#Poverty

Michael J. Hicks

HicksCBER

1/n I was fortunate enough to speak to the Mitch Daniels Leadership Foundation class today @MDLF_IN. I spoke about Indiana's economy and what I think many state policymakers fail to

🇨🇦 Basic Income

CanadaBasic

Summarizing #BasicIncome @ $196B/yrAvg cost $5,214 non-taxable20 Million Canadians Min $18,329 floor#COVID19EvictionsPerm Job Losses Masks & PreventativesEssential WorkersBI Helps #CEWS by #CreatingJobs#RaiseTheRates for #PWDRT & #S

Hannah Stein

HannahStein

Acknowledging the US anti-trafficking movement's history of racial bias and discrimination: a thread.(I'll have an article coming soon, but here are the main points): The US anti-trafficking movement has enabled

Absurdistwords

absurdistwords

This requires national attention and broad community support.Philadelphia, like many other cities will expend more resources to threaten, abuse and brutalize the homeless than to house them.These families are in

sick & tired (they/them)

lollipop_bandit

Suicide Prevention Month - #thread/1 Suicide prevention month should not focus on the individuals who are suicidal. People who struggle with suicidality are not a monolith. #suicide #MentalHealthMatters #MentalHealthAwareness /2

Bon Qui Qui 🏳️‍🌈

Bon_QuiGirl

I’m going to get a bit personal for a moment, but some names will be changed for privacy/legal reasons. I want to tell you about a patient of mine. We

Alex Zelasi

AZelasi

"You have internet access, so you can't really be poor!" is really not the trump card people seem to think it is.There are various reasons why someone on a low

Eric Michael Garcia

EricMGarcia

Who is a woman journalist who whenever you see their byline, you know you are going to learn something? Bonus points if you list what they cover. I'd be remiss

team@bricks-n-mortar

bricksNmortar

1/n | This thread is an impromptu string of thoughts that are coming to mind after having a random unplanned chat with a group of learned people a while back.Topic

Christopher Esget

esgetology

While there are many objective metrics in evaluating hymns, we should allow for subjective experiences to affect one’s personal favorites. The use of a hymn at a particular moment in

King_Jenko

AshAreyada

We live in a time where celebrity and suicide issues get more sympathy and attention than common man issues. One of those major problems is that of a farmer and

richie ✿ ATLYS DAY

adhdrodrick

a thread of useful information for people who don’t know what’s going on in lebanon https://lebanonscrisis.carrd.co/#lobby if you’re too lazy to open the fucking carrd here’s the pictures https://helplebanonnow.carrd.co/

Jane Ledwell

janeledwell

So much discussion of #PaidSickDays. Wonder how PEI ended up the 1st province with (limited) paid sick days (for workers with the same employer for 5 or more years)? 1/...

🌹 Melanie 2.0

melbeastrules

I have so much to say about Falcon and Winter Soldier lol Surface level I'm enjoying it, it's an MCU product, it's fineWhat bothers me though, and this goes for

Jeremy Smithson 🇺🇸🗽⚖️ "In Vindiciam Libertatis"

1776Jeremy

I was raised by a first-generation, Muslim black man from South America, who worked three jobs to get my mother and I out of the projects, into a middle-class, family

UNITED in Hammersmith & Fulham

UNITEDinHF

A LIL' SIMPSONS THEMED UNITED THREAD ON A MONDAY NIGHT, BECAUSE WHY NOT and it's still lockdown so nothing else to do... READ ON...!! 12 weeks ago we (United