#Poverty

Aidan Smith

aidan_smx

Don’t know who needs to hear this but philanthropy is not a substitute for anti-poverty programs, and the fact that billionaires have successfully convinced so many people otherwise proves it

Kimestry👽

90svibin

The hashtag and slogan All Lives Matter is a declaration of color blindnessIt erases a long past and present of systemic inequality in the US. Its a representation of the

Mad In America

Mad_In_America

Bringing Human Rights to Mental Health Care: An Interview with @UNHumanRights Envvoy Dainius Pūras#UnitedNations Special Rapporteur Dainius Pūras discusses his own journey as a #psychiatrist and the future of #rightsbased

Katie Meehan

meehanmonster

Hand washing doesn't happen without water. Thanks to @CharlesMBlow for highlighting our work on insecure water access and #plumbingpoverty in the USA. Want more #waterinsecurity facts to blow your mind

Naomi O'Leary

NaomiOhReally

Irish news:- 'on foot of'- traffic at the Red Cow roundabout- 12 jobs announced for Longford- controversy over the handling of health/justice/Tusla scandal- car accident, reported on the national hourly

Victoria Brownworth

VABVOX

THREAD#Philly is the poorest big city in America where nearly a third of residents live at or below the #poverty level. Nearly 70% of Philly is BIPOC. I live in

Nicole Lee

_Nic_Lee

I’d like to point out 2 things.1. There’s no evidence this law will save lives.2. There’s no evidence this will act as a deterrent.If I understood @LeighGoodmark correctly, over the

Richard Scott 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇳🔶 😷🧼🤲🏻

RichardAScott

Short thread Hitchin and Harpenden MP Bim Afolami has today issued this statement to explain his voting against yesterday’s Opposition Motion to extend Free School Meals for vulnerable children. 1/

Sunriseandsunsets

SimplySurprisin

There's times in the nights I stay up, like tonight, revisiting decisions in life and the guilt of creating so much stress that probably exarcebated my uncle's cancer progress, and

Howard Stevenson

hstevenson10

Reading Andrew Gamble’s contribution to @MarkPerryman ‘s ‘Corbynism from Below’. This quote seems timely - I hear a lot about ‘no return to “normal” ‘. But, as Gamble points out,

Kelly Morgan

arkelval

History Twitter, I am not shocked by this.The absence of true humanities education is readily apparent in any economics curriculum. Open any economics textbook and it's riddled with terms like

Baby

UcheUkonuJnr

I wonder who died and told Nigerians that we can only progress individually, and not as a collective. People go abroad and come back to complain about Nigeria, or boast

Karin Sennefelt

EarlyFlesh

@DrJulieHardwick blog got me thinking about a case that still haunts me. Brita Olofsdotter was an unmarried maidservant in Stockholm when the body of a dead newborn was found in

Choctaw & Chickasaw Freedmen

ChoctawFreedmen

#FreedmenHistorySpotlightSaturday: Sarah RectorDid you know that the richest Black person in the world in 1915 was a 10-11 year old Creek Freedgirl? By 1915, Sarah Rector was worth over $25.5

Dr. Mary Bridget Burns

MaryBridgetEdu

Sometimes I wish the folks screaming about class war would actually spend a day in the jobs they seem to care so much about. 1/n Sometimes I wish that these

Robert Garcia

RobertGarciaLB

Long Beach is a big city of almost half a million, and like I’ve said before, roughly the same size as Atlanta, Georgia. I understand that there is going to