What's the biggest financial myth taught to the Black community?
"I've never met a person who had two jobs and had more money than a person who had one job"
Americans owe over $1.6 trillion in student loan debt. And like many of our country’s problems, it all ties back to corruption.
In just 9 minutes, Ed Helms exposes the corruption at the root of the student debt crisis, and how we can fix it.
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Corporations right now:
🤑Laid off staff in 2020
🤑Received generous gov bailout
🤑Use myths of great resignation and labor shortage to understaff
🤑Shovel work on people that don’t have a better option
🤑Use the myth of inflation to raise prices
Result? All time record profits
The real political divide in this country is not between Left and Right; that's an almost cartoonish version of our political reality. The real political divide is between the powerful and the powerless...
This dude proved an oil company poisoned indigenous people and will spend more time in prison than any of the cretins who vaporize Yemeni babies with drones
Fun fact: In order to save money, Utah has a program — embraced by Republicans and Democrats— that flies state employees to Mexico first class, picks them up in a limo, drives them to buy medicine in pharmacies and back, because it’s CHEAPER than paying full price in the US.
This morning is clear.
Governmental officials should not hold stocks or options in companies they are, or may be, legislating.
Do you agree?
YES YES YES
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🚨Call To Action🚨
Press conference outside CPD headquarters - tomorrow, October 19th at 11 am CST. Join activists across the country to join us in a national call to action to stop the appointment of Rahm Emanuel as US ambassador of Japan. #RejectRahm#Justice4Laquan
Manchin’s own children:
1) runs the coal company Manchin launched as a state senator and
2) got a job at Mylan, run by Manchin’s friend, cornered the market on epipen and got a golden parachute of $30 million
Now he’s insisting on work requirements for a child tax credit
BREAKING: Mass arrests today at the Bureau of Indian Affairs in D.C. during the first occupation of the building in 50 yrs. Biden Admin has utterly failed to protect ancestral lands from the fossil fuel industry.
Solidarity with all frontline Defenders.
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This week, #Ethereum researchers and core developers met in person to work on the transition to Proof-of-Stake. This upgrade, also known as "The Merge", will reduce the energy consumption of the network by 99.8%
Here's a short thread on what was achieved throughout the week 🧵👇