#Wage

Jason Richea

jrichea

On #WorldTeachersDay2020 please don't give me tweets of platitude, or trinkets of appreciation. Instead spend ur money & time to dismantle systems of inequality, inequity and injustice... Women make up

Alix Gould-Werth

alixgouldwerth

Sobering news: for the past month, @LizAnanat and @agpines have been collecting daily surveys with low-wage workers with young children. They didn’t plan to study the COVID crisis, but their

Per Bylund

PerBylund

Much of #economicpolicy aims to 'fight' #unemployment. This is entirely unnecessary, because there is no such thing as lasting involuntary unemployment. This is unfortunately little understood today, but it is

Girmay Zahilay

GirmayZahilay

Can we take a moment to dispel a very lazy argument against taxing billionaires that I frequently see on Twitter? (Thread)Someone will say: “Jeff Bezos has added $50 billion to

Iron Spike

Iron_Spike

There should be a maximum wage.No single person/entity should be able to accrue enough wealth to threaten democracy. Also, the typical shit about decriminalizing sex work, legalizing/regulating all recreational drugs,

kai⁷

yoongilip

this is a common belief here in NZ but: it's not true. I know this thread is about the US but people here say this about ppl on govt benefits

Georgie Bingham

georgiebingham

It’ll take one to put his head above the parapet with regards to pay and many will follow. Many footballers are already doing great good with charities but nothing will

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HavaldarShinde

The idea behind flattening the curve is to give the healthcare system and the state a fair chance to fight. What have been the improvements wrt that in the past

Jason Reineke

jasonreinekephd

1) Soon restrictions on high-density public gatherings will be lifted practically if not technically, and this will open floodgates that are already being overrun by people and businesses stretching the

David Doney

David_Charts

THREAD: A few slides on the current state of the economy. Let's start with cumulative job creation as of month X of presidency, where Trump was in 3rd place of

facts are facts.

AKCamardelle

Are you tired of this tired idea floating around that people who turn to unemployment insurance are "better off" not going back to work because the feds are providing a

Claire Willett

clairewillett

there is so much to be hopeless and furious about, but holy shit, man, when you look at how many people have already cast their ballots despite the absolutely dystopian

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yeol8r

in 96 and 01 he voted for sanctions on Iran, in 99 voted for the bombing of yugoslavia, in 01 voted for aumf which has allowed the us to wage

mat

MatQBoes

If the minimum wage had kept pace with inflation and increases in productivity, then a worker would be making 25 dollars an hour. That means if you grew up thirty,

Matthew Flisfeder ⵄ

MattFlisfeder

Capitalism has never been anthropcentric. It is posthuman. 1/5 Bourgeois humanism is merely the product of the liberal capitalist’s ability to extricate itself from the reified dimensions of production. It

steph

asvp__roro

UVA’s response to this crisis has been disappointing, but not surprising. inconviencing students, not providing ample resources for low-income students, failing to protect employees & remaining silent on contracted workers