#Unemployment

GOP flailing over what to do now that reopening has stalled sheds light on the old "Evil or stupid?" controversy. It's now clear that the answer is, both 1/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/worries-about-trump-and-a-bloo
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For the people that are thinking that Donald Trump did nothing in his first term, you all will be shocked by this. Read the full thread :) America gained 7
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Today, Missourians get a peek at legislation that’s been pre-filed by our state legislators.I took a few minutes to look over what’s in store for Missourians.Guns, Nationalism, Authoritarianism We have
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Each #JobsDay, I primarily focus on the Black-White unemployment gap as it shows us a manifestation of systemic racism. While the ratio dropped to near par in April (as everyone
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Why has Trump apparently blown up the economic relief deal? I don't care, and neither should anyone else. In 24 days we can stop worrying about this terrible person's motives,
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First of all, none of us ran on "defunding police". No one. Not a one. If we had conversations about it, we discussed the need to put resources into better
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Whilst the DDA has been instrumental in improving lives, unemployment and poverty levels amongst disabled people has remained at unacceptable levels for at least a decade. There is still much
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In light of today’s meeting about the National Guard, here are 15 US cities with higher homicide rates than Chicago.Violence in Chicago is a serious problem. To address it, we
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This (the Keynesian Cross model, in which Y adjusts so that desired S = exogenous I) *used* to be the 1st lesson in Macro. It was *my* 1st lesson in
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My take on today’s #MillionMAGAMarch has much more to do with American media and our own social movements for justice than the alt-right. Okay here we go. I’m starting to
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Texas is 48%!!! Our shelters& continuum of care modeled systems are already overburdened. I know because we’re trying to work w/ currently unsheltered folks w/o policing them. Often the spaces
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I'm worried about the disconnect between local areas choosing to close schools and our federal gov not providing resources to help those affected by school closures. I thought, and still
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This is not blind faith. This is based on my observations of Rahul during the last 7 years. No one is perfect. We are all amalgams of good & not
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One way to make sense of why inflation remains fairly muted is through the "conflict theory of inflation."Conflict theory argues that inflation is the result of unresolved distributional struggle. /1https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/
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The problem is tipping. Put the true price of the delivery into the advertised price. Make it illegal to not do so. If companies don't want to adjust their price
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Historically and economically illiterate.Let's take a look at what the 1920s was like in the UK - as it seems that many of the issues aren't entirely unrelated to the
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