#Poverty

Wendi C. Thomas

wendi_c_thomas

Yeah, I'm going to have to push back on this. The solution to poverty is... wait for it... More money. Virtually nothing in @MayorMemphis plan directly addresses how little $$$

The Kaipullai

thekaipullai

The year is 1948. India is newly independent. You are from an elite family, who was just graduated from the Michigan state University, on Govt Scholarship and have come back

Jaya_Upadhyaya

Jayalko1

PAMBUMEKKATTU MANA MANDIR, THRISSUR (Ker)There was a time when one Mekkattu family suffered from severe poverty. The head of the family, Mekkattu Nampoothiri decided to perform penance at Thiruvanchikulam Mandir

your infernal jøker

GhostsSeeHumans

Yeah .... except when we interrogate the numbers to this graph. Consider Philip Alston’s recent report, conducted as the U.N. Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights []. In

Oluwadamilola Akintewe

TeweDami

Sanitary pad is now #800 whereas, you can basically get condoms for free at any health care centre.Women have to pay for a natural process we cannot control.Isn't this inequality

Tom Bridges

bridges_tom

What now for cities and towns in 2021? I have been reflecting on how 2020 has impacted urban areas in the UK, and I suggest ten things for cities, towns

Jason Blakely

jasonwblakely

What I wish for Trumpist Catholic intellectuals in America today?More moral simplicity. Less theory. 2/Understand I write this as a theorist: they are over-theorized & captives to abstraction.They lack the

Colin T

1ColinT

Through Gates' promotion of chemical & GM inputs, they've worked to open up previously isolated or hard to reach markets in Africa, South Asia and Latin America for the benefit

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GwaliaMedia

THREAD: Why the Valleys Deserve BetterThis is Penallta Colliery in Cwm Rhymni. It was built between 1906 - 1909 by the Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company, which was once the

IPA

poverty_action

Since May IPA has been running our RECOVR survey measuring the impact of the COVID-19 crisis. Today we're releasing data from 9 countries on Dataverse!https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/ipa All surveys contained common sets of

Matt Bruenig

MattBruenig

Marr's novel tells the story of someone with an income right around the poverty line, so that he can celebrate an EITC program that is *intentionally* designed to exclude the

Brit Williams, Ph.D.

DrBritWilliams

I don’t eat Taco Bell. But I want to acknowledge that I was making around 10.00 an hour at Target in 2006? when minimum wage was around 5.00. FWIW, yes

America-China Watcher

PandemicTruther

China's poverty alleviation program is not just welfare to the poor which destroys them in the long run. Initial phase does involve government giving money, building free houses for the

William Marchant

richonlyinname

A blast from the past: this is what the 2003 energy white paper thought 2020 might look like. Much is recognisable. Much is strange. For example, coal was seen as

ClaraFerreiraMarques

ClaraDFMarques

I don't do threads, but inequality in Hong Kong is too big for one tweet. So here’s one on an exclusionary, minimalist welfare system, no longer fit for purpose. The

𓂀 AvTheSurgeon𓁿

Avalldar

honestly it depends.y’all forget that people who do that, regardless of age, are attracted to it because they come from extreme poverty, have limited opportunities & this is a chance

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