#Inequality

Joe Colangelo

Itsjoeco

I’m ready to name 2020 the Year of Hypocrisy.The year where organizations, governments, and companies destroyed their institutional trust across the board.A thread of some of the biggest dumpster fires

Anurag Singh

anuragsingh_as

Long Thread on Farmers protests & Agri reforms: What is the protest all about? Who gets impacted & how? Why are protests concentrated in Punjab & Haryana? Are these really

emma 'abolition now' mckay

electroweak

i've seen the first four minutes of this video and it's already very bad. i genuinely want to engage with quantum workers who care about this, so i'm gonna do

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

This morning DOL released some of the first economic data of the Biden presidency—last week's initial unemployment insurance claims (okay, *half* of last week was in the Biden presidency). What

All Possums Go to Heaven

AndyinDC1

A claim I see often is: capitalism is great because of all this *stuff* we have. The poorest person in capitalism lives materially better than kings and emperors did. Isn’t

Jamie Merchant

pathtopraxis

MMT is a state theory of money, but what is needed now, as the title of my essay suggests, is a money theory of the state: how money power both

Ahab Bdaiwi איהאבּ ܐܝܗܐܒ

bdaiwi_historia

1/I used to deliver classes on the medieval history of Islamic Iran. The Arab Conquests of Iran were always fun. A short (but not too detailed) thread. 2/Before the advent

Anna Stansbury

annastansbury

In our paper, @LHSummers and I argue that the *decline in worker power* is behind many of the major trends that have shaped the American economy in recent decades [1/N](WP

Kirsti Miller

KirstiMiller30

Yeah beautiful big girls play sports for every big trans athlete there are 25 big cisgender female athletes. https://twitter.com/Card_inal/status/1359976545419460608 Many who oppose the inclusion of trans athletes erroneously claim that

Taylor Knopf

tayknopf

Virtually attending the @MHLegislativeBk rn. This year's title: #PerfectStorm: pandemic, racial inequity & social injustice.@MikeWoodard is the MC. Several other lawmakers are here for a panel & @NC_Governor, @SecMandyCohen and

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

Here we go again. Last week, 2 million workers applied for unemployment insurance (UI). Breaking that down: 1.2 million applied for regular state UI (not seasonally adjusted), and 830,000 applied

Paul Franz

Paul_Franz

This op-ed is a great example of the wrong-headed scientism of school-must-open-now advocates.A thread.https://www.vox.com/2021/2/15/22280763/kids-covid-vaccine-teachers-unions-schools-reopening-cdc The article starts with a gesture towards

Diego Bassani, PhD 🏠😷

DGBassani

@IndependentSage Independent SAGE’s position on school reopening from Jan 8th: our schools are a major source of infection transmission and regaining control of the pandemic is only possible if they

Lawrence Glickman

LarryGlickman

As with Douthat's column the other day, David Brooks massively overstates small differences among Republicans and the degree to which some are "breaking free from old orthodoxies." /1https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/opinion/

Dr Stuart 'individual AND system change' Capstick

StuartBCapstick

.@UNEP Emissions Gap report out today Focus on covid and emissions + need for strong decarbonisation in economic recoveries; growing list of countries committing to net-zero.Our chapter focuses on

The Editorial Board

johnastoehr

The Democrats can’t prove to these Republicans that Trump told seditionaries to sack and loot the US Capitol. What they can do, however, is suggest something clearly to everyone else—that

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