Education policy doctoral candidate @UNCSchoolofEd. Always learning about ed equity, teaching, income inequality, and (after hours) chocolate. Views my own.
Thank you @SenWarren and @PattyMurray for demanding resources to determine vaccine safety for us pregnant women. It is SO frustrating to not know whether to get the shot or not!
For months, @PattyMurray and I have urged our health officials to prioritize the needs of pregnant Americans – including in developing vaccines. We spoke with @HallieOnMSNBC about why they need to devote real resources to protecting mamas and their babies.
For months, @PattyMurray and I have urged our health officials to prioritize the needs of pregnant Americans – including in developing vaccines. We spoke with @HallieOnMSNBC about why they need to devote real resources to protecting mamas and their babies.
“We voted for folks because they said, ‘elect me & I am going to deal with systemic racism & I am going to pass a living wage of $15 an hour’, which is a compromise in of itself. We have to hold people to what they said.” @RevDrBarber#PoorPeoplesCampaign https://t.co/HsQnqhQA3s
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Will you join us and step up for a better future? #IWD2021
Wealth increase in past 10 months:
⬆️$173 billion: Elon Musk
⬆️$77 billion: Jeff Bezos
⬆️$60 billion: Walton family
⬆️$43 billion: Bill Gates
⬆️$39 billion: Mark Zuckerberg
12-year increase in U.S. minimum wage: $0
We must tax the rich & raise the minimum wage to at least $15.
I AM ON THE FLOOR MY BOOKS ARE #1 & #2 ON AMAZON AFTER 1 DAY! Thank you so much to everyone for supporting me and my words. As Yeats put it: "For words alone are certain good: Sing, then"
“Kids in need of remedial support already were vulnerable before the pandemic. Now they’re facing educational ruin.”-heartbreaking piece by @sarah_e_carr shows importance of compensatory services to help make up for lost time https://t.co/UgGOjFNXNR
We came close to tyranny. We're not yet free of the threat. But starting noon tomorrow, we have a reprieve. We must use it to rebuild trust, strengthen democracy, fight racism, create good jobs. It may be our last chance.
“You can either get stimulus money or unemployment but not both,” say Republicans demanding corporate immunity for worker abuse AND tax cuts for the very rich AND subsidies for friends AND total lack of oversight or accountability for their connected pals scamming PPP AND...
3X Match: Donate to support refugees @RESCUEorg. The International Rescue Committee helps people whose lives and livelihoods are shattered by conflict and disaster https://t.co/zaL63rc9zx
@AOC what can we do about this? My mom has cancer and will get a vaccine soon but if she lived in Paraguay she wouldn’t anytime soon. Their lives are worth the same as ours. https://t.co/rFSKlaVeXL
The rich will live and the poor will be left to die - this is abominable: “it doesn’t help with equitable distribution because high-income countries are likely to ensure their own vaccine needs are met before they pass on excess doses.” https://t.co/rFSKlaVeXL
I’m the youngest woman, first LGBTQ+ person & first renter to be elected in the City of Alhambra.
It is both exciting and frightening to enter into a system that has never seen anything like me before.