#Poverty

Philip Amies

AmiesPhilip

Plenty of attacks on David Attenborough all in respectful terms, irritation that he dare not agree with one of the great modern facts, only capitalism matters not population. An old

Rachel Glennerster

rglenner

At today's briefing of Permanent Representations in Geneva I talked about the huge economic benefits of vaccines in preparation for the Global Vaccine Summit on June 4 for @Gavi replenishment

melissa

pencilportrait3

If you think poverty doesn’t increase suicides I’ll tell you why you’re wrong. A thread.... In Jan 2016 i lost my mother at the time i received a carers Pension

The Psychologist

psychmag

With our combined July/Aug 2020 issue ‘Towards a new normal, and beyond’, we attempted to produce an issue which was a meaty and diverse print reading experience, a souvenir of

Bridget Casey

BridgieCasey

my baby's father is refusing to pay our child's daycare fees for the second month in a row, leaving me footing the entire bill again.lack of affordable accessible childcare options

Just Ella

JustSociety4all

Professor Yusuf Dankofa captured the Northern conundrum in one passage, hear him:"I think the north is only interested in power and nothing more.The sweetness of power and the allure it

Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham

paulgp

What are some striking economic statistics that you think everyone should know?I'll start with five facts that have informed my research (with sources): 1. Roughly 15% of Americans have filed

T-Lex

beatleloveralex

I used to be against abortion. I started to distance myself from the "pro-life" movement because of the hypocrisy. You can't be pro-life AND pro-death penalty. If you are pro-life,

Ash Sarkar

AyoCaesar

It’s easy to venerate an antiracist leader who’s been dead for decades, rather than the ones who are alive and fighting today.https://twitter.com/williamclouston/status/1286736993603522560 Before his murder, two thirds of Americans had

elsa (she/her)

elsaasce

For me, mental health advocacy is actually rooted in the radical idea that it’s not just individual, but rooted in systematic traumaBoth my parents are refugees. My mom saw the

The Red Nation

The_Red_Nation

Indigenous Peoples Day celebrations, are part of a long history of resistance, Indigenous internationalism, and solidarity with other oppressed peoples: In 1977, the International Indian Treaty Council, the international arm

Mark M.

epiphanyinbmore

I picked up a woman in her 50s or 60s today, tired after an 8-4 shift at a laundromat on Howard Street. She needed a ride over west, and it's

Jack'sHouseOfPancakes

RegimeChangeInc

1) THE POOR: Buddhism teaches that nothing just happens. A series of causes and conditions leads up to it. Now the rich blame the poor for their own poverty. In

Tommy Tighe

theghissilent

a brief thread on catholics who deny the existence of systemic racism in our nation:denying systemic racism is intellectually dishonest at worst and intellectually lazy at bestit takes almost zero

Gabbbar

GabbbarSingh

The misfortune of this country is that a person who gives a free-meal to a poor person is hailed as a hero, but a person who gives that person a

Pam Herd

pamela_herd

Understand that most of the folks featured in this article would be counted as *not poor* in those rosy poverty estimates we've seen. Our weird US poverty measure is not