#Poverty

Tara Van Ho | #Vote 🇺🇸🇬🇧

TaraVanHo

THREAD: @paul_gertler & his co-authors conducted an experiment in which they threatened to shut off water to people in marginalized slums in Nairobi. Several commentators have raised serious concerns on

Nilufa Jahan

nilufa_jahan

Resident Permit- Emissions Charges The permit fee is based on carbon emissions- not cylinder capacity (cc) unless reg before 2001. E.g. my 06 Aygo- 998cc carbon emission is 109g/Km which

Whores of Yore

WhoresofYore

Hans Christian Andersen (1805-75) died 145 years ago today. He is remembered as master of the fairytale & beloved children’s author. He was also a rather odd potato. So prepare

Prof Zenkus

anthonyzenkus

The Pandemic and Childhood Trauma:The ACE Study (Adverse Childhood Experiences) shows that the more traumatic events a child is exposed to, the more likely they are to suffer from things

National Farmers Union

NFUDC

155 years ago, the last slaves in the U.S. were freed.They were promised "40 acres & a mule," a path to financial independence. But this promise was broken, ultimately depriving

brin🌹solomon

nonstandardrep

Ghosts of Versailles was just the livestream offering from the Met, which means i am once more Full Of Thoughts about this Perpetually Vexatious show it's vexatious because it's doing

Andy Slavitt @ 🏡🇺🇸

ASlavitt

COVID Update December 26: The wind is invisible too, but you can feel it change.Not with COVID where the stillness is deceptive. And deadly. 1/ I talked to a friend

Sadiqa

SadiqaReynolds

I have stood in line with my aunt at the check cashing place in the Bronx. It was dirty. The people rushed us and they took a portion of her

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hasbeemasputra

Important:Decriminalising suicide is NOT legitimising. There is a difference.Lets add some nuance to the conversation around why we still rely on punitive measures (jail time) to 'help' someone who is

chime®, the boxbreaker

reserved_icon

CLASSISM: Twitter NG Case StudyA THREAD, no needles.Class dismissed?We haven't even taken attendance yet .The truth about classism is this, "everyone says they're not part of the class, but secretly

Hilary Brown

HilaryKBrown

Our latest @NIH @NICHD_NIH and @CRC_CRC -funded paper is published today in @JAMANetworkOpen, and shows an urgent need for better preconception, prenatal, and postpartum care for women with disabilities: https://bit.ly/39XwWVc

inverted vibe curve: burgertown must be defended

PatBlanchfield

one thing that's happening very clearly RN IMO is a vivid, dramatic tightening of longstanding continuums of exploitation and disposability like, all these ppl shoved into places / consigned to

Nani 🇬🇭

lenubienne

The "Unhealthy, EBT-wielding Welfare Queen" trope must die. A thread. I've been a state-certified social worker since October 2001, and I have personally helped 1,000s of clients obtain SNAP, TANF,

The Growing Village

VillageGrowing

Few Truths To Know While Starting 2021:// A THREAD // 1 ) People are temporaryYou might believe that every person you love will always be there for you but you

Pierre-Louis Vézina

pl_vezina

The @Oxford_CSAE conference has gone virtual, on twitter! Here's what I was gonna present: "The oil nouveau riche and arms imports". Thread for #DIYCSAE --> There's been a bunch of

The Angry Philosopher On Drugs

OfficialAPoD

1/ I’m quite happy to consider “white privilege” in this context, given that people tend to be subconsciously attracted to those similar to them, and that the West is almost

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