#Inequality

Josh Greenberg

1JoshGreenberg

THREADON THE CRISIS OF HATE AND EXTREMISM IN OUR NATION.Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, hundreds of scientists—in universities, pharmaceutical corporations, and research institutes alike—have dropped all of their

Adrian Walker 🇨🇦🇬🇧🔭🥃

adrianbdwalker

This guy seems like a nice dude, but he’s horribly out of his depth. After a long and relatively pointless fight I don’t think we’ve progressed very far beyond renting

I am Me

BLikeTim

We’re sick of American Twitter dragging Africans. Did some digging of our own and look what came up. Thread #AmericanTwitter Unemployment rate sits at 51 million. FYI: South Africa

Dr Sonia Adesara

SoniaAdesara

#NHSwhitepaper Thread: Contrary to some of the headlines, the reforms are NOT the‘end of privatisation’(Will explain below)The white paper wants to reverse legislation that mandated competitive tendering, which meant every

UrbanRambl

urbanrambl_

Well before critical race theory and white privilege (see @JamesEWrightII ‘s thread) became the latest political attack by right-wingers in the U.S. https://www.npr.org/2020/09/05/910053496/trump-tells-agencies-to-end-trainings-on-white-p

Social Market Foundation

SMFthinktank

Starting soon...our latest Ask the Expert in partnership with @UKRI_News, discussing #COVID19 and the gendered economic impact of the pandemic. Follow along to this LIVE THREAD here #SMFask SMF Director

Kate Alexander Shaw

KAlexanderShaw

THREAD (long one this time)I’m reading 2 new books: Brett Christophers' Rentier Capitalism, and @PeterKGeoghegan'sDemocracy for Sale, and together they paint quite a picture. Let's explore... TL:DR Our rentier economy

Miriam Goldstein

MiriamGoldste

I realize that I want to say more about plastic, justice, and the ocean. And it is this: we have the entire plastic in the ocean problem exactly backwards.https://twitter.com/MiriamGoldste/status/1304435775803715585 Since

Gordon Maloney #BLM

gordonmaloney

1 like 1 reason we need rent controls high rents trap tenants in the private rented sector high rents are a key cause of homelessness high rents cost the public

Axios

axios

DEEP DIVE — The Biden economy As President Biden pushes his economic recovery plans forward, we're taking a look at the economy he is inheriting, the team he has selected

Christina Pagel

chrischirp

1. THREAD on latest UK Covid Numbers:A reasonably detailed dive into the latest numbers & (some) implications.TLDR: things going in right direction but don't think unlocking will be easy. 2.

Bes D. Socialist

besf0rt

an illustration of how extreme income inequality has become: but let's discuss how a $15 minimum wage would endanger the economy important to keep in mind how workers of apple's

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

This morning BLS released 2020 data on unionization, and it is fascinating. A thread. 1/ https://www.bls.gov/news.release/union2.nr0.htm In 2020, 15.9 million workers in the U.S. were represented by a union—a decline

Paul Gambles

PaulGambles2

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2020/08/17/all-asset-classes-are-currently-overpriced-strategist.htmlGreat to chat again with CNBC’s highly experienced and deeply knowledgeable duo @MartinSoong & Sri Jegarajah who asked whether Sino-US Tra

Rasmus Kleis Nielsen

rasmus_kleis

Quick thread on the whole Australia/Facebook/Google standoff.Frustrating situation with a lot at stake. And fundamentally opaque. There is so much we don't know, leaving space for self-interested assertions on all

Khadijah *a centered voice*

UpFromTheCracks

The twitter ban on 45 is a victory in some sense for the immediate but a warning in the long term, not on the curtail of free speech but as

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