#Policy

Still crazy that MI's Whitmer extended the stay at home order for 2 weeks without any real justification. She concedes that we have flattened the curve and claims the extension
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Green Party candidate Baerbock for. pol. intvu w/FAZ, in which she accuses Merkel’s govt of “foreign policy passivity” and calls for more active German role. Intvu expands on comments during
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Two days ago I was asked why Copts support Trump. Well, the obvious answer is because they agree with his policies. Of course, which policies and why deserve some elaboration.
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Interesting NBER day paper on Credit Smoothing, or the idea that people will use more/request more credit as a response to negative income shocks. The paper finds, contrary to standard
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Our analysis of Scottish manifestos out today https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/15412Strikingly big promises from the main parties, without any serious attempt to provide costings or to say how they would be paid for.
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US residents: You have until September 22nd to tell HUD that they should allow shelter providers to have women-only services again! You can write them here:https://womensliberationfront.salsalabs.org/hud2020shelters/index.html If this offen
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Poor remuneration of lawyers is not always a problem with the profession. It’s even more an economic problem. We bash adverts way too much. The assumption that any firm in
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There is nothing anti-speculative about single family, zoning, downzoning, or any other type of zoning. Zoning merely controls the form of value, not its magnitude nor its movement. Capital gentrifies
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Getting Medicare-for-all enacted, just as one policy among the many we'll need, will take THOUSANDS of people. From Congress, to the courts and lawyers, to bureaucrats and office workers, to
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The sad truth is that the sudden prevalence of parklets shows the true capabilities of a city when the business and merchant community approves of it and that all those
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Sneaking suspicion that Ring has somehow been monitoring me in order to create an amalgamation of my fears and loathings.(Also, WHO WANTS THIS???)https://twitter.com/verge/status/1309182957526151169 Also, I genuinely love that whenever new
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The New Jersey governor’s press conference today was really good. Clear, articulate, compassionate, firm, informational. I KID YOU NOT that Governor Phil Murphy put out a call for COBOL programmers.
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just following this thread, and I am just enamored by this last tweeti see this argument crop up time and time againit's a decades old way of denying that a
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Finally published article debunking many coronavirus myths, like those stupid graphs, and the idea that coronavirus deaths are being overcounted, when it actually appears they're being underestimated.https://arcdigital.media/debunking-coronavirus
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This thread is for those of you who don’t find the time to read my #PetersbergSpeech in full. Link to English translation (including slides): https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/key/date/2020/html/ecb.sp200627~6009be389f.en.html. Link to orig
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#Mandela THREAD Ignorant to call him a sellout. Far right says he should never have been released. Far left calls him a sellout. When Codesa collapsed MK wanted a civil
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