#Economic

James Gunn

JamesGunn

No deaths are good deaths. Many of the deaths from covid, but not all, are older people & people with health conditions - THEY ARE NOT DISPOSABLE. But deaths are

Rachel "The Doc" Bitecofer 📈🔭🍌

RachelBitecofer

People have asked what I meant about Medicare For All being neutralized as a wedge issue bc of the pandemic & economic collapse. Yes, I believe that the ability for

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ymkbff

i want to talk about what's STILL happening in my country so bad but i'm always worried about annoying my mutuals because no one ever speaks about lebanon and it

Dr Christine Cheng 鄭穎茵

cheng_christine

Thisdebate is fundamental to outlining tradeoffs in covid responses. (Beautifully outlined by @NickTriggle)Measuring covid impact isn’t just about mortality rates, but loss in life expectancy for EVERYONE. Eg, Avg life

Rappler

rapplerdotcom

As POGOs leave due to COVID-19, Manila posts highest office vacancy since the global financial crisis, says Colliers. | via @RalfRivas In the first 9 months of 2020, Colliers recorded

Chris Fredericks

tvfchris

Some thoughts on the future of capitalism...In spite of some significant trade offs, free market capitalism has been THE primary force that has reduced human suffering to it's lowest point

Sharique Hasan

shariqueorg

Thanks, @orgrem, for including me in the #TweetABlackEconomistsPaper thread. I'd like to talk about the work of three Black scholars that help us understand the many challenging economic issues facing

GLO242

VirGloShine

Additionally, it negatively impacts the women's analysis of sexism in their country. Instead of observing the economic, geopolitical and cultural reality of her country, a woman may copy the "solutions"

Richard Medhurst 🇸🇾🇵🇸

richimedhurst

1. Complete nonsense.You're covering for US war crimes.In Iraq & Syria we never cared who is Sunni, Shia, Christian, Druze, etc. It's rude to even ask.Ba'athist countries are secular &

Joy-Ann 😷Reid

JoyAnnReid

This is true. With the exception of Texas and Alaska which are basically mini petrostates, most red states are on the federal dole, with their budgets infused with blue state

Other Side Asset Management

othersideam

1/ I'm physically sick right now... how did we lose our way so badly? Where has our integrity, morality, accountability gone? I grew up in a time where those things

o...k

kateconger

New: Massachusetts becomes the second state to sue Uber and Lyft, arguing that drivers are employees under state law, not independent contractors.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/technology/massachusetts-sues-uber-lyft.html California, wh

Chris Hayes

chrislhayes

I’ve been trying very hard to use our platform to communicate the facts and science of where we are in this pandemic. We do not want to stoke panic, because,

Arjun Krishnaswami

arjjacob

Excited to share a new @DataProgress project on a progressive climate innovation agenda. @Jake_Higdon and I make the case for progressive leadership on innovation, propose a framework to judge innovation

JW Mason

JWMason1

This Jacobin interview making the case for a herd-immunity approach to the coronavirus is really distressingly bad.https://jacobinmag.com/2020/09/covid-19-pandemic-economy-us-response-inequality Weird for a socialist magazine to ignore the

Charlie Beckett

CharlieBeckett

More useful polling research from @risj_oxford on UK public's stated use of and attitude to communications and media around COVID. As usual the idea of 'trust' is highly subjective but