#Rural

I'm a supporter of non-targeted aid and universal basic income. Here are my thoughts why it makes sense to me. This will be a thread. Like many people, I somewhat
Read more
Good piece by @rodrikdani on creating more good jobs. Key points: need to work on both labor supply side & demand side; services beat subsidies, in particular need to do
Read more
Policing in Nordic countries—which enjoy smaller police forces and vastly lower rates of violent crime and incarceration—shows us what life might look like under *dramatic reform* rather than complete abolition
Read more
The first step toward an honest appraisal of American politics is acknowledging a large percentage of white people will never forgive Democrats for the Civil Rights Act but also Roe,
Read more
Happy July, everyone! Unfortunately, I'm convinced that this month will be one of the worst months that American higher education has experienced in a long time. Thread alert. (1/) First
Read more
#AgriculturalProductivity 1/ From the ZW statistics shown, tobacco&cotton are the only agricultural commodities that are being exported that are in the #Top10ExportGoods (2018).There is need to consider agricultural productivity commerc
Read more
This is going to be a whole thread...You cannot be anti-racist and still Anti-Native. Period. And Erasure is not only Anti-Native, it's the last stage of genocide.Natives have the lowest
Read more
Some pretty worrying insurgent activity trends in north Diyala. The stand-out incident this week was house raid in Dara village, just outside Khanaqin city. Insurgents executed a Kurdish Kakai family
Read more
I hoped Biden would choose a state-level leader for Sec of Ed. We need someone who understands Uncle Sam must allow state leaders to lead AND because state leaders typically
Read more
New #ElectionTwitter map Tuesday: Not another serial in "The Fall of the Ancestral Democrat" today, but this one is about an ancestral Republican area: the beautiful state of Vermont. Vermont
Read more
The Telugu movie Mallesam was about the plight of the workers in the handloom cluster of Pochampally. In a poignant scene, the weaver's wife speaks wistfully about someday owning an
Read more
going to use this insanely dumb tweet to do a thread of mine and other people's reporting/commentary on drone strikes while trump was presidenthttps://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/1344997803022577665 here's a piece i wrote about
Read more
A thread on connection between Schizophrenia, Religion & False Prophecies - Schizophrenia is a serious mental disorder in which people interpret reality abnormally. Schizophrenia may result in some combination of
Read more
I work for a nonprofit that does digital inclusion work in Portland and we have a backlog of like 400 applications we can't fill and are literally just hustling computers
Read more
.@RepMarciaFudge has made it very clear she wants to be @USDA Secretary, and she'd be great.If the rumors are true that Vilsack has suddenly become the frontrunner, Vilsack will have
Read more
The dumbness of the English crowd.“You can teach everyone in English.”Try enrolling you children in Chinese-medium, teach all their subjects in Chinese? Then tell them they’re stupid if they don’t
Read more
By continuing to use the site, you are consenting to the use of cookies as explained in our Cookie Policy to improve your experience.