#Inequality

Richard Murphy

RichardJMurphy

Labour has announced that it would promote a Recovery Bond right now if it was in office. It’s a policy I wholeheartedly support. In this thread I explain why it’s

David H Feldman

dhfeld1

OK, I'll comment!I don't know if that data for higher education was net or list, but there are larger issues about defining affordability. Let's start with the big uncontroversial fact...

Dr. Gina Neff

ginasue

Today, Biden will sign an executive order raising the minimum wage for federal workers and contractors to $15/hour. You have a "failed" union campaign -- and its incredible organizer to

Ian Dickson

IDickson258

1. One of the few advantages of being older is the capacity to look back at earlier times & compare. In my case to look back at care, the care

Aaron Mendelson

a_mendelson

It's the number one issue that everyone is Los Angeles is talking about: Will there be a vacancy tax on the November ballot??...OK there are many important items before city

Daniel S. Chard

danielschard

1/ Short THREAD on US COUNTERTERRORISM history informed by my forthcoming book Nixon's War at Home w/ @uncpressblog @jppbooks; "Terrorism" has a history: though various forms of insurgent violence have

Laurie Macfarlane

L__Macfarlane

Good FT editorial identifying one of the key drivers of inequality during the pandemic: high saving rates among those who’ve maintained their incomes, and rising indebtedness among those who haven’t.

Jason Hickel

jasonhickel

This month US Americans got a small glimpse of what a coup might feel like, and they are rightly outraged. One might hope this would provoke some reflection on the

Eric London

EricLondonSEP

Thread: The DSA (@DemSocialists) has nothing to do with socialism. It has four members in congress, and all of them voted to elect Nancy Pelosi as speaker. @CoriBush @AOC @JamaalBowmanNY

Speak Up For Women

SpeakUp4WomenNZ

Let Stats NZ know that you want data on sex retained. Fill in the submission, just a paragraph will do. https://www.stats.govt.nz/consultations/sex-and-gender-identity-statistical-standards-consultation (closes 5pm on 13 Aug) Here are our m

Ruth Braunstein

RuthBraunstein

Ever wonder why we get stuck in endless debates about whether political protesters are being “civil” or not, and whether this should even matter in the first place? 1/ This

Cory Doctorow #BLM

doctorow

It took decades after the passage of America's landmark antitrust laws - the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act - for trustbusting to occur in earnest, and what spurred the

Simon McNamara

SimonMcNamara42

The second paper of my PhD is out in @socscimed! Co-authors: Aki Tsuchiya and @JHolmesSheff. We explore the UK-public's willingness to prioritise disadvantaged socioeconomic groups over advantaged socioeconomic groups for

Henry Joseph-Grant

speirin

Sometimes I wish I was naive, not as intelligent, or not as pragmatic.Being able to see through lies/propaganda, correctly analyse data or understand where the ball will be is a

Lyman Stone 石來民

lymanstoneky

Henrik Kleven is out with a paper using 60 years of the entire population of Austria with a ton of family policy changes and he finds that childcare and parental

Sulome

SulomeAnderson

Yet another thread about white supremacist terrorism--which again, is very clearly what we are dealing with. Not just according to me, but law enforcement. So I am going to do

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