#Poverty

Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove

wilsonhartgrove

Since the Senate is about to take up the most important equity question of 21st cen ($15/hr min wage), I want to do a little Front Porch Math lesson. I

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/Today in @bopinion, I decide that America can have a little optimism, as a treat!https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-01-30/doomscrollers-take-heart-america-s-on-the-way-back?sref=R8NfLgwS 2/The last year made us feel like Amer

Tom Iannitti

TomIannitti

@CDCDirector is talking about the reality of +abuse & lack of nutriton when students are not in school. Think about what that says about our country and our ability to

Infant Feeding Alliance

FeedingAlliance

Another day... another opportunity for formula bashing. This time in the BMJ news article about our friends at @feedukorg and @bpas1968 ‘s campaign for formula to be accepted and distributed

competitive binge-watcher

plsleaveamsg

Hi! Credit score of almost 900 here!I've had good credit all my adult life and excellent credit for the last 5 years, and I'm still broke AF. This is a

Bruce Adamson

Bruce_Adamson

1. Closing schools to protect life and health requires further action to address impacts on children’s right to education, on mental health, relationships, and the support and protection school usually

LA Justice Defender

LADefenders2020

Popping into the California Penal Code Revision Committee meeting, where they are addressing overcriminalization -- now attempting to figure out how to deal with the problem of Estes robberies. They're

Aidan Smith

aidan_smx

The $1400 versus $2000 debate is tearing this nation apart. As such, to satisfy all parties, Congress needs to send every American a $3400 check. On a serious note sending

Emily Grubert

emilygrubert

Hey #energytwitter -- I'm trying to confirm or deny the hypothesis that over time as the grid decarbonizes, it's likely to be poorer people paying for legacy fossil infrastructure. (Preferred

🚩ProletariatRising🚩

ProletariatRis1

So I've read the book "Fanshen: a documentary of revolution in a Chinese village" by William Hinton - which documents firsthand the land reform campaigns (1945-49) in the countryside of

Jessica Gregson

khawajia

Grimly fascinating to look at this from an intl development aid perspective, where there's been a push towards cash/voucher programming for YEARS, on the basis that a) people know best

ChicagoTeachersUnion

CTULocal1

We received some reflection recently from one of our organizers in the charter world. It's worth sharing for those interested the role of charters in the traditional neighborhood school model

The Met Skipper

themetskipper

What is the cause of the increase in serious youth violence?According to the Youth Violence Commission 2020 the cause is:A child’s early years, their education, youth services, policing, employment opportunities,

Naseem Tarawnah

tarawnah

#Jordan: on learning election & another lockdown were happening, 102 Jordanian laborers said they were selling their vote: 31% due to reduction in wages, 18% due to losing work, 39%

Unfuck Your Habitat

TeamUfYH

There’s a type of person who likes to interact with self-help/life resource stuff, and this person 100% *knows* they have the answer to everything. It’s: “Why don’t you just...?” Why

Romilly Greenhill

romilly_one

This isn’t something I’d usually say… but it’s time to talk about cutting the UK aid budget (thread 1/14 The UK’s aid budget is pegged to its economic performance -

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