#Wages

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

If you live in California, you have been blitzed by messages to vote for #Prop22, a rule that would allow Uber, Lyft, Postmates and other money-losing, destructive bezzles to continue

ChiacchierataCalcistica

CCalcistica

Livorno:Things are going from bad to worse for Livorno, and it's now reported they've failed to present the performance bond to see out the season. Cerea Banca are the culprits,

Ministry of Subterranean Affairs

brutenorse

People talk about doomscrolling, but truly the biggest doomscroll of them all is completing two degrees in medieval philology, save perhaps for doing a full PhD, and seeing the best,

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/7This is a little surreal. For years certain countries like Germany saw their productivity-adjusted wages decline dramatically relative to those of their trading partners – especially their EU trading partners

IndiaSpend

IndiaSpend

On Sept 14, 4 upper-caste men allegedly assaulted & raped a 19-year-old Dalit woman in Boolgarhi village of UP’s #Hathras district--200 km from the national capital & 50 km from

Ketave

ketave12

Predictions - PPP and currency rates will converge. Visa regimes will become meaningless. Premiumization will cause demise of many businesses globally as consumers won’t have money for all the bells

Samantha Pritchard

thucydiplease

The whole Deaths of Despair thesis is mostly crap analysis anyway. It counts deaths by suicide, alcohol, and drugs as all caused by “despair”, which presumably is caused by neoliberalism,

Johnny Akzam

JohnnyAkzam

THREAD: Throughout the millenium, labor has been exploited by the elite, owner class, however that dynamic came about.Facing fear of death, many suffered the ultimate exploitation of slavery. Today, the

Eddie Chu 🧢🍎🤠

eddiechu888

Completely support a “MMT UBI,” for many reasons.https://twitter.com/frfriedpotaters/status/1277776595948834816 The history of printing money for government spending goes back at least as far as late Rome, and is particularly common in

Chris Becker

jcbecker93

Thread: Why do technocrats swoon over mechanistic policies like the EITC but almost ignore unions as an anti-poverty tool? Because technocrats don’t actually trust poor people. The EITC protects workers

Dr Jessica Gagnon

Jess_Gagnon

#UCUstrike After crossing the picket line, a senior academic emailed our branch office to complain that the union picketers were too noisy. I think it's time to devote a thread

Survived & Punished NY

survivepunishNY

As lead up to tomorrow's NYC budget vote, we want to remind everyone that when we say #DefundPolice we also mean #DefundDAs. Here are 8 reasons why: [THREAD 1/10] #1

Adam Posen

AdamPosen

Fed Thread - What matters from what @federalreserve Chair Powell did and did not say today @KansasCityFed 1) The process of doing the review was as important as the results

CygneNoirFemelle

ThePeeCee

Married parent demographics: a thread. Many believe married parents of children under 18 are mostly Repubs and make "middle class" 50-60k a year and work for small businesses and that

Swiss Ramble

SwissRamble

Manchester United are the first Premier League club to publish 2018/19 financial results, covering a disappointing season when they finished sixth in the league and were eliminated in the Champions

Sian Berry

sianberry

Today a temporary basic income plan is urgent. Full UBI in place already would have massively simplified dealing with the job effects of virus protection measures. Without it millions are