since it's pretty close to tax day i'd just like to remind everybody that a few years ago the IRS was able to secure funding for a free tax filing service and was ready to release it nationwide until Donald Trump cancelled the program for literally no reason
@tarzan00711 @MattWallace888 Twitter + other tech companies were supposed to clean up + revitalize the area in exchange for ongoing tax breaks when they moved in.
Can I say how wild it is having grown up in America as a Black person, reading history that I knew was a lie and the sins were whitewashed. Benevolent slavery and whatnot. And to have the entire democracy almost crumble because we all agreed to tell the truth about this place?
Your annual reminder that Dr. King believed in guaranteed universal basic income that gave all people a dignified life, guaranteed housing for all, guaranteed access to a high quality education, & said that “no one should be forced to live in poverty while others live in luxury.”
Rs blocked efforts 2 assess the legitimacy of their own “wins” (2000, 2002, 2004, 2016), many of which defied polls or involved glitches. They killed the #SAFEAct, which wld have required robust manual audits this year. Rs have unclean hands on the issue of election integrity. 1/
WOOOW. A Canadian research project gave homeless people $7,500 each — the results were 'beautifully surprising'.
Turns out: basic income for the homeless pays for itself. It's free money, because 'the project saved the shelter system $8,100 per person'.
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Just to be clear: there is nothing “pro-life” about denying people comprehensive sexual education, making birth control harder to access, forcing others to give birth against their will, and stripping them of healthcare and food assistance afterwards.
The "radical idea" of universal health care is a reality in:
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Canada
Chile
Czech Rep.
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Poland
Portugal
S. Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switz.
Turkey
U.K.