#Poverty

Which country has the most billionaires? According to a wealth expert's report (The Hurun Report)...China. More than 700 billionaires have been created worldwide-including US, China, etc- in just the last
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Very excited that @nytimes recognized our work on poverty reduction & child development! https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/07/upshot/stimulus-children-poverty-brain.html. But they didn’t emphasize that this is a HUGE team effort. So her
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MLK also said “I've come upon something that disturbs me deeply. We have fought hard and long for integration, as I believe we should have, and I know we will
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Thinking about how veterans and service members fit into class warfare. The military is often a weapon used against it's own society. Sometimes it's obvious, like the Coal Wars, the
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Reminder: we shouldn’t need neuroscience studies to show that poverty and under-resourced environments effect the brain to motivate policy changes & political action. A thread: One interesting side effect of
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Lmaoo @ Agrima Joshua singing paeans about convent schools.The thing is most of the poor converts who go to convent schools end up becoming English speaking waiters,salesmen,cooks, drivers,security guards,maids and
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1/Today's @bopinion post is about how poverty imposes impossible demands on poor people, making it harder for them to escape poverty.https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-02-20/poverty-is-all-about-personal-stress-not-laziness
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@zccinzim @kennethmtata @Keisha_Lakish @MuzvareBetty @MamoyoT @MargretMatigari @mawarirej 1/4 Brutality, abductions, and murder don't remove the poverty and desperation the people are facing. We demand a new leadership that's committed to
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When many people hear the term "English learner" they think of somebody who recently arrived to the US who speaks little English. But the reality is that most of these
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A few comments on this article as a member of this panel. A basic income that is not means-tested, that pays $18,000, where the beneficiary unit is the individual, the
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“The north wasn’t colonised!” Erm. Yeah? Everyone knows that? The NIPs aim might be more in line with the hundreds of years the north has been suffering and neglected by
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So @NickKouvalis,What would it take to get you to advise Doug Ford on the logical senses & benefits of keeping #TheOtherFordPromise and raising people on ODSP out of the 45%
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Everyone Who Criticized, Insulted Or Against Funke Akindele Having A House Party Y'all Are Dumb And Broke That's Your Problem. The Stay At Home Has Obviously Taken The Better Of
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Class reductionism makes space for Third Positionism (fascism with economically progressive views). You can’t neatly elide classism with other kinds of oppression or pretend those other oppressions are subordinate to
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Coercive control laws won’t impact the pretty women, the passive women, the neat and acceptable women who’s smiles are dripping with honey. The ones who’ve never had the power of
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Another common theme you’ll encounter often: poverty is the “natural” state of humanity.Let’s unpack.1/ It is undoubtedly true that, under modern capitalism, there is a lot more material *stuff.* But
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