#Economic

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

Another 1.3 million people applied for UI last week, including 885,000 people who applied for regular state UI and 455,000 who applied for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA). 1/ https://www.dol.gov/ui/data.pdf The

Julia Azari

julia_azari

I want to piggyback on Hans' thread her to think about the implications and implicit populism of these endeavors, though. I don't think it's the intent, but the diner interview

Sunshiny

sunnshiiny

Well, this puts a new spin on COVid. Mink farms are hotbeds of disease. Transmission rate among minks is astronomical. Transferring mutated virus back to humans. So far the new

Dave Troy

davetroy

This is not some kind of free-speech tech dudebros just tryna let people do their thing. This is a calculated political and economic attack on US interests and we should

Louise Perry

Louise_m_perry

now fully radicalised (though he is right about architecture)https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1328474631301435395 Did Charles think that he could just hold on to his official mistress and also be legit married? As royal

Vuyani Ndzishe

Vuya_Ndzishe

Learning more about environmentalism and environmental justice has led me to political ecology. And how fvcked we are in the future if we do not deal with climate change in

Schumacher Center for a New Economics

Center4NewEcon

ICYMI 2020: Land EditionFollow along this thread for a list of stories from 2020 covering #landinequity, the housing crisis, and the forces working to address both.And reply with your own

Nassim Dehouche

ndehouche

"IQ and the Wealth of Nations" is full of surprises. How many people who have taken an IQ test represent each nation?Take Nigeria (in Green). Red countries are other African

Evan Winter

EvanWinter

Waldman's book review in the New Yorker got me thinking about genre trends in narrative and about how much of what they feel fiction has lost is still held sacred

Murad Banaji

muradbanaji

Chapter 1 of the Economic Survey 2020-21 (https://www.indiabudget.gov.in/economicsurvey/ ): a glowing report on the govt's handling of the COVID crisis, and a case study in what happens when science is abandoned

Miles King

MilesKing10

I know there's a lot of muck being thrown around at the moment regarding what to do about nature & wildlife. But it's worth remembering that a great deal of

Nate Silver

NateSilver538

Basically, the additional uncertainty introduced into an election forecast by COVID-19 falls into two buckets:1) It means there's a lot of *news* and economic volatility.2) It could screw with the

Health Nerd

GidMK

Ok, so I've had a read of this paper (which has been all over the news) that says quite explicitly that closing schools will probably cause more years of life

♘ Erwin Iyer

BhagwaErwin

This will be a continuing thread on the pitfalls of rationalism. First a basic definition :- Rationalism is the reliance on *reason* as the basis of morality or action. **1**

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

🔥 Kareem Carr 🔥

kareem_carr

There's an increasing tendency for technological and scientific advances to concentrate power in the hands of a few elites such as technical experts, government and billionaires.I call this tendency Scientific

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