Michigan native; @UMich alumna; Former Bay Area tenant attorney; Chicago resident; #zerowaste enthusiast.
RTs usually things I wish I had thought to say myself
@RepCawthorn Sir, you are aware the Vatican is a sovereign city state, governed by an absolute monarch? It's not governed by American law, let alone wingnut cosplay law.
After a man stabbed and killed homeless people on the subway, the NYPD increased their subway patrols by 500 cops. There were already 4,000 cops patrolling the subway who didn't stop the murders. You know what could have? Housing those homeless New Yorkers.
"if America had adopted policies to close the Black-white economic gap 20 years ago, U.S. G.D.P would be an estimated $16 trillion higher"
https://t.co/5TZhyPjLzD
According to a study by the London School of Economics, 50 years worth of tax cuts contributed absolutely nothing to GDP growth and employment rates across 18 nations that tried 'trickle down economics', since the wealthiest hoard far more than they spend.
https://t.co/6GcB9nt5Ae
Time for another 🧵 about the "Law & Inequality" 1L elective I'm teaching w/ my colleague @ProfOsseiOwusu! This week's class focused on transportation, exclusion, & racial & economic inequality. We built it around the work of the amazing @DeborahNArcher. (1/x)
"it [is] fundamentally unjust for [restaurant workers] to earn less than the minimum wage and to depend on the good will of strangers in order to earn what [is] guaranteed by law to most workers"
“Today, 43 states and the federal government still persist with this legacy of slavery, allowing a tipped work force that is close to 70 percent female and disproportionately Black and brown women to be paid a subminimum wage.”
https://t.co/Z0tPbRNUFG
BREAKING NEWS! @POTUS@JoeBiden has signed an Exec Order that reverses the previous administration's unlawful & discriminatory #TransgenderMilitaryBan!! The new order will allow transgender people to serve openly in the U.S. military again! Our statement: https://t.co/lCbwQO99TX