#Poverty

Jay Rayner

jayrayner1

THREAD. This is odd. Yesterday the Times criticised an old column of mine. Today it’s the Daily Mail. Apparently I dismissed the @HenryDimbleby national food strategy which proposed the same

Luke B Smith

luke_bs

I wrote about #jobsjobsjobs obsession a year ago. Its reflective of the minimal different between Labour & the Tories: both living in the politically safe, out of touch past. 21st

Marxist Rangers

MarxistRangers

"In my day we never went hungry because we never had sky and mobile phones"Why are people demonising those living in extreme poverty? You never struggled growing up, good for

Steven Greenhouse

greenhousenyt

Marilynne Robinson--"Much American unhappiness has arisen from the cordoning-off of low-income workers from the hope that they & their children will be fairly compensated for their work..." https://www.nybooks.com/articles/202

All Possums Go to Heaven

AndyinDC1

Do you ever see this chart? People are fond of whipping this out to show how AWESOME capitalism is by totally WRECKING POVERTY. It seems hard to argue with it!

Paul Redmond

PaulRedmond9

New minimum wage report with my @ESRIDublin colleagues @seamusmcguinnes @K_Maragkou and B.Maitre. We compare minimum wage employment in Ireland with other European countries. Some of the main findings.... 21 EU

Mehreen Faruqi

MehreenFaruqi

Tomorrow the Liberals will push 1.8 million people below the poverty line by slashing the coronavirus supplement. At the same time they're planning more tax cuts for the rich.Here's a

Sam Byers

byers90

It’s almost as if we’re now seeing exactly where the sneering dismissal of any statement of basic ethics and justice as “virtue signalling” ends up.https://twitter.com/florencehrs/status/1319685666003947521 It’s hideous (and yet e

Trisha Greenhalgh 😷 #CovidIsAirborne

trishgreenhalgh

This article is published behind a paywall in a "peer-reviewed" journal. It's actually a racist rant against which all who care about academic standards should protest. #BlackInTheIvory I'll post it

Labour Hunger Campaign

LabourHunger

THREAD: Food poverty - the fightback.We can fight food poverty in our community and at national level. If you are wondering how to do it, here are some of the

Rebecca Long-Bailey

RLong_Bailey

1/7 We know that the longer children are out of the classroom, the faster existing inequalities between children will widen which is why getting back to school when it is

The Kaipullai

thekaipullai

The year is 1948. India is newly independent. You are from an elite family, who was just graduated from the Michigan state University, on Govt Scholarship and have come back

JessTurner 🇺🇸

JessTrner

If we want to talk about systemic racism then we would talk about the system that perpetuates poverty, not the one that patrols it and enforces the lawWe would talk

Star System | BLM ✊🏽

StarSystem9

TW // police brutality, racism, classism, homophobia, sexism, murder, genocide...Thread on racism in America as seen by a young, queer, black person:1. Discrimination is interconnected. Racism, classism, homophobia, etc. you

4in10 London's Child Poverty Network

4in10

Its #LDNChallengePoverty week 12 - 18 Oct Londoners are joining forces to acknowledge problems that drag people into poverty - and highlight solutions we know existfeat:New data New research Calls

Ezana Haddis (ወዲ ኣደዋይ ሮማንን ኣያይ ጎይታይን)

KinEz_II

Interesting take, although since I am Mererian (subscriber of Merera's thesis) I don't use "colonial" to describe the state. Yet, the freedom struggle of any nation, unless it takes