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Bruce Western throwing out a steady stream of jaw-dropping stats at #SmartOnCrime highlighting the inextricable links between our broken CJ system, poverty & racial inequality.

This one spurred audible gasps:

*Two-thirds* of black men w/o HS degrees have now been to prison.
Another inextricable link that doesn't get nearly enough attention: health & disability.

"The deepest material hardship in the year after being released from prison is suffered by those in poor health."

#SmartOnCrime
Not mentioned but vital to remember: People with disabilities are also far more likely to be swept up into the CJ system in the first place.

People behind bars in prisons and jails are 3 to 4 times more likely to have a disability than the general population.

#SmartOnCrime
More on how we're warehousing PWD behind bars --->

americanprogress.org/issues/crimina…

(excited for the #SmartOnCrime session on this later today feat. my sister @RebeccaCokley!
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Rebecca Vallas
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Great news for Michigan: @GovWhitmer is increasing asset limits for SNAP, cash assistance & state emergency relief programs to $15,000.

Reforming counterproductive savings penalties in assistance programs is among the most common-sense anti-poverty policies out there.
Reminder: This is exactly the kind of flexibility states will no longer have if Trump’s proposal gutting “categorical eligibility” takes effect.

More on why savings penalties trap families in poverty (an oldie but goodie from back in the day w/ @moneyjoev):
americanprogress.org/issues/poverty…
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Rebecca Vallas
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Remember when the Trump admin got caught burying evidence that one of their regulatory attacks on Food Stamps would also strip *over half a million* kids of free school meals?

They just admitted it's actually *1 MILLION.*

Weeks after the comment period closed.
As a result, it looks like they'll be reopening the comment period for another 14 days -- meaning there will be not one but *TWO* open comment periods re. Trump's attacks on SNAP running concurrently.

That's how hell-bent he is on taking food away from struggling families.
Follow #HandsOffSNAP for details and updates.

(But wow... you can't make this stuff up.)
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Rebecca Vallas
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Incredibly sad to have to say goodbye to @StandUpWithPete.

A little story about why I so appreciate @PeteDominick....

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@StandUpWithPete @PeteDominick I first met Pete about 7 years ago, amid a raging, myth-fueled media frenzy that put Social Security disability benefits on the chopping block. 2/
@StandUpWithPete @PeteDominick His was one of the first national platforms interested in telling the real story about SSDI—at a time when NPR, WaPo, the Boston Globe and countless others were disappointingly giving air to dangerous myths & uncritically repeating GOP talking points. 3/
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Wale Micaiah
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MULTIDIMENSIONAL POVERTY is not the new buzz word, it is the holistic approach by which the concept of #poverty is measured.

Your President
Your Governors
Your Lawmakers
Your Ministers
Your Commissioners
Your Special Advisers

...should pay attention to it

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Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) measures #Poverty on three general dimensions:

1. Health
2. Education
3. Living Standards

These 3 dimensions are further broken down into 10 Indicators that are easily measurable.
The Ten MPI Indicators:
1 Nutrition
2 Child Mortality
3 Years of Schooling
4 School Attendance
5 Cooking Fuel
6 Sanitation
7 Water
8 Electricity
9 Floor
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The Sustainable Development Goals #SDGs provide direction on how to implement measures to reduce poverty.
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Rebecca Riddell
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We've just released the final report by @Alston_UNSR, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme #poverty, on his visit to the #UK. The report is available here: undocs.org/A/HRC/41/39/Ad…. A few key takeaways:
Some have asked me why a UN expert on #poverty would visit the #UK. Unfortunately, although the UK is the world’s 5th largest economy, 14 million are in poverty, child poverty is rising & predicted to reach 40% by 2021, homelessness is up 60%, and food bank use has skyrocketed.
To understand #poverty in the #UK, you have to look at the massive disinvestment in social support since 2010: the end of a centralized social fund, changes to the ways benefits are capped & calculated that substantially reduce their value, the decimation of civil legal aid, etc.
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Hardeep Matharu
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"The Government’s place is not to be assisting people who think they can’t make it on their own, it’s an absolute last emergency order” --> the words of UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty & Human Rights @Alston_UNSR should shame Britain & need to be publicised. My THREAD:
Professor Philip Alston said that 14 million people are in poverty in the UK (a figure the Government disputes) and that child poverty rates are “staggering” and are predicted to go up significantly over the next couple of years. #poverty #humanrights #austerity
The UN Special Rapporteur said he saw “a lot of misery” during his trip to the UK & met “a lot of people who feel the system is really there just to punish them”. People who could have gotten help in "yesterday's Britain" can no longer count on it #poverty #humanrights #austerity
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Mark Blacklock
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UN special rapporteur @Alston_UNSR - who spent two weeks investigating UK #poverty at invitation of British govt - concludes that Tory ministers are "in denial" over the crisis caused by austerity, and their motivation is "an ideological one"
bit.ly/2TcTc34
His report is a damning indictment: "All of the evidence that I've seen, not withstanding the claims of the DWP, is that sanctions are usually counter production". Calls it a "tonne of bricks approach" which is counter to basic human rights, traditional British sense of fairness
Philip Alston says the poor will also "bear the brunt" of the economic fallout from #Brexit
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2/8 Having an #objective, #rational, #ScientificSocialist, #Dialectical, & #Materialist viewpoint allows us to accurately see & evaluate & analyze #Truth & #Reality as they truly materially exist in this universe.
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