#Wages

Alan Cole

AlanMCole

My new @JECRepublicans report. The basics: saving often gets a bad rap from demand-side macroeconomists, especially during recessions. However, under the particular circumstances of COVID-19, it's doing some good stuff!https://www.jec.s

Erik Loomis

ErikLoomis

This Day in Labor History: October 12, 1898. A racialized battle over strikebreaking broke out in Virden, Illinois. Let's talk about how employers could so easily manipulate racism to promote

Suresh Nirody

snirody

1/x Beyond the more direct costs associated with #covidー19 there will also be massive associated opportunity costs! Here's an ongoing thread with examples.One example: the suspension of polio eradication campaigns!https://bit.ly/2VaMv

Ryan Muir 🇨🇦

ryanmuir

Info for Self-Employed and Out of Work: subreddit disc. on stimulus:https://tinyurl.com/t6yd8do NYTimes Stimulus FAQ:https://tinyurl.com/t5cucqc How Not to Freak Out About Your Finances...https://tinyurl.com/see93dd Biz Insider: How-To

Muhammadu Buhari

MBuhari

Fellow Nigerians,It has become necessary for me to address you having heard from many concerned Nigerians and having concluded a meeting with all the Security Chiefs. I must warn those

Adam Townsend

adamscrabble

Thread on Chinese Currency Manipulation. You're going to like this. I had a question for my analysts, what does it mean "China is manipulating its currency?" I've distilled their answer.

LSHS DEMOCRATS

lshsDems

2020 presidential debate: in tweets (a thread) First topic is the Supreme Court: Biden highlights the problems that Trump’s nominee Amy Coney Barrett would bring to the country if she

All Possums Go to Heaven

AndyinDC1

This is an incredibly common argument from right-libertarians: asserting a positive right to basic needs, like housing, as an intolerable intrusion on someone else’s liberty. Let’s unpack.1/https://twitter.com/dapf/status/13675472488470

Pale_Primate

PALE_Primate

I listened to this podcast by Spencer and Razib a few months back, & have been wanting to respond to it at some point.Spencer's basic thesis is that US power

Emily Alpert Reyes

AlpertReyes

The Los Angeles City Council has a packed agenda today. Among the proposals being considered: requiring businesses to rehire employees based on seniority and a broader ban on evictions than

Chris Dier

chrisdier

Hurricane Katrina devastated my community 15 years ago today. I was 17 at the time. In many ways, my personal experience and studying what transpired helped radicalize me. These events,

Arthur Chu

arthur_affect

Okay so I'm going to subtweet some Discourse going on in my TL right now, with the disclaimer up front that all of this is completely hypothetical as far as

Salt and Ginger Hair Don't Care

grammytammyd

ThreadI'm a liberal, but that doesn't mean what a lot of you apparently think it does. Let's break it down, shall we? Because quite frankly, I'm getting a little tired

Humanities at Westminster

wminhumanities

I, a sentient institutional structure, am biased, but studying a humanities subject is fab! Taking a passionate deep dive into cultures, literatures, histories, languages, into the global world around you

Libyan citizen- ﮼مواطن،ليبي

Libyancitizen6

As the tension between CBL chairman and Al-Sarraj increases, lets have a look at some unknown/forgotten details: Before 2011, because of his good relations with Mohammed Al-Bukhari (minister of finance

Choctaw & Chickasaw Freedmen

ChoctawFreedmen

This official Choctaw Nation supplemental guide for teaching about the McGirt v. Oklahoma decision is full of misinterpretations of the history, omits histories of Black people and Freedmen, and erases