#Workers

John Burn-Murdoch

jburnmurdoch

NEW with @ChrisGiles_:https://www.ft.com/content/c9db4c66-5971-11ea-a528-dd0f971febbcThe UK has a regional inequality problem, but it's much more nuanced than the typical hot take.You've probably seen a version of this chart before,

Toronto Star

TorontoStar

Brampton continues to be at the epicentre of Ontario’s fight against COVID-19 with area hospitals detecting record-high positivity rates in patients and 1 in 5 people who show up at

Dr. Steven W. Thrasher

thrasherxy

A must-read by @CharlesMBlow. For anyone who studies how Black ppl embody health disparities (diabetes, hypertension, HIV/AIDS, incarceration, homelessness, asthma) it is unsurprising but still heartbreaking to see COVID add

Vindhya Buthpitiya

vindib_

11 years following the brutal conclusion of the armed conflict between the state security forces and the LTTE, the postwar remains steeped in a panoply of visual debris. The cosmetic

Mean Maria

mitchellscomet

Im pretty disgusted with people tonight.You want to know how Trump won? Go look in the mirror. Because you, white people, with the yellow circles and the bees and the

Tom Inglesby

T_Inglesby

Comments on recent #COVID19 US developments, some positive, some not: US still in plateau w/ daily 25-30,000 cases and average of ~2000 daily deaths for ~5 wks. For perspective, the

All Possums Go to Heaven

AndyinDC1

The ancient Greeks had “xenia.” The Romans called it “hospitium.” The Pashtun call theirs “nanawatai.” In Australia, it’s called “wunan.” Societies all over the world, for thousands of years, have

Steve Rukavina, CBC

Steverukavina

Legal challenge to Quebec’s secularism law, Bill 21, is before Quebec Court of Appeal today; some background here: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5221341 Lawyers challenging substance of the law asked judge to suspend parts

Nairametrics

Nairametrics

Hello everyone and welcome to @Nairametrics Corporate News Roundup for the week ended April 12, 2020. This thread is brought to you by @BluechipTechNG.       The thread starts here.

Owen S.

pollytickled

Reflecting on the first job that I took in CAMHS and the induction process that new staff took part in. It was a hospital in the private sector in a

Chad Pergram

ChadPergram

1) It is said that 90 percent of life is just showing up.The House of Representatives could put that adage to the test this week as it implements a new

Elamin Abdelmahmoud

elamin88

New from me: the pandemic meant an increase in housework. In straight marriages, that labour has fallen mostly to women. An expert said, "I don’t think it’s that fathers are

Kiran Kumar S

KiranKS

You must spend 56 minutes of your weekend time to watch this NTD documentary. I insist. An explosive documentary giving step by step details of how China's Communist party wilfully

JA

Jallen_Town

How many days until @BridgetCReed and I get married? Got a call from the register of wills Fun fact: I sold Thrice tickets

Jill Filipovic

JillFilipovic

With two working parents suddenly having to juggle full-time care-taking, we see peoples' implicit assumptions of their own value coming to the fore. Men think their work matters more than

Jim Russell

ProducerCities

A thread about the coming changes to US urban economic geography. 1/x For our largest cities, net outmigration is the rule. Immigration & natural increase give the illusion that domestically