#Poverty

Alexander Kaufman

AlexCKaufman

A quick story: In summer 1986, as a heat wave roasted Georgia, an elderly man living "alone in a small apartment in a rundown part of town" said this to

Dr Benjamin 'Ward Viking' Janaway 💙

drjanaway

Lets talk about poverty and mental health/ a thread /xSo we know that mental illness rates are on the rise, whether this is because they are actually increasing or because

Alex Plitsas 🇺🇸

alexplitsas

THREAD1. @bobforgovernor OP-ED for @WSJ about Hartford clearly struck a nerve as members of the democrat establishment have come out of the woodwork to criticize him. Thus far, the criticisms

Mabon ap Gwynfor 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

mabonapgwynfor

The Labour Party voted against @Plaid_Cymru 's motion to extend free school meals to children of all families on Universal Credit or with no recourse to public funds, as Adam

Andy Obuoforibo

andyRoidO

In a country with high unemployment, underemployment, and multidimensional poverty, business relationships are often power relationships.Making personal demands of a service provider (e.g. to hear your faith) will therefore often

Margot Sanger-Katz

sangerkatz

If you need health insurance, now is a great time to start shopping. It’s open enrollment season on http://healthcare.gov and state insurance exchanges. If your family income is below 400%

Akala

akalamusic

It is not lost on me that Premier League football, the one place where someone born on the 14th floor of shitty tower block number 7 or into abject poverty

Midnight Rider

MidNiteRider_

There are 2 types of people who support socialism: those who are ignorant of history, and power-hungry sociopaths who know that socialism is a necessary step in the transition to

Sizwe sikaMusi

SizweLo

Today it's easy to assume that the massive inequalities, unemployment, poverty, and lack of social transformation are a result of "corruption". That's the main line being pushed by those who

Becks Fisher

BecksFisher

Despite rhetoric on #healthinequalities, the current UK #vaccination strategy discriminates against poorer people. below on why. Immediate action needs to be allowing vacc sites to move down cohorts (&

Tax March🏳️‍🌈

taxmarch

Today, we celebrate #Juneteenth and the end of legalized slavery. As we celebrate, we remain steadfast in our commitment to ending the racial inequities that persist in our society,

Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

TheRaDR

If the Bible is so against systemic solutions to poverty, why is a jubilee year declared that releases people from debt to alleviate intergenerational poverty? What is leket, skikhah, pe’ah,

Sam Feldman 🌹

srfeld

I've seen a lot of public defenders dunking on this tweet, and with good reason. The policy @TahanieNYC rolled out today has some good elements, but it backtracks from commitments

Sharon Parrott

ParrottCBPP

While it is encouraging to see a group of Republican senators engage on a #COVIDrelief package, the proposal those Senators released falls short of meeting the nation’s needs in key

Matthew Mendelsohn

MattMendel

Loved the twitter discussion on child benefits last night. Thanks to @JenniferRobson8 @TheHerleBurly @KenBoessenkool @gmbutts @AlexUsherHESA. I appreciated the insight. My take. Thread. When we were working on the Canada

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docsquiddy

this is a game where a cop literally will try to kill you after telling you that his badge "says I can do whatever I want" and people think the

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