#Unemployment

A thread where I collect info about ongoing food production disruptions, Covid-related & otherwise.#CovidFoodSecurity https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/honeybee-alberta-canada-import-1.5515575 #CovidFoodSecurity https://beta.ctvnews.ca/loca
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@HamzaNamira @ChrisStephens @johnpringdns This weekend is the final straw. My experience of public transport and shopping post lockdown easing beggars belief. I have limited mobility. No car mainly as a
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In response to @itsafronomics's call to action I am going to make some observations as a macroeconomist. Black Americans’ share of wealth has hovered around 4% of total wealth for
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Governor @GavinNewsom announced new initiatives to support the millions of California workers who have lost jobs or wages as a result of the #COVID19 pandemic.#CaliforniaForAll #StayHomeSaveLives https://www.gov.ca.gov/2020/04/15/governor-newsom-anno
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More startling @ONS monthly GDP data out this morning (for June and our first look at Q2). Despite the strongest *monthly* growth rate on record at 8.7%, Q2 as a
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Working at home isn't an option for millions of Americans.From prisons and meatpacking plants, to grocery stores and buses, @NBCNews identified 7 occupations in which employees are at especially high
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A thread of "coincidences"...#DemocratsHateAmerica#DemocratsTheEnemyWithinDo you really think it’s just a “coincidence” that Jeffrey Epstein abruptly died right before he was going to prison for the rest of his life and
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THREADWhat if, instead of tolerating a huge spike in joblessness, the government just made it (nearly) impossible for employers to lay off workers while the economy is “turned off”? According
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Want to hear how big of pieces of shit @NYGovCuomo @NYCMayor & the state liquor authority are?Listen to this oneJoyce’s tavern had never been visited by the State Liquor Authority...
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2017. “Okay, wait. Sorry, this is a real bank shot. Walk me through it?”2016. “Wait, ‘20, ‘19. Let me try. Iowa produces corn, right?”2017. “Sure.”2016. “Which is used to make
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there seems to be a lot of grandstanding by the lockdown governors (who are almost invariably democrats as this issue has become distressingly partisan) but when one looks at red
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OK, it is now later. Here are some observations from my experience applying for Colorado's unemployment insurance program on Wednesday. Thread:https://twitter.com/RubinoJC/status/1253387024259674112 Filling out the application was pretty straight
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4 years ago I spent a week volunteering on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. The poverty and conditions that the residents have to live in because of what
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Thread. @senatemajldr is willing to stress out over 11% of the workforce (more due to 1.4 million newly unemployed last week) because he doesn’t want poor people to make more
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Ranking of post-war PMs based on ideology Thread of my thoughts on each PM from the bottom-up ‘(S)he Who Must Not Be Named did great things – terrible, yes, but
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In the midst of a pandemic & economic crisis, DOJ urged SCOTUS yesterday to take health care away from 20m+ people. Insanity. (thread)https://www.cbpp.org/health/commentary-aca-repeal-even-more-dangerous-during-pandemic-and-economic-cri
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