#Workers

On MR today, Cowen says: “all economic theories imply that minimum wages should be decided at the state and local level, given the economic heterogeneity of the United States.”https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2021/01/fe
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[CHINA IS SOCIALIST] This thread will explain why the People's Republic of China exists within Socialism with Chinese Characteristics and is one of the last existing AES. (Actual Existing Socialism).
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NEW: The #COVID19 “Vaccination Line.” Our review of state priorities (w/@joshmich, JenTolbert):*States are increasingly diverging from CDC guidance and each other;*Timelines vary across and within states;*It's a vaccine roll-out lab
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1/5 The CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) met today and had an excellent session on #COVID19 vax development and prioritization. ACIP makes evidence-based recommendations on vaccine policy. Here
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2020 was a hard year, filled with unprecedented challenges. We have a lot of work to do in 2021 but I am so proud of our office and the work
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Feeling lucky that I have been less online and missed out on the latest sex work twitter beefs. I've also just been trying to argue less in general for my
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THREAD: If you're sharing or watching a video from "America's Frontline Doctors," please know this. Local doctors right here in Kansas City say there are EXTREMELY misleading claims in this
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taking a lil break from finals (i’m in grad school now remember) to do a thread of my favorite stories from this year. first up, obviously, is my @verge feature
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okay here are my thoughts on today's meeting & vote in which the Chicago Board of Ed voted (4-3) NOT to end their contract with the Chicago Police Department."safety" discourse.
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1/ Upon the rise of Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party (the Nazi Party) in Germany, gay men and, to a... 2/ ...lesser extent, lesbians, were two
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Hearing in this case kicking off now:https://twitter.com/kadhim/status/1324460484360327173 Judge Paul Diamond to the Trump campaign lawyer:Diamond: Are your observers in the counting room?Trump campaign: "There's a non zero number
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As a liver transplant patient, I probably know more about the human autoimmune system then this guy does. Am I a Doctor? Nope. But I have to take drugs to
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I guess I’ll do some jobs numbers interpretation tweets ahead of time this month:Normally, the jobs numbers are a great summary measure of how the economy is doing. If you’re
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Let me say a few words about this. The US "left" actually cares perhaps the least about these sorts of things, relative to the rest of the world's "lefts". Communists
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I feel I need to mention periodically the size of the gap btwn center-to-left political discourse, still debating Dem messaging & activists' slogans... & the reality of our actually-existing public
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Yes, the public absolutely has a right to know about Canberra's culture. Because the people working there aren't just representing us the public as our elected representatives, they're formulating the
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