#Poverty

David Sligar

DavidSligar

good to see my former treasury team mate steven hamilton second the wsw's recommendation for unemployment insurance.in my scheme i made it a bit more clear than it was a

Henry Parkes

Henry_J_Parkes

THREAD. 1/ Even with the temporary £20 uplift, we have one of the least generous welfare systems in the developed world. Cutting UC at any point would be a mistake,

Karl Minns

karlminns

I saw my first ever comedy gig in 1985: Rik Mayall and Ben Elton at the Britannia Pier, Gt Yarmouth. I'd been a comedy fan since I was a kid,

Reid Wilson

PoliticsReid

It wasn’t your imagination: 2020 was the worst year many Americans will have ever experienced. My depressing story, and a short thread: https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/531279-why-2020-really-was-the-worst-year-ever 1/15 First, th

Austin Sanders

daustinsanders

Just talked with a street-level provider about the Mayor's comment that allowing public camping "isn't working."That's true from for people made uncomfortable by the sight of tents under overpasses, but

L.N. West-Livingston, PhD, MSL

LWestLivingston

If you have any doubt that the medical field does a disservice to low-income patients, look no further than the way physicians treat their colleagues and trainees from low-income backgrounds.

@JajaOfOpobo

YemiGodSay

I started getting tired of religion the day I start thinking with my brain,the day I started seeing thing’s from a reality view other than the indoctrination view,I wonder why

Kate Cortesi

KateCortesi

The @guardian is doing a series called "Hear Me Out" where writers defend widely dismissed films. More of this in 2021 and beyond please! I truly believe the gleeful Art

Natasha Devon 🌈💙

_NatashaDevon

THREAD - Look, I can’t be saying this every time so please pay close attention - 1. You can’t compare life in lockdown to life pre-COVID. Whether we lock down

JAFERD, MD 🇺🇸

Supermansings

Imagine being privileged enough to have been born into a situation that allowed for a stable income with no food insecurity, free of the scourge of addiction, being provided a

Deirdre⭐Dee⭐Woods

Didara

@LocalTrust @UKSustain Thank you for inviting me. As technology failed me today bringing the conversation here. Our communities have great resiliency & have proven that a million times over these

Chris Minister of Smartarsery

Lumberist

Read a lot about this UN agenda 2030, seems heavy on the gender equality & wealth transfer, reshaping society in multiple ways, we can’t solve most of these issues in

Simon D. A. Clark

Sunkensie

- 9/10 hottest years on record happened in the 21st century- lockdowns reduced GHG emissions this year by ~8% but we're still adding to gases already in the atmosphere- to

Zimbabwe Economic Analysis 🇿🇼

mutungadzimwe

1. ZIMBABWE COVID-19 SITUATION: AVOIDING FALSE COMPARISONS So “... 1% of the people who get COVID-19 survive, so why lock down the whole economy...” has been the argument in these

Prof Juju 🌍🌹🌱💙 #FreeDishaRavi #FarmersProtest

JKSteinberger

So there is a kind of circular argument I want to expose. Neoclassical economists & neoliberal ideologues have successfully argued for a social consensus around economic growth on the basis

Teni T. 😷

aloinett

On the WTO - like most people, I didn't think much about them until the announcement that NOI was nominated for the top position. Even then, I didn't engage much

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