#PANDEMIC

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

Another 1.3 million people applied for UI last week, including 853,000 people who applied for regular state UI and 428,000 who applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA). 1/ https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf The

Stephen Reicher

ReicherStephen

Throughout this pandemic we have stressed that behaviour and behaviour change are as much to do with information and opportunity as with motivation. And if people breached lockdown it was

Liz Ananat

LizAnanat

NEW RESEARCH THREAD Congress is considering new legislation to help Americans still struggling during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis. My recent survey w/@agpines of our sample of hourly service workers with

Kashif Pirzada, MD

KashPrime

From Ekos research: Vaccine hesitancy has a reason and a cause, mostly disinformation spread via Facebook, and the resulting closed information bubbles.https://twitter.com/VoiceOfFranky/status/1340143905514381312 Not surprisingly, disinform

Austin 🇨🇦

LilBisonBoi

Let’s take a quick look at Miranda Rosin’s last ~6 months... threadhttps://twitter.com/theturner/status/1347570861671292928 Oct. 2020:Miranda Rosin lends credence to the right wing conspiracy about “concentration camps” being run by

Matt Malkus

malkusm

Clearly, anyone who thinks school closures are doing great harm to children is just playing politics. That's why publications on the right, such as NPR, the Washington Post, the New

Justin Draeger

justindraeger

Patience requested as schools work to get HEERF $ out the door.Yes, HEERF II info is out from @usedgov (https://bit.ly/3nEuB52 ) and while this process should be easier for schools, we

Michael Story ⚓

MWStory

What's the best thing to read on public sector desensitisation? Professionals working with the most chaotic parts of society gradually slipping into extreme doomerism because all they see is impulsivity

Kylie Chi Eats People 🏳️‍🌈👻

TheKylieChi

In LA, if you call and ambulance they HAVE to take you to the hospital and wait with you until you get a bed, even if you called for a

Jessica Roy 🦅

jessica_roy

Three months ago, @mkballinger, @adatseng and I launched the new utility journalism team -- service journalism for a SoCal audience.Today, we launched our first project: your guide to L.A.'s confusing

Eric Feigl-Ding

DrEricDing

TYSON FOODS & Iowa Gov Kim Reynolds both complicit in outbreak. @TysonFoods even had a Wuhan factory, so it knew #COVID19 bad. Yet, when cases cropped up in Iowa, it

EngLangBlog

EngLangBlog

Having a bit of a binge session of online linguistics courses this week. Yesterday was Jane Setter, tonight it's three speakers from Lancaster University Starting off by looking at

Marie Lennon

marieklennon

Just something I’ve noticed recently. Everyone I’ve spoken to who is going through a tough time or emotional struggle is really quick to qualify it with ‘it’s nothing compared to

(((Charles Fishman)))

cfishman

The COVID relief bill contains the most insane tax giveaway I, frankly, have ever heard of.Stay with me.Millions of companies got PPP loans to keep employees paid & pay rent

The New York Times

nytimes

Where are the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the U.S. now?States that didn't keep up forceful virus containment efforts or implement basic measures in the first place are seeing the worst

Canadian Women's Foundation

cdnwomenfdn

The govt confirms in #FiscalUpdate2020 that our #FeministRecovery plan must include #childcare. We're looking forward to the full plan from a national secretariat, with significant investments that bring all women

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