#Policy

National Immigrant Justice Center

NIJC

We call on policy makers and elected officials to take immediate and dramatic steps toward ending immigration detention. Here are 5 reasons why: The current detention system is historically anomalous,

Rohan Venkat

RohanV

"SVAMITVA is a new government project that primarily aims to demarcate abadi areas (that includes inhabitant land, inhabited areas contiguous to abadi and wadis/basties in rural areas) using drone surveying

Annie Boustead

AnnieBoustead

Looking forward to reading this! FWIW, I worry so much about error in legal variables because some common sources of error seem likely to be correlated with characteristics of jurisdictions,

Nikola

niktaylorde

#ThanksObama for deporting more immigrants and sending more airstrikes in the Middle East than any other president before you, a record even Trump hasn't managed to break. Someone asked for

Maia Szalavitz

maiasz

wow, way to write about whitewashing Harry Anslinger while whitewashing Harry Anslinger. For 1, how do you not mention his persecution of Billie Holliday, hatred of jazz and oh yeah

Erik Meyersson

emeyersson

This is a good thread on the why TCMB's most communicated measure of the policy stance (wacf and total funding) may have been so misleading in recent days. I would

Chris Yiu

clry2

The big takeaway from today's contact tracing app debacle isn't about centralised vs decentralised. It's about power. The UK government thought it could stare down two of the biggest tech

The Columbian Guild

ColumbianGuild

Good afternoon and happy Tuesday, everyone.We're back to work after a busy weekend for Clark County. For many of us, Monday was a day off to relax and recuperate from

Robert Grant

robertstats

There's so many lessons we can learn about communicating statistics & policy to the public in this covid'19 outbreak. I should start making a list properly but for now, here's

Adam Fleming

adamfleming

Crunching the European Parliament motion on the UK. Where it calls for ALIGNMENT: - Environment, labour & social, relevant tax, state aid policies- Market surveillance of products/product standards- COP26 position-

Costa Samaras

CostaSamaras

And it's not just economists who don't do a lot of work on climate change as a field. It's everyone. Law, political science, engineering, social science, everyone. In just the

Jared Wesley

DrJaredWesley

Policy 11 is the clearest definition of two-tier healthcare I have seen in a Cdn major party platform (and I've reviewed over 1000). It's the only one I know to

W.G.

Nutso4Dynamo

*thread*I usually don't listen to these editorial videos, or anything from Fox News, but this entire video is dead on.https://www.reddit.com/r/BernieSanders/comments/fzm774/exbernie_staffer_warns_democrats_about_whats/?utm_source=share&utm_me

Tori K Smith

theToriKSmith

Thread on the #HongKong decertification EO and suspending special treatment under section 1304 of title 19, United States Code 1/7 Current CBP policy about labeling with Hong Kong was

Liz Allemang

allthemang

Am on the train, whose mask policy is clearly and repeatedly (at booking, in an email preceding travel, at the station, on board) articulated. You have to wear a mask.

Nick🇬🇧🇪🇺

nicktolhurst

+UPDATE+Dominic Cummings had discussions with british media (inc. senior BBC & ITV journalists) on govt herd immunity strategy in March which have been unreported - even tho now both TV