#Poverty

Matt Gurney

mattgurney

Getting some very interesting (by which I mean predictable/typical) replies to my column on Bill Morneau's legacy from outraged Liberals today. I'll walk through some of them in a thread

Josh Jackson

JoshuaYJackson

I read this paper, 20 pages to see the ‘evidence of coercion’, what is this ‘evidence’: Public domain documents talking about poverty alleviation in XJ (no mention of forced labour)

F*ckBigPharma

markaprovost

The Fight for $15 started in 2012. Inflation is 2% a year but most costs like healthcare, housing, and education increase by 4-5% annually. The Democrats propose a $15/hour by

Tim Hayward

Tim_Hayward_

Before the Great Reset was known to be a thing, the drivers for it were understood by critical thinkers - because ecological constraints on human development are real. But a

Hallie Rubenhold

HallieRubenhold

Hardly a Christmas passes when I don’t think about the strange tradition of the Victorian workhouse Christmas, where the smug and wealthy provided the poor with a magnificent Christmas dinner

Emily Henderson

DrEmHenderson

1/6 It is a Cold. Hard. Terrifying. Truth that the situation is now worse than April. Full lockdown will allow the NHS to recover some capacity. It will facilitate the

Gary Koekemoer

Gary22k

Dear @SoliPhilander here’s what I would say to both Cyril & John(I found my words)https://twitter.com/soliphilander/status/1343777984566730754 Dear @CyrilRamaphosa You made some tough calls last night. Well done. Clearly you are moved

Heather Thompson Day

HeatherTDay

A woman at my PhD defense said “So are you saying racism is STILL so bad it impacts learning environments?” I said: Well, I, a black student, straightened my hair

Stu 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺

tsaritsyn

Anyone who is insistent they can live cheaply on healthy food is currently being an arsehole. Sure you can eat a handful of pasta with 5p of onions, 40p of

Choctaw & Chickasaw Freedmen

ChoctawFreedmen

#FreedmenHistorySpotlightSaturday: Sarah RectorDid you know that the richest Black person in the world in 1915 was a 10-11 year old Creek Freedgirl? By 1915, Sarah Rector was worth over $25.5

Teal Woodard

WoodardTeal

I’d rather get paid $25 to do physical work than force others into poverty to encourage people to “get an education” that’s gonna be useless, put them in debt, and

Bob Greenstein

GreensteinCBPP

Yesterday, Senate Republicans unveiled their plan for the next #COVIDRelief package:https://www.cbpp.org/press/statements/greenstein-senate-republican-covid-relief-proposal-fails-to-meet-needs-of Their plan falls far short of meeting the ne

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v4mpgrI

yes what a great job to go gut a thrift store of any cute shit it may have to resell it for probs double the price on depop :D no

Jennifer Cabrera 😀 #SmilesMatter

jhaskinscabrera

"The claims about... new viral mutations are wholly sourced to epidemiological models constructed by a handful of academics, who have access to influential people and platforms. These models have not

Tom Williams

shirleymush

We will truly never know the heartache endured by notorious Machiavellian arm-twister and ratfucker Tom Watson as he threw a general election, destroyed the reputation of a sweet old jam

Dr. Asatar Bair

asatarbair

You cannot take the utopian dream of communism out of Marxism; the ultimate goal of communism provides meaning and context for the struggle. It's not enough to say, “I dislike

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