#Welfare

Mark Cherrington

MarkCherrington

Mom of 6 children-7 month twins, 14/13/10/6 yr olds. Escorted out of home by Sheriffs. Non profit org in charge stated they were owed $100 in back rent. Mom calls

Chloe Ann-King

GGrucilla

I just had a realisation and perhaps it will help others:I'm always exhausted. I've felt this deep fatigue most of my life. I just realised I've lived my entire life

D.A. Osorio

DA_Osorio

I start alot of threads like this b/c alot of you have followed me for a while, so: As some of you know, I was a child welfare social worker

Tammy Law

tammylawtweets

The other issue raised by JCY v JG is how children can access ILA. Just because children have a right to ILA does not mean they are able to access

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

The Australian government used an automated system to detect "welfare overpayments" from the Centrelink Agency. The system tormented Australia's poorest, most vulnerable people for years by insisting that they had

It's Luke!

SSJSpeedRacer

Something I've noticed from like, every shade of liberal or left-ish person is that a lot of folks tend to be really bad at understanding how run-of-the-mill right wingers thinkTheir

Environment AgencySW

EnvAgencySW

Twerton Gate Incident Update: We are prioritising finding a suitable, safe location to install a crane to lift boats and inspect them. The lifting operation will be led by Canal

Munky

MunkyToo

Here's a definition of tough.Being told your son has died because the hospital fucked up.Watching your wife get wheeled back into the maternity room without a newborn.Having to put on

Michael Merrick

michael_merrick

Going to just say it: it is just not possible to deliver the government's demands for online learning in lockdown if you have any dependents at home. It is not

ICE must be destroyed 🏴

Itmechr3

1. The relationship between neoliberalism and the state is broadly misunderstood by the left, which consequences that I think are absolutely disastrous. Neoliberalism isn't about shrinking the state in any

A Hairy Ape

WashedLifestyle

Cops need to hold fellow cops accountable for their actions. That “protect the blue line” code is bullshitThe legal system also needs to hold them accountable Getting into the job

Seanan McGuire

seananmcguire

I have worked my whole life, as the child of a single mother, raised in the welfare system, to provide for my family. I bought a house large enough for

Causality Surfer

I_cause_my_fate

This whole Diwali firecracker drama made me go against this idea of animal rights.They are animals, that's it. We should treat them fairly but only in the context of them

jordy

djordyunchained

Alright, so I don’t usually do political threads like this, but I’ve seen a lot of discourse from our stupid ass president on how blue states are "poorly run" and

BensWearingAMask

bvulliamy

As government blames students for a spike in coronovirus cases and a second wave that was actually well in its ascendancy before students headed off to university for the new

Detention Solidarity Network

detsolnet

How did stereotypes of criminality influence state policy towards the former “criminal tribes” (“CTs”) – now known as “denotified tribes” – in the years after Indian independence in 1947? How