#Workers

Martin Erlić 🇭🇷

SeloSlav

Unpopular opinion time.This is a good policy.The logic is pretty simple. All wage workers are also consumers.https://twitter.com/FT/status/1354661769294319616 People erroneously jump to the basic conclusion that wage floors *always* result

I Love Esh

JavierPayano

Started as a reply but then got to good not to post:Do capitalism and racism work together to harm people? Racism and capitalism became entwined when Portuguese created race based

Modernista64

modernista64

AZ election lawyer here with few points that bear repeating for those watching what’s happening in AZ: 1/ 1.Ballots marked with sharpies at polling places have already been counted. The

Helen Rosner

hels

There’s no excuse for eating indoors at a restaurant right now that doesn’t ultimately boil down to “I really want to,” and that just isn’t good enoughhttps://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/the-indoor-dining-debate

Pavlina R Tcherneva

ptcherneva

Quick comments:Postwar "Keynesianism" prioritized govt support for private industry & dropped the direct govt employment efforts after the New Deal/WWII. This was a mistake. No direct job creation featured here

🌱 Laurel Lynn Leake 🐌

LaurelLynnLeake

hey fellow people not able to attend protests: one way we can join in is by reporting abusive comments & adding/uplifting messages of support! if you have the time &

Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA

celinegounder

@NYChealthy took a beating in the @NYTimes over the weekend: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/nyregion/nyc-contact-tracing.html It's a bit more complicated. Got an inside (but on-the-record) look at NYC's #contacttracing data toda

Allison B. Taylor

AllisonBTaylor

1/ In anticipation of a community meeting tomorrow, I sent the following questions to Tufts University. I commended Tufts’ early response in the spring. (THREAD) 2/ But as a close

Joanna Hardy

Joanna__Hardy

Things I do that leave the criminal justice system ‘hamstrung’:* cross-examine vulnerable children with skill and care, agonising over every word to ensure their fairest evidence is given.* sit with

Suze Morrison

SuzeMorrison

COVID has disproportionately harmed Black & racialized communities. It's primarily Black & racialized women working the front lines of long-term care who are overworked, underpaid, and understaffed in homes that

Lin Harrison

RealLinHarrison

1 of 5 Day 18th of #LGBTHM21 I’ve just been to @SheffieldHosp for a regular treatment I’m having and am thinking about our experiences of healthcare as #lgbtq+ people.

David Bier

David_J_Bier

Here is my attempt visualize the harm President Trump has caused not in terms of policies, but in terms of people, immigrants not coming to America, not receiving permanent residence,

Imran Khan

imrankhan

Public engagement is vital for increasing vaccine uptake.But what actually works? (hint: it's not shaming people, nor giving oxygen to anti-vaxxers)A new report from @wellcometrust lays it out: https://wellcome.org/reports/effective-way

Smergi Rompe

smergi_rompe

The betrayal yesterday is of no surprise to me. I had hoped for the best, but truly expected his worst, and that’s what we got. #JudasPence was necessary to finish

Per Bylund

PerBylund

This is the type of nonsense we get with the blind adherence to the consumption-spending fallacy ("Keynesianism"): "remote workers are 'contributing less to the infrastructure of the economy whilst still

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mnolangray

"[I]if you can’t go out to eat, why even live in the city?" And if you don't have a lot of nice consumption-amenities, the nudge for super productive people to

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