#Poverty

1/20. Democracy is precious and exceptional. 2/20. Democracy is undone from within rather than from without. 3/20. The occasion to undo democracy is often an election. 4/20. The mechanism to
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One the most powerful insights in @DavidOlusoga’s McTaggert lecture was his reference to being subjected to white views of ‘black authenticity'.It’s a concept that’s rarely discussed, but he set out
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And now for something almost completely different: Max Roser has a beautiful post about the Black Death. And no, that's not a contradiction 1/https://ourworldindata.org/breaking-the-malthusian-trap Roser points out and documents somethi
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Out here at round 2 of town halls for the new #kcmo public safety framework, The Reform Project KC. We’re in the gym at the Southeast Community Center. Chairs as
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The US education system sucks. Why? I just learned that 70-80 percent of the Romani population (Romani, not Romanian), were murdered in the Holocaust. I had never heard of Romani’s
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Our latest Scotland report http://bit.ly/3jU2ai4  Comparing July 2019 with July 2020 we saw a 108% increase in the number of 3-day emergency food parcels distributed. Comparing February 2019 with February
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This is probably not the right time to be telling this story because of the global pandemic we are in but my heart aches for my community. Newclare is a
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We need to have a serious discussion about how housemaids and 'labourers' from the African subcontinent, South Asia and South East Asia are mistreated in the Middle East, especially but
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If we dealt with the core issues regarding domestic abuse, especially when there are children involved. We would cut the generational cycle of abuse, depression, self harm, suicide, addiction, trauma,
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Look. You want to end abortion? I get that. Cool. Do you. The neat thing is: we already know how to reduce abortions A LOT. 4 Simple Steps to End
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Alternative solution to COVID-19, worth considering.Demographics of deaths by age in Italy.Thread. Nigeria shouldn’t have a lockdown like first-world countries like Italy, USOur Economy isn’t strong enough to cope with
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I was a child during the 90's recession, and I think my parents' strategy for dealing with the lack of money was to use their farm to be as self
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Some of you know this but this has kept me sane for the past 3 months and hence sharing the topic of my dissertation with you and ending this thread
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I have never experienced anything like the rage directed at me this week, dressed in a black hoodie, wearing a black face mask, trying to advocate for others’ rights and
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The Trump regime is being criticized today for failing at overthrowing the elected gov’t of Venezuela. ‘Hillary knew how to get a coup right’ is classic liberal imperialism. The Canadian
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So, y'all have been privy to the decline and ultimate death of my grandfather last Sunday. But there's some other stuff I haven't talked about much, and my family is
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