#Workfare

Marton Vegh

marton_vegh

What is the link between the Orbán governments' welfare state retrenchment, the EU's COVID recovery fund & the politics of economic indicators? - a thread (1/16) The allocation of the

Club des Cordeliers

cordeliers

UBI is a Silicon Valley scheme to depress wages and disempower workers. https://www.newsweek.com/was-andrew-yang-right-economic-cost-coronavirus-builds-interest-universal-basic-income-1500145 Y Combinator is a very spooky operation.https://twitter.co

Dr Hayley Bennett

HAYLESBEN

Excellent analysis from @tonywilsonIES on UC levels & a call to moblise employment support services. Which made me think: Will the supply-side thinking that underpins 'employability' programmes need a huge

Analisa Packham

analisapackham

Putting together some Tik Toks on safety net programs (our last unit to cover in Public Econ). You can follow them here as I upload them or you can follow

Paul Cotterill

Bickerrecord

1/ As far as I can see, there has been no @uklabour critique of the Kickstart scheme, which opened for employer applications today. That's disappointing, but perhaps a bit predictable

M. Gouldhawke ∞

M_Gouldhawke

All forms of government income assistance, from welfare to Employment Insurance to Universal Basic Income, are primarily a subsidy to landlords & employers. To ensure that employers don't have to

buat demokrasi

BuatDemokrasi

Minimum wage, vampires, and leeches. (thread on yesterday's parliament debate) 1/ Important statistics from parliament. In Singapore 100,000 workers are paid below $1300 per month. Of this, 56,000 earn less

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

The right has long held that homelessness is a symptom - of a lack of self-control, a lack of foresight, of addiction, mental illness, etc - and therefore the solution

Nev Jones

viscidula

I'm going to venture some thoughts on psychiatry, activism/advocacy & change that hopefully *de-center* medications. (Thread.)https://twitter.com/shayla__love/status/1298646511333638146 (1) whether we're talking about increased

Mark Robbins

RoboRobbins

I'd like to offer a Twitter book review of the Deficit Myth, which advances the ideas of Modern Monetary Theory or MMT. Overall, I was not impressed on a couple

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

The Obama administration inherited a vast economic crisis. They responded with Quantitative Easing, pumping trillions into the finance sector to rescue the banks that had knowingly gambled on bad mortgages,

Has Jeff Bezos Decided To End World Hunger?

HasBezosDecided

Why I hate the Conservative Party with a fiery passion and why you should too(CONTENT WARNING: Suicide, upsetting images of emaciated people) The Conservative's program of austerity since 2010 has