In 2012, Rebekah Burroway & I wrote in Demography that "single motherhood may be the most well-studied correlate of poverty." I would now say single mother is the most OVER-RATED correlate of poverty. It matters VERY LITTLE to American poverty. It should be studied less.

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New WP: “Monopsony Power and Poverty.” What happens to poverty & public finances when a Walmart Supercenter enters a local labor market? Poverty increases by 2 pp (16%) in 10 years after, driven by declining earnings. Income transfers up, taxes paid down. iza.org/publications/d…

The landing page for the Center for the Study of Black Families and Children is now available. Worked so hard to get this off the ground. And I'm thankful to the team going on this journey with me. I'm in my feelings right now. 😭 artsci.utk.edu/research-and-c…

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1/ Nice three book review on re-entry “Through hundreds of influential articles/reports and at least three dozen book-length manuscripts,

2/ scholars have demonstrated that this challenge remains long after their debt to society has been paid by serving their time incarcerated, under probation, or on parole.” American Journal of Sociology, Volume 130, Issue 6, May 2025 journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10.10…

The U.S. has the highest women's incarceration rate in the world. Women can’t get left behind in the effort to end mass incarceration.

🚨🚨🚨 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did 🚨🚨🚨

To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. (Equal Justice Initiative) calendar.eji.org/racial-injusti…

Ex-FBI agent charged in Capitol riot now works on Justice Department’s ‘weaponization’ task force apnews.com/article/fbi-ag…

MURDER!!

More than 1 in 5 people are jailed multiple times a year There is no "safe" way to jail a person – even a single day in jail has devastating effects. And people who are jailed multiple times a year inevitably face exacerbated consequences of incarceration:

Supporting college athletes financially --to the tune of paying Felix Ojo an outside tackle in football with a three year fully guaranteed $5.2 million--has brought about the demise of college sports.

The Life and Legacy of the Gifted Athlete: Althea Gibson smithandhattery.com/the-life-and-l…

FCC postpones its groundbreaking 2024 rules allowing excessive phone/ video rates to continue Incarcerated people their loved ones will continue to exploited by sheriffs and telecom companies for two more years, while these same interests lobby the FCC to water down its rules

prisonpolicy.org/blog/2025/07/0…