#Households

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

lymanstoneky

One of the best correlations with local-area COVID spread is.... HOUSEHOLD SIZE.Which is really bad considering the strategy has been to quarantine households together at home.Turns out, that strategy may

TNI

TNInstitute

In the midst of the #COVID19 crisis, lawyers urge corporations to defend their profits & challenge governments’ emergency measures in #ISDS corporate courts. Our new report with @corporateeurope reveals their

Diane Lim

economistmom

Just for fun I used an online tax calculator to see what the federal income tax bill would be for a single person with (just) $20,000 in before-tax income. This

Jamie Kinlochan

JamieKinlochan

Lots of interesting perspectives on this issue after some foster carers won a legal battle to be seen as employees. @VonnSand also had some good dialogue about it this week

Dr Siva Thambisetty

SivaThambisetty

UK academic twitter. Like me, you probably know colleagues who have worked night & day to put in place a plan to safely reopen your own & other universities. But

Torsten Bell

TorstenBell

Lots of pub based excitement today. Evidently what's been announced will make a big difference to immediate economic output. But we need to be really careful about how we think

The Prepaid Economy.

prepaid_africa

Let me talk to you about the volatility seen in household financial management for informally employed as well as rural & urban informal sector - qualitatively. Income streams are irregular

Prince Dr. Dapo Abiodun - MFR

dabiodunMFR

The Federal Government has extended by two weeks, the initial 14-day COVID-19 lockdown declared in the FCT, Lagos and Ogun States. This is a necessary sacrifice that we must all

Vicky Smallman

vickyatclc

This is a good piece and something for all of us to consider. But I am mindful that many of us lack the time needed to reflect on what stress

Dr Usama Ali Omar

Drusamaali

Dear @HPA_MV since you are busy contact tracing,isolating the Positives,I thought the only way to MAKE YOU LISTEN IS BY ENVOLVING THE PUBLIC in this thread:1, Contact tracing will exhaust

Adam Habib

AdHabb

South Africa needs to end the lockdown: here's a blueprint for its replacementhttps://theconversation.com/south-africa-needs-to-end-the-lockdown-heres-a-blueprint-for-its-replacement-136080 Interesting piece!The argument is for a gradual sectoral

Institute for Fiscal Studies

TheIFS

Children from better-off families are spending 30% more time on home learning than those from poorer families.New IFS research finds that educational gaps are growing during the #coronavirus lockdown: https://www.ifs.org.uk/publications/148

Julian Norman

Julian_Norman1

The Coronavirus Regulations 2020: a thread. They are here, and came into force yesterday at 1pm. Unsurprisingly given the speed at which they had to be drafted, they don't match

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

Remember when a group of establishment Congressional Democrats vowed that they would add means-testing to the emergency relief checks so that "the money wouldn't go to people who didn't need

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stldesktop

Every now and then it hits you just how seriously unstable flat-earth people are. Overwhelming photographic evidence the moon is round, countless videos of other planets spinning, earth's shadow profile

Vitor Constâncio

VMRConstancio

A quick way to have European common debt financing expenditures to deal with the crisis would be to use the EU Commission to issue bonds to finance exceptional programmes within