#Inequality

THREAD on why Trump's tax return makes the case for wealth taxes:1/I think we all suspected that the Trump tax returns were going to show that he is absolutely terrible
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Missing from this article: People of color endure higher rates of exposure to air pollution due to decades of structural and environmental racism.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/07/climate/air-pollution-coronavirus-covid.html Studies show that while
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anyway fuck inequality in health care anyway, hey all u fucking walnuts: i didn’t write the line about anxiety, i (more than you know) know that mental health issues ARE
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I watched this and I’m so angry—so many Black people are going to die because for centuries we’ve ignored the compounding effects of racism.https://twitter.com/cbsnews/status/1247645264162193408 Racism allowed more pollution in Black
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If only they had a large rainy-day reservehttps://twitter.com/jd_schnepf/status/1247976113923665920 A large employer with a super massive tax free savings account that spends all its time claiming to be fighting inequality Wonder
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Here's a thread, written while ago, hadn't published. Relevant now bc overemphasis of *liberal* identity politics on representation rather than material change, was *factor* in another temaNote that this's as
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As @gabriel_zucman, @PikettyLeMonde, @lucas_chancel & others have been discussing economic inequality and potential remedies, we model income inequality and poverty dynamics in India. A thread on some preliminary results... 1/
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Thanks Roli! For a chance to explain why it’s ideological(Thread).(1)Many well meaning people supportUniversal basic income as it helps the poorest. That’s an ideological choice. They don’t care about the
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Top level footballer’s wages are 1) astronomical and 2) a matter of public interest So we can’t be surprised that they come under scrutiny but they do so, in my
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I’m always being loud when it comes to humanity and equality. Maybe not on internet before, but in real life and my research papers. As a person who’s passionate with
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1. Police are what protects the property of people who own things. In the US, this means something specific: white elites stole the labor and land of Black and indigenous
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I’m opening a new shoe shop (crazy, in these times of economic chaos, but bear with me) & I’ve decided that I’ll just sell average-sized women’s shoes (size 6 in
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If you’re writing about “race” and racism and your argument essentially resolves in, “View everyone as an individual,” you are not fundamentally writing about “race” or racism, which by definition
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Child care is essential because it provides a loving, safe place for children to develop their creativity and self-identity Child care is essential because it helps us form community bonds
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1/ “It has been taboo to hint at the reason that the millions of dollars already [spent] on campus diversity initiatives have yet to engineer exact proportional representation of blacks
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Anybody else feeling like this would be a great time for the U.S. to be conquered? Like not a violent war, just a really peaceful takeover — more like an
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