#Poverty

Emily Prifogle, JD/PhD

EmilyAPrifogle

This week in Law in Rural America we’re thinking about rural communities and the environment. For those following along, here we go! #RuralLaw 1/ First up is a piece from

pauldavidson

Paul_Davidsen

For most of human history, people relied on their own muscle-power, fueled by food, while fire provided heat & light. As agriculture emerged, followed by towns & cities, human muscles

Dr Louise Hansen 🌷🕊🐀

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For the Prime Minister of Australia: Dear Scott Morrison, I am writing to you about the growing concern worldwide for the First Nations people of Australia. I was only 17

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BoliqueAna

Katherine Keating has been silent about her relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Let’s have a look at what Katherine, daughter of former PM Paul Keating has been up to. Katherine, as

Timothée Parrique

timparrique

Here is a new thread on #Degrowth and #Marxism, responding to this lecture by Olivia Rickson. Again, degrowth is gravely misrepresented, if understood at all. This is not a critique,

Rafael Fonseca MD

Rfonsi1

THE LACK OF PERSUASION AS A FAILURE AGAINST COVID-19.1/The yearning for liberty is inextricably linked to the human existence. Liberty yearning is like gravity pulling water down the slope- even

asad rehman

chilledasad100

When I hear net zero 2050 I always remember Ambassador Lumumba (the Chair of the G77) at the Copenhagen climate talks in 2009 when he said 2c “certain death for

Plan Maestro

PlanMaestro

Thinking on doing a thread on the Chilean situation … but worried about losing the 3 Chilean followers I have(and boring everyone else) 200 Years of Inequality in Chile I

David Evans

DaveEvansPhD

What is the impact of #COVID19 on children and youth’s access to learning opportunities and on their actual learning in low- and middle-income countries? A running thread of studies by

Dipesh Gopal

DipeshGopal

1/THREAD about why race is in the @NICEComms hypertension (blood pressure) guidelines and why it should go: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ng136 @MedCrisis and I read #AngelaSaini's book "Superior" and were horrified at

Cait S. Kirby (she/her)

caitskirby

Today is #StutteringAwarenessDay and a #presidential #debate day in which a stutterer will likely be bullied by another candidate.This is a polite request that, if you do not currently stutter,

Onur Özgöde

ummodern

Very sophisticated piece by @csissoko, but from a systemic risk perspective, both law and macroecon overlook the question of the dynamics of systemic interdependencies during emergencies. This is why risk

Keikantse E. Phele

ke_phele

I spent the better part of last week on the road and went to Maun, Shakawe, Samochima, Mohembo, Ghani, Chukumuchu and Tsodilo. These villages are in and around the Okavango

Paul Katz

paulryankatz

The city of @MaricaRJ has just launched the most ambitious COVID-19 response in Brazil and arguably the world. In a new piece @BostonReview, @LeandroFerreira and I discuss the #BasicIncome policies

Cricket Goodspeed

ThisIsCrick

I live in #ODSPoverty It’s supposed to be a “program of last resort” This means that like me, everyone on the program has nowhere else to turn to for income.

Heidi Shierholz

hshierholz

Last week, 2.4 million workers applied for unemployment benefits. This is the 17th week in a row that unemployment insurance (UI) claims have been more than twice the *worst* week