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24 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
▪Minimum wage is $7.25. It hasn't been raised since 2009.
▪A minimum wage salary is below the federal poverty level after taxes.
▪80% of minimum wage workers are women.
▪WOC disproportionately make sub-minumum wage in various industries.
▪This perpetuates gendered poverty.
▪If the minimum wage had been raised to meet cost of living increases, it would be at $12 now.
▪GOP proposals like Romney and Cotton's wouldn't raise the minimum wage until 2025 and at that point only take it to $10--or 2018 levels. That makes no sense.
If you want details, this investigation I did explains how gendered wage poverty is. It's from two years ago but criminally, the numbers are worse now.
damemagazine.com/2018/04/12/wom…
Poverty is gendered in the US and wage inequities are fundamental to that issue as I wrote here:
damemagazine.com/2019/06/we-nee…

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Dr. West has been denied tenure again--inexplicably. It's insulting. West is one of the most brilliant philosophers and creative thinkers of our time.
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This @TimAlberta profile is an amazing piece. Long,but worth reading. Haley has potential to be a leader of the non-Trump wing of the GOP. She was the only member of Trump's personal team to call out the insurrection, but then said on Fox that folks needed to give Trump a break.
One intriguing takeaway: Near the end of the piece, @TimAlberta discusses Nikki Haley's fractious relationship with Fox News. Tucker Carlson, the biggest racist on Fox and the worst misogynist, who has targeted her. But she handwaves him--which is ballsy.
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Claiming Alexander Nazaryan speaks for all reporters who covered Trump as I and others did over the whole 4yrs is truly absurd. Nazaryan completely ignores the abject terror Trump created for huge swathes of Americans and others. This seems about selling his book on Trump.
Nazaryan loves saying repeatedly that he had access to the President and was hanging out with the likes of Steve Bannon and it was so cool. He utterly ignores the facts of the Trump presidency and claims fact checking made for boring copy (and thinks it's entre nous to say copy).
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