#Government

Last month the Scottish Government announced the ‘Equally Safe’ consultation on further measures to “end the demand” for sex work. Their proposals seek to criminalise the purchase of sex in
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1: A THREAD on Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and my new @NationalAffairs article which attempts to outline many of the major empirical flaws of MMT.https://nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-weakness-of-modern-monetary-theory 2: Aft
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The current & former staffers of @TimesNow have allegedly written an open letter to their editors @RShivshankar & @navikakumar Follow the thread to read We, the former and current
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It’s been a week since we had our last update on our state’s efforts to acquire Personal Protective Equipment, so I want to provide a quick update on PPE since
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Aram Roston has been one of the most important reporters on this story.https://twitter.com/AramRoston/status/1297930591061643264 Jim Rutenberg and Frances Robles also wrote an important summary of the timeline:https://twitter.com/jimrutenbe
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Things @RachelNotley & the NDP did that made my life better, a thread:Implemented $25/day childcare pilot to allow Albertan women to have equitable access to employment. Diversified the economy with
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A short timeline thread on the FN child welfare compensation case that began in 2007. The case picked up speed in 2016 with a landmark Canadian Human Rights Tribunal ruling
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ok wow. so, I looked into the Canadian Energy Centre (formerly the "Alberta Energy War Room") as a public agency governance expert, which is what I am irl. The way
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Some thoughts about @JillianRatti and @AmyTanMD and their imminent departures. I was offered a position at the U of C DFM in late 2018. I had a good job in
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A well timed report on Civil Service Compensation by @PIDEpk, to quantify the benefits and perks that civil servants enjoy, and calculating the cost of the service.Thank you @durre_nayab_ @nadeemhaque!https://pide.org.pk/pdf/reports/Civil-S
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In response to @twitter's actions to fact check the false and harmful statements of Trump, Republicans, instinctively, are trying to distract with whataboutism & China.This is a red herring.Chinese gov't
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Whoa, my zip code has a population under 19,000 people and 67 coronavirus bailout loans over $150,000.https://projects.propublica.org/coronavirus/bailouts/ Double 18 Inc., for example, got between $2M and $5M. https://www.myfloridalicense.c
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Government producing masks, but are they effective against viruses? Are they made to N95/FFP2 or N99/FFP3 standards? If not why not?https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8515735/State-owned-factories-capacity-churn-FIVE-MILLION-face-cove
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Are we still a few people ... A Thread!1. Two or more sides disagree on who runs the country. And they can't settle the question through elections because they don't even
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Full text of today’s Throne Speech for those who—like me—get a weird thrill from this stuff.https://www.canada.ca/en/privy-council/campaigns/speech-throne/2020/stronger-resilient-canada.html The most interesting line? “The Governmen
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guys, why are school premises being sanitized? firstly, they said that virus only survive for certain days outside of a host right? and it's been more than 5 weeks now
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