#Inequality

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/As COVID recedes, the world is going to remember that it was in a state of unrest before the virus struck -- and that that unrest never really went away.https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-great-protest-wave

Dave O'Brien

DrDaveOBrien

NEW @creativepec RESEARCH ON THE CLASS CRISIS IN THE FILM, TV, AND SCREEN SECTOR LAUNCHES TODAY (its bad news) https://www.pec.ac.uk/research-reports/screened-out-tackling-class-inequality-in-the-uks-screen-industries A We use @ONS Labour

Simon Wardley ❤️🇺🇦

swardley

X : Thoughts on QAnon?Me : Misinformation and conspiracy theories?X : Why is it spreading.Me : Ah, it's playing to fears that are rooted in everyday life that we need

Scheplick

scheplick

My one disagreement with the Fed always is the asymmetry in treatment between different classes of people.Someone in an underbanked population can mess up once, and liquidity is frozen on

Atthar Mirza

atthar_mirza

I just published my first interactive data visualization for @washingtonpost! Working with @emilyrauhala, I took a look at the widening gap in vaccination rates between high and low income countries.Read

Lulu

lourdesgnavarro

A close to me just called to tell me 25 people (!!) in her extended family have Covid in Florida. 2 have died. Yes, they are Latino. Yes, many work

Ulla Moilanen

UMoilanen

1/7 An experience of #inequality in #academia. I co-authored a paper with a male colleague, and the manuscript has now been thorough single-blind #peerreview, meaning that they know who we

Osaretin Victor Asemota

asemota

@naval got me thinking yesterday when he spoke on JRE about income inequality vs outcome inequality.If we focus more on outcomes, rather than people’s incomes, we will fund the right

Michael Atkins

atkinsmike1

South Africa has quietly entered a phase (!?) of Quantitative Easing (printing money), to keep things afloat. Perhaps necessary now, but what the #RET crowd don't know (or don't care

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/7Good article by Janan Ganesh, but while I agree that governance is what democracies are supposed to do best, I would also argue that democracies, as Churchill is supposed to

Kristine Lois Villanueva

kristine_ish

It's my one year anniversary at @publicintegrity as audience engagement editor. Here's a thread breaking down the last year because, in these uncertain times, we need to find ways

Asha Rangappa

AshaRangappa_

THREAD. Great, question, @JoyAnnReid! I had the same question. And for an answer, I *highly* recommend "Let Them Eat Tweets," by @Jacob_S_Hacker and Paul Pierson, which gives a clear, if

Matt Goodwin

GoodwinMJ

In the short-term our self-isolation is compulsory. But in the longer-term it will become voluntary. And then it will be economic luxury. The professional middle-classes who can work from home

mike schussler

mikeschussler

SA Petroleum production is rapidly declining. With SAPREF the biggest refinery about to close the index level is likely to decline to below 30. Meaning that SA will produce less

CJTRUTH

cjtruth

Richard Branson warns Virgin Atlantic will collapse without £500m taxpayer-funded bailout - but offers own $100m private Caribbean island Necker as collateral https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8236395/Richard-Branson-warns-Virgin-Atlantic-coll

Ryan Knight 🌹

ProudSocialist

If you think getting rid of Trump is going to solve all of the problems in America then you’re living in a fairytale.Our broken healthcare system, rigged economic system &