick and decisive about their priorities.
These are both great examples of how health disparities can reproduce social inequality in a democracy.
It would be a really interesting exercise to go back and re-simulate how major election outcomes would change if mortality inequalities had historically been substantially smaller, making older cohorts less disproportionately wealthy and white.
Major corporations in <insert industry> continued to profit from <insert dangerous product> and lie about its harm, long after discovering that it caused <insert major health or environmental problem>.