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10 Jan, 5 tweets, 3 min read
🚨 It's time to praise all the innovators and agitators who believe no one should live in poverty 🚨

Editor @PauldMcNamee introduces our Changemakers of 2022, don't forget to pick up your copy of the magazine from your local vendor!

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@PauldMcNamee These are the Changemakers making a difference to one of the most basic human rights: having a roof overhead to call home

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@PauldMcNamee Next up, it's the Changemakers dedicating their time to improving education in schools for generations to come bigissue.com/news/activism/…
@PauldMcNamee And here are our 2022 Changemakers helping ex-offenders find jobs and hoping to make the working world fairer bigissue.com/news/employmen…
Meet our 2022 Changemakers making sure the digital world works for everyone bigissue.com/news/activism/…

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