#Income

A simple thread for some basic guidelines to follow when starting out early.Get this stuff right and you're ahead of most others. 1. Spend less than you earn.If you can't
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Money from the CARES Act was meant to help low-income students and the schools that serve them. So, why did the CARES Act give more money to hair schools than
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No question that the less well-off -- whether measured by income or education -- are suffering more in this recession. And, for some narrowly defined groups, the recession may be
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Student Journos,I've seen lots of chatter from young journos abt trying/failing/losing out on jobs/internships at Big Publications, i.e. NY/DC media.I truly can't stress enough how much more you learn &
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i always forget that i’m a first generation college graduate in my family, like i’m literally my nanny’s first grandchild that has gone to college and i never really think
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A friend and I were going to the pool one day and we both talked about why poor people remain poor and the rich getting richer. This are some of
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Lessons from my mom the landlord: **gasp*** a renter activist with a landlord mama?! Yes. And we don’t disagree on a lot. I always ask her perspective on housing policy.
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Help a girl out Can you tell me if this sounds abusive? My friend's husband won’t let her visit any friends or family. He has made her stop all contact
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Seeing a range of reactions to this from "yeah, I make that in SF and am not anywhere NEAR 'wealthy'" to "that's 10x what I make and upper middle class
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Why doesn't @RishiSunak's furlough scheme work for charities? It's because it's designed for those whose jobs have become temporarily redundant. That includes some who work in charity shops, cafes etc,
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The truth of course is that @supportprop is an anti-opioid, anti-patient activist group with extreme views about opioid prescribing. It’s founder, #AndrewKolodny is arguably a self-interested hack who reportedly never
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I see the student loan debt discussion is about to be an argument full of misinforamation and direction even from Black people. I keep seeing two main arguments against:1. It
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People keep confusing "budgeting" with "thriftiness". A household budget is nothing more than1. Having a plan2. Trying to stick with the plan3. Making adjustments when you can't stick with the
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Some thoughts (ie, long thread) on this very interesting and very provocative paper by @Astrid_Marinoni and @john_voorheis, which got a lot of attention yesterday. https://twitter.com/john_voorheis/status/1188809442051219458?s=19 /1 John tweets, “the
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All the services rescue orgs talk about for sex workers to exit already exist. They haven't exactly thought of anything new. The provisions such as social housing, benefits, drug &
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• Wisconsin forced its citizens to vote in person and people got sick.• WI forced it’s citizens back to work and people are getting sick.• WI forced its citizens to
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