#Inequalities

Politicians who don't support a goal of zero road deaths should be made to nominate the specific people they think ought tot die in the coming year SHORT THREADhttps://twitter.com/fietsprofessor/status/1281216319044624384 You
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Private education is just one way the privileged are given their advantages. It starts from birth. Affluent parents have babies with higher birth weights. They have less cramped houses, meaning
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the government's plans to establish integrated care systems as statutory bodies and to end the legacy of 30 years of market reforms to the NHS are welcome and feel different
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Those who argue that curation is the answer to "more ethical AI/ML/LMs" come across as intellectually naive. Archivists have been grappling with this issue, literally, for millenia. They'd be well
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1/ As all things data science, stats, machine learning, and programming explode, we're going to face numerous problems at advanced levels that are deeply rooted in middle & high school
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Just saw somebody diss reservation on account of the myth perpetuated by many blinded by their privilege that it kills 'merit' This needs to be fcuking addressed. here we go..Firstly
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This identifies many ways in which clerking (and post-grad hiring more generally) could be improved but it’s conclusion that clerking should be abolished is deeply wrong. Abolishing a single credential
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This is the most important thing I’ve ever published, and I’ve been a technology journalist for more than a decade.(thread )https://www.wsj.com/articles/covid-19-is-dividing-the-american-worker-11598068859 People with a high school degr
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People with a high school degree or less in the US β€” that is about half of all Americans β€” have seen their real wages decline for the past 30
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.@_Sarah_Hughes_ explains the 'triple barrier' of mental health inequality - that some people are more likely to experience poor mental health, and less likely to get access to effective support.#EqualityInMentalHealth
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In every paper & talk I try to make the point that the drivers of pop health are structural, stemming from political decisions & actions. Actors created these inequities &
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Comments on the vaccine roll out in England/UK.A thread.Firstly, well done on acquiring vaccines and so far distributing the *first dose* to a large proportion of the public. This is
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"Instead of looking for new ways to divide communities and pining for an era of Thatcherite individualism, the Tories should focus on fixing the structural inequality that holds people back.”
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Today, my team at @PHE_London shared an analysis showing that health inequalities have persisted from wave 1 to wave 2 of London’s #COVID19 pandemic.Here’s a thread on what we found,
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Latest updates from @UCL #COVID19 Social StudyOur 24th report is now online http://www.covidsocialstudy.org This week we focus on more striking inequalitiesSOCIO-ECONOMICSPeople with HIGHER educational qualifications & HIGHER house
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