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If elected, you/@GOP won't hold employers of these low wage jobs that don't provide good benefits or pensions accountable, you just want Blacks mad at Latinos. You don't support Reparations for Blacks, #Fightfor15 or closing the #RacialWealthGap. #BlackPolitics #BlackVote #ADOS
Those poultry jobs @jamestulp talked about don't fix the #WageGap

More Than Half of Black and Latino Workers Are Paid Less Than $15 an Hour
time.com/4446828/econom…
Only 3 Republicans voted for #HR496 #RaisetheWage #Fightfor15
govtrack.us/congress/votes…
ZERO @GOPSenate cosponsored #S1242 #RaisetheWage in the Senate, and @senatemajldr Mitch "Grim Reaper" McConnell won't bring #HR496 to the Senate floor for a vote.
govtrack.us/congress/bills…
Those low wage poultry jobs don't do anything to close the #RacialWealthGap, either

Racial Wealth Inequality In The U.S. Is Rampant [Infographic]
forbes.com/sites/niallmcc…
ZERO Repubs in the House and Senate cosponsored #HR40/#S1083 Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act and it's just a STUDY, ffs

#HR40 cosponsors
govtrack.us/congress/bills…

#S1083 cosponsors
govtrack.us/congress/bills…
Even though both parties take money from co's like @jpmorgan @chase & @WellsFargo, which benefited from slavery & were bailed out with our tax $.

15 Major Corporations You Never Knew Profited from Slavery
JPMorgan Chase
atlantablackstar.com/2013/08/26/17-…
Wells Fargo
atlantablackstar.com/2013/08/26/17-…
.@jpmorgan @chase CEO Jamie Dimon admitted to @RepAlGreen that it benefited from slavery in the @FSCDems Hearing on Banking Regulations #ReinstateGlassSteagall
c-span.org/video/?c479232…
Both Repubs and Dems should return their campaign contributions from @jpmorgan @chase despite its racist business practices against Blacks & support Reparations. @GOP @DNC

JPMorgan Chase charged with making predatory loans to Black homeowners
louisianaweekly.com/jpmorgan-chase…
And both Repubs nor Dems should return their campaign contributions from @WellsFargo despite its racist business practices against Blacks & support Reparations. @GOP @DNC

Bank Accused of Pushing Mortgage Deals on Blacks
nytimes.com/2009/06/07/us/…
That crash, btw, caused half of us Blacks to lose our wealth.

Report Shows African Americans Lost Half Their Wealth Due to Housing Crisis and Unemployment @NLIHC
nlihc.org/resource/repor…
How Home Ownership Keeps Blacks Poorer Than Whites
forbes.com/sites/forbesle…
Blacks in Cook County, IL even had to sue the @AssessorCook for racial discrimination in property tax assessments.

Chicago housing groups, new Assessor settle lawsuit over ex-assessor's 'discriminatory' practices
cookcountyrecord.com/stories/519968…
Meanwhile, Median wealth of black Americans 'will fall to zero by 2053', warns new report

@prosperitynow @IPS_DC Study predicts huge and growing gulf between white US households and everyone else could be disastrous for future of America’s middle class
theguardian.com/inequality/201…
Blacks will take hundreds of years to catch up to white wealth
money.cnn.com/2016/08/09/new…
FYI: 7 out of 10 Blacks BORN middle class slip into poor/wkg class.

How Black Middle-Class Kids Become Poor Adults

Once they've grown up, African American children are more likely than their white counterparts to backslide into a lower economic group.
theatlantic.com/business/archi…
Republicans continue to promote bootstrapism despite evidence to the contrary:

Umbrellas Don’t Make it Rain: Why Studying and Working Hard Isn’t Enough for Black Americans by @DarrickHamilton @SandyDarity @AnnePriceICCED Vishnu Sridharan & Rebecca Tippett
insightcced.org/wp-content/upl…
Republicans still believe these #DoforSelfDebunked myths, smh:

What We Get Wrong About Closing the #RacialWealthGap by
@SandyDarity @DarrickHamilton @MarkVinPaul @AlanAAja1 @AnnePriceICCED @tonetalks & Caterina Chiopris
socialequity.duke.edu/portfolio-item…
Both parties, @GOP & @DNC, share blame for this:

Report: NO progress for African Americans on homeownership, unemployment and incarceration in 50 YEARS
mysanantonio.com/news/article/R…
Republicans don't want to talk about these handouts:

8 Times the U.S. Government Gave White People Handouts to Get Ahead
atlantablackstar.com/2016/06/23/8-t…
Nor do Republicans want to discuss Reparations to slaveowners under Abraham Lincoln:

When Slaveowners Got Reparations

Lincoln signed a bill in 1862 that paid up to $300 for every enslaved person freed.
nytimes.com/2019/04/16/opi…
All Republicans gotta go, including @realDonaldTrump:

EXCLUSIVE: Trump on reparations: 'I don't see it happening'
thehill.com/homenews/admin…
.@realDonaldTrump won't appoint pro-reparations @USSupremeCourt Justices either, he keeps picking conservatives.

