#Crisis

Helen Calvert

CapacityforJoy

I am so angry. And have been for some time. About the way women have been treated during this crisis. I am also angry about the way that *sometimes* shit

Karl Mathiesen

KarlMathiesen

COVID debt is mounting in the countries that are most vulnerable to climate change. That is leading to some of the world's top global development officials to quietly propose something

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/6Just before I saw this article I was re-reading (for the second time) Glyn Davies's 1994 history of money and came across this passage:"There are few things more impressive than

Rep. Katie Porter

RepKatiePorter

Absent action from the Senate, key COVID relief measures are set to expire at the end of the month, including expanded unemployment assistance, an eviction moratorium, and student loan forbearance.

Andrew Case

AClaudeCase

Another stunning piece by @ericuman in @propublica -- this time on the utter failure of the NYPD's "Crisis Intervention Training" to stop officers from killing people in distress.https://www.propublica.org/article/it-wasnt-the

Alicia Garza

aliciagarza

My heart breaks with all the stories I’ve heard this week about violence perpetrated against Asian folks here in the Bay. Nobody deserves to be hurt in this way. The

Statistics Guy 🤓

Stat_O_Guy

#Wales has is effectively closing its NHS down due to staffing pressures and absence and covid pressures.As of 7th December 2020Absence was 2.2% up 0.2%Covid absence 1.3% up 0.2%Peak wave

Martin Longden

UKSyriaRep

Today is my last day as the UK’s Special Representative for Syria. It has been a privilege to work on such a difficult, tragic but important issue. And although it

Anthony Simon

MagaKarma1

1/ My Personal thoughts:Government of the people and by the peopleDIES THE INSTANT ANYONE IS RULED NON-ESSENTIAL I have faith and hope this gets corrected. By our current actions using

Kathy Flaherty

ConnConnection

I’m not sure everyone understands how difficult it is to share one’s story about interactions with the mental health system - ESPECIALLY when one doesn’t get the support one is

Olesya Vartanyan

Olesya_vArt

1/ #Armenia President Armen Sarkissian calls on government to prepare for snap elections. He is not the only one in this country, who believes this could be a way out

Ashton Pittman

ashtonpittman

BREAKING: 71 of Mississippi's 82 counties are now reporting #COVID19 outbreaks in schools.Confirmed Cases:Students: 199Teachers: 245Quarantined (for 2 weeks):Students: 2,035Teachers: 589And consider this: Dozens of schools just had thei

jennifer kates

jenniferkates

A couple thoughts on the housing crisis we face:First, the status quo is insane, and it’s insane to pretend it’s normal for 25%+ of the city to be poor enough

Rory Hearne

RoryHearne

The worsening Irish housing crisis & solutions: A thread. 1. The last few weeks have shown only the rich & investors can afford to buy apartments in Dublin, investor funds

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/They've said this many times before, Noah, but things have been getting consistently worse, not better. The amount of debt it takes to generate a unit of GDP has been

Resolution Foundation

resfoundation

New @ONS statistics on household incomes released today confirm continued weak household income growth BEFORE the Covid-19 crisis, with median incomes falling by 0.1% in 2019-20. (THREAD) In our Livings

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