#Poverty

Mistress Emma Evans

MelanieMoore

Chicken is in the oven.Let's talk poverty and cooking. If you're poor, it's likely the 'fridge you have came with the place you're renting. So it's not a huge 'fridge.That

Chuck Marr

ChuckCBPP

An historic proposal: President Biden’s $1.9 trillion relief plan includes a Child Tax Credit expansion that would lift 9.9 million children above or closer to the poverty line. Threadhttp://bit.ly/3620z56

Alicia Elliott

WordsandGuitar

I COMPLETELY AGREE. I was so proud to see @kaniehtiio show everyone how the Haudenosaunee roll on #CanadaReads. Yes, we put up blockades when people don't listen. But before we

A.R. (Actually Republic) Moxon

JuliusGoat

If you ever want to consider how committed our society is to the foundational lie that life must be earned, and those who fail to earn it must die, consider

Alex Howlett

AlexHowlettUBI

1/8 #BasicIncome is a *way* of getting people money. It's not defined to be any particular amount.Giving people too much money causes inflation. There's no way around that.The question is

Kyle Smith

sejanus_

[thread]On this BEE/non-racialism thing, allow me to use an anecdotal example of my own experience as a disabled person:In 2002, I had a stroke, which put me in a wheelchair

Hayden Hewitt

HaydenHewitt

It's looking like 6% of Covid19 deaths were without co-morbidity. That means out of the 62,033 people who died WITH Covid19 and 3,721 FROM Covid19 (although it is believed the

All Possums Go to Heaven

AndyinDC1

Do you ever see this chart? People are fond of whipping this out to show how AWESOME capitalism is by totally WRECKING POVERTY. It seems hard to argue with it!

Jack'sHouseOfPancakes

RegimeChangeInc

It needs to be remembered that the minimum wage was not created as “What’s the least legally we can pay people.” It was created as “This is the base people

Pius Adesanmi

pius_adesanmi

If a Nigerian desires jollof rice for breakfast, rice and fish stew for lunch, ofada rice for dinner, we must insist that he is not in the province of "peperipe

Jay Hulme

JayHulmePoet

People talking about how scrapping Erasmus will be a blow to working class kids was the first time I'd heard of the scheme. In my school, we never had anyone

Yazhini PM

yazhini_pm

#எங்கெங்கும்கலைஞர்#KalaignarEverywhereThreadAs I was preparing for my exams, while reading social and preventive medicine subject I came accross mHPI, the multi-dimensional human poverty index. Its used to

Razib 🥥 Khan

razibkhan

agree with threadone note on the racism&xenophobia. i was accused of sinophobia last week. which is fine, i'm a big fan of master kong and it isn't a coincidence that

Douglas Rice

HUDBudgetGeek

A thread on the Biden Admin’s plans to address the #housing crisis: https://www.hud.gov/press/speeches_remarks_statements/Remarks_20210128 In general, the most important way to help renters afford stable housing during #COVID & beyond

Dr Lindsay 'Difficult Woman' Tedds🇨🇦🇬🇧🇮🇪🇪🇺

LindsayTedds

What I think will be my final thread today, is the BC Basic income panel did evaluate a basic income. 100 pages of the report are dedicated to a basic

Women are Queens👑

SapphicxMenace

Ppl who invalidate frustrated children by telling them, "your childhood is your best/easiest yrs" have conveniently forgetten that child abuse victims exist.As a CSA survivor I do not value my

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