#Poverty

Charley Hasted

CharleyHasted

If you're wondering why I'm so angry about the free school meals issue when I don't have kids well a) you need to find your empathy switch and b) I

UBI Works 🇨🇦🧢

ubi_works

New report shows #BasicIncome can speed up Canada's recovery & grow the economy sustainably:$80B/yr in GDP600K jobs$15B/yr business investments to expand/hire$32B/yr in total wages3.2M families out of povertyReport & Highlights:

Kerry-Anne Mendoza 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

TheMendozaWoman

A THREAD ON JOHNSON’s OBESITY SCAM:I won my own fitness challenge in 2018/19. I’m proud of my achievements & that I’ve maintained them. BUT, the government’s plans look more to

Torsten Bell

TorstenBell

2021 - the year of recovery? Yes for GDP, not so much for household incomes. In fact our living standards will decline - especially for lower income households - as

K.Diallo ☭

nyeusi_waasi

No offense but I hate it when people, who have never left a first world country, talk about third world countries as though they are inferior. So I decided to

Michael Downey

mgdowney

A thread on #Lebanon's rapidly accelerating economic collapse as the hyperinflation drives the lira above 9,000 at a rate of 471%/yr up from 1,500 in September (surpassing Zimbabwe). Most Lebanese's

✨Cherilynn✨

Winikin

As a 2nd grade teacher in a USA public school, I feel it’s important to clarify a few things I’ve seen recently concerning the myth that kids in the US

Di'Rico L. Baker

rico_rants

Ya'll are about to hate me for what I'm about to say:I don't make excuses for what I'm a part of. I truly understand the scale of suffering dealt onto

Molly Solomon

solomonout

Where you live can determine a lot, including how protected you are from eviction during a pandemic.I joined @TheBayKQEDtoday to talk about why some Bay Area counties are continuing to

EC

ellen_coyle

Seeing a few folk on here questioning the motives of the Green Brigade for attending today's protest against racism. Let's see what they've done over the years & then take

Business Insider

businessinsider

The rich keep getting richer: Billionaires made enough to pay for everyone’s vaccine during the pandemic, while workers lost $3.7 trillion. How did we get here? As stocks plummeted

John Bull

garius

My first year at uni, there was still a grant if you could prove you needed it. But everyone else got loans.In my halls at uni, 90% of the the

Jake Anbinder

JakeAnbinder

i don't want to overstate regional differences on this subject, but it's hard to ignore how covid in this country is a disease of racialized poverty, and the states with

Alexander Hammond

AlexanderHammo

One week ago the African Union implemented the world's largest free trade area. Here is everything you should know about the agreement.A THREAD The African Continental Free Trade Area is

Kartik Raj

Kartik__Raj

Thread.1/ As the @bmj_latest's fundraising appeal for the UK's independent food banks (@IFAN_UK) draws to a close, I'd like to draw your attention to an excellent series of articles &

swampert stan acct

Bemundolack

Would you still be a communist tomorrow if you got a 6 figure job offer? Because the rest of the world is still gonna be sitting here in poverty and

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