#Poverty

Dr Bex

BexGraham

"Towards the end of 2020 teachers were reporting students falling asleep in class as they had such little food & were exhausted...children were so embarrassed about being hungry or not

Yasmine Jumaa

yasm1nejumaa

Last year, RRHA failed to engage its residents and the public in their annual planning process. That got ‘em a flat rejection from HUD. This year’s documents went missing from

Dr. Meghan J. Clark

DrClarkM1

In thinking about covid relief: there are two competing drives...1. to make sure that every struggling family receives support and 2. desire to prevent anyone "unworthy" or "unnecessary" from receiving

Albert Edwards

albertedwards99

1 It was a decade ago this week that the Arab Spring began. I and others believe one key catalyst was surging food prices due to the Fed's end 2010-11

Jimmy Parker

PastorJimmyP

Unpopular opinions: 1) The South has never fully recovered from the Civil War, 2) The physical fighting stopped but the Civil War never actually ended, 3) We need to seriously

Aja Barber

AjaSaysHello

So for those of you who prefer Twitter to Instagram, I'm going to summarize today's Instagram post for you over here because I think it's really important for everyone to

Christopher Alvarado

avogadro

I received my fair share of alerts about this article, many asking if I had read it. Indeed, I have, and I had the pleasure of talking to @campbellnyt as

AndrewStettner

pelhamprog

Terrible unemployment data from DOL this morning, so a thread to tell you how much is at stake in the final negotiations over a rescue package. Today’s unemployment report shows

Steph Allan

eolasinntinn

I can pay for one person's DClinPsych application. Feel free to DM me. As it happens, I seen a clinical psychologist last year to work on what I can only

BeadsAgainstFascism

beadagainstfash

CW: genocide-It's hard to get a perspective on the genocide of Indigenous peoples in north america. 90% of us were killed. 9 out of 10 of us were murdered. Think

Kat Kerwin

KatKerwinPVD

While we’re on Justin Price...”liberal” states even Rhode Island are not immune from shitty politics— we are not better then the south or the Midwest just because we elect a

Steph Sterling

stephsterlingdc

.@JStein_WaPo raises a good question here: can $15/hour minimum wage be done via reconciliation? A short thread:https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1350161737996267523 The key question to answer is whether the Parliamentarian would rule

Steve Phillips

StevePtweets

THREAD: @billhogseth writes a sincere & important piece w/his view tht rural voters went decisively for Trump b/c Dems fail to offer real solutions to the pain & struggle of

MLMinPractice

mlminpractice

Oh so Woke King is stealing my tweets now, huh? jkjk But fr there’s a lot of confusion about what this means so I figure I might as well

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PeachMilfshake

Child services will take children away from parents because they’re too poor to raise them, then pay foster parents an average of $39,000 a year to raise them instead. Why

Fadhel Kaboub

FadhelKaboub

Ten #MMT tips to remember on #TaxDay:1. Federal #taxes don't fund federal spending, so let's #decouple these two important tools.2. Taxes offset #Government spending. 3. It's a matter of #logic:

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