#Economic

Beyond the mass death and economic shocks, pandemics are a big deal because they make everything that’s already teetering on the edge of breakdown much worse. The US is full
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1/ In as much as we had to combat the spread of #covid19 virus, the copy and paste #lockdown approach which most African countries adopted from Europe will destroy Afrika.
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i am a 57 year old white man, educated and principled (i like to think), and just learned about ida b. wells TODAY. i had no idea that lynching wasn’t
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NEW: the government has privately admitted the combined impact of Covid + pandemic will disrupt multiple essential services including food, medicine & drinking water & risks plunging UK into a
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With a week’s post-thesis holiday in Cornwall, I finally got round to reading Frank Snowden's Epidemics and Society. I found it absolutely gripping. A few things stand out for me
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How and why trade unions help the 'levelling up' of life chances for workers & their children, a short(ish) thread....#SocialMobility #joinaunion @The_TUC (1/10)https://twitter.com/dan_tomlinson_/status/1265574386305773571 "
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New working paper! "Food insecurity in the US during the pandemic: What can we learn from real-time data?" (joint with @SamuelLF11). Link: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3831053 #EconTwitter (1/n) We study the
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Thank you Ice Cube for your epiphany that proactive steps should be taken directed solely towards the Black community that is so underserved. The issues of your contract have been
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So, should we have a discussion about next steps since we are less than 24 hrs away from Week 7 tracking period-end?W/ less than 24 hrs to go, the reality
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The Roshni Scam is only one instance pointing out how deep this institutional rot of corruption is in Jammu and Kashmir.  Not a single sector or sphere of life, including
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It was incredibly meaningful for me to watch 'Racism in the Environment Sector' #GAevent as it's a discussion that has been needed for far too long.While watching, I naturally reflected
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NEW: @JECDems are releasing a report today that explains why Black, Latino and low-income Americans are more likely to bear the health and/or financial burdens of #COVID19. Read the report
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Trump began his campaign in 2015 as an ideologically mixed populist who looked like he was having fun stirring things up. He has governed as an angry, incompetent right wing
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Have been on the phone for several hours of back to back conversations with members of the United States Senate and Congress all morning, getting a very positive response to
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OMG they're so full of shit. A multi-million $ manufacturing roadmap? Running on all the front pages again. Please. They announce a "boost" for manufacturing every few months. Here are
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1) This came up in a discussion the other day, when someone was misguidedly claiming that cuts to emissions should come before attempts at system change, because that was impossible
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