Trump’s conservative picks will impact courts for decades
pbs.org/newshour/polit…
.@senatemajldr McConnell opposes paying reparations: 'None of us currently living are responsible' for slavery
cnn.com/2019/06/18/pol…
.@senatemajldr McConnell's great-great-grandfathers owned 14 slaves, bringing reparations issue close to home 🤔

McConnell has opposed paying reparations to #AmericanDOS, though census records show his family, like many others, benefited from their labor.
nbcnews.com/politics/congr…
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.@JamalSimmons pls stop being a Clinton-Obama apologist and have @profwolff @thomasfrank_ @RBReich @SandyDarity @DarrickHamilton on his show ASAP. Wages have been STAGNANT. The dotcom boom BUSTED. NAFTA outsourced manufacturing & living wage jobs. The #RacialWealthGap persists.
.@NLIHC Aug 2013 Report Shows African Americans Lost HALF Their Wealth Due to Housing Crisis and Unemployment
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.@guardian Sep 2017 Median wealth of black Americans 'will fall to ZERO by 2053', warns new report by @Jamiles

Study predicts huge and growing gulf between white US households and everyone else could be disastrous for future of America’s middle class
theguardian.com/inequality/201…
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.@FSCDems Subcomm on Diversity & Inclusion's Race & Gender-Based Wealth Gaps Hrg:

Chairwoman @RepBeatty (D-OH-3)'s Opening Stmt, where she referenced Richard Rothstein's #ColorOfLaw. @EconomicPolicy @TMI_LDF #RacialWealthGap
epi.org/publication/th…

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.@FinancialCmte Subcomm on Diversity & Inclusion's Race & Gender-Based Wealth Gaps Hrg:

Ranking Member @RepAnnWagner (R-MO-2)'s Opening Stmt.

@payscale 2018 #GenderPayGap
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@RepStefanik #HR1935 #WageEquity
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.@FinancialCmte Subcomm on Diversity & Inclusion's Race & Gender-Based Wealth Gaps Hrg:

Ranking Member @PatrickMcHenry (R-NC-10)'s Opening Stmt.

McHenry supports financial literacy training, FMLA changes, childcare policies & higher STEM participation.
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1. I would support #reparations but the fact is that is not likely to happen in the time I have left. But what can happen and will correct much of the harm our apartheid system caused is to establish that a child born in poverty in Alabama, West Virginia, NY or Montana has a
2. right to a quality education that is not determined by the wealth or ethnic make up of their community. @BarackObama went to the same school as my son. He got the best education available in the United States and achieved the greatness that he was destined
3. to achieve. That would not have happened if he was struggling in an inferior school. Brown v. Board of Ed. was a promise that as never met. Make quality education a human right for all and America will retain its leadership.
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I was asked by the UK Treasury to review intl. evidence on minimum wage, with focus on impact at higher levels.

My review is now out.

It aims to provide comprehensive, up-to-date assessment of how minimum wages affect labor market, esp jobs.

gov.uk/government/pub…

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Here is a press release from 🇬🇧 @hmtreasury.

gov.uk/government/new…

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I want to thank Chancellor @sajidjavid and @PhilipHammondUK for their support in my conducting this review.

HUGE thanks to the awesome HMT/BEIS team whose help was super important!

And for help from @LPC, who play a key role making minimum wage a success story in UK.
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The most common argument I hear against paying #reparations to the decedents of enslaved people is the one Mitch McConnell, whose ancestors were slave-holders, made in June.
Boiled down to its essence, the logic has two parts:
1. No slave-owners are alive to pay reparations.
2. No former slaves are alive to receive them.
Therefore, reparations are inherently unfair and unworkable.
At first blush, there's a certain appeal to that argument: If both offenders and injured parties are no longer living, there's nothing that can or should be done.
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@LeftwardSwing One of the most absurd thing about Yang’s FD, is that unlike he leads people to believe, it is not a solution to automation at all. Yang and his supporters themselves admit that low wage jobs will be the first jobs will be the first to be automated away. 1/
@LeftwardSwing Most adults in low wage jobs are there because they couldn’t get anything else. With UBI, when their job is replaced, sure they have $1k/month, but that’s it. They don’t have another job easily available to them. 2/
@LeftwardSwing That $1k/month isn’t going to make them magically be able to find a job any easier. Especially with all the low-wage workers who will be losing their jobs, it will only become even harder for them to find suitable replacement jobs. 3/
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@davidfrum @TheAtlantic This has nothing to do with enforcement. The president is claimig the immigrants coming to our country are some kind of ‘liberal plot’ or somehow associated with the Democratic party - this is a lie. Democrats want border enforcement too - we just don’t think a wall makes sense.
@davidfrum @TheAtlantic You of all people should recognize that this entire story is a propaganda piece being used by the President & his alt-reich pals to create a kind of xenophobic fury in order to get more votes for the midterms. There’s a discussion re enforcement but this is a false narrative.
@davidfrum @TheAtlantic The majority of Dem voters are in favor of border enforcement- it’s just not high on the list of priorities given the current state of our country/ politics. Democratic leaders have voted for stronger border enforcement very recently & have been pushing for immigration reforms.
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