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Charlotte Goodman

charlgoodman

Last week @akuareindorf and @ATLEUnit won a case saying that the "family worker" exemption from the minimum wage is unlawful. Is a *big win*. Here's my piece on domestic workers'

Matt Emerson

M_Y_Emerson

Remember in the 2000s when we emphasized “guard the good deposit” and “pass on sound doctrine”? It’s obvious now that, while that emphasis is biblical and good, we forgot to

👀Krystal Marx👀

Bishop_Krystal

(1/ _) Seems like someone left the lid to garbage can open over at #SafeSeattle again. They don't even attempt to address the lack of representation in positions of power,

Thomas Silverstein

T_Silverstein

Problems with this:- I'm pretty serious abt the challenges posed by land availability & zoning to subsidized housing development (see pinned tweet) but care to guess how many LIHTC units

Anna Stansbury

annastansbury

CBO forecasts are out.Some early reports have suggested the CBO forecast revisions are cause for optimism. Not so fast!My key takeaway: Forecasts have been upgraded from a *catastrophically* slow recovery

Muge Cevik

mugecevik

School openings and children (0-18yo) have been the most complex and contested subject of the pandemic. In this letter, we are calling for balanced and nuanced scientific and media coverage

Stephen Kent

Stephen_Kent89

Great post put together by @DionRabouin in @axios on the racial wealth gap and why it matters.https://www.axios.com/racial-wealth-gap-ten-myths-d14fe524-fec6-41fc-9976-0be71bc23aec.html?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_cam

Luis Miguel Echegaray

lmechegaray

After everything, I’d love to see legislation that sets a pathway for legal status to undocumented immigrants. Since day one they’ve been vilified and called the enemy - by a

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

1/9Of course regulators worry about Ant's disruptive potential. Its overwhelming success had less to do with its technological innovation and more to do with the fact that a lightly regulated

Anya Martin

AnyaMartin8

It's not uncommon to hear people say that building market housing doesn't help those in housing need.Only... they're wrong. Thread (h/t @hanlonbt) 1/9https://urbanpolicy.berkeley.edu/pdf/QR_EJHP01PB.pdf This paper on "the e

Tom Young

therealyotung

I’m tired of seeing the shoulder-shrugging and defeatism around COVID in Canada. Talked with my mom (who is in Edmonton) yesterday and she raised questions about why NZ did so

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SylvanaquaFarms

Just sat here and heard a progressive political organizer blame the doubling of the Black vote for Trump on rural Black people being influenced by their neighbors and I’m just...

LibertarianRight 🔔

RightMinarchist

Thread on why most regulations have drastic negative effects on the economy: This is study from the Journal of Economical Growth found that regulations "have reduced real output growth by

Muge Cevik

mugecevik

Concerns about outdoor transmission risk seem to be trending again. What is the risk of transmission outdoors and should we be more worried about outdoors with the new more-transmissible variant?

Alex Bozikovic

alexbozikovic

I write often about the need to add big new buildings in central Toronto. Why? Because privileged neighbourhoods like @HarbordVillage fight new growth relentlessly and shamelessly. 1/ #Topoli This development

Tracy O'Connell Novick

TracyNovick

I want to push some of this from @derspiegel out in a thread, because it's based in part on the sort of universal testing (within the study referenced) that we

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