#Austerity

Tim Querengesser

timquerengesser

1/How Edmonton transit fails Comparison one: spendingOttawaPopulation: 994,837Transit budget: $575M= $578 per personEdmonton Population: 981,280Transit budget: $367M= $374 per personEdmonton spends 64 per cent of what Ottawa spends on transit

Ryan Meili

ryanmeili

Stephen Harper is getting $240K from Scott Moe and the Saskatchewan Party to attack the government investments that have kept people in their homes, helped businesses stay open & been

Zach Silk

zachariahsilk

We've reached a strange moment in the pandemic: here in Washington state, we know that our social distancing is saving lives and helping the doctors and nurses on the front

Diane Marie

DianeMariePosts

Mr. Poilievre does not understand one simple thing. The federal government's debt-rating hinges to some extent on the ability of provinces to service their own debt. The reason for this

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pickle_bee

1. The Nordic Model shrinks the base of clients to be mostly made up of those who wish to break the law & likely to be dangetous2. This encourages sex

Barrister's Horse

BarristersHorse

THREAD:THIS IS REALLY PAINFUL ISN'T IT!1. Waiting for the grown ups to enter the room. 2. It's been years & the media are still faffing around with gossip & bitch

Amit Patel

AmitBhupsPatel

I’m seeing a lot of people on the TL panic about the UK recession. There’s various things to consider and economists were definitely anticipating it. Please don’t buy the scaremongering

Sarah Joseph

SarahIJoseph

A powerful @BBCNewsnight this evening with @maitlis #covid19 exposes the complexities & inequalities of our political, economic & social systems. The fault lines have been laid bare. Austerity didn’t just

Rachel Ziemba

reziemba

Last week’s @NYUCGA I spoke about tough EM finances. Highlighted a few groups-already insolvent precovid - precarious public finances facing new (oil) shock - external balance crunch -weak growth, contingent

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dresden_black

How the 1929 Crash was ManufacturedThe bubbles of the 1920s were unleashed with the early death of President William Harding in 1923 and grew under the careful guidance of JP

Claudia Webbe MP

ClaudiaWebbe

Leicester’s Garment IndustryI’m inundated with reports of worker exploitation from citizens who simultaneously request anonymityUnscrupulous employers intimidate & threaten themIts been an ‘open secret’ for too long having been

Sayce Holmes-Lewis

sholmeslewis

I lost another young man yesterday, someone I coached & worked with for 5 years & now he’s gone. I’m fed up of this. I really am. We have allowed

Prof Tanja Bueltmann

TanjaBueltmann

It may not look like it now, but I come from as working class a background as one can have. Without FoM the opportunities that made me who I am

Casey Morrison

caseymorrison

The scale of change for #futureparks is massive: income generation + social finance (obvs), asset management (commercial, also energy gen), volunteers, community partnerships (for skills, health etc), involving public &

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dr_oru

The UCP's 10-step plan for turning a democracy into a dictatorship.1. First, destroy labor unions, so people have no way to bargain for higher wages and less capacity for political

Shannon Mattern

shannonmattern

Thinking about the graphic identities of consulting firms. There’s Huron (who’s “re-imagining” my institution), with their Arial-derivative (Canaro?) typeface, the sober grey + blue, the broken chain connoting conscious uncoupling