Around 200 people at Rikers are on hunger strike & they're using one the ultimate forms of protest that people inside have to call our attention to the conditions they face. These ppl are putting their health & bodies on the line for their freedom. We need more attention on this!
"Black households in the US with income > $75,000 lie in higher poverty neighborhoods than White households that earn less than $40,000" and @PatBayerNC shows that Black households need $65,000 in income to move to median neighborhood while Whites need only need $20,000.
Called financial aid because I need some way to pay the remainder of my bill for this semester after exhausting all of my loans and they basically told me I have no other options. Crazy how the school is literally willing to lose a 3.9 honors student in her 4th year. #NCAT
The meeting to decide whether or not schools were safe enough for teachers and pupils to return to them was held online for COVID reasons.
Read that again.
"If I were 23 or 24 or 25, I'd be all for [student debt cancelation] I'm sure. Are you in favor of this?"
"I am. And if I were 65 and having my social security check garnished because I couldn't afford to pay student loans, I'd be for this as well."