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This is misleading.
Setting the poverty line at $2.15/day (adjusted for purchasing power) is appallingly low. It should be set at around $10/day, maybe even higher.
Even a poverty line as low as $6.85/day reveals almost no reduction in global poverty since 1990.
What many people don't know: recent decades have seen incredible reductions in poverty. The poverty rate has *never before* been this low in human history.
What new data is now revealing: after the setback from Covid, poverty reduction now continues!
blogs.worldbank.org/opendata…
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Unite UCU congratulates @ucu members on the agreement reached to restore USS pensions and commends all of the negotiators involved.
On behalf of our members in the scheme who couldn’t join the action, thank you.
We will encourage our members to respond to the consultation.
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ADHD is not caused by bad parenting.
As a mental health nurse, and someone with ADHD, I can safely say that @LeeAndersonMP_ is talking out of his arse.
He is not qualified to talk about the etiology of ADHD, and his words are hurtful and damaging.
P.s. my mum is great.
#ADHD
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Lost decades have been the norm ever since the 1980s when the World Bank and its cousin, the IMF, took over policymaking in Africa.
World Bank fears "lost decade" for sub-Saharan Africa. Its GDP per capita hasn't grown since 2015. Political instability, fragility, rising conflict & violence the main culprits of the slowdown. Sudan’s economy to shrink by 12% this year, amidst conflict
africanews.com/2023/10/04/th…
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It’s a very sad day when the UN High Commissioner •for• Refugees celebrates a deal that codifies illegal refugee detention and allows states to buy their way out of protection obligations.
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This agreement between @ucu & @USSEmployers on @USSpensions is very good👇. It's highly significant that it has the unanimous support of @UCU's negotiators. 1/
ucu.org.uk/media/14070/Oct20…
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Her government, her party, her colleagues, drafted a Bill that removes support & recognition for Migrant Slaves, one of the cruelest most awful, punishing pieces of legislation in our history - she abstained instead of voting it down.
She can sit TF down.
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May I politely suggest to non-UCU members who benefit from the pending USS changes, to the tune of tens of £000s (and to those members who for whatever reason did not strike), please consider supporting those who took action and lost salary for your gain: ucu.org.uk/fightingfund
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All people fleeing persecution – including for their sexuality or beliefs – should have the right to safety. Standing up for our shared humanity is just as important today as it ever was. These international frameworks exist to protect everyone.
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-6…
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📢BREAKING: What we know from Suella Braverman's speech:
❌Implores the US & other democracies to tear up treaties which protect human rights;
❌Disregards gender & sexuality as a basis for protection needs;
❌Whips up fear, hatred & racism, over compassion and humanity.
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Something that is happening more & more is the govt coming out with absolutely absurd massive numbers of potential migrants.
No one with any grasp of the figures know where they get them, today we have probably an estimate of the number of gay people living in the global south..
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The people arguing against VAT on the fees of 600,000 children attending private schools are the same people who oppose giving two million hungry state school kids free school meals
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The last 40 years have proven that tax cuts don't 'pay for themselves', wealth doesn't 'trickle down' and the private sector isn't 'more efficient'. Yet still national newspapers and broadcasters never question these views.
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Laurence Fox is ordering Simon to take this Tweet down.
I would hate my followers, and their followers, to retweet it.
We wouldn’t want to upset Laurence…
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Today's nonsense is precisely designed to elicit our despair as cheap, manufactured spectacle. Instead here is the steady reminder: All human beings with a well founded fear of persecution have a right to claim asylum, determined with care by competent decision-makers, under law.
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‘Simply doing the job’ is such a revolting way to summarise killing black people.
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Colleagues should not fear for their liberty and livelihoods for simply doing the job the public expect of us. MPF Statement on Commissioner's call for reform of police accountability metfed.org.uk/news/mpf-state…
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Sainsbury’s CEO gets paid almost £4m in bonuses, on top of his salary. He’s on £2,298 per hour, while Sainsbury workers are getting £11 per hour.
And we get told workers salaries are driving inflation.
Rubbish. It’s the greed of the elite driving inflation.
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Suella Braverman going on about failure of refugees to integrate and the dangers of that.
In the UK, they can’t work, they can’t study, they’re housed on barges and former army barracks or indefinitely detained in centres.
How are they supposed to integrate into society?
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Asylum has never been granted to people just because they are gay. Often unsympathetically and intrusively they are asked to show they have been/are likely to be persecuted for their sexuality.
This is the politics of the sewer.
thetimes.co.uk/article/suell…