#Poverty

Leah Hamilton

HamiltonLeah

8 reasons to pass Romney’s Family Security Act, a thread (too many citations to include. Just see my book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/3030371204/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_96JWRX24HBEQT88XMCJM) @MichaelALewis10 @KarlWiderquist @scottsante

Mario J. Lucero

Smile_Lee

After pitching several stories, I've come to know that most news outlets are partisan organizations. They typically discuss Native American or Chicano issues only if it helps an overarching agenda.

Diane Yentel

dianeyentel

Congratulations to @RepMarciaFudge on her nomination to be HUD Secretary. She has tremendous challenges and opportunities ahead, and everyone at @NLIHC looks forward to working closely with her to advance

Jeevun Sandher

JeevunSandher

Around 2.4 million people including *more than half a million children* were unable to get the essentials needed to eat, stay dry, heat and clean their homes (before COVID-19)A on

Simon Wardley

swardley

Thanks for the spot @mcraddock. However, I know. I've known for a long long time that as the sea level rises then my home, my village will be under water

Rory Weal

RoryWeal

New findings from @TrussellTrust today reveal the scale of what is at stake if the govt goes ahead with removing the £20 uplift to #UniversalCredit in April. The country looks

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

TheRaDR

"Then God said, “The outrage of Sodom and Gomorrah is so great, and their sin so grave! I will go down to see whether they have acted altogether according to

Azan Virji, MPH

AzanVirji

So I've heard the term "Third World" thrown out a lot recently to describe countries.So I did some research...A thread #globalhealth #MedTwitter #medstudenttwitter The term was created by a demographer

Rattlecans

rattlecans

So that picture of the wumin living in a slum, in 1910 is flying abootThe are so many photos in the Mitchell collection of the awful poverty oor grannies were

EU FLEGT and REDD facilities

FlegtRedd

The #PalmOil industry is a major contributor to #Indonesia's economy and in 2018, 36.6 million tonnes of palm oil were produced, equal to roughly half of the world’s supply. The

Paballo Chauke

ChatWithChauke

UCT is wild bra, you go to class with children of presidents, ministers, judges, celebrities and they all act “normal” and drink your black label with you when they can

Diane Schanzenbach

dwschanz

.@davidbeckmann thanks for asking! Thread to follow on how I'm thinking about the recent trends in #FoodInsecurity in light of this week's @JasonDeParle NYT story.https://twitter.com/davidbeckmann/status/1277055465600532480 Congres

Pro-Wrestling Noah Eng (Hisame, 冰雨)

Hi5ame

Katsuhiko Nakajima talks about how grateful he is to the Sasaki family. Nakajima came from a very bleak background, his father absent since he was a child, his mother raised

Kirstenjoyweiss

Kirstenjoyweiss

Raising the minimum wage always sounds good on paper. But it has long term consequences that actually hurt the people it seeks to help.For example (unbiased thread as it does

Ali Velshi

AliVelshi

1/11Two lines tell you the story of the American economy right now. The first is the Dow Jones Industrial Average. It’s an index that measures the stock prices of 30

Sarah Jama #DefundThePolice (she/her)

SarahJama_

I don't normally talk about this but I'm in a reflective mood. I got fully off ODSP around 4 years ago after getting 2 part time jobs: at HCCI &

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