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The Penn/Wharton model today confirms our findings from a year ago–most student debt cancellation goes to the bottom 60% of earners. We disaggregated by race to show that upwardly mobile, low-wealth Black individuals benefit most. 1/2 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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97% of PPP loans, which totaled $800 bn, won’t have to be repaid.
Apparently, Jared Kushner, Paul Pelosi, & Kim Kardashian are more worthy of loan forgiveness than the children of middle class, working class and poor Americans who had to take out debt to afford college.
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gonna do a thread on why “reducing car dependency is a key progressive goal:
1-Safety: motorists kill over 40,000 people a year, and the death rate in america is rising as it is falling in other developed countries
it’s literally the number one cause of death among children.
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Fox News is complaining about a nationwide teacher shortage today. Here are some of the things Fox has said about teachers over the last two years:
ALT Fox News' 'Special Report with Bret Baier' chyron reads, "TEACHER SHORTAGE: SOME DISTRICTS MOVE TO FOUR-DAY SCHOOL WEEK"
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I trained as a gymnast under Larry Nassar. I know what a pedophile and a groomer are. It’s not a teacher with an “All Are Welcome” sign. It’s not a librarian who has award winning books on their shelves. Love your kids. Thank a teacher. Donate to a library. Cut the shit.
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Here is video of @AshishKJha46 saying “we need to get out of that business” of buying tests, vaccines and treatments (a lie) and his “hope” to see “the commercialization of almost all of these products.” Seeing his words is even more ghoulish than reading them.
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In Australia, their tax returns show them what their tax dollars were spent on.
Transparency like this is meant to inform the public and reduce corruption, which is exactly why we don't have it in America.
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Sometimes people give me shit for comparing the talking points of right-wing media and politicians to those of the KKK.
I want to say I’m sorry: they’re not comparable, they’re actually identical.
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In case you ever wondered why corporations will spend millions fighting against labor organizing efforts
ALT IMAGE: chart of "Union membership and share of income going to the top 10 percent, 1917-2015" the data indicates a seemingly direct correlation between union membership and the rise and fall of the share of wealth for 90% of people
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Secret Amazon memo exposes plan to hire only the ‘vulnerable’
"A leaked memo has revealed the company's strategy to hire vulnerable people more susceptible to its anti-union message."
peoplesworld.org/article/sec…
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"The number one thing we need to do is address the actual root causes of violence and harm in our society." @CivRightsCorps founder @equalityAlec talks copaganda and how we can actually make our society safer.
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Breaking: A new study by the University of Hawaii confirms that the U.S. Navy has been lying, claiming that the water under Red Hill, used by 90,000 people and 8 elementary schools, is clean, when it is in fact still contaminated by jet fuel and harming local residents. 🧵
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Senate Republicans celebrating after they blocked a bill which would've given better health benefits to veterans who suffer from the effects of open-air burn pits
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.@JonStewart: "I'm used to the hypocrisy…I'm used to the lies...I'm used to the cowardice...I'm used to all of it, but I am not used to the cruelty." #PACTAct
(WARNING: profanity)
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Welcome to DeSantisstan: “She was a waitress. She starts teaching 3rd grade next week & the only thing she had to do to get this teaching certification was to observe certified teachers…she had to ask me what I meant by phonetic spelling.” #Floriduh #RemoveRon
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An LAPD helicopter was flying too low and was extremely noisy while LAPD officers were handling a call about a "man with a knife."
One officer yelled "he doesn't have the knife!" but the helicopter was too low and too loud. All he could hear was "knife" and then opened fire.
ALT A man with a knife was shot by police. Then an LAPD helicopter made things worse
ALT Uncertain if Soto had dropped the knife, Martinez asked Mejia whether he was still armed. “No, no, no, he doesn’t have the knife!” Mejia shouted back. “He doesn’t have the knife!” Mejia then shouted at Voci and his partner to tell them the same thing. No knife. But the helicopter was too low and too loud. Voci said he could hear a jumble of voices yelling over the din of Air 10, but couldn’t tell who was speaking or what was being said. The only word he could make out, shouted over and over, was “knife, knife,” he said.
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Another overlooked "grim economic" factor with abortion:
One of the most important factors in the elimination of poverty & advancement/development of society is giving women the right/ability to control their fertility.
What happens when that's taken away?
Let's unpack...1/
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"My life sucks but I'll accept it as long as black people have it worse" explains like 85% of US history theatlantic.com/health/archi…
