We are excited to announce our new newsletter + podcast, w/ episode one featuring an inspiring conversation w/
@DevonGrayCA of @EndPovertyCA about their #listen2workers campaign, Blueprint to End Poverty, and much more. Link in first comment.
We are excited to announce our new newsletter + podcast, w/ episode one featuring an inspiring conversation w/
@DevonGrayCA of @EndPovertyCA about their #listen2workers campaign, Blueprint to End Poverty, and much more. Link in first comment.
In terms of public support, the Iran War is the first US war in history to be fought entirely underwater. Net approval started at –13%, now it's at –30%. Opposition submerged support every step of the way.
The Trump administration overestimated its ability to manipulate people.
.@FranQuigley: "When behavioral economists study how people evaluate financial trade-offs, it is wealthier subjects who make irrational choices." https://t.co/3q1i5pxH4s #UnitedStates
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.@FranQuigley: "Beyond a few isolated projects, the #UnitedStates does not have a guaranteed minimum income program, despite such programs’ proven effectiveness at meeting basic needs like food, shelter, and health care." https://t.co/nQjJ94dOp8
The less desperate workers are, the harder it is to get them to accept poor wages and conditions. Employers know this full well, and they acted on this knowledge to kill popular Covid-era programs that granted stability: https://t.co/crrWET3Fuy
.@FranQuigley: "The struggles of US public housing were not inevitable. There are several public housing success stories across the country, thriving communities that have managed to survive institutional neglect." https://t.co/4lLKZC8Arv #UnitedStates
.@FranQuigley: "The suffering we see in eviction court can be traced directly to the lack of enforceable economic rights in the #UnitedStates." https://t.co/H6XzPsWQfd
The suffering we see in eviction court can be traced directly to the lack of enforceable economic rights in the US, says @FranQuigley. https://t.co/3a3iEh4Nyq
.@FranQuigley: "Beyond the demonizing and harassment directed to visibly unhoused people, there is another deeply damaging outcome from all this political, media, and advocacy attention: Unhoused families are being ignored." https://t.co/kmZJnJkcq8 #UnitedStates
In the latest episode of The Indiana Lawyer Podcast, @FranQuigley, a clinical professor of law at IU McKinney, talks about the faults in Indiana's legal system that exasperate an already significant eviction crisis.
Listen on Spotify: https://t.co/lruBks58Gb
As many of our clinic clients can attest, well-trained, dedicated experts who answer to the people instead of some wealthy donors are the gold standard for housing inspection and code enforcement, says @FranQuigley. https://t.co/VctHQe1hHL
.@FranQuigley: "The government-harms shtick is just as false today as in Reagan’s time. Study after study shows that government assistance with food, healthcare, and housing makes tangible, positive impacts on people’s lives, from newborns to the elderly." https://t.co/T98Y1SpcD8
.@FranQuigley: "The film’s core theme is the enormous social cost that comes with the #UnitedStates’ commitment to treating housing as a wealth-building commodity, rather than as an essential need and human right." https://t.co/LYYWZoQlUM
Deepening connections between U.S. labor unions and renters has helped spur the creation of tenants unions that are winning concessions across the country, writes @FranQuigley. https://t.co/m3Aw22jwqK
A significant portion of our nation’s unhoused population are SSI recipients, limited to an income that doesn’t come close to covering the costs of housing, food, transportation, clothing, and other necessities, writes @FranQuigley. https://t.co/lSDxCP21Ja