#Economic

Close the Gap

closethepaygap

The #genderpaygap goes way beyond issues connected to education. The key causes are: gender segregation in jobs, a lack of flexible work, pay discrimination & women’s responsibility for unpaid carehttps://www.theguardian.com/world/202

Mujahid ⚔️🏴🍇

basedislamist

Was Islam spread by the sword?[THREAD ] Opponents of Islam often argue that Islam was spread forcefully and blame the doctrine of Jihad for this. However, the answer to whether

Aaron Gayden

aarongayden

I would like to enlist your help in the current/next worse thing to hit my state of California & our great nation. CA AB5 and HR2474/PRO Act are job killers

Fund the People

FundThePeople

.@philanthropy: Coronavirus is exposing nonprofit world’s chronic underfunding & poor treatment of staff, @rustystahl says. “We need 2 replace outmoded ways w/ new, healthier mode of funding & fundraising,” says

Will Wilkinson 🌐

willwilkinson

In a new @NiskanenCenter piece endorsing @HarvardEthics Roadmap to Pandemic Resilience, I try to draw out a few points that don't get enough attention.https://www.niskanencenter.org/a-massive-surge-in-testing-is-the-only-way-to-safely-restore-our

Bola Ahmed Tinubu

AsiwajuTinubu

1. ECONOMIC POLICY: CORONAVIRUS ECONOMIC STIMULUS PROGRAM 2. POLICY BACKGROUND The coronavirus has changed the modern world with a velocity un-foretold. To protect their populations, nations have taken unprecedented steps

Robert H Frank

econnaturalist

Thread on introductory economics courses, which leave little lasting imprint on the millions of students who take them each year:@stevenstrogatz @_StefRo @benbernanke @davenuss79 @DanTGilbert @JosephEStiglitz @kaushikcbasu @rodrikdani @RobertJSchille

Margot Kushel MD

MKushel

This policy change is v problematic. Don't be fooled by talk of mental health. The reason homelessness has is bc the fundamental drivers of homelessness: income inequality, lack of

Tyler Shandro

shandro

In tough economic times, it's even more important that Albertans know where their tax dollars are being spent. Today, I directed my department to immediately begin consultations with the Alberta

sha⁷ 🌼

dearbxngtan

since when has being a feminist been specifically reserved for females only? has the definition changed or something like am i MISSING something here -ism suffix: used to form action

Amy C🍩🍩pes

coopesdetat

Tweeting from a session with @VictorianCHO & @devisridhar on #COVID19 at #austph2020. Will thread below We will hear from @devisridhar first and then @VictorianCHO and then a Q&A #austph2020 Sridhar

blackbandcamp.info

car0linef0ley

the people who died when the twin towers were attacked and collapsed were direct white supremacists, bankers stockbrokers and CEOs who had contributed to the economic destabilization of Black people

Daniel Baryon

AnarkYouTube

In James C Scott's "Seeing Like a State" he posits that, because states require information in order to make decisions about how they will exert power and because there are

Yassir X

MG92__2

This illegal government stole power from a government that won the people's mandate. Also, their callous behavior has resulted in one state being in near-collapse while putting a massive strain

Mike Mazarr

MMazarr

Another THREAD, this one on a topic of growing debate: The cost, andfuture, of the post-war, “rule-based order” (RBO). Lots of criticismthese days: The RBO got us into Iraq! It’s

Jawad Mian

jsmian

1/ In 1998, the late philosopher Richard Rorty published "Achieving Our Country," a galvanizing book which predicted a surge in populism and social instability is coming to America because of