#Inequality

Steve Matthews

SteveMatthews12

There was a ton of Fedspeak this week, most of which I listened to, some I missed. Of course, the Humphrey Hawkins testimony by Chairman Powell was the most important,

Terri Kopp

TerriKopp2it

To be clear: I'm not saying that staffing is easy. And I am not dismissing that some people are more easily positioned to staff than others. My original tweet was

Grace Petrie

gracepetrie

It’s not even like I think a leftwing party would necessarily win in Hartlepool. But certain Labour MPs just refuse to concede the problems of 2019 weren’t exclusively limited to

marilyn munheux

howevericonic

Wait this made me realize that darkskin black girls rarely get to be the love interest, even in their own stories.....i????https://twitter.com/softblackgirls/status/1264187886687129600 Like how did this go over my head all

Basel 9

Baseljanitors

The worst part about this "pandemic" is the excuse all these intellectuals get to use for their support of a failed monetary policy and the consequences thereof. For a decade

Jared Yates Sexton

JYSexton

The pandemic is America's problems rolled into one.Racism. Toxic individualism. Misinformation. Economic inequality. Anti-meritocracy. A corporate infrastructure that de-prioritizes leadership and incentivizes delegated responsibility.I

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Our societal narratives are invisible by dint of their ubiquity, but they are far more important in stabilizing the status quo that all the cops and jails and domestic surveillance

GemmaFlynn

GemmaFlynn

The tour guiding group I work with, that helps me survive between/ through bad academic contracts, continues to floor me with simple good humane work practices. When I'm sick there's

machine age knife magician 🖤

sweetpavement

I'm having such big, frustrated feels at the state of inequality in our society around disability and accessibility and how that is making conversations about labor and community building harder

Peyton Bullock

PBullock044

I don’t understand why the Roman plebeians get such flack for “being bought with bread and circuses.” Think of how much Americans have been willing to give up to the

Robert Manduca

robertmanduca

New working paper: "Trends in Absolute Income Mobility in North America and Europe." Joint with @maximilian_hell @MNybom @JoBlanden @OutiSirnio @adrianadermon @s_machin_ @RSumaiya @martindmunk @anne_c_gielen + 4 co-authors not on

WAP for abolition™️

zwingham

similar to many, if not all, universities across the country, students at nyu are facing down the language of austerity and "empty pockets". i was curious to find who comprises

Amy Maxmen, PhD

amymaxmen

The thing that irks me about California is smugness & self-congratulatory behavior. NYC is incredibly dense & runs on public transportation. Some of Cali's cities are so expensive that only

Simon Forder 🏰😸🐲

TheCastleGuy

There are some things which should not be run as profit-making businesses. Anything which is a vital part of the country's infrastructure. They do need to be efficient. But they

Lura

lura_groen

As a pastor to boomers, I know that so many of them were taught, and believed, that their suburban lifestyles were the right and good and Christian thing. It’s heartbreaking

Richard Trumka

RichardTrumka

This week, our nation is mourning another instance of a deadly encounter between police and an unarmed person of color. George Floyd’s unnecessary death at the hands of Minneapolis police