#Poverty

Ayesha Shahid

ayesharshahid

This argument shows a fundamental failure of understanding poverty and access to opportunities. Perhaps an outcome of seeing poverty alleviation through the lens of social protections/cash transfer programs. Let me

Sven Henrich

NorthmanTrader

In 2020 they blew trillions up billionaires asses while 7.8 million Americans descended into poverty. And they call this a success.I call this gross.https://twitter.com/forbes/status/1339261157471887361 But hey, winners, heroes, roaring 20

Fr Simon TSSF SCP

FrSimonTSSF

A thread:It seems that I made my life profession as a Franciscan over 10yrs ago, so some reflection might be in order...We ask enquirers 1)Why an Order? 2)Why Francis?I went

Paul McLeod

pdmcleod

With Joe Biden (and, uh, Mitt Romney) proposing to send out direct cash payments to parents, there’s a pretty direct parallel we can look to to see what the impact

Srikumar Misra

srikmisra

While many well-meaning people are siding with the protesting farmers for valid reasons, I disagree with the movement. At Milk Mantra, we work with 70k farmers & I have met

Lashrecse Aird

delegateaird

This breaks my heart and makes me mad as hell. We are failing as a Commonwealth as long as we continue to fail our children. Segregation of any kind is

Joss Prior🍄...low-grade evil...

joss_prior

Re: the swedish study.Trans women, cis women, and cis men can all be guilty of violent crime.If trans people were mugging cis people to survive....it is, to be blunt, tough

Tressie McMillan Cottom

tressiemcphd

Loan forgiveness is a very specific redress. To point out the obvious, it can’t help people who didn’t go to college because, uh, you had to go to college to

Its Time ⌛️

ItsTime_17

Notice how the number of white people shot to death by the police is roughly double the amount of black people shot to death by police per year. Also notice

Cyara Bird

CyaraBird

I find it comical that people still have no clue why reserves are the responsibility of the federal government. Back in the day we were FORCED to live here and

Hayden Winks

HaydenWinks

I've seen a lot of minimum wage talk recently. My econ professors argued that the loss jobs and/or inflation counterarguments to raising minimum wage were largely myths.Here's a real-world case

AUWU

AusUnemployment

More gleeful mockery from @SHamiltonian in response to our distress at his @BlueprintInsti1 proposal to spend $9 billion creating two classes of unemployed people instead of lifting us out of

Lisa A. Gennetian

Gen_Pov

Dear #poverty scholars, it is time for a reckoning. It is long overdue. #Discrimination, #structuralinequality & the lived experiences of the poor is not a tangent, it is core to

Tapio Laakso

TapioLaakso

Why are we calling for governments to maintain and scale up investments in child-sensitive #socialprotection? Short thread 1/@globalcoalition #childpoverty #ChildRights COVID19 threatens to push 117 million children into poverty. Without

transiness.com🏳️‍⚧️

transiness

We are no longer living in a country recognised for its human rights. The UK is firmly rolling back human rights, it is corrupt, prejudiced, and a dangerous place for

(((Frances *Cassandra* Coppola)))🕷️

Frances_Coppola

Brilliant thread on how people really cope with poverty. It is vital that the toxic and divisive "booze and fags" narrative in parts of the MSM is strongly countered by

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