#Employment

Amid all the announcements today, it's easy to overlook that the OBR has updated its scenario on a no-deal Brexit. It exposes an undeniably hard reality for the Govt that
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Fed Thread - What matters from what @federalreserve Chair Powell did and did not say today @KansasCityFed 1) The process of doing the review was as important as the results
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I’ve tweeted a few times recently about how the freelancer system that comics operates on is inherently discriminatory. It’s a system that relies on the people in power promoting equality
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Latest release of apps data from DfE shows decrease in starts of 47.2% between 23March-31July compared to same period last year.Last month's data showed 52% drop from end of March
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Keep fighting Communism. FSA will direct deposit your check. 2/ To put a finer point on this, whenever farm subsidies are brought up, farmers invariably say,"the government wants to keep
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(Thread) 1/n Fixed assets investments (FAI) i.e. Residential and Commercial Real Estate, Factories, Infrastructure (roads, ports, airports, waterways, schools, hospitals) is a key driver of growth - see the correlation.
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One nice thing about remote court hearings is that you don’t have to stand when the judge enters. Listening to the court call the status hearing in the @petestrzok and
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Very forceful message from @USAfricaCommand (and, ergo USG) on #Russia's deployment of MiG-29 aircraft to #Libya to support #Haftar. Let's look at this from a couple of perspectives...https://twitter.com/USAfricaCommand/status/12652
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What is it like to work remotely from Seville? So many people have asked me since last year when we moved, so here is a thread.1. This is the
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Tis the season Re O Come, All Ye Ache-full: The ER Is Open (Dec. 24): I challenge columnist André Picard’s suggestion that hospitals do not gear up to accommodate the
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"I will send in the national guard... Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts." - President TrumpLet's be crystal clear:This is pro-violence,
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New week, new twitter project! In recent years more and more randomized trials have analyzed interventions targeted at non-cognitive skills (soft skills, life skills, socio-emotional skills) broadly defined in developing
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On non-binary gender legal recognition: let's avoid a binary framework for understanding it. There are broadly 2 positions showing up on my timeline: Trans Rights and Trans Liberation: posited as
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How has the COVID-19 crisis been affecting hourly workers at small businesses? I've been working with @joinhomebase along with Marianne Bertrand, Feng Lin @rothstein_jesse @mattunrath @CAPolicyLab @UChiPovertyLab @RustandyCenter @ChicagoBooth to
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Our new report on the impact of #COVID19 on #economicinformality in Eurasia is out now.Read the report here http://bit.ly/oecdeurasiainformality https://twitter.com/OECDglobal/status/1386971129437466624 Why informality, and why now?A few t
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I havent seen any threads goin around with information on the Propositions we'll be voting on in California so I decided to make a thread about them myself! I did
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