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Jonathan Portes
jdportes
This from @BBradley_Mans is false. Section 1 of the Equality Act 2010 *requires* public authorities to consider socio-economic disadvantage & to exercise powers with due regard to reducing inequality. *This*
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Max Ghenis
MaxGhenis
I have a new @TheUBICenter blog post on UBI and the black-white gaps in poverty, median wealth, and mean wealth. For example, I found that a $200/month UBI would cut
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Black Latinas Know Collective
BLKCLatinasKnow
Day 2: On “Latinidad”. Here’s what #WeKnow and what #WeBeenToldYou #BlackLatinasKnow Theorized by White, Brown and Non-Black Latinxs, Latinxs look like #rainbows. Theorized by Black Latinxs, Latinxs still have, as
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Lewis Goodall
lewis_goodall
BREAK: The Welsh government has announced that they are cancelling GCSE, AS and A-level exams in 2021. Students will instead be graded through in-class teacher assessments. Education minister Kirsty Williams
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Trevor Mattos
trevormattos
Ran a quick data request today and found myself shocked even as I looked at a familiar story. The headline here is that *staggering* inequality reigned in Boston well before
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Walter Scheidel
WalterScheidel
Kim Bowes critique of the Roman “GDP boys” (such as myself ), long overdue (thx to @bernard_prof & @nakhthor for posting): there is nothing worse than ignoring or unthinkingly accepting
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Andrea Addario
addarioandrea
I really worry about the continued individualizing - privatizing - of responsibility for rising numbers, instead of addressing systemic causes of spread: workplace transmission (manufacturing/wareshouses/construction) and lack of paid sick
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J M Klinger
Prof_Klinger
Still thinking through this, but:Launches by companies funded by a few billionaires' fortunes, which were amassed by hyper-exploiting workers in an era of breathtakingly regressive taxation... 1/https://twitter.com/techwontsaveus/status
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New School for Social Research
NSSRNews
Many NSSR community members are deeply involved in #Election2020 . Meet three of them: Heather Boushey (@HBoushey) Teresa Ghilarducci (@tghilarducci) Kyle K. Moore (@KKM_Econ (1/4) Heather Boushey
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Sadie Ryan
sadie_d_ryan
This is me on talking to @DrMatthewSweet, @TimandraHarknes, @selina_todd and @David_Goodhart about language, class and social mobility. At the end of my segment I was told fairly firmly that linguistic
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Michael Pettis
michaelxpettis
1/6Good article on the real meaning of Chinese GDP growth figures. The article correctly points out that income inequality in China is extremely high, comparable to levels in the most
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Justin Sandefur
JustinSandefur
World Bank's initial C-19 forecasts were far too optimistic, particularly for poor countries. Subsequent revisions imply the number of people falling into poverty will be roughly x2 as high.+131m
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James McEnaney
MrMcEnaney
A Labour politician who preaches equality while sending their kids to private school is a hypocrite. That may be inconvenient for Sarwar but it doesn't stop it being true. And
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Jesse Wursten
JesseWursten
Lots of talk on the potential negative effects of minimum wages, but in a new paper with Michael Reich (@IRLEUCB) we show that minimum wages also have positive side effects,
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Diana Ivanova
diana_nbd
The carbon #inequality in the EU is staggering. This reflects inequality of consumption and access to basic services, but also inequality in the capacity to avoid/improve consumption carbon footprints. New
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James Anderson
JimOnCities
There’s a lot of disenchantment amongst Dems about the fact that, while we may win the White House (!!), we did not repudiate Trumpism. 1/7 #elections But we couldn't
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