#Eligibility

Duncan & Toplis

duncantoplis

THREAD: All UK employers with a #PAYE scheme are able to access #UKGovernment support to continue paying #furloughed workers' salaries up to 80% or £2,500, whichever is lower. Wages backdated

Em Burnett

elburnett

The rare #mepolitics + #civictech thread! 1. Maine just decided to award a monster integrated benefits site to Deloitte for $8 million. This is where people apply get food stamps,

Nina Bahadur

nbahadur

Harris has introduced/cosponsored multiple bills re: Black maternal mortality, including the Maternal CARE Act, the MOMS Act, the MOMMIES Act, and the Healthy Maternity and Obstetric Medicine Act. Last year

Nisa Malli

nisamalli

One of the trickiest things about public policy is you need to be sure you are solving the right problem. The roll-out of mobile vaccination clinics in priority postal codes

Alliance for Securing Democracy

SecureDemocracy

Let’s talk about secure voting. Foreign actors are attempting to undermine our faith in the vote by amplifying disinfo around vote-by-mail and other processes. There’s lots of bad info out

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

#Iowa's HSB 272 ("An Act relating to tax collection and penalties, tax permits and loans made by state-chartered banks") is the kind of bureaucratic maneuver Woody Guthrie's meant with, "Some

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

Armine Yalnizyan

ArmineYalnizyan

Dear "why not cut everyone a $2K cheque" crowd:I will be talking about this tomorrow at the Broadbent confab about basic income Thurs aft 1 pm ET, register here: https://www.broadbentinstitute.ca/would_a_universal_basic_income_guarantee_a_g

Robert W. Fernandez, PhD

latinodeciencia

Thoughts on how applying to grad school in the sciences is gatekeeping at its finest: 1) Why are grad school apps so expensive? ~$100 per app! Who can afford this

Rhea Boyd MD, MPH

RheaBoydMD

Public schools are a critical terrain of struggle for equality in the US. They are spaces where kids AND communities access the resources vital to health, mobility, and longer life

Tim Köhler

TimothyKohler

Last month, we did some work at @DPRU_UCT on the economics of #COVID19 in SA. We focused on several areas of concern, incl. the grants system, expected impacts on growth

jkdegen

jkdegen

Seeing a few questions on Twitter about the #WritersReliefFund from ⁦@writerstrust⁩ and ⁦@twuc⁩. Let’s see if I can clear some things up.https://www.writerstrust.com/programs/canadian-writers-emergency-relief-fund There have been far more application

ESPN

espn

From Ali to Maya Moore, Bill Russell to Colin Kaepernick, athletes have consistently used their platform to spotlight injustices.Here is a look at moments where athletes did not simply stick

IPC-IG

IPC_IG

1/12 On 20/04, @juanluisbm, president of the Social Assistance Agency (IMAS), announced the payment of a 125k colones emergency subsidy to 33k poor families not receiving any gov. transfers. They

CIOT

CIOTNews

A brief thread of key points from today's @CommonsTreasury evidence session with @JimHarraHMRC & Cerys McDonald of @HMRCgovuk, mostly around the Job Retention Scheme #CJRS but a few on #SEISS

Ingrid M

iMusing

what is Morrison talking about today? Why has the comms strategy ramped up this week? Schools again? the 4sq metre rule and 1.5 metre rule is not a requirement in