#Labor

I'M MORE WORRIED ABOUT SUPERSTAR COMPANIES THAN I AM ABOUT "ZOMBIES" In today's @markets newsletter, I wrote about why the huge, booming tech companies could be holding back GDP growth
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A THREAD: about brand values & why @benandjerrys were right to comment on migrant boatsAs well as signalling their values (that many people agree with, including *spoiler alert* me) –
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To enact true change in our government, we need to flip the senate. This will enable dems to push through much needed reforms. Here are several seats we need your
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Today, the #LAUSD Board of Education is expected to discuss three resolutions related to the district's school police department – including one to reduce its funding first by 50, then
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Now that billionaire child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is back in the news, it seems like a good time to take a closer look at allegations that Donald Trump raped
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So I went on a walk the other night with a friend of mine and we got talking about #blacklivesmatter movement, and he hadn't realised how recent segregation in
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Today marks the 7th anniversary of the #RanaPlaza disaster which killed over 1100 Bangladeshi garment workers and forced a long overdue reckoning for the fashion industry. Now, with Covid-19, the
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The @rarebookschool annual report includes this great photo of David Vander Meulen, faculty there & in English at UVA. Seeing it prompts to to tell a little Saturday story about
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Thks @BrankoMilan for your usual food for thought! My 2 cents here as I disagree w some readings of data.From the @bancaditalia data: "everybody lose" (agree), rich lose (OK as
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there's a whole kind of chinese armor that is EXTENSIVELY documented in sculpture but we STILL have no idea what it really looked like, how it was made, or even
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Woke up to a fresh batch of anti-Black misandry on here so it's time to put out some data and info to dispel the myths and disrupt the pathology. Black
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Online teaching is not just content delivery. If your institution wants you just to post material for students to interact with and then do something for you to summatively assess,
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Reasons why each car company sucks... a thread Subaru: markets itself as a green company for hippies who like to camp. Makes SUVs that people drive to the mall. Sided
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“The chemistry of a raw chicken breast and a steamed head of broccoli” - @thisismewhatevs on Chakotay/Seven AND SHE IS RIGHT It’s utterly fitting that Neelix left Voyager chasing some
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(Invisible Illness Thread)If anyone looked at me, they'd see a relatively healthy 30 year old.What they don't see is the 30% survival chance I had as an infant, the 3
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TOMORROW, #Virginia’s #MinimumWage will increase to $9.50/hr (the first time it will be above the federal minimum!) and the state's local governments will no longer be banned from entering #CollectiveBargaining
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