#Poverty

As promised, my thread regarding Daniel Feller's plenary at yesterday's #SHEAR2020 virtual conference. I preface this by saying I am not a member of SHEAR and though several friends have
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Feeling absurdly restless at work so for every like this tweet gets I’ll do one tweet about a piece of media that means a lot to me and why. Anodyne:
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Domestic violence, sexual assault, sexual harassment, and stalking are very difficult for economists to study because of data quality. Survey evidence suggests that such offenses are typically not reported. This
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The Timbuktu Syllabus part 9Cultural DefeatHow Euro-Christianity meets Tradition divided Black SA It is no secret that The Cradle of Mankind began in Africa.It is also no secret that all
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This week I prepared for my students a chronology of how France is dealing with the pandemic on the legal front.This touches on France's colonial history, a deepening of class
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I don't like tourism, I never liked it, I don't even know how to explain it in a language that is not mine, maybe with a story, yes! A story
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A crisis always bring out the asshattery in the asshat.Exhibit. Exhibit 2. Exhibit 3.(see the facts in the second screenshot) Exhibit 4.In his case, sirf naam hi kaafi hai. Exhibit
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Every year, the Cdn ruling class and its minions insist that wearing a poppy to commemorate Nov 11 is not political, it is common sense/decency. Any pushback against this is
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Obama paid-off Joe w/ VP position (knowing he would use it for $$$) as a pay-back for Joe's work covering the passport issue in '07/08. Biden was Chair of Senate
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Tonight, I sat at my desk & began to fill out my ballot & for the first time as an American I know this election truly matters. Our democracy is
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NEW REPORT from @mit_tsl : Remote Learning Guidance from State Education Agencies in the #COVID19 Pandemic. We reviewed recommendations for schools from all 50 states. Here's what we found... https://tsl.mit.edu/covid19/ 
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Little series of cartoon #MiniMná for November, starting with Bernadette Devlin McAliskey, civil & human rights activist, shot by paramilitaries, slapped the Home Secretary when he claimed British soldiers on
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Former Vice President Joe Biden's #platform #issues#Election2020 "An idea that goes back to our founding principle that all men are created equal. It’s an idea that’s stronger than any army, bigger
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It's that time again! We're gonna live-tweet a meeting of our local elected officials! This time it's the Los Angeles City Council.Technically we're supposed to be 17 minutes into it
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A twitter thread in which I drag every single US president in order: George Washington: Dude was a shit-ass general who owned slaves and when the working class realized that
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We have to start in the Confederacy. We aren't taught much about it, and that's because so much of it is steeped in American tradition and so much has lived
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