#Welfare

Yemeni children talk about their experience living through war. Heartbreaking. “If I was president, I would clean up all the blood.” yemen is the worst humanitarian crisis of our generation.
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Today, the Times (where Michael Gove writes) wants us to believe that when Dominic Cummings was in No 10, he warned the PM that using £58k from Tory Donors to
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THREADThis is 48-year-old Lordy Ramadan. Lordy's body was found by police on Friday when they went to her home in Labrador, Queensland, to conduct a welfare check. Lordy was killed
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This is the key point that is so crucial. We must do our part in minimizing any confusion in order to keep Trump from winning again! Also, EVERYONE who wants
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"Biden’s pandemic response plans 'carry echoes of Roosevelt’s New Deal,'" write The Times’s Abby Goodnough and Sheryl Gay Stolberg. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/health/covid-biden-pandemic-plan.html?campaign_id
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After a year away from interaction with ag folks that aren't in my immediate community, I competed in a virtual conference and realized a)I have completely forgotten how to communicate
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1. Some commentators, such as Dr. Farrukh Saleem, continue to claim that Pakistan's military expenditure is not that high when compared to countries like, for example, the United States, Israel
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“Staying at home during Coronavirus is a luxury”That one cannot escape one’s privilege any more than one can escape disadvantage is uncomfortable at best, and at worst, as now, excruciating.
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He might have actually done one (1) good thing if he had. As it was he was another monarch in all but name, and I credit him with nothing.The Diggers
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OK, have had a bit of time to think through the Cummings story (phone has been switched off since last night). Have been knee-deep in the legal regulations and the
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Who are LGB Alliance?Are they an LGB rights organisation, or are they an anti-trans organisation?Can they be both?I did some analysis of their followers to find out.A THREAD First off,
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This morning I'm having a difficulty putting my words together as I woke up very angry. Throughout the night, I thought about it. 14 more days in lockdown with zero
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1/ Would you work for nothing? Nope? Thought so. Could this be why so many Australian mums work part-time? Tax, welfare and childcare costs mean that full time work for
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Lots of thoughts about this. Here's two: 1) This really puts the minimum wage fiasco of a couple months ago in sharp perspective; 2) Bernie & others should rally in
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Excuse me, please: Has the @nassnigeria leadership ask both Senate and Reps Committees on Security to set up ASAP a Joint Public (televised) Enquiry sittings for at least the past
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It's Domestic Violence Awareness Month and we need to talk about criminalized survival. According to the @ACLU, nearly 60% of women in state prison - and as many as 94%
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